Michael Smerconish is a nationally syndicated radio host, best-selling author and weekly contributing columnist every Friday to The Philadelphia Inquirer A2 Insights page. Michael’s radio show is broadcasted weekday afternoons in Philadelphia on WPHT-AM (1210).
A Philadelphia lawyer turned political commentator, Smerconish is a guest host and contributor to several national television shows including Hardball with Chris Matthews. Smerconish occasionally writes an opinion column in The Inquirer's Sunday Currents section.
In January 2011, Smerconish launched a book club event series in the Philadelphia region that will feature several best-selling authors, including John Bogle, Ted Gup, James Kaplan and Jane Leavy.
- Smerconish's DN columns: 11 Favorites over the years
Editor's note: Michael Smerconish made history here at 400 N. Broad when, six years after starting a column for the Daily News, he also began a weekly column in the Inquirer. To our knowledge, no one has ever contributed to both papers in quite the same way. In this and so many ways, Smerconish is one of a kind.
Here is a selection of Michael Smerconish's Favorite Daily News Columns over the years.
January 7, 2002: High Fidel-ity: Getting up close and personal...
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Lawsuits against Kermit Gosnell spoke loud & clear
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AMONG the many lessons from the Kermit Gosnell debacle is that the medical profession needs to do a better job of policing itself.
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Ron Reagan Jr.'s loose lips
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YOU HATE to see brothers fight - whether they're unknowns or the sons of a deceased president. This week, Ron Reagan Jr., son of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, released "My Father at 100: A Memoir." (Ronald Wilson Reagan would have turned 100 on Feb. 6.)
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Our political climate is n-u-t-t-y
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Michael Smerconish: I won't figuratively place a semiautomatic weapon in the hands of a TV or talk-radio host in the Tucson case. But that doesn't mean the climate in which this occurred is irrelevant.
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The captain walks the plank
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CAPT. Owen Honors has been relieved of his command of the USS Enterprise, the nation's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
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