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‘A’ is for Average
By Walter Brasch at May 6, 2013 | 11:06 am | 0 Comment
About 1.8 million students will graduate from college this year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. At least one-third of them will graduate with honors. In some colleges, about half will be honor graduates.
It’s not that the… Read the rest
[...read more]Oh, That’s What the Boy Scouts Mean by Being ‘Morally Straight’
By Walter Brasch at April 29, 2013 | 7:00 am | 0 Comment
Harry Strausser III owns a successful small business with 25 employees in Bloomsburg, Pa. As an undergraduate, he was a national champion in several forensics categories, and represented the Boy Scouts of America in national competitions sponsored by the Reader’s… Read the rest
[...read more]Pennsylvania: You Are Fracked
By Walter Brasch at April 22, 2013 | 5:20 pm | 0 Comment
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This is a special Earth Day edition of my weekly social issues column, Wanderings. The information is from my latest book, Fracking Pennsylvania, an overall look at the nature and consequences of high-pressure horizontal hydraulic fracturing,… Read the rest
[...read more]Energy & Environment , Featured , Marcellus Shale , Pennsylvania Issues
NRA Liars and Congressional Cowards
By Walter Brasch at April 22, 2013 | 8:49 am | 0 Comment
President Obama cast off his “No Drama Obama” garb, and became the fiery leader of hope and change that Americans first elected in 2008. At a speech in Hartford, Conn., the President, frustrated by Republican obstructionism, demanded of his audience,… Read the rest
[...read more]Mitch McConnell’s ‘Whack-a-Mole’ Dirty Politics Campaign
By Walter Brasch at April 15, 2013 | 9:16 am | 0 Comment
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was mad. Not the kind of mad you get when your favorite team blows a big lead and loses its eighth straight game, but Red-Faced-Exploding-Blood-Pressure Mad.
“This is what you get from the political… Read the rest
[...read more]The Politics behind the Killing of Americans
By Walter Brasch at April 8, 2013 | 7:00 am | 0 Comment
Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) opposes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), and vows to block the expansion of Medicaid in his state. At a news conference this past week, Perry, flanked by conservative senators Ted Cruz and John… Read the rest
[...read more]No Merit Badge for Courage for Boy Scouts
By Walter Brasch at April 5, 2013 | 12:27 pm | 0 Comment
Sometime in May, a special committee selected by Boy Scout executives will recommend whether the Scouts should allow gays to be members and leaders.
The decision may have more to do with funding than with any other policy.
Contributions from… Read the rest
[...read more]Holding the American People Hostage
By Walter Brasch at March 18, 2013 | 7:00 am | 0 Comment
Judges who wish to assure that a jury has no outside influence will sequester them.
Legally, a sequestered jury is seized by authority and isolated from all outside influences.
The jurors are escorted into and out of the courtroom. They… Read the rest
[...read more]America’s Culture is Signing on the Dotted Line
By Walter Brasch at March 4, 2013 | 10:54 am | 0 Comment
The signing season has begun.
Look through your local newspaper for the next few weeks, and youll see a lot of posed pictures of high school athletes.
Everyone will be at a desk or table.
Around each one will be… Read the rest
[...read more]Weathering a Blizzard of News Media Bravado
By Walter Brasch at February 28, 2013 | 10:08 am | 0 Comment
Ginger Zee is an ABC News weather person. She’s 32 years old, has a B.S. in meteorology, and says even in high school she wanted to be a TV network weatherperson. Not a scientist in a lab studying and analyzing… Read the rest
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