55 Articles

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
It's Sill the Economy, Stupid
(1 comments) George W. Bush's legacy may not be defined by an encroachment upon civil liberties, the war, environmental destruction, or any of dozen of otehr policies that have adversely affected America. His legacy was burnt into American history on Tuesday, July 15, 2008.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Geo Beach: A Swamp Yankee in the Last Fontier
(2 comments) Reality TV is something Geo Beach readily discusses, especially since his History Channel Show about Alaska is NOT Reality TV. In this probing 2,300-word article, award-winning journalist Walter Brasch looks at award-winning journalist Geo Beach, Reality TV, Alaska, and some issues that people in the "Lower 48" should probably know.

Saturday, July 5, 2008
Is Barack Obama Patriotic? Is Any Politician?
(15 comments) Barack Obama spent the Fourth of July engaged in a patriot-fest. Is he pandering--or is he patriotic?

Thursday, July 3, 2008
The Rocket;s Red Glare May Be Chinese
humor-satire -- or maybe it isn't. On July 4, the Chinese will invade the U.S.--and we'll be happu about it.

Thursday, July 3, 2008
The Rocket's red Glare May Be Chinese
(1 comments) humor/satire -- or maybe it really isn't. On July 4th, China will attack the U.S. And we may be willing to allow that to happen.

Saturday, June 28, 2008
Squabbling Over the Pigeon Bill: Pennsylvania Legislature Won't Be Able to Soar Like Eagles Until It Shoots Down Animal
(2 comments) A battle going on in the Pennsylvania legislature pits two of the nation's most powerful lobbying groups--the 4.6 million member NRA and the 11.6 million member Humane Society of the United States. The NRA brlieves sropping animal cruelty could affect gun ownership and hunting; the Humane Society says animal cruelty is just that--animal cruelty.

Saturday, June 21, 2008
Pennsylvania Politics: Resolved to Continue Bigotry
(1 comments) Actions in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives this week perpetuate the bigotry seen on a larger scale in the presidential nomination process.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Gas Prices Affecting More Than Travel
(2 comments) Clay pigeons, used by trap and skeet shooters, aren't clay, but made from petroleum byproducts. The gas crisis affects the price of everything made of plastic, pitch, and anything that is petroleum-based.

Sunday, June 1, 2008
The Politics of Humanitarian Aid: U.S, Like Myanmar, Rejected Humanitarian Aid
(1 comments) The United States, like Myanmar, has rejected humanitarian aid, especially if it came from countries that the Bush-Cheney Administration didn't think agreed with its political policies.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Gays, God, and Government: Self-righteousness in the State Capitols
(8 comments) Conservatives and religious fundamentalists oppose gay marriage. They also oppose government in lives. But, for their own "security," they don't mind government entering their bedrooms.

Sunday, May 18, 2008
President Bush in Egypt Today
(1 comments) President Bush's week-long trip to the Middle East has accomplished one thing--it has firmed up the Bush family's ties to a terorist leader.

Monday, May 12, 2008
All the News That Fits--In 500 Words or a Graphic
It was a tough decision by the editors of USA Today. What to feature as its cover story. A celebrity wedding or the deaths of 25,000 people.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008
People. People Who Don't Need People
(10 comments) From seven billion people in the world, People magazine's New York college-educated editors could find only 100 of the world's most beautiful people. And, here's the surprise--get ready for it--they;re rich American celebrities,

Monday, April 28, 2008
John McCain Won't Be Looking for the Union Label
(1 comments) A massive labor campaign is directed to workers who may not know John McCain's anti-worker philosophy, one that almost matches that of the Bush-Cheney Administration.

Saturday, April 19, 2008
Coming to Your Town--But Only Until Tuesday--a Clinton
The Clintons are patrolling Pennsylvania as if they're border collies. In this political analysis, journalist/professor Walter Brasch analyzes the Pennsylvania primary contest, and its likely effects after April 22.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Political Log Rolling in the Clinton Campaign
(3 comments) A politician actually admits that his vote was bought.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
It's a Welfare State--If You're Rich
The Fed's bailout won't stop the Recession--and it certainly won't help the individual--it will help the corporations.

