Daily News - Stu Bykofsky

Stu Bykofsky: For GOP, illusions and the same-old

IT IS 8 P.M. Tuesday and illusions of a Republican victory are drawing their last breath in Philadelphia. In New Jersey and Virginia, the illusion will turn into reality, but not in the Quaker City, perhaps the most "blue" big city in America.

Stu Bykofsky: Election results, dear voters, are in our Stars and in ourselves

TOMORROW is Election Day. Odds are you know about it, but don't care. And you read a newspaper. Think about the Philadelphians who don't.

Stu Bykofsky: A place of helping hands that works for 'problem' people

We get too soon old, too late smart. - Pennsylvania Dutch proverb HARRIET NELSON is 32, and she's gotten smart.

Stu Bykofsky: Born in the Bronx, Stu's rooting for...?

I GREW UP in the Bronx during the era of Yankees supernatural supremacy, so how can I root against them?

Stu Bykofsky: Not on Twitter? Behind the times? Want a friend? Digg these rhymes

LIKE SOME OF you, I get daily invitations to become someone's "Friend." They come mostly come from desperate people trying to create the illusion they are liked. How many Friends do you have?

Stu: Mighty controversies from unwise ACORNs grow

In the ACORN bunker, they are lighting candles for Katherine Conway-Russell, manager of the Broad St. office who largely avoided being punk'd by a conservative filmmaker playing a pimp and by a coed dressed like Lady GaGa.

Stu Bykofsky: A different kind of Holocaust survivor story

HERMANN SCHEIPERS should be dead by now. Not because he's 96, laughing at actuarial tables. Because he sidestepped death once, twice, thrice, after being sent to Dachau, the Nazis' first concentration camp, in 1941.

Stu: Phils-Dodgers as a gang war

Stu Bykofsky: Just like last year, it's Philadelphia vs. Los Angeles, the Phillies fightin' the Dodgers, Red against Blue. To put this in terms Los Angelenos can comprehend, it's Bloods vs. the Crips.

Stu Bykofsky: What's really behind the Nobel Sur-Prize?

GLUED to the TV Friday morning, awaiting President Obama's remarks about the Nobel Peace Prize, I fantasized about how he would gracefully decline it.

Stu Bykofsky: Philly politics is Einsteinian insanity: It's time for 2-party rule

EINSTEIN DEFINED insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Next month, will Philadelphians hoping for an improved city again elect nothing but Democrats and expect a different result?