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- 2018
- 2017
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- Are Sexual Harassment Claims Starting to Backfire?Read Article
- Boycotting Civil Rights Museum Opening Was WrongRead Article
- Why the GOP Got CrushedRead Article
- NFL FumblesRead Article
- Gun Bans Won’t End Mass ShootingsRead Article
- Fear Only Lets Mass Shooters WinRead Article
- Fire Protesting PlayersRead Article
- Outlaw School StrikesRead Article
- Ending Dream Act is a NightmareRead Article
- Intolerance in AllRead Article
- Is Technology Robbing Us of Humanity?Read Article
- Not Guilty, but Also Not Innocent?Read Article
- We Are Living in Safest Period in Human HistoryRead Article
- Transgender Student Blurs Lines at All-Girls SchoolRead Article
- Trump’s Russian QuagmireRead Article
- Re-Tests Not FairRead Article
- Congress Needs to Crackdown on Skyrocketing College CostsRead Article
- Build That WallRead Article
- Philly: A Second Class City?Read Article
- Health Care Needs Market-Based ReformsRead Article
- Trump Wiretap Claim Circus Act?Read Article
- Hyper Partisanship is Destroying UsRead Article
- Sour Grapes by Spoiled BratsRead Article
- 2016
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- Stop Shooting from the HipRead Article
- Going Ape Over Gorilla Killing WrongRead Article
- Memorial Day Heroes Didn’t Fight for Nanny StateRead Article
- Animal Rights Extremists Endanger AnimalsRead Article
- Will Donald be Hillary’s Trump Card?Read Article
- Indict – or Clear – HillaryRead Article
- Celebrities Behaving BadlyRead Article
- Booting Andrew JacksonRead Article
- Toilet TempestRead Article
- What Sports Can Teach Us About RaceRead Article
- Lack of Action; Attacks CommonRead Article
- Teacher Fails to Get The PictureRead Article
- Spotlight usehines on Catholic Sexual AbuseRead Article
- Win the White House? Try Common SenseRead Article
- Sports Illustrated’s Weighty IssueRead Article
- Challenger 30 Years LaterRead Article
- Are Oscars Racist?Read Article
- Common Sense Needed in Gun DebateRead Article
- Biggest Losers of 2015Read Article
- 2015
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- 2015 Winners and LosersRead Article
- A Christmas Lesson About ServiceRead Article
- Does Trump Want to be President?Read Article
- What Not to Be Thankful ForRead Article
- Teaching the Wrong LessonsRead Article
- Presidential Campaign AnalysisRead Article
- Are Today’s Youths Ready to Lead?Read Article
- A whale of a TaleRead Article
- Political Correctness Threatens NationRead Article
- PC at Its WorstRead Article
- Europe Under No Obligation to Take RefugeesRead Article
- GOP Gets a Trump CardRead Article
- Tax Plan Makes Governor ‘Lone Wolf’Read Article
- Entitlement and the Waldron Mercy FiringRead Article
- Focus on Colors that MatterRead Article
- Flag Flap Fails to Address Real ProblemRead Article
- NAACP Leader’s Racial DeceptionRead Article
- The Disappearance of CourtesyRead Article
- A Sense of EntitlementRead Article
- Racial Double Standard?Read Article
- Race War is OnRead Article
- IRA and ISIS Not the SameRead Article
- Why Honor Should Always Trump DefeatRead Article
- Cheating EpidemicRead Article
- Why NBC Should Fire Brian WilliamsRead Article
- Blame Media for Weakening AmericaRead Article
- Time to Put a Stop to TerrorismRead Article
- Playing God in ConnecticutRead Article
- The Boneheads of 2014Read Article
- Bridging the Gap with CubaRead Article
- 2014
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- Get Real: Embrace TortureRead Article
- CIA Was Right: Waterboarding WorksRead Article
- The GOP and ImmigrationRead Article
- Ferguson Debacle Soiled All It TouchedRead Article
- Chewing the Fat on ObesityRead Article
- Time Again to Shoot for the StarsRead Article
- Why America Struggles With EbolaRead Article
