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The job of the district attorney is to protect the public, prosecute the accused and administer justice. Larry Krasner has failed on the first two, and has a questionable record on the third. He should be fired. By his own omission during his last campaign, protecting the public and prosecuting
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Lots of people get lots of vicious email. Politicians, of course. Celebrities, athletes, public speakers, CEOs, and journalists of course. WARNING. BAD LANGUAGE AHEAD As a columnist with a reputation for straight talk, tough talk, and strong opinion, I got more than my share. Most of it was fine, including
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All columnists are hired to express their opinions, as opposed to reporters who are commanded to present the news as objectively as possible. Columnists are supposed to be subjective, and it really is an honor to be selected by editors to inflict yourself on others. It requires a dash of
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You have to crawl to the bottom of this Chris Brennan column to get to the (marginal) Good News for reform D.A. candidate Carlos Vega. Reform? You thought Larry Krasner was the reformer? Yes, Krasner claimed that when he ran in 2017, but now that we have seen the
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I am the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. I turned 100 years old in 2018. The city celebrated. Now the City Hall clown car wants to âimproveâ me. If there is a God in heaven, help me! French landscape architect Jacques Greber designed me to emulate the grand Champs-Elysees in Paris. He
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This is a story about a plumber, no wise cracks. (Pardon the pun.) While most of us just stared dumbly at the crazy cold that brought Texas to its knees, turning out the lights and bursting the water pipes, Andrew Mitchell was spurred to action. He reacted when he saw
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I had a âMister Potato Headâ as a kid. Two things were true. It did not have much âplay value,â meaning time spent playing with the thing. And I wasnât thinking about gender norms when I stuck ears on it. I often chose to stick the ears in the
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You ever get a tune stuck in your head, Â one that comes around like a merry go round, and you canât shake it? Please donât come at me with Baby Shark. For me, lately, itâs been âMe and Bobby McGee.â I donât know why, but it
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Itâs been more than a week since the death of Mary Wilson, one of the three original Supremes, one of the most important groups in American music, and in America. The other two were Florence Ballard and Diana Ross. They were three Black Detroit teens with talent, and the
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This probably will make my former colleague Helen Ubinas mad at me. But the Inquirer columnist has been mad at me, or my opinions, before. Two things we share â our Bronx birthplace and our love of dogs. Thatâs about it. We disagree that she is a liberal. I once
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Having watched three Democratic members as prosecutors of former President Donald J. Trump, I am now watching another eight prosecutors â CNN anchors and hand-picked experts, all sharing one anti-Trump brain. So let me turn down the volume and share my impressions. First, in a completely predictable outcome, the Senate voted
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Ever play with matches when you were a kid and burn yourself? You learned not to play with matches again. Pain can be a great teacher, but not if you are a Democrat planning to impeach (ex) President Donald J. Trump a second time, having failed to convict him the