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Just for the fun of it I took a look at the Corzine campaign's website. Oops. Looks like our Guv's on drugs.

How else could you explain his comment about computer usage at the Oliver Street School in the above video?

Continue reading "What's the Governor been smoking?" »

If my e-mail is any indication, every conservative in New Jersey is angry with the three Republican congressman from our state whose votes last week helped provide the winning margin for that cap-and-trade bill.

With good reason. It's an awful bill. And I'll give you two reasons: Blood and Gore.

No, I'm not talking about a horror movie, but there is a link to the cinema. Around the time Al Gore was putting together that movie about the horrors of global warming titled "An Inconvenient Truth," he was also putting together a firm with a former Goldman-Sachs executive named David Blood. The firm, Generation Investment Management, recently bought a share of a company called Camco International Ltd., which trades in carbon credits.

So if the U.S. Senate passes that cap-and-trade bill and President Obama signs it, Blood and Gore stand to make out just fine on their investments. The market in carbon credits is a very lucrative one.

Continue reading "Cap-and-trade bill: Blood and Gore" »

Were he home in Wyckoff, Bobby Schoendorf would be busy today, hanging out with friends and family at a neighbor's barbecue -- someone on the street always volunteers to be the host for the Fourth of July -- and playfully fending off hug after hug from a thankful, emotional mom who would want proof he was actually home, in person.

In squeezable, huggable, kissable flesh and bones.

And, then, as dusk approached, they would decide where the gang would go to watch the fireworks. The discussion, like the party, is a tradition:

Allendale? Ramsey? Maybe Ridgewood this year?

"We're fireworks people," Diane Schoendorf says. "We love the Fourth of July. And Bobby never missed a display. He has loved them ever since he was a little boy."

Continue reading "A fretful Fourth at home; "Just another day" for soldiers in Iraq" »

As the American colonies revolted against the British Crown, its leaders locked themselves into a room in Philadelphia's statehouse to discuss colonial independence.

With windows shuttered and seclusion secured so that the echoes of raucous debate would not be heard by unwanted ears, a sweltering heat began to brew due to a mix of both the excessive July temperatures and the passions for freedom that brought the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence together.

The fear of loud and contentious debate was unfounded for on this day as the issue of independence was debated it was soon discovered that it was more agreeable discussion than argued contention.

Continue reading "Looking for liberty on Independence Day" »

Seaside Heights.

For generations, those two words bring back memories of sneaking cigarettes, sharing bottles and discovering some things under the boardwalk. It's always been a place where adolescence ran a little wild, taking baby steps out of innocence. Packs of boys and girls, from different Jersey places, collided and co-mingled on the narrow plank road lit by flashing neon. It was exciting, it was dirty, it was liberating, it was the Jersey Shore.

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(Comments now reopened. Please give your opinions on the issue at hand, which is Sarah Palin. As for your opinions on me, keep them to yourself. Don't be a moron or you will get a Moron Perspective Alert.)

Let me add a further observation to my comments on Sarah Palin's decision to step down as governor of Alaska:

Usually when politicians make these speeches, they say they are resigning to spend more time with their families. And if ever a politician needed to spend more time with her family, it's Sarah Palin.

While she was busy running the state, her daughter was busy running around with a hockey thug, a lad who later went on TV and said that he believed Palin knew the two were having sex (see this video).

That's a family that needs attention.

Continue reading "Palin needs to spend more time with her family" »

As research for an upcoming column on the many drawbacks of the cap-and-trade bill now before the Senate, I spent some time speaking with Christopher C. Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Horner is author of "Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats Fraud and Deception to Keep You Misinformed."

Continue reading "Why is the EPA suppressing this global-warming report?" »