
Judge Patrick Dugan
D.A. Larry Krasner is no reformer, says Judge Dugan
“Larry always says, ‘F around and find out’ when he’s talking about Trump. How about ‘F around and find out’ to the people running around here with AK 47s?”
Donald J. Trump
Three times this week, Trump said that the U.S. had given Ukraine “$350 billion,” about double the actual amount of U.S. aid for the country.
Donald J. Trump
Do not boycott, as some are planning to do. That is leaving the field of battle.
Donald J. Trump
I am not sticking my neck out too far to predict Trump, with a three-vote majority, will lose the House in the next election, effectively tying his hands.
Woke
Think of how that would change the wording on cards on Mother’s Day
Dear Reader: You are noticing a difference in the layout of my blog. It’s not just the layout. After five years, with increasing difficulty and expense of using my previous platform, I have changed to one called Ghost. Make up your own jokes. I don’t why it’s
Philadelphia Inquirer
This column was written three years ago, following the Philadelphia Inquirer’s journey into discovering its imagined racist history. I withheld it then because I was suing, and being sued by, the Inquirer. I won my defamation suit against them, they dropped their retaliatory suit against me. I publish this
Politics
That’s according to a Washington Post – Ipsos poll that mirrors findings in other recent polls taking America’s temperature when it comes to the reign of Donald J. Trump. Before digging into the stats, regular followers may recall that I said #47 would go too far (it is in
Politics
There hasn’t been such an activist rookie* President since Franklin D. Roosevelt. I used the * because Donald J. Trump is a rookie in his second term, so he’s different from FDR in that way. But not in his ambitions. Not in his desire to expand the powers of
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Philadelphia should be an LGBTQ sanctuary city. That was the interesting idea proposed by longtime LGBTQ activist Kathleen Padilla. (It sorta already is, more in a moment.) She also suggested the same for Pennsylvania, but that won’t happen — yet — in a state that (as James Carville described it) is
Reality determines my political positions, not vice versa
“Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.” That’s what candidate Donald J. Trump said in August while stumping in Montana. By now you know the Consumer Price Index increased 3% in January over a year
The other shoe has dropped, with an all-too-predictable thud, on city streets. In order to patch its idiotic law that prohibits even momentary stops in bicycle lanes, the city is proposing to create loading zones by eliminating 5-6 parking spaces on every block between Front and 22nd streets. That’s
Wrecking ball, bull in a China shop, disrupter, Constitution-buster — choose your own metaphor. Just about everything President Donald J. Trump has unleashed in the first three weeks of his second term is what he said he would unleash. He was not kidding. He was prepared. Call it shock and awe,
She has designated herself as employer of last resort for damaged Dems. Call it the Parker Picks Employment Agency. Latest example is the Parker Picks hiring of seven-term former State Rep Kevin Boyle, 45, as a deputy director of external affairs in the managing director’s office, with a $110,
Mayor Cherelle Parker has an odd taste in hiring — showing a preference for felons and mental cases, just as long as they are Democrats. She has designated herself as employer of last resort for damaged Dems. Call it the Parker Picks Employment Agency. Latest example is the Parker Picks hiring
The other shoe has dropped, with an all-too-predictable thud, on city streets. In order to patch its idiotic law that prohibits even momentary stops in bicycle lanes, the city is proposing to create loading zones by eliminating 5-6 parking spaces on every block between Front and 22nd streets. That’s
Among a plethora of ideas flowing from the hyperactive mind of President Donald J. Trump, the U.S. “owning” Gaza is among the worst. Before I continue, to calm the MAGA wolves who are baring their fangs, here is a partial list of things he has done right: Enforce the
President Donald J. Trump’s first week was pretty damn good. He kept promises by signing a flurry of executive actions, as he promised. You may not like them, but he ran on them and followed through. Promises made, promises kept. His inauguration day was also a triumph with him
Is the die cast for DEI? A growing number of corporations — From A(mazon) to W(almart) — are quietly stepping away from it, and some are facing the backlash of consumer boycotts, most recently Target. One example is this column by my friend, Jenice Armstrong of the Philadelphia Inquirer. She
Jerry Verlin is a zealot in the best sense of the word, a word which is rooted in Jewish history. As is the 84-year-old Verlin, but also the present, specifically the State of Israel, about which he is deeply knowledgeable and of which he is an indefatigable supporter. For almost
Let’s turn to an unpleasant subject — abortion. When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the red flags were sent flying. The message: As more states eliminated or restricted abortion, the number of the procedures would go down. They have not. The zero abortion rate in states
I see a strange, unlikely parallel between the promise of churches to resist deportation of “migrants” (correct term, illegal residents) and the action of churches 60 years ago to protect civil rights protestors. The crucial difference is the civil rights protestors of yore were trying to demand federal law, while