- Houston, You’ve Got A ProblemRead Article
- Time to Have That Conversation on RaceRead Article
- The Ebola FactorRead Article
- Philly Cigarette Tax Smoke and MirrorsRead Article
- Suit Over PSP Fitness Doesn’t Add UpRead Article
- Time for NFL to Sack Roger GoodellRead Article
- Is ISIS Worth Getting Re-involved in Iraq?Read Article
- Gas Extraction Tax: A Bad IdeaRead Article
- Ferguson: Widening Racial GulfRead Article
- Political ‘Wall’ Stopping Immigration SolutionRead Article
- Gambling With Our FutureRead Article
- America’s ‘Bear’ Enjoying a SmorgasbordRead Article
- Time to Stop PanderingRead Article
- Time for U.S. To Stop Policing the WorldRead Article
- Uncle Sam: Striking Out on TaxationRead Article
- Why Catholics Don’t Go to ChurchRead Article
- Why Penn State Should Fire Its New PresidentRead Article
- It is Irrational to Pretend We Are Completely SafeRead Article
- Time to End Corporate WelfareRead Article
- Unionize College Sports? Strike That!Read Article
- A Look Back at Top Events of MarchRead Article
- Safety Issues at Forefront After Plane CrashRead Article
- Rethink Cuba PolicyRead Article
- U.S. Needs to Learn from Panama CanalRead Article
- Fear Has Taken Over USARead Article
- Tech: Stronger Than the StormRead Article
- No Easy Answers on ImmigrationRead Article
- Christie’s Bridge Over Troubled WaterRead Article
- Biggest Winners of 2013Read Article
- Biggest Losers of 2013Read Article
- SEPA Winners, Losers in 2013Read Article
- 2013
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- No Limits on NSA Overseas SpyingRead Article
- Supreme Court Needs to Examine Eminent DomainRead Article
- The Nation’s Highest Gas TaxRead Article
- Its Time for the PC Police to Lighten UpRead Article
- Time to Get Tough with PiratesRead Article
- Are Republicans Trying to LoseRead Article
- Raising Debt Ceiling Not Solution to USA ProblemsRead Article
- Setting Record Straight on Catholic ConsolidationsRead Article
- Government Licensing Illegal ActivityRead Article
- Syria: Get Our Nose OutRead Article
- Hollywood Less Liberal than Conservatives ClaimRead Article
- Terrorism, Energy Woes & JoblessnessRead Article
- Riley Cooper, Weiner and Summer ScandalsRead Article
- Seeing Red over Indian NicknamesRead Article
- Prince Christopher?Read Article
- Race Relations in U.S. Worse Than EverRead Article
- Corbett, GOP Fail PARead Article
- Mandatory Sewer Hook-ups Should Be UnconstitutionalRead Article
- Americans Becoming Prisoners to FearRead Article
- Security No Excuse to Spy on UsRead Article
- Common Sense Takes A BatteringRead Article
- Youth Sports: Lack of Common CourtesyRead Article
- Gaddafi Would Have Prevented BenghaziRead Article
- Iron Lady Thatcher: Last from a Great EraRead Article
- Will New Pope Face an ‘Age Old’ Problem?Read Article
- Slash TSA Knife PolicyRead Article
- Pope Resigning is Miracle for ChurchRead Article
- Sue the NFL? Get Your Head Examined!Read Article
- Ravens’ Cheerleader No Right to Super BowlRead Article
- Fire School Officials for Suspending Kindergartner!Read Article
- Corbett and the NCAARead Article
- 2012
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- Give Thanks for Stupidity of MankindRead Article
- GOP Blames Everyone But ItselfRead Article
- Flying Into the HurricaneRead Article
- How to Defuse Iran’s Nuclear AmbitionsRead Article
- Why Do Iran and Libya Dominate Our Debates?Read Article
- Tip the Scales Against ObesityRead Article
- Obese News Anchor Sinks Over a Weighty IssueRead Article
- Romney: 47% of a Good CandidateRead Article
- Muslim Uprisings Showcase America’s Oil DependenceRead Article
- Freind Responds to Corbett on Sandusky InvestigationRead Article
- Freind: Open Letter to Tom Corbett on Penn StateRead Article
- If Mitt Panders to Latinos: Hasta La Vista!Read Article
