
Politics & Policy
U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach will not seek re-election
U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach (R-Pa.) has announced he will not seek re-election to Congress. His seat in the Philadelphia suburbs was not ...
11 years ago
Earth copes with a calamity – and its name is us
Well, this last weekend showed that global warming is a socialist hoax, right? I mean, it was cold. And snowy. Really snowy. That& ...
11 years ago
ListenPa. Department of State received complaints about fall voter ID ad campaign
Newly obtained documents show that Pennsylvania’s Department of State received feedback that this fall’s voter ID messaging, both ...
11 years ago
City reps in state legislatures have only themselves to blame
Philadelphians often lament that the legislature in Harrisburg doesn’t listen to the city’s needs. A study ...
11 years ago
FactCheck.org on the ‘Whoppers of 2013’
‘Tis the season for top 10 lists, and Eugene Kiely, director of FactCheck.org is back with a ...
11 years ago
ListenBig institutions, and their leaders, elude punishment
When complex, powerful organizations become seedbeds of wrong-doing, how do you hold them accountable? Whom do you punish? ...
11 years ago
ListenMisguided protest in Philadelphia against U.S. Customs pre-inspection in Abu Dhabi.
An unusual demonstration occurred on the Wednesday before Christmas at Philadelphia International Airport when members of Congress and un ...
11 years ago
As a holy day, Christmas celebrates the invasion of the divine into the mundane
It always amazes me how some folks can’t keep a fix on the fact that, in America, Christmas is both a religious holy day and a civi ...
11 years ago
The moral case for rejecting immigration amnesty and expansion.
We hear a lot from the Obama administration and big business and the immigration advocacy groups about the moral reasons why Congress sho ...
11 years ago
Gay teacher’s firing might be both wrong and legal
The firing of Michael Griffin by Holy Ghost Preparatory School in Bucks County was distressing. The private Catholic school fired ...
11 years ago
ListenShould we loosen the reins on Philadelphia politicians?
For more than 60 years, elected officials in Philadelphia have faced a restriction that’s rare among American office-holders: They ...
11 years ago
What makes schools safe? Add your voice to the dialogue
In the year since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, many of us have been asking “How do we make schools safe?” The& ...
11 years ago
VP Joe Biden mistakenly calls his own ancestors illegal immigrants! Why?
Perhaps Vice President Joe Biden was trying to give respectability to today’s illegal immigrants by ...
11 years ago