There is at least a slight possibility that Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Helen Ubiñas isn’t a totally Kool Aid drinking #woke progressive, as her Monday morning column told a very uncomfortable truth. After a Philadelphia mother lost her son to gun violence, she blamed one person This mother’s personal journey is part of the layered, complicated […]
I have previously noted Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Helen Ubiñas, several times, based primarily on column from December of 2020, “What do you know about the Philadelphians killed by guns this year? At least know their names.” She wrote: The last time we published the names of those lost to gun violence, in early July, nearly […]
It is, of course, no surprise that most of the writers at The Philadelphia Inquirer hate the police. Columnist Helen Ubiñas, whose Twitter biography states that she is “a Latina columnist”, as though her ethnicity should make any difference, tweeted her great disappointment that former Philadelphia Police Officer Ryan Pownell should be reinstated, with back […]
Let’s tell the truth here: most people at least occasionally complain about their employers and “those idiots up there,” their bosses. It’s just that when professional journalists do it, they get to combitch — not a typo, but a Picoism — about it to a wider audience. Jenice Armstrong is a fairly privileged person, a […]
Why should the taxpayers be on the hook to pay for other people’s transportation? The money lines are far down in the story: The authority projects an annual operating deficit of $240 million beginning next July 1 as the last of its federal pandemic aid is spent, a situation dubbed the “fiscal cliff” that afflicts […]
Philadelphia’s George Soros-sponsored, “restorative justice” District Attorney, Larry Krasner, and his army of inept minions, in their eagerness to prosecute city police officers, nevertheless failed in court on Tuesday: A Philadelphia judge on Tuesday dismissed all charges against former city Police Officer Mark Dial, ruling that prosecutors had not presented enough evidence to show that […]
We noted, a year and a half ago, how President Biden and his leftist minions, proposed the creation of a Ministry of Truth ‘Disinformation Governance Board‘ within the Department of Fatherland Homeland Security, and had chosen Nina Jankowitz, who for months told us that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation, to head it. […]
If bullets fly in Kensington, is it really news? Kensington and Independence Mall-area shootings leave two dead, three wounded The Kensington shootings occurred in an area long burdened by gun violence. by Anthony R Wood | Saturday, August 26, 2023 | 11:07 PM EDT A 39-year-old man was shot to death and two others were […]
On May 7th, Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Helen Ubiñas suggested that our definition of what constitutes a “mass shooting” needs to be changed. The Inquirer defines a mass shooting as one that occurs in public and kills three or more people. The FBI classifies mass shootings as four or more deaths in a single incident. Meanwhile, […]