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?”
Stu Bykofsky
Donald J. Trump
FactCheck: Dictator, missing money and other Trump lies
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
Standing up for Ukraine and President Trump
Do not boycott, as some are planning to do. That is leaving the field of battle.
Donald J. Trump
How can I be sanguine with Trump in the White House?
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
Dems continue to marginalize themselves with Woke ideas
Think of how that would change the wording on cards on Mother’s Day
Notice something new?
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
Is Philadelphia a “Black city”?
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
Americans awake to the reality of President Trump
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
Scorecard: The first 4 weeks of Trump II
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
Uncategorized
Should trans people get equal rights to gays in Philly?
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
Politics
Unfair criticism and what Trump needs to learn
“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
Cherelle Parker
Nonprofit launches to fight City Hall on no-stop bike lanes
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