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Geo Beach: A Swamp Yankee in the Last Frontier
Monday, 28 July 2008, 11:27 am | Walter Brasch
When Geo Beach looks you in the eye and says that “Tougher in Alaska,” his 13 week series on the History Channel, isn’t Reality TV, you believe him. More >>
Walter Brasch: It’s Still the Economy, Stupid
Thursday, 17 July 2008, 11:25 am | Walter Brasch
George W. Bush looked into the TV camera, Tuesday morning [July 15] and tried to assuage the fears of about 300 million Americans who believed they were in the middle of a Recession. More >>
The Rocket's Red Glare May Be Chinese
Friday, 4 July 2008, 2:21 pm | Walter Brasch
Wearing a pith helmet and brandishing a blunderbuss, Marshbaum burst into my office and ordered me to the floor. I looked at my faux friend and media foil, about to ask him what his latest scheme was. With Marshbaum, who was fed "Honeymooners" episodes ... More >>
The politics of animal cruelty
Sunday, 29 June 2008, 10:01 pm | Walter Brasch
Dave Comroe stepped to the firing line, raised his 12-gauge Browning over and under shotgun, aimed and fired. Before him, a pigeon fell, moments after being released from a box less than 20 yards away. About 25 times that day Comroe fired, hitting ... More >>
PA Politics: Resolved to Continue Bigotry
Sunday, 22 June 2008, 3:29 pm | Walter Brasch
There should have been absolutely no controversy in a resolution presented in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives this past week. More >>
Oil Prices Leading to More than Gas Cost
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 12:59 am | Walter Brasch
ELYSBURG--Registration at the annual Colonial Classic and Pennsylvania State Shoot is down 15–20 percent this year. More >>
The Politics of Humanitarian Aid
Monday, 2 June 2008, 1:24 pm | Walter Brasch
President Bush was justifiably upset. A cyclone four days earlier had destroyed a large portion of Myanmar, and the country's military junta was still refusing humanitarian aid. "Let the United States come to help you, help the people," Bush pleaded with ... More >>
Gays, God, and Govt
Thursday, 22 May 2008, 12:21 pm | Walter Brasch
The mantra of almost all conservatives—it makes no difference what political party they belong to—is to keep government out of their lives. But, they don’t mind government interference when it plays to their biases and bigotry. More >>
President Bush's Week-Long Adventure
Monday, 19 May 2008, 11:30 am | Walter Brasch
President Bush is in Egypt today to meet with President Hosni Mubarak. It is Bush's last day of a week-long adventure into the Middle East, where he also met with the leaders of Israel, Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian Authority, and Afghanistan. It is ... More >>
All the News That Fits—In 500 words or a Graphic
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 4:02 pm | Walter Brasch
The editors of USA Today , as they do every day, had to decide what to make its “Cover Story.” More >>
People. People Who Don’t Need People
Wednesday, 7 May 2008, 11:35 am | Walter Brasch
From a pool of about seven billion, those hard-working geniuses at People magazine have managed to find the hundred most beautiful people in the whole wide world. And—get ready for the surprise—almost every one of those beautiful people are rich American ... More >>
John McCain Won’t Be Looking for the Union Label
Thursday, 1 May 2008, 10:49 am | Walter Brasch
Don’t expect any labor union to endorse John McCain for United States president in the general election. The wounds from the Bush–Cheney Administration are just too deep. But, their reasons aren’t because of social justice issues that once ... More >>
Walter Brasch: Murder in an Alaskan Forest
Monday, 7 April 2008, 11:19 am | Walter Brasch
No one—at least no human—knows his name, or even if he had a name. We don’t know where or when he was born. We know nothing about his life. But we know a lot about his death. A politician/trapper from northeast Pennsylvania went to Alaska ... More >>
Walter Brasch: A Halloween Scare
Thursday, 1 November 2007, 8:09 pm | Walter Brasch
There’s the “fun-scary”—kids who dress up as clowns, monsters, or fairy princesses once a year to get a month’s supply of candy, which they’ll finish off by morning. More >>
The Bush Magical Mystery Political Capital Tour
Monday, 18 September 2006, 12:07 am | Walter Brasch
Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, and the rest of the gang that thinks they’re a war cabinet supporting the man who thinks he’s a war president used the fifth anniversary of 9/11 to tell the world how great they are. More >>
Brasch: Compromising Americans’ Civil Liberties
Monday, 20 March 2006, 1:06 pm | Walter Brasch
Two weeks before President Bush signed Congressional legislation that made permanent all but two sections of the USA PATRIOT Act, State College, Pennsylvania., became the 397th American community to reaffirm the belief that the Constitution and Bill ... More >>
