Ted Turner
How Ted Turner returned to sanity?
In the reporting around his death it was revealed Turner had mental issues, perhaps manic depression, and later Lewy body dementia.
Stu Bykofsky
Sharif Street
Candidate Street calls Trump and Netanyahu war criminals
Dwight Evans has endorsed Stanford, Bernie Sanders has endorsed Rabb, almost every elected official and most big unions have endorsed Street. Who has endorsed Griffith?
Immigration
Mainstream Media has amnesia when it comes to Trump
Mass deportation does not prove Trump is breaking his word. It proves the opposite — that he is keeping it.
Chris Rabb
What kind of scumbag hangs out with a scumbag?
“Overall, what my favorite flag [is]? Hezbollah. Look it up. I’m not even kidding.”
Department of Justice
Why Trump’s Justice targets the SPLC
Is the prosecution political? Perhaps
Faux African Safari
Going on safari, just an hour from home
This is called “glamping,” as in “glamour camping.”
School Taxes
Another tax shakedown in the name of “the children”
Philadelphians might feel better about being taxed if they could point to their schools as best in the nation, or the state, or even in the metro area. But we can’t. The schools still stink.
Illegal immigration
On balance, Inquirer misses the mark
After nine paragraphs of describing the increasing cooperation, in red cities and towns, the Inquirer gives the pro side one sentence and not a quote from anyone in ICE:
Bike lanes
Billy Penn gets a D for biased reporting
You had to read to the 19th paragraph to find a single line about opposition to the barriers, from the Friends of Pine and Spruce.
ICE
ICE Out: Grand Opera from City Council
It should not come as a surprise to you that lawyers on your team can find legal justification for anything.
University of Pennsylvania
Guest essay: Penn punks out of a touchy debate
“Censorship is the enemy of education, in all times and places.”
Military draft
On a bright spring day, someone feels a draft
Cocktails went on almost three hours, too enjoyable for words, and it was during that — here’s the lede — that one of them mentioned that they had “heard” Pete Hegseth was bringing back the draft.