Elmer Smith

Elmer Smith is a member of the Daily News Editorial Board.

Email Elmer at smithel@phillynews.com

Elmer Smith: High court eyes D.A.s' immunity

Posted 11/13/2009

IMAGINE SPENDING your entire youth in jail for a crime you had nothing to do with. Then, after 25 years in jail, you prove that prosecutors withheld evidence of your innocence, suppressed evidence of someone else's guilt and then knowingly produced perjured testimony at your trial.

Elmer Smith: Pointless search for Fort Hood massacre's 'real reason'

Posted 11/10/2009

A CONGRESSIONAL committee has joined that posse searching for the "real reason" that Nidal Malik Hassan went berserk and allegedly killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex.

Elmer Smith: West Philly High takes center stage - for a day - 11/06/2009: THE MAYOR'S caravan turned off Walnut onto 47th Street right on schedule. Megastar Wyclef Jean was being escorted through a throng of excited students in the marble hall outside the East Auditorium.
Elmer Smith: Why are we in Afghanistan? Knowing history would help us - 11/03/2009: HILLARY CLINTON'S smug retort to a British Broadcasting Company reporter's question about the war in Afghanistan should have been my first clue.
Elmer Smith: Cockpit gadgetry may have turned pilots into laptop jockeys - 10/30/2009: YOU'RE MAKING that last step from the jetway onto the plane. The stewardess is smiling. First-class passengers are seated comfortably watching regular folk troop back to tiny seats in the six-across sections.
Elmer Smith: We don't need a new hate-crimes law - 10/27/2009: Scott Lee Zulfer's case demonstates that, if we are truly outraged by a particular type of crime, we can demonstrate it without any new law
Elmer Smith: Shall we shed tears for the CLEW-less? - 10/23/2009: I COULD BARELY suppress my glee when I heard that the government is slashing the salaries of the top execs at those banks that we bailed out.
Elmer Smith: Balloon-boy hoax just like most others: Full of hot air, a harmless game - 10/20/2009: I HAD ONE shot, one chance to save this child's life. A flock of ravenous raptors had spotted the frightened boy dangling from the gondola. They swooped in for the kill.
Elmer Smith: Jails and lotteries: Sure thing for states - 10/16/2009: YOU CAN'T help but be moved by the level of cooperation we're starting to see among the states. We reported yesterday that a half-dozen states have expressed a willingness to ease Pennsylvania's prison overcrowding by housing some of our excess inmates.
Elmer Smith: To pass the health-care plan, forget the GOP - 10/13/2009: YOU ONLY HAVE to look at his Viagra ads to see that Bob Dole will stand up for what he believes, even at the risk of ridicule.
Elmer Smith: Enough is enough: Time to lift travel restrictions to Cuba - 10/09/2009: THEY DIDN'T mean to attract attention. But a group of American women can hardly escape notice in a Cuban hotel lobby.
Elmer Smith: What a coincidence: Banks rethink overdraft fees - 09/25/2009: I HAD BEEN on the midnight mail crew at First Pennsylvania Bank for two weeks before I found out who I was working for.

MORE STORIES

Elmer Smith: In a position to spread the word - 09/22/2009
Elmer Smith: Racism circus act becoming main event - 09/18/2009
Elmer Smith: How the Big Brother magic cuts both ways - 09/15/2009
Elmer Smith: It's a small leap from 'You lie!' to 'You die!' - 09/11/2009
Elmer Smith: Funeral for a soldier from a faraway war - 09/04/2009
Elmer Smith: Cling to current health care & you'll pay dearly - 09/01/2009
Elmer Smith: Kennedy escaped the patterns of his past - 08/27/2009
Elmer Smith: Safer credit cards are only as safe as you are - 08/25/2009
Elmer Smith: Is the Doomsday Budget just a little bit too doom-y? - 08/21/2009
Elmer Smith: Credit the Eagles for trying - 08/17/2009
Elmer Smith | Old hoops rivals, now neighbors, team up to teach an orphanage in India about AIDS - 01/23/2007
Elmer Smith | Avoid the urge to surge - city needs to get more PO'd - 01/19/2007
Elmer Smith | At a school named for King, a worthy commemoration - 01/16/2007

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