http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/michael_smerconish RSS Feed for Michael Smerconish en-us Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:12:44 GMT http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/michael_smerconish/20081120_Michael_Smerconish__Their_Stanley_Cup_runneth_over.html STREET hockey was once the stick ball of suburbia. In the Philly suburbs in the early 1970s, it was an after-school sport that lots of kids played. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/michael_smerconish/20081113_Michael_Smerconish__In_InfoWorld___fairness__is_bunk.html ON Election Day, Sen. Charles Schumer told Fox News that opponents of the Fairness Doctrine were advancing an inconsistent argument: http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/michael_smerconish/20081106_Michael_Smerconish__Making_the_P-rade_even_better.html ON FRIDAY, Cole Hamels told the crowd at Citizens Bank Park, "One thing I can't wait to do is go down Broad Street for that parade again and again and again!" http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/michael_smerconish/20081030_Michael_Smerconish__Unseemly_political_reflections.html IT TOOK me only a few seconds of my hairy-eyeball test to conclude that McCain-Palin volunteer Ashley Todd, who said she had been assaulted and branded with a politically tinged scarlet letter, was full of it. It was the same internal alarm that sounded when I first heard of the alleged Duke- http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/michael_smerconish/20081023_Michael_Smerconish__Decoding_the_lawn_signs.html I'VE JUST conducted my own presidential poll, but it didn't involve any dialing. Just driving. I've informally surveyed several city and suburban neighborhoods with an eye on the yard signs. I'm not prepared to declare a winner, but Barack Obama has a problem in white neighborhoods, or I've just seen the reverse of the Bradley effect on voters' front lawns. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/michael_smerconish/20081016_Michael_Smerconish__McCain__The_first_obituary.html MEMO - To: John McCain From: Campaign director Steve Schmidt Date: Nov. 5 You fought the good fight. You lost because of a failed campaign strategy, not because of what you as an individ- http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/michael_smerconish/20081009_Michael_Smerconish__Obama___Ayers__Guilt_by_association_.html ON Saturday, the New York Times made front-page news of William Ayers' relationship with Barack Obama, catapulting the stuff of talk radio and conservative ire into the mainstream media. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/michael_smerconish/20081002_Michael_Smerconish__Put_a_bounty_on_the_bad_guys.html IN AN ALL-too- familiar scene, the city has paid its final respects to yet another fallen police officer, Patrick McDonald. Here's something else that's common: His killer was wanted at the time of the murder. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/michael_smerconish/20080925_Michael_Smerconish__Race_poll__Right_or_wrong_.html THAT AP/Yahoo News poll about the impact of race on the presidential election couldn't be right. Or could it? http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/michael_smerconish/20080918_Michael_Smerconish__Gaming_the_iPod_primary.html WHAT'S on your iPod? It's a great way to get a quick snapshot of somebody's cultural temperature and political leanings.