Friday, March 14, 2008
The Surrogate Votergate
My faux friend, Marshbaum,. has a plan to get rich by selling his Pennsylvania vote.

Saturday, March 8, 2008
The Flocked-Up Campaign Press Gaggle
The press is tighter to the candidates this election than the shine on fake silver.

Monday, February 18, 2008
President Bush's Safari to Find Friendly Faces
The leadership of the House of Representatives refused to bring a flawed Protect America Act to a vote. President Bush issued fiery rhetoric, threatened to cancel a scheduled trip to Africa--and then went anyhow.

Saturday, February 9, 2008
Flying a Chinese-Made American Flag to Stimulate the Economy
(5 comments) In a witty satire, award-winning journalist Walter Brasch speculates on what is likely to happen when Americans get their rebates.

Thursday, January 17, 2008
Spouting Change to Stay the Same
(3 comments) "Change" is the new buzzword of the presidential campaign, but the candidates and the voters, no matter what they say, don't want change. After all, they are the establishment.

Saturday, January 12, 2008
ACLU Chapter Proposes Impeachment Proceedings
(2 comments) The Central Susquehanna Chapter of the ACLU joined the Southern California and several Florida chapters in urging the national board to request the House Judiciary Committee to begin investigations into whether impeachment against VP Cheney and President Bush is warranted.

Thursday, December 20, 2007
Oops! The Media Did It Again
(3 comments) On the day there was a fire in the Executive office Building, the President signed the Energy Bill, three persons were killed in a chemical explosion in Jacksonville, Fla., and eight civlians killed in Iraq, the mass media dug out the day's most improtant story--Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007
George W. Bush's 'Convenient' Truth
(1 comments) George W. Bush is president, and nothing that Al Gore is doing to protect the environment will ever be enough to erase this president's political ability to alter the environment to benefit corporate interests.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
A Halloween Scare
(6 comments) Once again it's the holiday season, and once again racists and bigots are making the most of it to denigrade religions they don't believe are the one true religion--like theirs. The scariest thing is the ignorance of an e-mail that has now been read by millions around the world.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Why Bush Should Have Signed the Children's Health Act
President Bush today vetoed legislation to increase health insurance coverage for up to four million more children. Against overwhelming Congressional support for the program, he spun new reasons for his fourth veto. However, he needed to approve this legislation to continue his war in Iraq.

Friday, September 21, 2007
Commanding Constitutional Disrespect
(1 comments) The Senate, with majority votes, has failed to block republican-led filibusters against the Constitution and in favor of the combat troops.

Saturday, September 1, 2007
Fake Photos Helped Lead U.S. to Invade Iraq
(23 comments) A veteran U.S. representative reveals that the Bush-Cheney administration submitted faked photos to convince congress to vote for war in Iraq. Those photos, said Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.) were not of Iraqi drones but of American unmanned aerial vehicles in the southwest deserrt in the U.S.

Sunday, August 26, 2007
Enquiring Minds and Space Aliens Revisited
(5 comments) The Weekly World News publishes its last issue this week. But, for almost three decades, there may have been a wink of more truth in it than in some of the media.

Wednesday, August 8, 2007
No Asterisks for Barry Bonds
(5 comments) There is no reason that the homerun record of Barry Bonds should be tainted--at least if we understand the hostory of Major League Baseball.

Friday, July 27, 2007
Leaders Afraid to Lead: Empty Rhetoric in Congress
It will be the people, not Congress, who will have to push for the impeachment of Cheney and Bush.

Sunday, July 22, 2007
Give It Up for Confusion
(3 comments) There's a lot of confusion in language. This confusion helps explain the Bush Administration.

Thursday, June 14, 2007
Up and Down the Bush Philosophy
The George W. Bush politicl philosophy is closer to that of the Divine Right of Kings than to what the Founding Fathers believed a nation, and its president, should be.

Wednesday, May 9, 2007
An Ill Wind and National Policy
In Sept. 2003, two years before Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, and 3-1/2 years before an F-5 tornado destroyed Greensburg, Kans., Rosemary and Walter Brasch predicted that the war in Iraq was depleting American readiness and response to natural disasters in the United States. It was an analysis of currrent and projected problems that these veteran emergency management workers hoped would not come true.

