Philadelphia blog stories
Santa Climbs Aboard The West Chester Railroad  Saturday and Sunday-December 5 and 6Saturday and Sunday-December 13 and 19Sunday December 20Jolly Old St. Nick will be On board a Heated, Lighted, and Decorated Train with a Treat for All the Kids. Featuring Holiday Entertainment.Trains Depart Market Street Station at 11:00 am , 1:00 pm, and 3:00 pm* Please note the train will not depart from Glen Mills this season, you can only pick up the train in West Chester... Read the rest of "Train Ride With Santa on the West Chester Railroad"
With most of our Flyers discussion centering on losses and coaching changes and captaincy controversy, I think most of us are ready to just see some hockey players get on the ice and do some hitting and scoring. We'll have more on that a bit later, with the newish-look Flyers set to take on the Ovechkin-less Caps tonight, but for now, a little reminder of something we can all look forward to.
 ![]() ... Read the rest of "And Now For a Much-Needed Commercial Break"
A report by Peter Baker in the New York Times this morning provides some insights into the intense and often agonizing behind the scenes deliberations over the Afghanistan review that took place inside the Obama White House. [H]is advisers say he was haunted by the human toll as he wrestled with what to do about the eight-year-old war. Just a month earlier, he had mentioned to them his visits to wounded soldiers at the Army hospital in Washington. "I don't want to be going to Walter Reed for another eight years," he said then. The economic cost was troubling him as well after he received a private budget memo estimating that an expanded presence would cost $1 trillion over 10 years, roughly the same as his health care plan. Now as his top military adviser ran through a slide show of options, Mr. Obama expressed frustration. He held up a chart showing how reinforcements would... Read the rest of "Obama's Bet"
After all, he is the smartest man in the room. Just ask him.
The controversy swirling around the leaked e-mails of climate scientists apparently trying to downplay data and exclude dissenting opinions has led to calls for President Obama to skip this month’s climate summit in Denmark until the e-mails can be investigated.
Instead, the White [...]... Read the rest of "Obama Blissfully Ignores Climate-Gate"
Apparently it struck a chord with women around the country when the Massachusetts senatorial candidate spoke out against the Stupak amendement, because she’s raking in the bucks from women:
Women from every state have donated, usually in small-dollar amounts, to the campaign war chest of Attorney General Martha Coakley, who, through the most recent reporting period, had raised about twice as much as her nearest competitors in the four-way race that will be decided in Tuesday’s special primary.
Political fund-raising has long been dominated by men, but for the Coakley campaign two-thirds of its donors are women, a review by the Globe of her campaign finance reports shows.
Take 72-year-old Carol Lakin of ... Read the rest of "Martha Coakley"
 When your quarterback gets pulled in favor of a 33-year-old Koy Detmer haflway through a game, chances are better than not that you're going to lose that game 42-0. The Eagles found that one out the hard way on December 5th, 2005, when the Seattle Seahawks came to the Linc and very rudely thrashed their guests to the titular six-TD+PAT tune. Awash in the TO fallout and missing QB1 Donovan McNabb for the remainder of the seaosn, the game was the worst of a very bad season, dropping the Eagles to 5-7 and basically ensuring their absence from a fifth straight NFC Championship game.
Oddly f... Read the rest of "Today in Philly Sports History: Eagles Blanked 42-0 by Seahawks, 2005"
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Quarterback Peyton Manning #18 of the Indianapolis Colts
by Matt Slocum - AP
2 days ago:
Bernard Hopkins, left, of Philadelphia, poses with Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick after Hopkins' non-title light heavyweight boxing match against Enrique Ornelas, of Mex... 
