What a difference a year makes. About 13 months ago, Gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee and I proposed (picking up on former State Rep. Bob Valihura’s idea) that DNREC be split into two divisions so that the various regulatory and operating entities, which are often at loggerheads with one another, can truly focus on their unique missions. [...]
Archive for November, 2009
DNREC Secretary calls Lee/Copeland Campaign idea “Radical”
Posted in Delaware, Democrats, Energy, Jack Markell, Open Government on November 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Does the President’s Administration know how to create jobs?
Posted in Democrats, Economy, President Obama on November 30, 2009 | 10 Comments »
I came across the following chart (the link to the original can be found here). The same chart was emailed to me through another source. Now, I’ll admit that I haven’t verified this completely, but you can go to Wikipedia and check out the cabinets of all US Presidents (The link can be found here). [...]
Iran just wants to reduce “global warming”
Posted in Uncategorized on November 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For the last 7-8 years, many on the left have said, repeatedly, that we must understand our adversaries. We shouldn’t rush to judgement and declare that we are “right”, and that they are “wrong”. There is no “evil”, just misunderstanding between peoples and of ideas. So, I’m very confused by the concern over Iran. Clearly, [...]
Vietnam II
Posted in Uncategorized on November 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As I have opined before – something I do extremely well – The President is in a jam. He told all and sundry that within a year the withdrawals would be happening. A year. It’s been 11 months. That’s close enough to a year. And now he wants 30,000 more men and women to go [...]
Get insurance or go to jail
Posted in Uncategorized on November 28, 2009 | 16 Comments »
I’d absolutely love to get chapter and verse of where the house health care bill references going to jail for not having insurance. If you know Charlie is buying all of us drinks at Kids Shelleens! Thanks!!
The GOP should support “earned legalization” & lead on immigration reform
Posted in GOP, National on November 25, 2009 | 38 Comments »
A draft resolution “calling on the Republican National Committee to end funding and endorsements for any candidate who deviates from three or more of its ten planks” is circulating within the RNC. The proposal contains a provision dealing with immigration that is particularly troubling to me. Specifically, it states: “(5) We support legal immigration and [...]
Your stimulus dollars at work in education. Finally!
Posted in Uncategorized on November 22, 2009 | 19 Comments »
My. The Christina school district is spending 350,000 dollars of YOUR tax money to a consultant to come in so they can establish best practices in all of the schools. We finally made it. We will soon have best practices in all CSD schools. The republic is safe. Well not really. In fact there will [...]
Valero.
Posted in Uncategorized on November 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A very true and a very sad story. A close friend is an union pipefitter, local 74. A solid D I’d wrangle an occasional vote out of him but 95% of his votes went for the Democrats. Due to the unexpected passing of his Stepdaughter, he and his wife took custody of their grandchild. He was [...]
Today’s rumor.
Posted in Uncategorized on November 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A friend of mine has an uncle that works for the White House. Yea, yea I know. It is embarassing. Last night he was in DE at Scratch McGoo’s and told us that the WH is offering John Carney a job in Philadelphia so Beau can run for Congress and avoid a fight with Mike [...]
Delaware Got Its Wish — Green Jobs
Posted in Delaware, Democrats, Economy, Energy, General Assembly, Government Waste, Taxes, Tea Party on November 20, 2009 | 23 Comments »
Today, the Delaware City Refinery has closed. A minimum of 550 high paying jobs, and it is my understanding, the largest payor of gross receipts taxes in the State are now gone. The plant has been on life support for sometime, and Delaware has done nothing to make operating the plant easier. To the contrary, [...]
