Israel
This is tough to write, and some people are going to take it badly, no matter how carefully I phrase it. So I won’t be unduly careful. It’s tough to be an Arab American today. This is not an attack on an ethnic group. It is an attack
Health insirance
If you watch TV, this time of year you are bombarded with commercials asking you (if you are eligible) to change your supplemental Medicare insurance. I am satisfied with what I have for supplemental and drug coverage, but because I liked the commercials aired by eHealth, I decided to give
Culture
Thanksgiving is Americans favorite holiday. That’s according to a survey I just made up, but I think it’s true. Despite the thanks-to-God aspect of it, it is nondenominational, with each of us free to thank our own God, and atheists to mock belevers in “the bearded white man
Crime
Many of us believe in second chances. Christians make a big thing out of redemption. I believe in second chances, but there are limits. Limits came to mind when I read that three scoundrels — a fancy word for common criminals — were given a second chance after violating the public trust.
Soda tax
Philadelphia’s seven-year-old soda tax has increased health in the city, but maybe not, according to a story in the Inquirer that omits some important information. The Inquirer favored the targeted tax (I did not) and this piece by writer Aubrey Whelan reflects this bias. Let’s start at the
Animals
A shelter is about the worst place for a dog, and Philadelphia’s was once one of the worst of the worst. Thanks to the help of staffers — confidential sources who shared information and photos with me — almost exactly 20 years ago, I was able to write an expose that
Culture
The post mortem continues, with the Inquirer headlining, in the print edition, a story , “Why voters rejected Dems’ fascism warnings.” I’ll summarize the story this way: Voters cared more about the economy than democracy. That’s the Inquirer’s take, speaking for hard Left, Democratic bed-wetters. Mine is that
Immigration
Donald J. Trump has a mandate for action, and if Republicans capture the House, in addition to the Senate it now has, he will have a pretty free hand to act. Even CNN’s Van Jones called Trump’s an “avalanche victory.” He will be able to act on illegal
Politics
Well, ain’t that something. In what I can’t help seeing as a trolling of Mark Cuban, President-Elect Donald J. Trump appointed Susie Wiles to be his chief of staff, the first woman to hold that post for any president. It was his first appointment, and it came fast.
Presidential Election
With 72% of Americans feeling the nation is on the “wrong track,” and Vice President Kamala Harris’ favorable ratings lower than whale shit six months ago, it is miraculous that she was tied with former President Donald J. Trump. Given that he is a convicted felon, guilty of sexual assault,
Media
I knew it was coming, but it’s hard to take: Longtime TV host and radio anchor Wally Kennedy has died at 76. 6abc carried an unusually short, in my opinion, death report. The on-air TV report said he had left the station, but there was a little more to
Politics
In what appears to be growing desperation, Democrats with access to a microphone or a lens went bonkers trying to draw a parallel between Donald J. Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, and a pro-Nazi rally held at the old Madison Square Garden in 1939. Also at the new Madison