Israel

The fantasy of recognizing a nonexistent state

Good intentions lead to bad policy

Bike lanes

Injunction stops Pine & Spruce loading zones

FOPS President Lloyd Brotman said the group was energized by “a runaway city bureaucracy hell bent on installing concrete barriers along the full length of bike lanes.”

Frank Rizzo

As I predicted, the Rizzo statue is returned to rightful owners

“It’s about time. It’s great news,” said Della Barba. “It  was worth the fight.”

Russia-Ukraine War

Anchorage must not be a replay of Munich

This history lesson only works if you believe that Putin has the same territorial designs as did Hitler.

Septa

Facts & figures: SEPTA vs. other mass transit

A friend of mine says SEPTA is shot through with waste, fraud, and mismanagement. But he says that about every government agency.

Texas Hold 'em

The lies of Texas are upon us

So Abbott is a political hack, and the Dems are gutless. 

Sydney Sweeney

No, Sydney Sweeney is not Adolf Hitler

Sex in advertising is as American as Southern fried chicken. 

Illegal immigration

Obey the law? Not if it’s immigration

Remember “no one is above the law”? True, except when it comes to illegals.

Safehouse

Operating a drug den is religious liberty?

So the court has ruled the Safehouse advocates can argue their religious values give them special standing.

Whitewashing history

Trump’s whitewash is a stain on U.S. history

For a long time Asians were excluded by law, minorities of all sorts were banned from occupations, colleges, housing communities, even cemeteries. 

Unequal distribution of wealth

Solutions: How to close the wealth gap

ChatGPT divided the possible cures between the realistic and the transformative.

Unequal distribution of wealth

A hot take on the unequal distribution of wealth

The skeletal structure of capitalism is competition, which should be fair competition, although it sometimes isn’t.