- Spain & Italy: Have We Met Us?Read Article
- Use Your Brain on Motorcycle Helmet LawsRead Article
- Food Police: Saving Foie GrasRead Article
- Killings in Mississippi Illustrate Danger of Unmarked Police CarsRead Article
- Convert Refineries to Process Marcellus Shale Natural GasRead Article
- Corbett’s Colossal Cockiness Castrates CredibilityRead Article
- Corbett’s Love Affair With DemocratsRead Article
- Corbett’s Senate Candidate an AlbatrossRead Article
- Why Romney Will Lose to ObamaRead Article
- Diabetes, Donors and DeterminationRead Article
- Catholic Schools Open, For NowRead Article
- Is Archdiocese Lying or Just Incompetent?Read Article
- Chris Christie and Whitney HoustonRead Article
- Drug Testing for Welfare RecipientsRead Article
- Rendel to Own Philly Inquirer?Read Article
- Hey Christie, Get on the TreadmillRead Article
- Gingrich is Right to Shoot for the MoonRead Article
- GOP: Time for an Open Senate PrimaryRead Article
- Why Are Iowa, South Carolina Picking Our Presidents?Read Article
- Don’t Blame Sunoco for Refinery ShutdownsRead Article
- Catholic School CLosings Result from Church Being Paper TigerRead Article
- School Closings: Catholicism No Longer ‘Demands’Read Article
- 2011
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- Biggest Losers of 2011Read Article
- Biggest Winners of 2011Read Article
- The Political Correctness of ‘Merry Christmas’Read Article
- Save Sunoco RefineriesRead Article
- Catholic Mass, Andy Reid & School ChoiceRead Article
- PA Society in NYC? Absolutely!Read Article
- Made in America: Not As Simple As It SoundsRead Article
- Questions about Corbett Role in Penn State ScandalRead Article
- Fumo Judge Disgrace to Federal BenchRead Article
- Former Philly Super: Yes on School ChoiceRead Article
- Romney Must Address MormonismRead Article
- Playing Games with Philly Murder RateRead Article
- Electoral Vote Change Not Path to GOP VictoryRead Article
- Christie: Time to DecideRead Article
- Why is U.S. Scared of Ahmadinejad?Read Article
- Is Obama Obituary Premature?Read Article
- Never Forget 9/11: Then Stop Political CorrectnessRead Article
- Marcellus Shale Protesters = Lobbyists for Mid-East Oil BaronsRead Article
- Reality Check for Labor UnionsRead Article
- Obama Needs to Win PARead Article
- Curfew Won’t Solve ProblemsRead Article
- U.S. Credit Will Be Downgraded AgainRead Article
- Freindly Fire’s Best and worst of PhillyRead Article
- News Flash: Summer Weather is HotRead Article
- American Space Program DiesRead Article
- Debt Ceiling? Ballgame’s OverRead Article
- Texas Grows on PA’s WoesRead Article
- Corbett Caves on Union ContractsRead Article
- A Bill Coddling Illegal Aliens Is IllegalRead Article
- Stop the Fraud: No Voting Without IDRead Article
- Nutter Soda Tax Needs to Fizzle OutRead Article
- Corbett: 0.0 GPARead Article
- Newsflash to Nutter: Nobody CaresRead Article
- How Christie Should Handle ‘CopterGate’Read Article
- Meehan Challenge Already Taking ShapeRead Article
- Time to ban Sushi?Read Article
- Corbett Spends $20 Million Baseball StadiumRead Article
- Philly GOP and Democrats: A One-Party ArrangementRead Article
- The Real Royal CoupleRead Article
- Bin Laden’s Death and WaterboardingRead Article
- Profile in Courage: Mel GibsonRead Article
- Feel Good Budget Deals a JokeRead Article
- Obama, the GOP and Oil DrillingRead Article
- Tastykake’s DemiseRead Article
- Corbett Punting on Privatizing Booze?Read Article
- NFL Players Slaves? Jackson, Sharpton SilentRead Article
- Libya Is All About OilRead Article
- America Needs More Nuclear PowerRead Article
- PA Budget: Can Corbett Sell It?Read Article
- DRPA: Same Old Story?Read Article
- Killing Pirates on the High SeasRead Article
- GOP: The Party of No?Read Article
- Sainthood for Pope John Paul?Read Article
- Christie Takes on Illinois GovernorRead Article
