By Donald Ayotte Conservative Crossroads Staff Writer One of the hottest and most important races in Delaware is in full gear, with Republican Candidate, Chris Weeks’ ground troops campaigning door to door for Delaware’s Fourteenth Representative District Seat. Weeks is challenging incumbent Peter Schwartzkopf, the House Majority Leader for the privilege of representing the people [...]
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Today, Tuesday, July 27, I’ll be on WGMD radio with Bill Colley. We’ll be on from 5 to 6 PM. You can find WGMD at 92.7 on the FM dial. If you are out of range, click here to listen on the internet from anywhere in the world. The segment will focus on HB 487, [...]
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Posted in Guest Opinion, Guest Posts on Jul 12th, 2010
Real pulse of families points to Glen Urquhart for Congress My first Tea Party event (4/09) at the River Front was exciting and noteworthy. Inside the build- ing another DuPont retiree said: “I am surprised at the large num- ber of young families with children”. Later, a longtime “R”Party official noted: “who are all these [...]
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Dear. Ms. O’Donnell As this is written, it is now but only one hundred days until the Delaware Republican Primary on September 14, 2010. I am writing this because I find the direction that your campaign is running in to be alarming and destructive not just to you, or your beliefs, but to the [...]
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Goodbye Delaware Driver’s License, hello National ID Card? If a small group of Delaware legislators get their way, that’s exactly what will be happening in Delaware soon. Senator Bushweller (Democrat-Dover), has introduced Senate Bill 74 in the Senate (http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/4bda103fb759b88c852574480048a7ee/5e11d5c20173ad3385257583007a01a6?OpenDocument). The main sponsor in the House of Representatives is Representative Mitchell (Democrat-Wilmington). The bill was just [...]
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Posted in Guest Posts, Stuff on Jun 8th, 2010
Dear David, On Sunday morning, a fire ripped through a Woodcrest Arms apartment building in Dover, leaving one person dead and injuring several others. The blaze left 150 people homeless and without many of the necessary belongings that we take for granted – clothing, shoes, toiletries, towels and children’s supplies. As the legislators representing the [...]
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Posted in Guest Opinion, Guest Posts on May 21st, 2010
Below is the published mantra by the Republican National Committee (RNC) under the Ronald Reagan years in general terms as to” Why We Are Republicans”. In my opinion, the GOP (The Grand OLE PARTY) has a remarkable opportunity, even here in Blue State Delaware, to win some major elections. The disgust and national concern [...]
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Posted in Guest Posts, Mike Castle on May 20th, 2010
Mike Castle – Fiscal Responsibility Fact Check On his website Mike Castle claims to be Fiscally Responsible. I decided to do some Fact checking. I thought, maybe I’m WRONG about Congressman Castle. Maybe he IS a budget hawk. This is what I found: FACT – Castle voted for TARP (the $700 Billion bailout of the [...]
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Posted in Economics, Guest Posts, Regulation on Apr 21st, 2010
Some time ago, I was sitting in my opthamologist’s office and chanced on a magazine I’d never heard of–Stocks, Futures and Options. In it was an interview with George Friedman, who noted the financial elite have lost all credibility. He added the political elite have stepped in to the vacuum. He also said the government [...]
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Posted in Guest Posts on Apr 15th, 2010
A bit o’ old time politicking. How does a no name, no money, third party candidate win a Statewide Federal election? Work, work and more work. I was asked very early on what I thought it would cost to win the U.S. Representative seat this year. My response was “hopefully not my marriage.” The guy [...]
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Calls for civility can be a means of silencing opposition. Although the political left has continually demeaned the Tea Party movement, it has also constantly called for civility of discourse. Those who are in the Tea Party movement need to recognize and to resist both the attempts to discredit it as well as to ignore [...]
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Posted in Crime, Guest Posts on Mar 13th, 2010
Guest Post by Angel Clark (of the blog Sussex County Angel) In this, the 21st century, women are not docile, programmed to serve and procreate and nothing else. It seems Emmitt Taylor III was unaware of this. In August of 2007 he killed Stephanie Mumford by bludgeoning her to death with a frying pan because [...]
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by Shaun Fink As this year unfolds, we will hear a lot of talk about creating new “green” jobs to contribute to our state economy. In advance of the cacophony, let’s examine exactly what we are talking about when we use the term “green” before the word “jobs”. As neat and packaged as the [...]
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Posted in Guest Posts on Jan 31st, 2010
Let’s Roll… The question I have been asked most since taking the position of Executive Vice President of CRI is, “What is the Caesar Rodney Institute’s biggest goal for the coming year.” It is a great question, so let me answer it. CRI’s ultimate goal, for 2010 or any year, is to advance the debate [...]
