Posted on August 19th, 2008 by Walter Brasch
WANDERINGS, with Walter Brasch
Executive management at the Allentown Morning Call recently laid off more than two dozen persons from its newsroom, most of them veteran reporters drawing higher salaries. Management plans to cut 35–40 positions, according to a letter sent by publisher Timothy Johnson. The cuts are about one-fourth of the news staff. The remaining [...]
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Posted on August 11th, 2008 by Walter Brasch
President Bush last week sounded just like a liberal.
Yes, you read that right. Bush. Liberal. Same sentence.
At the new U.S. embassy in Beijing on the opening day of the Olympics, he said, “All people should have the freedom to say what they think.” Without even blinking, he also told the world, while directing his comments [...]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2008 by Walter Brasch
On a street in Shenandoah, Pa., deep in the heart of the anthracite coal region, six White teens took their racial hatred to a higher level. They confronted 25-year-old Luis Ramirez, an undocumented worker, and beat him to death.
At first the police chief, the mayor, and borough manager refused to believe racism was involved. Although [...]
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Filed under: In The News, Politics, Racism, State Politics, Walter Brasch
Posted on June 28th, 2008 by 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 about three-fourths of the birds. He was 16 at the time.
“It’s not [...]
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Filed under: Lobbyists, Political News, Politics, State Politics, Walter Brasch
Posted on June 21st, 2008 by Walter Brasch
There should have been absolutely no controversy in a resolution presented in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives this past week.
Speaker Dennis O’Brien, a Republican from Philadelphia, wanted to honor the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, which was holding its 60th annual national convention in Harrisburg. These resolutions are routine and almost always noncontroversial. The resolution pointed out [...]
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Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Walter Brasch
ELYSBURG, Pa.–Registration at the annual Colonial Classic and Pennsylvania State Shoot is down 15–20 percent this year.
The problems are both the increase in the price of gas and the economy says Bruce Murphy, president of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen’s Association, which sponsors one of the nation’s largest trap shoot tournaments.
With the price of gas averaging [...]
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Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by 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 the junta. “We’re prepared to move U.S. Navy assets to help find those who’ve [...]
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Posted on May 24th, 2008 by 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.
For example, it’s perfectly acceptable for the government to enter one’s bedroom if the purpose is to ban homosexual activity [...]
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