- Challenges Await CorbettRead Article
- Martin Luther King: A True Republican?Read Article
- Rendell Legacy: High Taxes, Low Ratings and Clenched TeethRead Article
- Another Rendell Bailout: Building Ships with No BuyersRead Article
- 10 Biggest Losers of 2010Read Article
- 2010
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- Biggest Winners of 2010Read Article
- Stop the DRPA ‘Takers’Read Article
- GOP vs. Casey, Jr.Read Article
- PA Teacher Unions Losing PowerRead Article
- Marcellus Shale: Key to PA’s FutureRead Article
- Pat-Down Protests?Read Article
- Don’t Like Airport Scanners?Read Article
- Don’t Blame ChinaRead Article
- Re-Elect Nutter?Read Article
- Philly Dems Sank Joe SestajRead Article
- When Will We Have Real Airline Security?Read Article
- Running from Records, Dems Get PersonalRead Article
- Hey Undecideds: Pick a SideRead Article
- Is Philadelphia the Next Greece?Read Article
- How Could Bankrupt Texas Rangers Aquire Cliff Lee?Read Article
- Eric Cantor Demonizes Republican Rich IottRead Article
- Christie, Corbett Vs. Corzine, RendellRead Article
- Sour Grapes Establishment, Not TEA Party, Hurting GOPRead Article
- Neshaminy: One Third of Students Read ProficientlyRead Article
- Tierney and the Teamsters: God Help UsRead Article
- DRPA Backslides on ReformRead Article
- Castle Had to GoRead Article
- English as the Official Language?Read Article
- Gov. Christie and the DRPARead Article
- Why Are We Arguing About the Ground Zero Mosque?Read Article
- Vacationing in Avalon? Think Twice!Read Article
- Could School Choice Prevent Cop Killings?Read Article
- DRPA ‘Reformers’: Inmates Running An AsylumRead Article
- Eminent Doman: the New Amerika?Read Article
- DRPA Vice Chair Nash Has ConflictRead Article
- Arizona Immigration LawRead Article
- Five Reasons to Dump DRPA Chief MatheussenRead Article
- Phil’s Phans Beware!Read Article
- Armageddon in PennsylvaniaRead Article
- Obama & Offshore Drilling: Opportunity of a LifetimeRead Article
- BP & The US Government: No Common SenseRead Article
- Bucks County Republicans ImplodingRead Article
- Sestak/White House Could Face Legal Trouble in Job-GateRead Article
- Corbett and the Twitter SubpoenaRead Article
- Obama Will Pay for Abandoning SpecterRead Article
- Analysis of PA Governor RaceRead Article
- Catching the Times Square Bomber was LuckRead Article
- Inky Gets New OwnersRead Article
- The Rendell Legacy: PA’s Fiscal CatastropheRead Article
- Back from the Dead? Philly Political Tricks ContinueRead Article
- Catholic Church Still Wrong on Money GrabRead Article
- AG Health Care Lawsuit: No Conflict of InterestRead Article
- Blame Bush, GOP for Health Care MessRead Article
- Jihad Jane Show the Need for More ProfilingRead Article
- The ‘Jack Murtha Philadelphia Shipyard’?Read Article
- Madeleine McCann: Forsaken by Gerry and Kate — AgainRead Article
- Is Curt Schroder Still a Possible PA-6 Candidae?Read Article
- Blame Trial Lawyers for Seattle Child BeatingRead Article
- Senator Anthony Williams: Remarks Racist?Read Article
- 2009
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- Anchors Aweigh: TV’s Dawn Stensland May Run for Congress in the 7th DistrictRead Article
- Panella’s Abortion Flip-Flop Makes Him UnworthyRead Article
- Nobel Peace Prize Goes Into the Trashcan of HistoryRead Article
- Phillies Werth Should Have Been Yanked for Lack of HustleRead Article
- Analysis: Democratic Candidates for PA GovernorRead Article
- America’s Walkout of Ahmadinejad Was DisgracefulRead Article
- 7th Congressional District: A GOP Battle or an Uncontested Primary?Read Article
- Rendell’s Taxes Would Kill PennsylvaniaRead Article
- Face to Face With Hurricane Bill: Freindly Fire Rides with USAF ‘Hurricane Hunters’Read Article
- Nutter’s Tax Increase Is a JokeRead Article
