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Fitness coach who could bench press 300 pounds has lost 70 and is confined to wheelchair
Bill Phillips: “I have gained a new outlook on life” .… "Now he's in a wheel chair. He can't walk. He can't exercise. He's on oxygen."...
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Aug 24, 20213 min read


My Awesome Summer Reading List 2021 -- August update
Because I started tutoring online this summer, my reading time has decreased significantly. However, I am still finding time to sit down...
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Aug 20, 20212 min read


President Ford’s approval increased 14 points after the fall of Saigon in 1975
… loss in 1976 had nothing to do with Vietnam While some lamentations are now taking place about the situations with the Taliban in...
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Aug 17, 20213 min read


George Washington ordered his troops to be inoculated against smallpox and won the war
… controversial medical action won the war George Washington has been called the Father of Our Country because of his actions in bringing...
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Aug 17, 20214 min read


Gen. Wesley Clark: Afghanistan problem is “consequence of 20 years of American misjudgments ..."
David Rothkopf If the lesson you take away from Afghanistan is that the endgame was misplayed you are missing the point. The point is...
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Aug 16, 20214 min read


Republicans who failed to catch bin Laden for a decade should shut their traps about Afghanistan
George W. Bush: “I truly am not that concerned about him.” … we are finally leaving after 20 years All of the naysayers who are...
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Aug 16, 20213 min read


“Survivors of clergy sexual abuse in Pennsylvania still looking for justice 3 years after report."
... but republican lawmakers support pedophiles Three years ago, residents of Pennsylvania were shocked at the results of a grand jury...
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Aug 14, 20212 min read


Reprint: Prince Gallitzin State Park attracts more than 2 million annually to Cambria County
The beauty of Pennsylvania is evident to anyone who visits the state parks, particularly the one in the county that I grew up in many...
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Aug 12, 20216 min read


Aug. 9, 1974: “It’s Nixon Resignation Day! Remember when we thought nobody could ever be worse?"
… “which, my fellow Americans, is frightening”” In 1974, I had left a job in which I had seen a number of Watergate criminals enter the...
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Aug 12, 20214 min read


Outrage: Americans pay the highest price for drugs and seniors want change
“Seniors Would Cross Party Lines to Vote for Candidates Who Support Medicare Drug Price Negotiation” … have to break the ties of Big...
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Aug 11, 20213 min read


My ambitious Summer Reading List 2021 has suffered from two joyous additions to my life
I have planned on doing a great deal of reading this summer, but that ended in June for two reasons: My return to teaching and a joyous...
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Aug 9, 20212 min read


Did Penn State’s expansion of its branch campuses lead to the destruction of the state universities?
… PSU says no, some experts say yes The truth is that for students looking for the best bargain for a college education in Pennsylvania,...
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Aug 8, 20214 min read


RIP: Former St. Francis Red Flash football player Kevin Grodzki exemplified class and dignity
... A class act wherever he went, and he rose quickly in the corporate world after showing tenacity and grit on the football field....
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Aug 7, 20214 min read


Biden created almost 1,000,000 new jobs in July, but anti-vaxxers are trying to destroy the recovery
… created 2.4 million jobs over three months As President Joe Biden strode to the podium in the White House on Friday, many expected him...
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Aug 7, 20214 min read


My trip to Pa. resulted in losing 11 Covid-induced pounds since May, and swimming was the key
… back to my high school weight Numbers do not lie, so when the scale on Tuesday read a tad over 175 pounds, I was ecstatic. Those 11...
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Aug 6, 20211 min read


My former PSU classmate Richard Trumka, was a former coal miner who fought hard for them
… fierce advocate for unions and blue-collar workers In my first conversation with Richard Trumka in 1971, we bonded for one reason: He...
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Aug 5, 20214 min read


Question for TSA-Johnstown: Was it really necessary to go through the bag of a 74-year-old white guy
… justifying their jobs? When I returned from a long, arduous trip of approximately 928 miles that took me more than 15 hours, I just...
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Aug 5, 20213 min read


Democrats will force Cuomo out for sexual harassment after scathing report
… his denials sound like Donald Trump The report released today about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is devastating, illustrating that the...
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Aug 3, 20213 min read


Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland, and Al Gore had strong cases for arguing election unfairness
… Trump actually has no case The United States’ system for electing presidents is unusual and often unfair, but it has usually been right...
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Aug 1, 20215 min read
“TV as Birth Control”? Some researchers found some astounding numbers
How to defuse the population bomb: Provide people with a steady diet of soap operas and reality TV shows that depict modern, urban...
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Jul 29, 20213 min read
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