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The Truth About The Ferguson Shooting ~ Jeff Katz

By: Jeff Katz – December, 2014 There are quite literally thousands of interactions between citizens and law enforcement officers every single day in the United States. Unless you are the…

December 19, 2014No CommentRead More

Put on Your Big Boy Pants ~ By Jeff Katz

By: Jeff Katz – November, 2104 Just a few days after the 2014 midterm elections and the reverberations are being felt all over the country. People everywhere are hearing…

November 21, 2014No CommentRead More

A Special Kind of Incompetence – By Jeff Katz

By: Jeff Katz: October, 2014 On the heels of the most major security breach to ever take place at The White House we see the first ever case of Ebola…

October 26, 20141 CommentRead More

Farewell Robin Williams – By Jeff Katz

One of the must watch TV shows when I was growing up was “Happy Days.” I still remember the oldest brother Chuck Cunningham simply vanishing without a trace after the…

September 19, 2014No CommentRead More

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

By: Jeff Katz – August, 2014 As I sit down to write this month’s column for The Valley Patriot, I’ve just enjoyed a wonderful day. Early this morning I wished…

August 25, 20141 CommentRead More

Humanitarian Crisis? Try Invasion!

By: Jeff Katz – July, 2014 When you look for the definition of a nation, you immediately will see that there is mention of a specified piece of territory with…

July 20, 2014No CommentRead More

Real Heroes

By: Jeff Katz – June, 2014 Memorial Day always reminds me of my favorite veteran, my Dad. While my Dad was long past his active duty days by the time…

June 27, 2014No CommentRead More

So Much for Free Speech and the 1st Amendment

By: Jeff Katz – May, 2014 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali native, was born in to a devout Muslim family. She was raised in the religion and has maintained that…

May 21, 2014No CommentRead More

This Time it Really is for the Children

By: Jeff Katz – April, 2014 According to a recent poll, more than seventy percent of us believe that that DCF is broken. I’m assuming that the other thirty percent…

April 20, 2014No CommentRead More

Congrats to Tom Duggan and The Valley Patriot for Ten Great Years

By: Jeff Katz – March, 2014 As a kid growing up in Philadelphia I used to write letters to celebrities and community leaders. I know some other kids were collecting…

March 27, 2014No CommentRead More

As the Christie Turns – By Jeff Katz

By: Jeff Katz January, 2014 The other day, while lounging on a Sunday morning my wife turned on The Today Show which seemed more like an episode of “As Chris…

February 14, 2014No CommentRead More

What Would Pope Francis Do? – By Jeff Katz

By: Jeff Katz – January, 2014 I may be a Jewish guy but I notched a few credits at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, so I am familiar with the…

January 20, 2014No CommentRead More

‘Tis the Season

By: Jeff Katz – December, 2013 It is that time of the year when Christmas is in the news. For many of my friends it is an extremely important time…

December 22, 2013No CommentRead More

More Bubble Wrap … Stat!

By: Jeff Katz – November, 2013 Do you remember back in the olden days when dinosaurs roamed the earth and we had to walk up hill to school…both ways? You know…

November 24, 2013No CommentRead More