- Rendell: Always Sticking His Nose Where It Doesn’t BelongRead Article
- New Jersey Devils: Knights of the Sky: A media ride with the NJ National GuardRead Article
- Open Letter to Governor Rendell: Why Your Approval Rating is So DismalRead Article
- Ballard, Rendell Conflicts Intensify at DRPARead Article
- Gerlach Takes Aim at His 2010 OpponentsRead Article
- Supreme Court, Philly DA Race Headline Election 2009Read Article
- Saul, Ewing & PA Turnpike: A Conflict of Interest?Read Article
- Sestak Edges Closer to Specter ChallengeRead Article
- Board of Ethics: Williams, McCaffery Campaigns in ViolationRead Article
- Federal Stimulus Contract WatchRead Article
- Political Realities of the 2010 PA U.S. Senate RaceRead Article
- Jane Orie Melvin: A Reformer’s Bid for the Supreme CourtRead Article
- Specter’s Switch: An Election AnalysisRead Article
- Campaign Violations by McCaffery’s Firm’s PAC??Read Article
- DRPA Silent on ‘Tram to Nowhere’: Millions spent on now idle projectRead Article
- Questions to DRPA About Its TramRead Article
- Casino Investors Make Safe Bet With Rendell: Financiers, Associated Entities Donated $3.8 Million to GovernorRead Article
- FBI, State Police Investigate Williams Campaign ContributionRead Article
- DRPA Pulls Plug on PA Construction CompanyRead Article
- Specter, Luksik, Toomey May Square OffRead Article
- Senator Specter on the Bailout: One-on-One with The BulletinRead Article
- Inquirer Bailout Talks Raise More QuestionsRead Article
- Rendell to Veto No-Bid Contract Reform?Read Article
- NBC Refused to Air Pro-Life Ad During Super BowlRead Article
- Reaction to Inquirer Bailout Discussions Draws FireRead Article
- Bailout for the Inquirer?Read Article
- Port Authority: $11 Million in Non-Bridge ProjectsRead Article
- Does Comcast Phone Service Violate FCC Rules?Read Article
- Legislators, Citizens React to Ballard’s ‘No-Contract’ WorkRead Article
- Ballard Spahr and Governor Rendell: An Intimate RelationshipRead Article
- Ballard’s $774,000 ‘No-Contract’ Work for PA: Governor Rendell’s former firm went beyond ‘non-bid’ contractsRead Article
- Rendell, Richardson, and Rubin – Pay to Play Politics?Read Article
- A Recap of Rendell’s Ballard Spahr ConnectionsRead Article
- 2008
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- Knox: No to Blue Cross MergerRead Article
- Mellow’s Blue Cross Board Seat A ConflictRead Article
- Rendell, His Political Friends — And More State ContractsRead Article
- Legislator to Rendell: End Insider Contracts: Governor’s relationship with Ballard Spahr leads to questionsRead Article
- Political Contributions and Government Contracts: A Fine LineRead Article
- Legislators Introduce Bills to Reform State ContractsRead Article
- Company with ‘Checkered History’ Awarded State ContractRead Article
- Ballard’s Estey Teaches ‘Legal Ethics’Read Article
- Ballard Spahr and Governor Rendell: Perfect TogetherRead Article
- The GOP Can’t Beat Something with NothingRead Article
- Braving the Cold for School ChoiceRead Article
- Bud Selig: Baseball’s Death WishRead Article
- Convict Flees – Courts Free!: Accountability is still non-existentRead Article
- Tom Corbett: Bonusgate, Voter Fraud and Gaming: Second of a three-part interviewRead Article
- Tom Corbett Talks About the GOP and His Election: Last in a three part interviewRead Article
- Rendell’s Judges: Business as UsualRead Article
- Attorney General Tom Corbett: First in a three-part interviewRead Article
- George Bush Has Kept America SaferRead Article
- Nutter Shoots Blanks on Gun LawsRead Article
- Stop the Killing Fields: Enact School ChoiceRead Article
- U.S. Senate GOP Leader Talks About McCain in PARead Article
- The Hows and Whys of the Housing CrisisRead Article
- DRPA: Finally on the RecordRead Article
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