Coronavirus
With the city now recommending that even vaccinated people, like me, wear masks indoors and in crowds, I had some questions, which I put to the city Health Department. Here are my questions and edited versions of the replies from the Health Department's Matt Rankin. Q: I am
Jim Kenney
Ernest Owens is a smart guy, very smart. He’s probably smarter than I am. I know he is better educated. He got a full ride to the University of Pennsylvania. I know that because he has written about it, about how Penn is racist, and Penn is homophobic. Owens
Chuck Peruto
During his decades-long career as a lawyer, which included outrageous stunts in the courtroom and gossip column-worthy affairs outside of it, there is one thing that enemies will use to smear A. Charles Peruto Jr., known to friend and foe as Chuck. In May 2013, while Chuck was downashore in
Racism
Do Democrats understand how much they hurt themselves when they say it’s racist to want to have people present photo ID in order to vote? A recent Monmouth University poll, consistent with earlier polls, reported that an overwhelming 80% of Americans support presenting photo ID in order to be
Politics
On the second anniversary of the start of this column, I am reprising the first one, so that people who were not here for the first know where I am coming from, and what they can expect. (This should have posted Thursday, but tech problems prevented that.) Welcome. If you
Joe Biden
Given that President Joe Biden is feverishly reversing almost every policy of President Donald J. Trump, I’m saddened he is following Trump's foolish policy of abandoning Afghanistan on a day announced to our adversaries. I know this is a devisive subject. Avoiding the phrase that was turned
Jews
Word that Amy Gutmann soon would be named our ambassador to Germany rang my American chimes in several ways. I got a little verklempt. (Yiddish for emotional). Not because she is the president of the University of Pennsylvania. I’ve always said that's a great school to attend
Homelessness
Nothing. Imagine having nothing. Imagine being a survivor of the Surfside, FL., condo collapse. You have been out of your home for 11 days, and have just learned Champlain Towers South must be demolished. That happened Sunday night. This is not to diminish the immense loss of life, which is
Race Relations
I can understand why some African-Americans decline to celebrate July 4th, the birth of the United States. The Declaration of Independence was a sort of promissory note, not fully available to them. “You call it Independence Day,” they say, “but it was not independence for Black people in America.” That
Culture
As a journalist, and social critic, my role is to observe, analyze, evaluate, and criticize. When I got my first assignment to be a critic for a newspaper, Mom said, “It’s nice you will now be paid for something you have always done for free.” Love you, Mom. The
Racism
I think most of you here at Stubykofsky.com are better informed than the average person. I don’t say that to flatter you, but because I believe it to be true. I don’t write for the lowest common denominator. So you probably know that in some areas of
Bill Cosby
A New York minute after Bill Cosby released, he sent word that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court had declared his innocence. The liberal-leaning court did no such thing. Cosby is a creepy sexual predator. The court vacated his condition on a technicality, which was that a prosecutor had given his word