Jim Kenney
This won’t take long. It’s a simple object lesson of progressives identifying a problem and then throwing far too much money at correcting it. Case in point: In Mayor Jim Kenney’s final (thank God) budget, he’s calling for free SEPTA passes for Philadelphians mired in poverty.
Education
The diversity chickens are coming home to roost and diversity is destroying quality at Philadelphia’s top school — Julia R. Masterman. Using somewhat softer language, that is the conclusion of a group of Masterman parents who issued a 51-page report that begins this way: “The Julia R. Masterman Laboratory and
Politics
He never voted until he was 30, former City Councilman David Oh tells me, sheepishly, as he sits for an interview in Chinatown’s EMei restaurant. Voting wasn’t a thing in Southwest Philadelphia where he grew up, he says, adding that he was intimidated by the voting procedures. His
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I like dogs, and I like cops. Assuming they are good dogs, and good cops. And I have read and researched cases where cops have freaked out when approached by a strange dog, drawn their weapons and fired. This often happens when cops are in a home trying to arrest
Russia
It reminds me of Bastogne, the Alamo, Thermopylae, and Masada. Those were battles where defenders were crazily outnumbered, but refused to quit. Like Ukraine today. The 101st Airborne, the Screaming Eagles, were surrounded by Nazis in the Belgian town. When the Germans demanded U.S. surrender or face annihilation, Army
Culture
People are permitted to change their mind about their convictions, but they should have a good reason for the change. According to Gov. Josh Shapiro in a broadcast interview, he said he abandoned his long-held belief in capital punishment in part because his son asked a question he could not
Race
It was bound to happen. If you are a white person and don’t loudly and endlessly proclaim that you are “anti-racist,” then you are a racist to the Woke. If you are a white person and have actually done things to help Black people, then you are derisively slurred
Politics
No, I am not going to run for mayor (again). While a Daily News columnist I ran several times as a satire of mayor elections. It gave me a platform from which I could put some ideas on the table. I am going to do that again, without the political
Philadelphia Eagles
I’m not football expert, and I’m no mind reader, hut I do know what Jalen Hurts is thinking this morning: I lost the Super Bowl for my team. I say that because the young man always accepts responsibility for his actions, and his fumble led directly to a
Philadelphia Eagles
Some regulars here, remembering I predicted in 2018 that the Eagles would lose in the Super Bowl, asked me to make the same prediction again, hoping for the same result. I can’t do that. The 2018 column was not what I wanted to happen, but what I expected to
Politics
Regulars here know that I have been a defender of John Fetterman on several issues. One was on the issue of the parole board, which he headed as lieutenant governor. Some characterized him as wanting to turn all prisoners loose. That’s unfair, with a tiny drop of truth. The
Immigration
Reality can be a harsh teacher. Or, as Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday, the country is not divided between Left and Right, but between Normal and Crazy. And not the kind of Crazy Patsy Cline sang about. Starting with Crazy, for more than a decade, Democratic-run cities and