Philadelphia Muslims Celebrate Religious Founders’ Day
On August 19, former Philadelphian Habib Peer was assassinated in Pakistan when masked gunmen on motorcycles rode up to his car and shot him through the window, instantly ending his life. According to his brother-in-law Mujeebullah Chaudhary, Peer, who used to run a newsstand in Germantown, was killed because of his religion, a sect of Islam known as the Ahmadiyya...
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Court News: Zone, Preliminary Hearings
Back in May, District Attorney Seth Williams had a bright idea. He wanted court cases to be handled by prosecutors according to their specific geographical area. WHYY said at the time: The concept of zone courts is simple – a prosecutor focusing on a specific zone will become more familiar with the neighborhoods and crime patterns. Deputy District Attorney...
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PA-Sen Notes: Weekend Endorsements, Statements, Debates
What’d you do this weekend? We obsessed over the Senate race. That’s how cool we are. (For serious.) Here’s what happened: The candidates held another debate on Friday. They agreed the tone of the campaign as a whole was “unfortunate” – but continued smearing each other. Joe Sestak has received six statewide newspaper endorsements, including those...
Continue ReadingIf Ackerman Is The Best, What’s The Worst?
So, what’s better, presenting this article without comment or attempting some sort of joke that says the Inquirer has partnered with, um, The Onion? From here on out, let’s go with the former. Philly’s Arlene Ackerman named top urban school leader in the U.S. By Kristen A. Graham INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Philadelphia schools chief Arlene Ackerman has been...
Continue ReadingRetired Generals Backhandedly Respond To Toomey
Uh oh. Remember how last night Pat Toomey played the “American courts suck; we need to try terrorists at Guantonamo Bay, else they’ll attack us again” card? Yeah, he did. This is another issue on which he and Rep. Joe Sestak differ. About an hour ago, possibly in response to Toomey’s desperate, insatiable appetite to cave to the terrorists’ demands,...
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DEBATE: Sestak Almost Says B-Word, Toomey Won’t Answer Palin Question
See last night’s debate? It was OK, right? Yeah, just OK. Here’s the breakdown of what you need to know, especially if you were at a bar getting ready for the Phillies game and/or watching Seinfeld and missed said slobberknocker. Joe Sestak, who worked in the Pentagon on September 11th, said he walked out of the 5-sided building just minutes before the terrorist...
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Nutter Upstages Onorato, Corbett At Black Clergy Forum
In an attempt to take the pulse of African-American voters in Philadelphia, gubernatorial candidates Tom Corbett and Dan Onorato were invited to sit down with the Philadelphia Black Clergy and Vicinity yesterday evening at the Freedom Theater in North Philadelphia for a Q&A forum. This session was designed as a sort of welcome mat to the eastern part of the...
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Philadelphians Wear Purple To Support LGBT Rights
A spate of recent suicides and bullying that victimized gay students sparked a show of solidarity across the country and in Philadelphia today, as many people wore some form of purple, the official LGBT color, to raise awareness on these issues. Walking through the gayborhood, I expected to see a sea of purple and while there were certainly many showing support,...
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Comeback? First Sestak, Now Onorato
Damn, bitches. We love us some down-to-the-wire elections, don’t we? By now you’ve probably heard that Christine O’Donnell has never heard of the separation of church and state Rep. Joe Sestak leads in the last three polls released (GHY, then PPP and now Muhlenberg/Morning Call). But did you know Dan Onorato (“We hold you in our hearts”) is on his way...
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