Drugs
Is the Department of Justice playing Philadelphians dirty, as was claimed Wednesday afternoon? More on that in a moment. Federal law prohibits places that sell or enable the use of illegal drugs. That’s why, last year, an appeals court ruled against Philadelphia’s attempt to open a “supervised injection
Joe Biden
President Joe Biden’s approval rating is around 37%, which would be a fabulous batting average for a MLB slugger, but it’s about as bad as it gets for a chief executive. So one goal of Tuesday’s State of the Union address is to lift that number. That’
Racism
It looks like some woke school boards’ misshapen ideas of “equity” is getting blowback here and there. Just a couple of weeks ago, three members of the San Francisco school board were recalled and lost their jobs for incompetence. One of their grotesque ideas was getting rid of entrance exams
Russia
The war rages on in Ukraine, but Vladimir Putin and Russia have already lost. Not the physical fight — Russia’s armed-to-the-teeth military may prevail on the battlefield -- but Putin has lost the PR war. The world has turned against him. Even his new ally China did not vote with
Russia
No U.S. military will fight in Ukraine, but we will fight at home. It will not be a missile attack — not even the overreaching Vladimir Putin is that nuts. More likely he will launch a cyber attack against our infrastructure. The power grid is — astonishingly — vulnerable. So is air
Russia
Update: On his 2/24 show, Carlson admitted Putin was the aggressor. Let’s start with Tucker Carlson, who knows he’ll never win an Edward R. Murrow award, so has set his sights on the Lenin Award. We will also end with him. There’s a lot of confusion
Russia
It’s around midnight and war has begun in Eastern Europe. It is Russian President’s Vladimir Putin’s war, pure and simple. The early hours were reported by AP.https://apnews.com/article/626a8c5ec22217bacb24ece60fac4fe1 Russia has marched into a neighbor, something we have not seen since the prelude to
Language
It ain’t new, and it ain’t much but it’s all I have for you today.
Coronavirus
Once again, the people who were responsible and did the right thing get squat, while the selfish and lazy are rewarded. This time it’s a $100 gift card to those who get vaccinated now, long after the time they should. It’s a progressive idea that reminds me of
Journalism
The lawyer writing for the NBC website says Sarah Palin probably feels like she was jobbed by Judge Jed Rakoff, and the lawyer understands that feeling, but . . . First, Palin had a high bar to clear, suing a newspaper as a public official. With that said, the judge did not dismiss
Race
The Philadelphia School District’s racist reorganization of admission to elite schools is biting its own tail. After my column calling the district out for a policy that was supposed to capture the unicorn of “equity,” but instead harmed qualified whites and Asians, even the “anti-racist” (its promised direction, according
Politics
The long-held, but unchallenged, assumption that “voter suppression” changes the outcome of elections, has now been challenged — and refuted. The analysis comes from respected Emory University prof Alan Abramowitz, and his work has gotten far less attention than it should. And when it is published, his work is usually under