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Bridgegate: Chris Christie’s Big Government Problem

An old joke: Republicans are the people who spend years and years and years telling you how awful government is — then, when elected to […]

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Marijuana is Legal In Colorado. So When Will America’s Super-Racist Drug War End?

According to a 2013 report by the ACLU, blacks are almost four times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana possession. It’s a […]

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Why WWE Smackdown Is Like a Night at the Orchestra

Randy Orton is slagging Philadelphia, and I’m smiling while I boo. Orton is the WWE World Heavyweight Champion, a title that is so important he […]

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Jennifer Weiner’s Hard-Knock Life

“Guys! There is a giant thing about me in the New Yorker!” Philly author Jennifer Weiner crowed on Twitter on Monday. And so there is: 6,800 […]

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No One Should Feel Bad for Michael Bay After He Lost His Cool in Vegas

Am I the only one annoyed with Michael Bay? Bay is a Hollywood producer and director, known mostly for his work on films like Armageddon […]

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Your Crazy-Expensive Wedding is Destroying Society

Let me confess: I’m a lucky guy. When I started courting my soon-to-be-wife back in 2005, she quickly let me know she wasn’t a diamond […]

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These Heroic Philadelphians Broke the Law and Saved Freedom. You Should, Too.

Had a radical thought this morning while reading about the “Edward Snowdens of Philadelphia,” a group of anti-war activists in the 1960s who revealed the […]

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MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Needs to Stop Apologizing

If love means never having to say you’re sorry, no wonder MSNBC is single. It’s the sorriest network on the planet. Latest to join MSNBC’s […]

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The Continuing Fight Against Gun Violence: Can Smart Guns Keep Your Kid From Becoming the Next Adam Lanza?

Shortly after I finished writing about gun control for the January issue of Philly Mag, the American Psychological Association issued a report on the causes […]

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Great Job, Birds. Now Get to Work: A Guide to the Eagles Postseason

No matter how disappointing Saturday’s 26-24 loss to New Orleans might have been, there is absolutely no denying the fact that the 2013 Eagles were […]

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Does Mayor Nutter Deserve More Credit for Philly’s Dropping Murder Rate?

Over on Twitter, journalist Patrick Kerkstra asks a really good question: Is it just me, or is plummeting homicide rate not getting the attn it […]

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Bold Eagles Predictions: The Birds Will Beat the Saints

1. The Eagles are the hottest team in the NFL The post-season belongs to the hottest team in the league, the one that goes into […]

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The Six Biggest Tech Trends of 2014

Every year in January — after they’ve shaken off the holiday hangovers and said goodbye to the in-laws — thousands of technology professionals, application developers, […]

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Ice Hockey Road Trip! On Their Annual Disney on Ice Excursion, Flyers Come Alive in Canada

CALGARY, Alberta — A funny thing happened on the Flyers’ Disney on Ice road trip: They started looking less like Mickey Mouse and more like […]

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5 Reasons You Have No Business at the Eagles-Saints Game

Did I watch the Eagles-Bears game last weekend? Yeah, some of it but not the entire game. I have my reasons. There was a good […]