Read about the Democrat nanny-state thinking here.
[...]
Ever heard Andy Caldwell's show? He's the most informative and
entertaining radio host out in the People's Republic of California.
His signal is carried on AM1440 and AM1410, but you can listen to him
live on the Internet by clicking here.
Andy invited me on to talk about [...]
I've been invited to take part in an all day Internet Debate by PublicSquare.net. The other participants are Jacob G. Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, and Ron Buckmire, a college professor and Gay Rights activist who blogs with' [...]
This morning I read a post over at The Fox Forum, written by Lee Woodruff, wife of ABC newsman Bob Woodruff who was seriously injured in Iraq close to the beginning of the war.
Let me first honor Bob for his service to journalism and both he and Lee for their Foundation, found [...]
The most interesting politics at the Jersey Shore has offered up another meager helping of numbers to crunch in last night’s City Council election.
Asbury Park puts the “poly” in politics, being one of the most racially and religiously diverse communities in all of New Jersey. The census will tell you [...]
By Phil Kerpen
Conservative Commentator
The first electoral battle on the conservative comeback trail won’t be in 2010, or even in November of [...]
Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre has a criticism of Steve Lonegan's tax plan over at More Monmouth Musings.
Read it here: [tinyurl.com]
But I don't see where the Mayor tells us what income level is middle class, and why?
Leave your comments over there at More Monmouth Musings.
' [...]Beware the lawyer-President.
Lawyers are the most intensely trained wordsmiths on the planet. Persuasion is their business. While the Cannons of Ethics forbid them from lying, they are taught in law school to “slant facts” toward the direction they want you, the listener, to go. They are encouraged to lead you [...]
In America we marvel at ourselves each election day. Every candidate, pundit and news reporter at some point during the evening will laud our "peaceful transfer of power."
We distinguish ourselves from Latin American countries and unstable Europeans whose leaders, after assuming power, make their first order of business to jail, exile or [...]
Governor Corzine announced that Stimulus Money is going to education in New Jersey, including this amount to the City of Asbury Park:
$1,787,735.00.
Asbury Park consistently grades as one of the wort performing school districts in New Jersey. Money has never solved the problem. They have a $90 million yearly budget, most [...]
For 8 years I suffered through news images of protests against President Bush when more media people showed up than protesters. The media would cover protests with as little as 15 people if they were protesting the war.
Tomorrow on April 15 America will have a nationwide protest in hundreds of cities that is predicted [...]
The only thing more common than complaints about university professors who hate America and teach fake history is the frequent proof those professors provide revealing the complaints about them are warranted.
The faculty at Brown University, in an act of intellectual laziness and sanctimony toward political [...]
Props to the "Dean of the Conservative Bloggers Caucus" for the get.
Check out MoreMonmouthMusings.
[...]The backlash against big government grows! It is at every corner of the country.
Belmar will have theirs at Boardwalk and 16th Avenue, from Noon until 3 pm.
Kempton Flags on Route 34 in Wall will give a free Don't Tread On Me flag to the 1st' [...]
President Obama speaking at Notre Dame is not the problem. The honorary law degree Notre Dame is giving him is the problem.
University President Father John Jenkins rests his case in favor of the speech on the argument that the school is honoring the office of the President; the school is not endorsing his [...]
Kudos to the Asbury Park Press Editorial Board (did I really just say that?) for their terrific editorial today.
Governor Corzine is apparently flirting with the idea of giving driver's licenses and lower college tuition to illegal immigrants.
62% of New Jerseyans think he's wrong (I long to live in a state [...]
This photo has been on the Home page of the Asbury Park Press, above the fold, for two days now.
Desperate for attention? (the paper, I mean).
Sex sells. News.
[...]He tells me he is an elected official. He said he did some bad things.
He gave huge sums of cash to the head the State's largest union. That union head and the union itself endorsed his candidacy. He's worried about bribery and vote-purchasing charges.
To make matters worse, he and the [...]
To put you in the mood, listen to the Unicorn Song (in know, it was written by Shel Silverstein, but it's still one of the most sung songs in Irish bars). Download Brobdingnagianbards+theunicornsong [...]
If Mitch McConnell in the Senate and John Boehner in the House can't stop Barack Obama's Keynesian scramble away from Capitalism, guess who can?
Wen Jaibo, that's who.
The Chinese premier expressed concern today about America turning deadbeat and not paying what she owes. Jaibo sounded like a landlord who just found' [...]
Back in early 2007, about 20 months before the last Presidential election, I wrote a post called “Why I can’t trust John McCain.” I wasn’t alone. A Google search on “I don’t trust McCain” reveals a couple thousand hits.
I grew tired of McCain fighting our [...]
Fetish – noun; any object, idea, etc., eliciting unquestioning reverence, respect, or devotion.
Presidents create a legacy by their commitment to an issue. Some want to be the Education President. Others, the Jobs President. Barack Obama wants to be the Dead Child President.
In his first 50 days in office, Obama has [...]
UPDATE: MONDAY'S SHOW WAS CANCELED! WILL BE ON TONIGHT, TUESDAY, SAME TIME.
