Opinion & Essay
A group of insurgent Philadelphia Republicans has made waves in the last couple of years, criticizing the party establishment and recruit
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13 years ago
Yesterday we discussed the stupidity of certain politicians. Today we conclude the week with an ode to the stupidity of certain citizens.
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13 years ago
Strange times. Three out of every four African Americans polled by Franklin & Marshall College said Philadelphia’s African-Amer
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13 years ago
On the stupidity scale, who among us could possibly score higher than the horny politician?
Actually, horniness aside, it’s
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13 years ago
A funny thing has happened in Philadelphia politics the last few years – the honchos faded away.
I can remember when City Counci
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13 years ago
The devastating TV ad credited with sinking Arlen Specter’s re-election hopes last year has won the campaign ad version of an Oscar
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13 years ago
Welcome to This Week in Bigotry, the show that highlights the dark side of the American spirit. We take you now to Washington, D
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13 years ago
So what happens when I leave town for a few days? I come back and find Philadelphia’s ageless rascal, T. Milton Street saying he
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13 years ago
The president, humbled by his midterm shellacking, was breaking bread with his political adversaries – a strategy that naturally pr
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13 years ago
I’ll go way out on a limb and predict that Donald Rumsfeld’s newly released memoir, Known and Unknown, will not outs
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13 years ago
Wouldn’t this be a better world if politicians more often acknowledged those instances when they were making fools of themselves?Pu
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13 years ago
As expected yesterday, the U.S. Senate easily defeated the GOP’s stunt attempt to repeal the health care reform law, much the way y
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13 years ago
Tune in to Fresh Air today (Thursday) for my interview with actor Javier Bardem, shown here playing the psychotic killer in No Country fo
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13 years ago
A free-for-for all is taking shape in Philadelphia’s first Councilmanic district (that’s South Philly and center city east of
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13 years ago
The pace of events in Egypt continues to accelerate, and the White House keeps scrambling to stay apace. A mere eight days ago, Secretary
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13 years ago
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