We previously reported on how The Philadelphia Inquirer told readers about yet another two murder suspects being caught on surveillance cameras but not yet arrested, yet, despite the newspaper having the suspect’s photo available and publicizing the Philadelphia Police Department’s call for help from the general public, the newspaper declined to publish the photos of the suspects, to possibly help in their apprehension.
Cue Britney Spears and “Oops, I did it again”: Continue reading
The title of this article is something I have asked about the repugnant profession of prostitution, but a guest column in The Philadelphia Inquirer doesn’t like the notion that a person could choose to make a live organ donation for filthy lucre:
The legalization of human organ sales would only undermine human dignity
A measure in New York state offers tax credits to living organ donors. That’s reignited one of medicine’s most contentious ethical debates: Should we legalize the sale of human organs?
We reported on Tuesday evening that Steve Keeley of Fox 29 News posted the photos released by the Philadelphia Police Department of two of the suspects in the mass shooting on the 1500 block of Etting Street at 4:38 PM EDT. We also pointed out that The Philadelphia Inquirer, a newspaper which has earned twenty Pulitzer Prizes and is the supposed newspaper of record for the metropolitan area, had no story at all on the information released by the police.
Finally, almost a day later, the newspaper covered the story:
Police seek public’s help identifying two suspects in Grays Ferry shooting that left 3 dead, 9 injured
As many as six people are suspected to have opened fire in the shooting at Grays Ferry over the Fourth of July weekend, police said.
by Rodrigo Torrejón | Wednesday, July 16, 2025 | 3:05 PM EDT
Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying two people who they say opened fire in a shooting at a block party in Grays Ferry earlier this month that left three people dead and nine injured. Continue reading
Normally I’d have used Steve Keeley’s original post on Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏, the worst rebranding in history — but Lloyd Christmas’ response was so great that I had to use it.
I assume, of course, that Mr Christmas was engaging in satire. I don’t know him at all, and there are probably some on the left who would seriously take that position!
There will be some on the left, including Elizabeth Hughes, the publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer, who would see Mr Christmas’ tweet as absolutely serious reasoning, and who decided, a few years ago, that the newspaper would be an “anti-racist news organization,” ordering limitations on the Inky’s crime coverage, and who seems to have mandated that the newspaper not publish mugshots or photographs of criminals, unless, of course, the accused are white police officers.
A search of the newspaper’s website for “Etting Street,” where the murders took place, at 9:15 PM EDT turned up several stories on the shootings, all of which were dated more than a week ago, but nothing on the Philadelphia Police releasing photos of one of the suspects, nothing to help readers who might recognize the suspects, to help the police get them off the streets. Continue reading
This is my morning coffee as I write this!
There is an amusing quality to the fact that Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Jenice Armstrong has been writing a series she called “Blaxit,” about black Americans who have chosen to emigrate to various locations in Africa, is now lamenting that an illegal immigrant and previously convicted criminal has been deported to his native country.
Germantown mom wants out of Philly after ICE deported her husband to Belize
Steeliness has replaced grief in Charlene Maddox Chimilio. The 43-year-old Philly native has come to terms with the fact that the best place for her family might be outside the city she loves so much.
Stephen Ireland, photo by Surrey Police.
Stephen Ireland came to my attention due to his harassment of British author J K Rowling, she of the Harry Potter series fame. Miss Rowling is very much a leftist, and a supporter of homosexuals. She even declared Albus Dumbledore, the fictitious headmaster of the fictitious Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in her series to be homosexual, even though that had never been written or implied in the actual series.
Yes, I’ve read all of the Harry Potter series!
But that wasn’t good enough for some on the left, because she also realized that, while she thoroughly supported homosexuals, the idea that people could actually change their sex was too cockamamie for even an author writing about magic spells to be believed. She was labeled a TERF, Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist, a term which was originally a politically neutral description, but which has become enough of a pejorative that the Associated Press Stylebook notified writers on Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏 — that TERF, along with “gender-critical” should not be used.
As we have noted previously, bad causes attract bad people, which naturally includes Mr Iraland. From The British Broadcasting Company:
Pride group founder jailed for rape of boy, 12
We have previously reported on Will Thomas, the male swimmer for the University of Pennsylvania, who decided that he was really a woman, started calling himself “Lia”, and went on to compete on Penn’s women’s swim team. A 6’3″ tall man male, ranked 462nd, he quickly became number one in women’s swimming. Why, it’s almost as though there are real physical differences between males and females, differences which make a difference in sports and physical activities.
There are many, many things which made something of a difference in the campaign between former President Donald Trump and then-Vice President Kamala Harris Emhoff, and one of the issues hammered on by our then-former President was the far-left’s insistence that ‘transgender’ women, like Mr Thomas, really are women. Mr Trump won the election, and has been putting his policies into place.
Penn strikes agreement with Trump administration over trans athletes
The New York Post, our nation’s second oldest continuously published daily newspaper, founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801, reported:
As a member of WaPo’s video department, (Thomas LeGro) was part of a team of reporters that won a prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for coverage of former Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore.
Moore threatened to sue the Washington Post that year after the outlet published allegations that he romantically pursued a 14-year-old girl when he was in his 30s, which he vehemently denied.
As someone who managed to trash Mr Moore’s Senate candidacy with allegations that he used to date underaged girls, one would thing that Thomas LeGro would understand the dangers of child pornography, but apparently he (allegedly) did not. From The Washington Post:
Washington Post editor charged with possessing child pornography
For a Democrat, The Philadelphia Inquirer’s chief editorial board writer Daniel Pearson is one of the not-so-bad guys. He’s actually a (mostly) moderate guy who wants to see the laws enforced, though perhaps less so when it comes to our immigration laws and serious criminal laws in general; you can’t endorse the George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police hating District Attorney Larry Krasner and be too serious about law enforcement!
But, a commuter using the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, SEPTA, himself, he sure wants to see a crackdown on the turnstile jumpers and fare evaders! I guess that’s something.
SEPTA’s fare evasion crackdown is no joke. Ask the more than 3,200 people criminally charged this year.
SEPTA says far too many Philadelphians aren’t paying to ride the transit system. It costs the agency about $50 million yearly in lost revenue.