Anti-Semitism
There’s been an outbreak of anti-Semitism at the esteemed University of Pennsylvania, and new president Liz Magill is going about combating it in exactly the wrong way. Actually, she sort of encouraged it when her first mealy-mouthed statement rebuking the Oct. 7 massacre of Israelis did not use the
Immigration
I hate to say it, and I have long resisted saying it, but facts don’t lie and I have to conclude that the explosion of illegal and faux migrants pouring across our southern border is the deliberate, political policy of President Joe Biden. Caught, and ready for release, at
Politics
I have to give credit to Philadelphia’s favorite only broadsheet, the Philadelphia Inquirer, for calling in a Tuesday editorial for Democratic mayoral candidate Cherelle Parker to debate Republican David Oh. David Oh will get to debate Cherelle Parker. (Photo: Billy Penn) Within hours, Parker, who had been dodging demands
Journalism
Just a few days ago, I was saying the government’s request for a 33-year sentence for the head of the Proud Boys for his role in the Jan. 6 riots was “crazy vengeful.” Convicted murderers have gotten less time. Radio host Dawn Stensland (Photo: Audacity) The judge may have
Politics
The introduction Direct from the somnolent center of the Midwest, the city that gave America the Fonz, Laverne, and Shirley, Milwaukee hosted eight Republican dwarfs gathered Wednesday night to derail the 800-page gorilla who was not in the room. Candidate and former President Donald J. Trump, who is carrying more
Politics
Irrespective of how you feel about the downpour of indictments on former President Donald J. Trump, are you the slightest bit troubled by the utter lack of curiosity on the part of Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis? During a brief Q&A period Monday night, when she was
Politics
I am a registered Democrat, although a disloyal Democrat because I vote for the best person, not the party. The “best” person is often a Democrat, but not always. In the last two local general elections, I did not vote for Jim Kenney for mayor, nor Larry Krasner for D.
Immigration
Open letter to New York City Mayor Eric Adams: Dear Mayor Adams: Are you enjoying life in the Dumpster? New York Mayor Eric Adams has his hands full of migrants (Photo: New York Magazine) By Dumpster, I mean the catastrophic invasion of your city, thanks to your virtue-signaling Sanctuary status.
Immigration
I don’t want to be gloating over New York City’s discomfort. Wait! I do want to gloat, because what I warned it against has come true. New York Mayor Eric Adams reverses course on shelter (Photo: CNN) Which is to say, its virtue-signaling and defiance-of-law status as a
Politics
For seven years, he was America’s Mayor. Rudy Giuliani was dying to be President As he connected with, and managed the aftermath of, the greatest attack ever on America, Rudy Giuliani’s calm, steadfastness, defiance, and hope, made him a beacon not just for New Yorkers, but for Americans,
Politics
Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is the only one -- so far -- to promise, if he is elected, to pardon Donald J. Trump. Should Joe Biden (left) pardon Donald J. Trump? He’s lost my support on that one, but that notion sparked an idea. But first -- if
Crime
Being as I did not grow up in Philadelphia, I don’t have any warm, childhood memories of the Shore, such as those memorialized by my friend Bobby Rydell in his hit “Wildwood Days.” For me, “the Shore” was the beach, first Orchard Beach on Long Island when I lived