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.

What kind of scumbag hangs out with a scumbag?

“Overall, what my favorite flag [is]? Hezbollah. Look it up. I’m not even kidding.”

Why Trump’s Justice targets the SPLC

Is the prosecution political? Perhaps

Going on safari, just an hour from home

This is called “glamping,” as in “glamour camping.”

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. 

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:

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 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.

Guest essay: Penn punks out of a touchy debate

“Censorship is the enemy of education, in all times and places.”

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.

On democracy and bike lanes

Barriers would not have protected Dr. Friedes as she was killed by a drunk driver doing almost 60 m.p.h.

The Cyclops of the Inquirer is at it again

She hates cars, and by extension motorists, who she seems to view as Cro-Magnon, with no citizenship rights.

Artemis II

Artemis II: The original movie was better

What can compare to “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind”?

Baby Boomers

Guest essay: Boomers went from analog to digital

They are the only generation in human history to have lived a fully analog childhood and a fully digital adulthood. No other generation will ever cross that particular bridge again.

Reparations

Guest essay: A path to recovery from slavery

“One of my concerns with much of the reparation movement and with frameworks such as critical race theory is that they often place people into permanent categories: victim and victimizer, oppressed and oppressor.”

Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez: The making of an unperson

You might say it was like white Americans learning that George Washington, among other Founding Fathers, was a slave holder. In our present culture, that is evil.

DEAD BEAT CITY

Philly is a snail when it comes to paying its bills

90% “of the more than 12,000 outside service contracts that the city signed from fiscal 2020 through January 2025” were paid late.

Book Review

Is the middle class dead and gone forever?

In framing the book, Dickerson puts the spotlight on her own parents, who did break into the middle class, where Dickerson finds herself today.

Donald J. Trump

What to know about the Trump gold coin

The back is a bald eagle in flight. Fleeing in embarrassment?

Kathy Hochul

NY gov needs the rich to pay the bills

“Maybe our first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who we can bring home,” she said.

War With Iran

CNN viewers say U.S. is LOSING the war. Please explain

Iran has lost control of its skies, the seas, its ability to fire ICBMs, its long-time Supreme Leader, almost everything but its bowels.

Michael J. Fox

Appreciating Michael J. Fox, the man

After a period of depression and boozing, he straightened out and launched the Michael J. Fox Foundation, the leading funder for research into fighting the disease.

Zionism

You need not be Jewish to be a Zionist

Anti-Semites manage to believe in contradictory myths — that Jews are the energy spreading world communism, while at the same time controlling Wall Street, the fountainhead of capitalism.

American Muslims

GOP congressman’s bigotry beats reason

What Ogles has done is blame an entire group for the misdeeds of a few. That is called guilt by association and that’s not how U.S. law works.