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Mayor Cherelle Parker has talked the talk, and is now trying to walk the walk by asking City Council for $100 million for a drug treatment center and shelter for 600 people. [Update: Council approved her request.] Any way you look at it, $100 million is a shitload of money,
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As an unpaid (and unrequested) unofficial advisor to the Joe Biden campaign who has made previous suggestions, such as here and here I have to call the freelance appearance of Robert De Niro an unforced error. Lots of reasons why. First, the Biden campaign said it would not comment on
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In my last column, I wrote about the paradox President Joe Biden has created for himself — promising “ironclad” support for Israel while simultaneously pausing shipment of offensive arms. I said he was going wobbly on Israel. Certainly one of the reasons is domestic politics. He told a reporter at the
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By Andy Craig On Wednesday, the Libertarian Party made an eyebrow-raising announcement about its upcoming convention: the headline speaker will be Donald Trump. For the little-noticed third party, which has mostly been overshadowed this year by more prominent independent candidates, it was certainly an attention-grabber. It is unusual, to say
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Wow — look at the calendar (providing you haven’t been blinded by the fakakta eclipse). It’s almost Pennsylvania primary day, Tuesday, April 23, when we begin the process of choosing politicians we hope won’t disappoint us. Starting with President, where our primary choice is between two elderly white
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Former special counsel Robert Hur had to be asking himself, “I got a degree in English and American literature from Harvard and a law degree from Stanford, so why am I subjecting myself to questioning from these partisan pinheads?” I was under the weather Tuesday, so I thought I would
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Let’s give Republicans the benefit of the doubt
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President Joe Biden closed his State of the Union address by taking on the elephant in the room — his age. The fact that this came more than an hour into his speech was itself a win, that he got that far with vigor, energy and passion. He acknowledged that he
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I’m not going to use his name, because I am not looking for a Twitter X war, I am looking for honesty and transparency. The host of a Philadelphia radio station Wednesday morning stated as fact “most people aren’t in the stock market.” That statement was used to
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If I were a Muslim Arab American living in heavily Muslim Dearborn, Mich. — and I am registered Democratic as almost all of them are — I probably would have voted “uncommitted” in Tuesday’s primary. (And 56% of that community did.) It would have been fun as a protest — in the
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A friend of mine — at least I think she’s a friend — asks me why I don’t opine on Joe Biden’s age (because I am a year older than Biden, and that might give me unique insight into the, um, aging issue). I do. First, it’s not
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“Questions aren’t attacks.” That was a key point made by Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed columnist Helen Ubinas in Tuesday’s paper. It was the second time someone at the Inquirer has criticized the Cherelle Parker regime’s gag order policy on what is supposed to be public information. New mayors