Dear Reader: You are noticing a difference in the layout of my blog. It’s not just the layout. After five years, with increasing difficulty and expense of using my previous platform, I have changed to one called Ghost. Make up your own jokes. I don’t why it’s
Philadelphia Inquirer
This column was written three years ago, following the Philadelphia Inquirer’s journey into discovering its imagined racist history. I withheld it then because I was suing, and being sued by, the Inquirer. I won my defamation suit against them, they dropped their retaliatory suit against me. I publish this
Politics
That’s according to a Washington Post – Ipsos poll that mirrors findings in other recent polls taking America’s temperature when it comes to the reign of Donald J. Trump. Before digging into the stats, regular followers may recall that I said #47 would go too far (it is in
Politics
There hasn’t been such an activist rookie* President since Franklin D. Roosevelt. I used the * because Donald J. Trump is a rookie in his second term, so he’s different from FDR in that way. But not in his ambitions. Not in his desire to expand the powers of
Uncategorized
Philadelphia should be an LGBTQ sanctuary city. That was the interesting idea proposed by longtime LGBTQ activist Kathleen Padilla. (It sorta already is, more in a moment.) She also suggested the same for Pennsylvania, but that won’t happen — yet — in a state that (as James Carville described it) is
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“Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.” That’s what candidate Donald J. Trump said in August while stumping in Montana. By now you know the Consumer Price Index increased 3% in January over a year
Cherelle Parker
The other shoe has dropped, with an all-too-predictable thud, on city streets. In order to patch its idiotic law that prohibits even momentary stops in bicycle lanes, the city is proposing to create loading zones by eliminating 5-6 parking spaces on every block between Front and 22nd streets. That’s
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Wrecking ball, bull in a China shop, disrupter, Constitution-buster — choose your own metaphor. Just about everything President Donald J. Trump has unleashed in the first three weeks of his second term is what he said he would unleash. He was not kidding. He was prepared. Call it shock and awe,
News
She has designated herself as employer of last resort for damaged Dems. Call it the Parker Picks Employment Agency. Latest example is the Parker Picks hiring of seven-term former State Rep Kevin Boyle, 45, as a deputy director of external affairs in the managing director’s office, with a $110,
Cherelle Parker
Mayor Cherelle Parker has an odd taste in hiring — showing a preference for felons and mental cases, just as long as they are Democrats. She has designated herself as employer of last resort for damaged Dems. Call it the Parker Picks Employment Agency. Latest example is the Parker Picks hiring
Bicycle Lanes
The other shoe has dropped, with an all-too-predictable thud, on city streets. In order to patch its idiotic law that prohibits even momentary stops in bicycle lanes, the city is proposing to create loading zones by eliminating 5-6 parking spaces on every block between Front and 22nd streets. That’s
Politics
Among a plethora of ideas flowing from the hyperactive mind of President Donald J. Trump, the U.S. “owning” Gaza is among the worst. Before I continue, to calm the MAGA wolves who are baring their fangs, here is a partial list of things he has done right: Enforce the