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Impeachment has barely begun and if you’ve been following it, as I have, you are probably sick of it. In order to wrap my mental arms around it, I turned to a primer by Ellie Silverman, that answered a question I had, one that opens a page to a
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My family was immune from the verbal pyrotechnics that sometimes plague the major clan-gathering events at year’s end — Thanksgiving and Christmas. Why? We celebrated neither. We were not anti-American. We were Jewish and while you may understand us not hoisting a Christmas tree (although some of us
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As the clock ticked toward 4 p.m., Ambassador Gordon Sondland looked like he needed a double scotch and a full body massage. After a full day of hearings, what I am hearing is that President Trump ordered military aid withheld until Ukraine ordered an investigation into corruption, which included
Philadelphia Election
Tuesday was a big day for Democrats, in Philadelphia and around the Delaware Valley. In Chester, Delaware and Bucks counties they took control of county governments. The most historic — and worst — win was in Philadelphia where Working Families Party candidate Kendra Brooks won an At-Large Council seat, traditionally held
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Every Election Day you hear the same helpful wisdom from do-gooders: Your vote counts. Voting is important. Voting is not just a right, it is a duty. All of that is trite, but true. Everybody has an opinion, most everyone anyway. The difference between my opinion and yours is
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You can’t uphold the law if you break the law. I can’t support any potential lawmaker who is a lawbreaker. City Hall is not supposed to be a morgue for laws. Sanctuary Cities break the law by interfering with the federal government’s ability to identify and perhaps
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For the half dozen years he was a craps dealer in Connecticut and Atlantic City, Billy Ciancaglini learned about how odds work. Despite that knowledge, he thinks he will embarrass Jim Kenney on November 5 in the race for mayor. Ciancaglini, 48, as a Republican, is on the short end
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Before delving into the Tuesday night debate among a dozen Democratic hopefuls, here’s a pop quiz: Name the Starbucks multimillionaire who was going to run as an independent because too many of the Dems were too far left. Time’s up. It was Howard Schultz. He removed himself for
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I like this cartoon, even if I don’t agree with its theme — that Republicans and Democrats are interchangeable. They are not. What I will say is this: If the Democrats manage to remove President Trump, they will get President Pence. They don’t get the White House, as the
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This column is rated R The talking heads can’t even agree on what a favor is. Does it require reciprocity? If a “favor” requires payback, is it still a “favor”? That’s not how I roll. But I am not President Trump, who actually used the word “reciprocal” in
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I went to college for “free” (meaning free to me) decades before Bernie Sanders put it on the national kitchen table for discussion. I was educated at Brooklyn College, where Bernie was enrolled for a year before he transferred to the University of Chicago. I believe we were there at
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Listening to the drumbeat of fear, despair and disgust from some precincts on the Left gives me today’s topic: If Donald J. Trump loses the presidential election, he will scream it was rigged — and refuse to leave the White House. The first part of the equation, a claim the