“Philadelphia” on The Daily Caller

Frustrated by noise pollution during his morning bus ride, a Philadelphia man decided to use a cellphone jammer to block other commuters’ calls as he made his way to work during the past several weeks. (more)

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A woman who calls herself the “Black Madam” could face charges in the death of a London tourist who received illegal buttocks-enhancement injections last year in a Philadelphia hotel, police said Thursday. (more)

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter didn’t mince words after four kids were shot and three killed in Philadelphia Tuesday night. (more)

Prosecutors have dropped their decades-long push to execute Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther convicted of killing white police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981. (more)

Maureen Faulkner waited nearly 30 years for her husband’s murderer to be executed. But following a seemingly endless cycle of legal appeals, she said she realized it would never happen. (more)

(CNN) – Joe Frazier, the hard-hitting boxing heavyweight who handed the legendary Muhammad Ali his first defeat, died Monday, shortly after being diagnosed with liver cancer, his family said in a statement. (more)

This week, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter went where few black leaders have gone. And I think I can count the others who have on one hand. (more)

PHILADELPHIA — Mayor Michael A. Nutter, telling marauding black youths “you have damaged your own race,” imposed a tougher curfew Monday in response to the latest “flash mob” — spontaneous groups of teens who attack people at random on the streets of the city’s tourist and fashionable shopping districts. (more)

Children as young as 11 years old are encouraged to get free condoms sent to them, compliments of the Philadelphia Public Health Department. (more)

Patrick Rogers of Philadelphia appeared on Fox & Friends earlier this week to discuss outsmarting Wells Fargo bank into foreclosure before they did the same to him. Yet his financial savvy paled in comparison to his vampire-like appearance. Perhaps most surprising, Fox & Friends host Clayton Morris seemed completely unalarmed by the obvious similarity. It just goes to show that anything can happen on live television — even suddenly interviewing the living dead. (more)

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – An exclusive CBS 3 I-Team Investigation reveals that a 39-year-old mother, flying into Philadelphia for her son’s birthday, died after waiting nearly 40 minutes for medical treatment after she collapsed in a restroom inside Terminal “E”, early on the morning of January 17th. (more)

Michael Vick is not under contract with any NFL team for 2011. (more)

To many, the biggest question surrounding the 2012 presidential election remains: Will Sarah Palin run? (more)

Everybody can use a helping hand now and again, and the New York Jets are no exception. Neither are the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles. (more)

ICE STATION ZEBRA — On Sunday, in the warmth of the NBC Studios, I found it absurd the NFL called the Eagles-Vikings game because of snow and wind in Philadelphia. You play football in snow and wind. I’ve seen fabled, unforgettable games (The Tuck Rule Game, Michael Vick beating Brett Favre at Lambeau) in snow and wind. Part of NFL lore. And I agreed with Cris Collinsworth, who said last night on NBC that postponing the Minnesota-Philadelphia game until Tuesday night is a dangerous precedent, because, as he said, it opens the door to more weather-related postponements for whatever reason. This can’t have been the first time a municipality declared a weather emergency on the day of an NFL game. (more)

So you plan to celebrate Christ’s birth? Just don’t share your happiness with a government bureaucrat or state-friendly company because the required politically-correct response is, “We only celebrate secularized holidays with multicultural themes.” (more)

’Tis the season to celebrate the annual festive tradition of refusing to call Christmas “Christmas.” (more)

On the 19th day, the Eagles will rest. (more)

Fed up Americans recently united in telling the government not to touch their collective junk and the message appears to be getting through, at least somewhat, as the Transportation Security Administration is reportedly reevaluating the new enhanced pat-down procedure in response to public outcry. But the TSA’s taxpayer-funded grope-a-thon is not the only unpopular policy that received public rebuke last month. (more)

No matter what next occupies the southeast corner of Broad Street and Pattison Avenue, it will always be remembered as the place where the Spectrum stood. (more)