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Fracking: Corruption a Part of Pennsylvania’s Heritage
Final installment in Walter Brasch’s three-part series on fracking. Read part one here and part two here. The history of energy exploration, mining, and delivery is best understood in a range from...
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The Trayvon Martin Case: A Lesson Still to be Learned
Trayvon Martin. Photo/Wikimedia For years, my father, a federal employee with a top secret clearance, carried a copy of his birth certificate when he went into Baja California from our home in San...
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Memorial Day 2012: A Lesson Not Yet Learned
Today is Memorial Day, the last day of the three-day weekend. Veterans and community groups will remember those who died in battle and, as they have done for more than a century, will place small flags...
View ArticlePennsylvania Politics Continues To Override Humane Actions
A national animal welfare organization has filed an ethics complaint against a Pennsylvania district attorney SHARK (Showing Animals Respect and Kindness) charges Bucks County DA David Heckler with...
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American Patriotism In Hyper-Drive
It’s midway between Flag Day and Independence Day. That means several million copies of full-page flags printed on cheap newsprint, June 14, have been burned, shredded, thrown away, or perhaps...
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Pennsylvania Politics Continues To Trump Health And The Environment
Tower for drilling horizontally into the Marcellus Shale Formation for natural gas, from Pennsylvania Route 118 in eastern Moreland Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, USA. Photo/Wikimedia...
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Romney Tax Return Provides a Window to His Soul
Mitt Romney speaking at the Values Voter Summit in Washington D.C. on October 7, 2011. Photo/Wikimedia When a craven of buffoons and bigots disguised in the bodies of Birthers figured that anyone with...
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Don’t Count Out the Labor Movement
Labor Day Parade, Union Square, New York, 1882. Graphic/Wikimedia Almost every conservative political columnist, pundit, commentator, blogger, and bloviator has written about the decline and...
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Republicans Lie About ‘Support Our Troops’
For a decade, Republicans have been screaming at Americans to “support our troops.” But, they don’t really support our troops. Their constant chanting was originally code to support the Republican...
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Environmental Justice: One Illegal Bid At A Time
Tim DeChristopher entering Scott Matheson Courthouse July 26, 2011 Salt Lake City Utah USA. Photo/Jonathan Mauer/Wikimedia On April 21, the day before Earth Day, Tim DeChristopher was released from...
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