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Posted in Guest Posts on Jan 30th, 2010
By Evan Queitsch We unveiled some really exciting new plans for Founders Values. Founders Values, as many of you know, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, tax deductible organization which means that private funding is critical to our success. That means that every single dollar you donate to Founders Values will go towards providing the type of [...]
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Posted in Guest Posts on Dec 5th, 2009
Guest Post by Kevin Wade We Americans don’t bow. No American is less than any other American. No American is less than any other of the world’s men or women. No American is born into servitude or servility requiring expressions of submission to another mortal man. We are born a free people and remain so [...]
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Posted in Guest Posts on Nov 25th, 2009
by Delaware’s own Lee Williams HBO recently aired an outstanding documentary by British filmmaker Dan Reed, which examines the terrorist attacks in India’s largest city that occurred one year ago and claimed 170 lives. The film “Terror in Mumbai” is available On Demand. CNN reporter Fareed Zakaria hosts the documentary, which was assembled using victim [...]
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Posted in Foreign Policy, Guest Posts on Oct 9th, 2009
By Christine O’Donnell Cross post– Originally published in the Bulletin Okay, so let me get this straight… just 12 days after our new President took office, a committee of international peace seekers nominated him for his international peace accomplishments. Just days into his Presidency? It’s highly unlikely that they nominated him on the merits of [...]
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By John Stossel submitted from getLiberty.org as open source for public distribution to promote their new blog “What disturbs Americans of all ideological persuasions is the fear that almost everything, not just government, is fixed or manipulated by some powerful hidden hand,” Frank Rich wrote in Sunday’s New York Times. That manipulation should disturb us. [...]
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Dear Editor, I have just returned from a health care forum in Lewes. It had been advertised in the Cape Gazette as open to the Public, but we were told at the start that this meeting it was not intended for the public. It had been planned as an information gathering session of the Delaware [...]
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Here is the inside information straight from the 37th District Democratic Committee. As always we seek to bring you the best information available. Thanks Perry for being our Democrat on the ground. The 37th came up with an interesting array of candidates vying for Joe Booth’s seat: Mike Wyatt, former Mayor of Georgetown Dave Robinson, [...]
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Posted in Abortion, Guest Posts, Healthcare on Jul 28th, 2009
By Nicole Collins On the national front, healthcare reform is saturating the headlines. President Obama and the Congressional Democrats are fine-tuning their rallying cries to try to make us believe that the passing of this bill will be akin to landing on the moon. Whether it will be or won’t be, requiring abortion coverage in [...]
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Posted in Election 2009, Guest Posts on Jul 21st, 2009
Post by Bruce A. Rogers, Esquire Important Updates from Independent and Libertarian Chairmen in the comments sections. Last night, all four candidates for the 19th Senate seat started out at the Crossroads Community Church west of Georgetown. Three remained to answer questions and defend their positions. Joe Booth, Matthew Opaliski and Wendy Jones remained at [...]
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Posted in Election 2009, Guest Posts on Jul 10th, 2009
The race to replace long-time Senator Thurman Adams is now in over-drive. What’s at stake in this race? The one who wins this seat must be ready to hit the ground running. They will take over in the middle of a legislative session. They will almost immediately begin working on a state budget which will [...]
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Posted in Guest Posts, Reform on Jun 29th, 2009
Editor’s note: This interesting email from Ellen Miller goes to heart of whether or not we have a 21st century participatory government. Times like these are too important for us not to hold government to the highest possible standards. The House of Representatives is poised to take up debate on a health care bill in [...]
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Posted in Budget, Delaware GOP, Guest Posts, Taxes on Jun 29th, 2009
While the leadership seems to have reached an accord with the Governor which results in millions of dollars in increased taxes, I urge each and every Republican member of the General Assembly to reject the deal. Why? First and foremost, the Republican Party is opposed to tax increases aimed at perpetuating big government. Second, the [...]
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smitty-note: bumped this post up to give it a chance in the sun, rapid posting caused it to get pushed down on the page rather quickly PSSST….Dover…you passed an Onion not an Apple by Joanne Christian Let me applaud the 17 Representatives who “got it” in their decision to vote “NO” to HB 117. HB [...]
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Guest Post By Annie Mountain What happens when America is so bankrupt, so overextended, so wide open to take over???????? In case you are not watching the news in the evening and don’t venture anywhere else besides the News Journal, now hear this – the Chrysler Building, one of America’s most recognized building is for sale. [...]
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