Thursday, April 5, 2007
Punishment for a Traitor
(1 comments) President Bush's actions prove not only has he made significant and substantial mistakes in the creation and escalation of the war in Iraq, but that it is he and his Administration, not the war protestors and Democratic party, who has failed to support the troops.

Friday, March 16, 2007
An Intolerant Minority
[SUMMARY: The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Peter Pace, says that homosexuality is immoral. He later modified that statement by saying he should have said only that he supports the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. That policy, a compromise, should never have been enacted; it's now time to repeal it and permit gays to serve openly in the military.]

Friday, February 23, 2007
A TV Snow Job
While other states were on top of the recent snow storm, Pennsylvania had a botched response. This is a look at TV news and how the average station covered the weatehr story.

Thursday, February 8, 2007
Rural America Explains Why the Nation Needs Martin Luther King Day
In two rural northeast Pennsylvania counties, citizens have spoken out against the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Black History Month. Their views, unfortunately, help explain why this nation is still divided, and why the civil rights struggle must continue.

Sunday, January 28, 2007
Give War a Chance
(1 comments) While millions were protesting the Iraq war and the suppression of civil rights, there was yet another protest, one staged by supporters of the war.

Friday, December 29, 2006
Making the World Safer for Terrorism
(1 comments) George W. Bush is despised by more Americans than is Osama bin Laden, according to an AP-AOL poll. This has not set well with bin Laden.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Yo Ho Ho, and an Embottled Rummy
The resignation of Donald Rumsfeld is more of a reflection about the incompetence and malevolence of the President as it is the Secretary of Defense.

Saturday, October 7, 2006
Sex, Lies, and Family Values
(1 comments) The Mark Foley scandal goes far deeper than just a few Good Ole Boys covering it up. The "Family Values" Republican Party has proven, innumerable ways, that its family values are not what the majority of Americans believe are family values.

Tuesday, September 12, 2006
The Bush Magical Mystery Political Capital Tour
The Bush "war cabinet" has used 9/11 to justify its own incompetencies and inadequacies, and is now on a national campaign to try to convince Americans that the war in Iraq justifies the cost to life and economy.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Canned Hunts: Sports Afoul
(2 comments) The true sportsmen object to "canned hunts," where people pay to kill an animal that is usually docile and lured by "guides" into the client's gun sights.

Saturday, July 22, 2006
Part-Time Bush Principles
(3 comments) Bush says he believes in up-or-down votes, proclaiming it shortly after his first inaugural, and in his 2005 State of the Union address, demanding, "every judicial nominee deserves an up-or-down vote." Since Bush believes in one-vote majorities, it shouldn't have been a problem for him to accept a 238-194 vote in the House and a 63-37 vote in the Senate to allow medical researchers to use stem cells from embryos...

Wednesday, July 5, 2006
Food for Thought
(6 comments) A nation that demands laws to make English the "official" language has a lot of maturing to do before it is truly the "ethnic melting pot" that we believe it is.

Sunday, May 7, 2006
Silent Protest, Vocal Response
In Danville, Pa., high school students learned about tolerance and bigotry when they said they would silently protest intolerance.

Thursday, April 13, 2006
The Not-So-Secret Foreign Energy Source
The Bush Administration Believes worker exploitation is acceptable to spur business interests.

Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Compromising Americans' Civil Liberties
The people of more than 400 communities have opposed the unconstitutional provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. Congress just renewed it for anotehr four years.

Sunday, February 26, 2006
This Column Doesn't Exist
(1 comments) If the media didn't exist, would George W. Bush?

Monday, December 19, 2005
Justice DeLayed
Tom DeLay is under indictment, after the House admonished him three times for ethics violations. The President says he's innocent.

Saturday, November 26, 2005
The FEMA Scheme-a;
Screw Up a national disaster, become a highly-paid consultant

Monday, October 31, 2005
Cheney's Refrain: 'I'm a Believer'
Dick Cheney says "Scooter" Libby is innocent, until proven guilty. This is NOT what Cheney says about anyhone trapped by the PATRIOT Act

Monday, October 24, 2005
A Scary Costume
Many politicians haven't figured out what to wear for Halloween. I have some suggestions.