Crime
Now we add the blood-splattered walls of an El Paso, Texas, Walmart and the blood-splattered sidewalks of an outdoor fun zone in Dayton, Ohio, to our List of Gun Horrors, which is more accurately the List of White Male Horrors. The alleged shooters in these two cases are white males
Immigration
They beat Joe Biden like a piñata at the second CNN debate. That was expected. Uncle Joe fought back. That was expected, too, even if he tripped over his tongue several times and mistakenly furnished his text number as a web address. Surprisingly little was made by the media about
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This meme was posted by a right-wing group. Some of you may have seen it around. Some of you may agree with it. Some of you may think it is true. It is not true. The U.S. Constitution protects everyone under its jurisdiction — guilty, innocent, citizen, non-citizen. It is
Immigration
When you are an air traveler, you tune out the safety message prior to takeoff, but I want to remind you of a chunky of it: If you are traveling with a child, and the oxygen masks suddenly drop from above. What are you instructed to do? First put on
Crime
What is the result of handcuffing cops? Saturday evening a group of more than 100 motorcycles came roaring up Broad Street, blasting through red lights, like a funeral procession, but with the stiffs on handlebars instead of in the hearse. I caught them on video stopping westbound cars on Spruce,
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Philadelphia has come up with a new genius plan that’s supposed to “calm” traffic and protect citizens, but it certainly looks dangerous. Midblock crosswalks are blossoming around town. This one’s on 10th between Market and Filbert, there’s another one in the 1700 block of Arch. That one
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That headline approximates what former special counsel Robert Mueller said about 100 times this morning in taciturn testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. The Dems were hoping for Robert De Niro (hat tip to SNL), but they got the old Marine who gave little more than his name, rank and
Hate crimes
How Jewish publishers, editors and writers respond to anti-Semitism was served with bagels and coffee Tuesday morning at a conference arranged by the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. Jewish panelists were Philadelphia Gay News founder and publisher Mark Segal, Jewish Exponent Editor Liz Spikol, and journalist Stu Bykofsky, a.k.
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Dawn breaks Saturday as a horrific heat wave holds the Northeast United States, including dear Philadelphia, in a python’s embrace. I’m out early to buy print cartridges at Staples, then “oral products” at CVS (I have a coupon, of course). It’s not too bad on the street,
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It was July 20, 1969, when perceptions of who we were, aboard planet earth, changed forever. Man (meaning humankind) had reached the moon, an accomplishment beyond dreams. The humans were Americans, giving a unique lift to a unique culture, one that accepts challenges. We did it on live TV, with
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Pop Quiz: Is gentrification a good thing or a bad thing? In this Inquirer story about gentrifcation, it is telling that the headline writer and the author seem to believe that the “conventional wisdom” about gentrification is negative. Is that your wisdom? Here’s a fairly neutral dictionary definition: —noun
Culture
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Stu a tired boy. There is no way I can produce crisp, sparkling copy and deep analysis on a daily basis, so I will take occasional breaks and will cover the breaks with fun — cartoons, memes, jokes, whatever. The