Politics & Policy
President Barack Obama stopped in Philadelphia Thursday to speak at a Center City hotel. Obama told the crowd of about 800 that he has do
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12 years ago
The fight for women’s sports: World Cup, Philadelphia Independence, WNBA
The 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup began today in Germany, with the U.S. team a contender, and all games on ESPN and ESPN2. The openi
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12 years ago
Forget Obamacare; go ‘Cell Blocks for Docs’
James Verone has a chance to become the most famous American bank robber since John Dillinger. Yet, he’s held up just one bank, fo
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12 years ago
Forget Obamacare; go ‘Cell Blocks for Docs’
James Verone has a chance to become the most famous American bank robber since John Dillinger. Yet, he’s held up just one bank, fo
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12 years ago
Why Obama is likely to be re-elected in 2012
Karl Rove, former advisor to George W. Bush,
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12 years ago
If books fade away, can we call the iPad progress?
I am definitely not the type of person a tech analyst would call an early adopter.
I never drooled over the Sharper Image catalog,
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12 years ago
Obama administration promises even less enforcement of U.S. immigration laws
Although the Obama administration has been trying to limit its enforcement of U.S. immigration law only to illegal aliens who have commit
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12 years ago
A long lovers’ quarrel: Larry Holmes and his hometown
Larry Holmes is getting his sheepskin, finally.
The former boxing champion, a seventh-grade dropout, will get an honorary diploma
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12 years ago
What sister city of Philadelphia is as big as New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago combined?
What city is unknown to most Americans, but is as big as America’s three largest cities put together? The answer is Tianjin, in th
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12 years ago
Reforms sought on Pa. Judicial Conduct Board
In the wake of Luzerne County’s “kids for cash” scandal, court advocates say Pennsylvania’s judicial discipline s
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12 years ago
No Facebook in China, and other reasons why China won’t end up running the world
Foreign residents and visitors complain about “The Great Firewall of China” after experiencing the slowness of the internet a
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12 years ago
Who’s your dream, offbeat candidate?
Well, that should do it.
When most of a presidential candidate’s campaign staff quits on him, saying he’s not taking h
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12 years ago
Is NATO wrecking Libya, or vice versa? Or are both wrecking U.S. taxpayers?
A U.S. diplomat recently explained to me why the U.S. went to war in Libya, a country in which the U.S. has no interests at all. The dip
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12 years ago
Legal issues: John Edwards, campaign contributions, and the federal gift tax
John Edwards, former candidate for vice-president and president,
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12 years ago