Published in the Delaware County Daily Times    November 5, 2018 By Joseph Batory, Times Columnist Mark Twain, one of America’s greatest novelists, was not just a creative writer. He was also a serious critic of the political world. Mark Twain’s insults and opinions about elected officials are bitterly poignant: “…Suppose you were an idiot. […]

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By Joseph Batory Rotary International’s 6th Annual World Polio Day happened in Philadelphia at the College of Physicians Wednesday, October 24 (6:30 PM) with a live streaming event in eight languages to the world.  The event was an international update about a gargantuan war which has been quietly raging to eradicate polio worldwide and the […]

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Published in the Center City Concerned Citizens Review, October, 2018 By Joseph Batory A serious crime has been committed, and even it has been caused by negligence or apathy, the perpetrators are still GUILTY; they are: (1.) The Pennsylvania legislature which underfunded Philadelphia public schools for decades; (2.) The worthless School Reform Commission which had […]

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Published in the Delaware County Daily Times    October 3, 2018  By Joseph Batory This past October 3rd marked the 74th anniversary of a WWII battle full of hope and heroism and ultimately of betrayal. Poland had been brutally occupied by the Nazi’s in 1939 being the first country to fight the Germans at the […]

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Published in the Concerned Center City Citizens Review Philadelphia, PA       September 2018 By Joseph Batory Scott Pruitt’s 16 months as EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) boss created a nightmare legacy for the United States. Pruitt’s anti-environment actions betrayed the very purposes of the EPA. And his well-documented array of unethical behaviors slapped USA taxpayers in the […]

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Published in the Delaware County Daily Times    August 10, 2018 By Joseph Batory Nations around the world seem to have a much better understanding than the USA that the most important learning for all human beings occurs between birth and 5 years of age. Children’s brains in those early years are remarkably receptive and […]

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Reprinted with permission of the Delaware County Daily Times   Article published on 6/15/2018 By Joseph Batory, Times Columnist For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers, their laughter and their loveliness would clear a cloudy day. And the song that I am singing is a prayer to non-believers, To come […]

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Published in the Concerned Center City Citizens Review, May 2018 By Joseph Batory In 2016, Mitt Romney, a former Republican presidential nominee, summarized Donald Trump as a phony and a fraud.  “Trump’s domestic policies would lead to recession. His foreign policies would make America and the world less safe,” Romney said. “He has neither the […]

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Reprinted with permission from the Delaware County Daily Times Published on:  May 2, 2018 By Joseph Batory, Daily Times Columnist Being poor in America: When you’re poor, you know it It is tragic that 60 years beyond my days of growing up poor in Philadelphia, that the latest U.S. Census has revealed that 43 million […]

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March 25, 2018 article reprinted with permission of the Delaware County Daily Times By Joseph Batory The United States makes up about 4.4 percent of the global population, but we also own 42 percent of the world’s guns. According to the Gun Violence Archive (a not-for-profit corporation), so far just in three months of 2018, […]

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