The Department of Education announced the second-round winners of the Race to the Top state awards of approximately $400 million (of money we don’t have), and they turn out to be Dem. 7-4, based on electoral college votes in 2008. NJ lost by 3 points that were a clerical error that the Chris Christie administration thought it had corrected two weeks ago by oral communication, | Read More »
While we are celebrating this weekend, I remember picnics with dozens of aunts, uncles, and cousins in the locust-zizzling heat of the New Jersey Pines. We would be surrounded by the scents of barbeques chicken and hotdogs, the sights of impromptu softball games and horseshoe pitches, and the constant chatter of familial gossip. Everyone lurked around the dessert table, the most popular attraction of the day, but we would have pans of | Read More »
Unlike many states, New Jersey has refineries, pipeline infrastructure, and natural gas storage that would promote and sustain an expanded energy industry in this state. In the 1970s, Texaco was exploring for natural gas off (far off) the Atlantic City coast, but those probes were terminated when Congress in the 1980s banned continental shelf drilling. New Jersey has a $10 billion state budget deficit, the | Read More »
The recall for Senator Robert Menendez, an appointee, polls at 39 percent in favor, according to a Rasmussen poll. Phil Sovereignty reports on his blog that 34% would vote to keep Menendez in office, and the rest are undecided. The recall movement is based partly on Menendez’ record of voting with Obama, and especially the Senate late-night vote for Obamacare and his support of the | Read More »
The NJ Tea Party movement is trying to recall Senator Robert Menendez (D) and has set in motion a proceeding that puts two Constitutions on trial against each other. Phil Sovereignty has blogged: The current case of Committee to Recall Robert Menendez from the Office of United States Senator v. Nina M. Wells and Robert F. Giles is therefore a constitutional crisis within the | Read More »
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