Pete Buttigieg
I’m not sure what qualified “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg to be Secretary of Transportation, other than him being a Democrat and the vice president’s job going to Kamala Harris. As I predicted back in 2018, there was no chance Democrats would nominate two white men for president and vice
Philadelphia Eagles
While we are forgetting our misguided love affair with Carson Wentz, and while we are trying to wash the taste of Ben Simmons out of our mouth, let’s pause to say goodbye to Eagles right guard Brandon Brooks, who announced his retirement at a news conference and also with
Fire Safety
Adam Thiel, Philadelphia’s 20th fire commissioner, has done doctoral work in public policy, in addition to earning degrees in fire science and history. On Tuesday, he showed his public policy chops with a declaration that the “root cause” of fire disasters is a dearth of safe, affordable, public housing.
Democracy
I have long called myself a disloyal Democrat because I can’t go along with every nugget of insanity that flows from the far left edge of the party, which seems to be steering the ship, or at least plotting its course. By the far left, I specifically mean the
Democracy
There is no computer that can’t be hacked, there is no web site that can’t be cracked. If that is true -- and it is -- why would we ever put our voting process and electoral returns online? When we do that, we make ourselves vulnerable. What follows
Culture
Having just downloaded it into my musical library, I am listening to “Be My Baby: The Very Best of the Ronettes,” and thinking how lucky I am, me and my generation. My parent's generation had some girl groups, the most famous being the Andrews Sisters. My generation --
Russia
I have no use for Russia. From the Czars to the communists to whatever they call themselves today, they have been poison for my people -- Jews -- as well as for democracy. Freedom doesn’t seem to be in their DNA. But do they have a point in wanting
Drugs
I’ve never been much interested in head shops. As in drug paraphernalia. Never been a druggie — wrong generation. My drugs were tobacco and alcohol, both legal. At least for now. My interest in the coming closing of Wonderland, near Rittenhouse Square, was just academic. I know the store because
Culture
He was a hero to me, and a disaster for bigots. Sidney Poitier was all the things bigots said Blacks were not -- handsome, athletic, smart, articulate, elegant. Not just on-screen, but off-screen too. He was America’s first Black leading man, the first to win an Academy Award as
Democracy
Today is Jan. 6, and I felt I had to do something, and thought this was an important piece. Normally, I would post this on Facebook, but I am still wrongly jailed. So it goes here. PolitiFact knocks down some of the lies before and after the January 6 riot.
Slavery
Sad to say, The New York Times’ controversial 1619 Project opens with a lie that it never quite recovers from. The project -- challenged by numerous historians and journalists such as George Will https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/17/new-york-times-1619-project-historical-illiteracy-rolls-on/ -- begins with the premise that slavery in
Mummers Parade
The 2022 Mummers Parade probably had the lowest turnout and offered the least controversy in recent memory. Past controversy was sparked by actual wrongdoing -- such as 1 out of 10,000 Mummers smearing blackface (banned for more than 50 years) on their faces -- or imagined wrongdoing, such as