D.A. Larry Krasner
District Attorney Larry Krasner likes boogeymen. Although Frank Rizzo has been dead 30 years, Krasner mentioned him four times during Monday afternoon’s Zoom district attorney debate sponsored by the Philadelphia Bar Association. He waved the name like an amulet to ward off evil. Then, on the subject of immigration
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You have to crawl to the bottom of this Chris Brennan column to get to the (marginal) Good News for reform D.A. candidate Carlos Vega. Reform? You thought Larry Krasner was the reformer? Yes, Krasner claimed that when he ran in 2017, but now that we have seen the
Dogs
There are two kinds of dog guardians, which is the term that is preferred to “owners,” because it is more accurate. There are the people who sleep in the same bed as their dogs, and those who do not. I don’t know any who do not, although I thought
Race Relations
From the mid-‘70s to mid-‘80s I was an adjunct at Temple University, usually teaching introduction to newswriting. Adjuncts were outsiders, freelancers who were paid by the number of courses they taught without benefits such as health insurance or paid vacation. They were like Uber drivers with briefcases. I
Race Relations
Columbia University has announced that starting in the spring it will designate student and faculty bathrooms as “White” and “Colored.” Segregation is important for students to have a clear sense of their own cultural identity, the administration did not say. Things have gotten so insane in Woke America that this
D.A. Larry Krasner
If you are a profligate prelate, a prosecuting-shirking D.A., or an editor with loose lips, the last person you want on your case is Ralph Cipriano, an old-fashioned ball buster. The 67-year-old lapsed liberal and unlapsed Catholic has more scalps on his belt than an Apache war party. I
Jim Kenney
Mayor Kenney is losing it. A sad announcement mourning a life lost was turned into progressive parody by the mayor’s office. Here’s the first paragraph with my edits: “Once again our city has been rocked by senseless gun violence. Tonight, we tragically lost a 15-year-old who had their
Joe Biden
On his 50th day as the Most Powerful Man Person in the World, President Joe Biden delivered his first prime-time address, in which he used one word a lot, and a related term, not at all. Used incessantly was “vaccine,” which he came close to begging the audience to use.
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I am the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. I turned 100 years old in 2018. The city celebrated. Now the City Hall clown car wants to “improve” me. If there is a God in heaven, help me! French landscape architect Jacques Greber designed me to emulate the grand Champs-Elysees in Paris. He
Israel
Many Presidents write books after retiring, basically to burnish their reputation and to explain their actions without having to pass through the filter of the media. They usually don’t escape fact-checking by outside sources. Portions of “A Promised Land,” Barack Obama’s second memoir (with one more to come)
Immigration
The Biden Administration calls the tumult at our Southern border a “challenge,” while critics call it “chaos.” As Shakespeare wrote, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Or, in this case, stink. A few days ago, some of those from Central America arrived at the border wearing
Racism
To the tune of “Green Eggs and Ham” I am Suess/No excuse/I am Suess Do you like/Yellow Japs and Blacks?/I do not like them I am Suess/I have no excuse Would you like them/Here or there? I would not like/Them anywhere I am