Politics
There is a path to victory, Republican mayoral candidate David Oh was explaining to about 100 supporters at a fund-raiser Tuesday night in the stately Lincolncentric Union League on Broad Street. David Oh (left) joined by supporters Marina Kats, Tom Caramanico, Matt Wolfe The road will be as long and
Culture
A group of Native Americans have hit the warpath — figuratively, and no insult intended — asking the Washington NFL franchise to restore the name Redskins. The group is the Native Americans Guardians Association, which describes itself as a nonprofit “advocating for increased education about Native Americans, especially in public educational institutions,
Politics
Irrespective of how you feel about the downpour of indictments on former President Donald J. Trump, are you the slightest bit troubled by the utter lack of curiosity on the part of Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis? During a brief Q&A period Monday night, when she was
Politics
I’m not a fisherman, but I know when something smells fishy. I’m neither a Constitutional scholar nor a lawyer, but there is something really strange about Attorney General Merrick Garland’s elevation of U.S. Attorney David Weiss to special counsel to continue the investigation of Presidential Son,
Politics
I am a registered Democrat, although a disloyal Democrat because I vote for the best person, not the party. The “best” person is often a Democrat, but not always. In the last two local general elections, I did not vote for Jim Kenney for mayor, nor Larry Krasner for D.
Philadelphia Phillies
I had the Phillies game on, but I wasn’t paying much attention, partly because they were trailing again. Being predictably unpredictable. The season is winding down fast and the team had just returned from a road trip on which they had underperformed. Trea Turner homered and doubled to break
Politics
I was happy and relieved by some recent statements by Keir Starmer, who leads Labour, the Left party that hasn’t governed Great Britain since 2010. Labour leader Keir Starmer embraces patriotism (Photo: Financial Times) His predecessor was a Labourite given to making anti-Semitic statements, not too unusual in a
Immigration
Open letter to New York City Mayor Eric Adams: Dear Mayor Adams: Are you enjoying life in the Dumpster? New York Mayor Eric Adams has his hands full of migrants (Photo: New York Magazine) By Dumpster, I mean the catastrophic invasion of your city, thanks to your virtue-signaling Sanctuary status.
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By Trudy Rubin TORKIV, Ukraine — At the entrance to the village cemetery, where they buried Vasyl Pushkar, stands a tall, gray stone marker. The stone is engraved with an Orthodox cross and the words “Holodomor, 1932-33,” a memorial to the four million or more Ukrainian peasants who were starved to
Culture
By Johnathan Zimmerman In the 1950s, the greatest threat to American freedom was the attack on communists and their so-called fellow travelers in government, academia, and the arts. Led by a firebrand senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, the anti-communist campaign destroyed countless lives and careers. To place someone under suspicion,
Immigration
I don’t want to be gloating over New York City’s discomfort. Wait! I do want to gloat, because what I warned it against has come true. New York Mayor Eric Adams reverses course on shelter (Photo: CNN) Which is to say, its virtue-signaling and defiance-of-law status as a
Aliens
So are they here among us? The aliens, I mean. I grew up in the post-World War II era, and I was entranced by science fiction because I had a bent for science, and because I believed it was a peephole into the future. Isaac Asimov wrote the book on