I cannot truthfully say that I have noticed everything that the newspaper I sometimes call The Philadelphia Enquirer^[1]RedState writer Mike Miller called it the Enquirer, probably by mistake, so I didn’t originate it, but, reminiscent of the National Enquirer as it is, I thought it very apt. has published on immigration, but I can truthfully state that if our nation’s third oldest continuously published daily newspaper, the winner of twenty Pulitzer Prizes, the newspaper of record for the six million plus metropolitan area, and the first newspaper I check in the morning, has ever published anything trying to help illegal immigrants get legal, I have missed it.

Instead, the newspaper has spent the last few years doing everything it could to paint Donald Trump as an irredeemable fascist and wannabe authoritarian dictator. Columnists like Helen Ubiñas and Will Bunch have hammered continually on Mr Trump, Mr Bunch especially consumed by #TrumpDerangementSyndrome, and we noted how he, a journolist^[2]The spelling ‘journolist’ or ‘journolism’ comes from JournoList, an email list of 400 influential and politically liberal journalists, the exposure of which called into question their … Continue reading who claims to support freedom of speech and of the press — hint: he really doesn’t — launched a tirade against MSNBC’s (supposed) journalists, Joe and Mike Scarborough for having gone to Mar-a-Lago and meeting with former and then-future President Trump, and conflated the President trying to keep his promise to the voters to the Nazis sending Jews to the gas chambers. The Inquirer itself reported that three percent of the residents in the city are illegal immigrants! Continue reading →