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25 things I learned at the Democratic Convention

1. It is not a particularly good time to be named Obama when the sworn enemy of your country is named Osama. 2. The Rev. Al Sharpton promoting "values" is much like the Rev. Jerry...

The Comeback Kid

Ever since I was a little kid, it seemed my mother's life was being threatened by unseen hands. My earliest memories of her are of life lived dangerously. Surgery begot surgery. I shuttled back and...

Reading is fundamentalist

News item: Under the threat of a veto by President Bush, Congress defeated an attempt to amend the Patriot Act. The amendment would have prohibited the government from investigating the reading habits of its...

Arrogance

Are you swooning over the Phillies' new ballpark? I'm not. Oh sure, it's a glittering jewel next to the sorry old Vet. But the new park has given the Phillies organization an arrogance it...

Dear Doctor

July 8, 2004 -- The place: The office of that well-known psychoanalyst, Dr. Sigmund Quackenbush. The circumstances: an emergency visit by your columnist to put his mental house in order. The fee: only my Blue Cross...

Headline news

The inside stories the media doesn't want you to know, although we're not sure why ... Mayor Street rents his office in budget-cutting move In a startling attempt to balance the city budget, Street disclosed he...

Answering the mail

The following letter from Stacey F. Combs of Langhorne is typical of the complaints I have received in recent weeks regarding my column of May 20, "25 things I learned watching Fox News." I decided...

City budget priority

"The city wage tax needs to be lowered so people will think about staying in the city." Linda Solano, Point Breeze Avenue and Moore Street "Recreation centers and pools should not be closed because...

Life with father

Whoever determined that Father's Day ought to be the third Sunday in June did not figure on the cookout factor. Fathers stereotypically do not cook nine months of the year, but in the summertime --...

Larry Brown success

"The chemistry is different. Philly teams have no marbles -- when it comes down to crunch time, they choke. They also have way better players than we had." John Ferrari, 17th Street and...
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