Andy wants to talk about my thoughts on the bailouts being fascism, not socialism for a half hour on Monday. In particular, he took notice of this post I did about Ron Paul at CPAC.
I've been writing about the bailouts being [...]
Here are two news stories out of Monmouth County that are very much related.
Democrat Freeholder Amy Mallett announced that the Freeholders are considering scaling back taxes to buy open spaces by $7.8 million dollars. Good. They should scrap the whole program.
Recall that the Communist Manifesto makes clear the basis of [...]
Considering how the Republican Party had its clock cleaned in the 2006 and 2008 elections, this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington D.C. was particularly important. If Conservative ideas are better than Liberal ideas but people aren’t voting for our candidates, then we must be doing a poor [...]
“Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different.” Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes
I saw the movie The Wrestler this weekend starring Mickey Rourke. Several things drew me to it.
First, I’ve always been a Mickey Rourke fan. It’s a guy thing. And The Pope of [...]
As usual.
New Jerseyans typically rank about 6th in revenue raised for Federal taxes, and we usually rank 50th in federal funds returning to us.
The Stimulus is going to be no different.
It is estimated that out of the $500 billion that is allocated toward spending in the Stimulus, New Jersey will see [...]
This Thursday through Saturday is the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington DC.
It's the biggest gathering of grass roots conservative from around America.
The guests as always are renowned conservative champs like Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Ann Coulter, Mike Huckabee, John Bolton and many others.
I'm going' [...]
I'll be on with host Heather Nauert:
Go to www.FoxNews.Com and click on the link just below the first few headlines.
You can pick "Download Viewer" or "Watch in your browser." The second choice is easier.
' [...]
According to Reuters, the bad economy is leaving us with less fun money. Festivals large and small are being cancelled.
Don't let them take that from us.
After work today find a local happy hour and stimulate your economy.
Serving Wench! Bring me Grog!
' [...]Once again the Monmouth Republicans will have the biggest party of the year some place I have to drive a half hour to find.
That puts a damper on my drinking plans.
If only there were someone warning them that by continually ignoring the southern part of the County, the Urban districts [...]
Belmar can be a pretty crazy place in the summer, with drunken tourists dancing in the streets and peeing on the sidewalks. What fun.
Belmar Mayor Kenny Pringle, one of my favorite Democrats (yea, I have some) has done much to clean that up and make a nice place to live year [...]
I guess I won't be seeing Jeff Cantor at the Monmouth County Republican Lincoln Day Dinner, which is where I recall first meeting him.
Over at MoreMonmouthMusings Art Gallagher is reporting on the former Monmouth County Republican Freeholder Candidate putting on the Black Hat and becoming a' [...]
Go to www.FoxNews.com and click the blue words under the first few headlines.
[...]Photo credit: www.NJ.com
I'm not saying Republican Chris Christie can't turn it around, but he just started off on the wrong path.
That bothers me because, although I've not endorsed anyone yet, I like the guy and think he can win.
According to PolitickerNJ.com, Christie won't be concentrating much [...]
This is Army Pfc Daniel Marble of Seaside Heights. He joined the Army in 2006, went to boot camp, then went AWOL.
He said he could never kill anyone.
I don't get it. He joined in 2006 when his country had been fighting two hot wars for three' [...]
UPDATE: HADE TO CANCEL!
Hope you will watch the show anyway. Will be back on with Kimberly Monday at 11:00 am.
Putting aside politics (maybe) to talk law with host of the "True Crimes" segment and former prosecutor Kimberly Guilfoyle:
The Strategy Room runs all day from [...]
I had a good laugh this morning.
Over at the Asbury Park Press website, they encourage folks to have their own blog there. Once you are a part of their Gannett standard cookie cutter site, your blog posts can appear on various pages of the Press'' [...]
Reader David Dorfman of Ocean Township sent in this letter with a good idea. I like it:
IMMEDIATE RELIEF TO NJ RESIDENTS WITH CREDIT CARDS One immediate action the state must take is to lower the maximum interest rate that can be charged by credit card companies. This [...]This incident out of Middletown reminded me of a scene out of Revenge of the Nerds. Remember in the locker room, right before the football player sticks his jock over the nerd's head, he asks him first, "Do you know Karate?" He only does the dirty deed when the nerd [...]
Brothers Lawrence and Kenneth Gay are facing a plea bargained sentence of 11 years in prison for stealing $13,000 from a poker game in Brick, New Jersey.
That's one year in jail for each $1,181.00 stolen.
By that math, Bernie Madoff, who stole [...]
AP Press Photo
So Hetty Rosenstein, director of NJ's AFL-CIO came to the Monmouth Freeholder's meeting and said her union workers won't agree to a wage freeze, even though the County may have to lay people off if they don't.
Monmouth's non-union workers are getting a [...]
A "must read" today is the Politico report about Barack Obama paying a surprise visit to the White House Press Corps.
The had the audacity to ask him questions.
He took exception to that.
After all, their job is to love him, not question him.
Snobs don't talk to the' [...]
Last night President Bush said goodbye to his “time of consequence” in the White House, offering wishes of hope to his successor who practically guaranteed to deliver it.
A speech that started out sounding like the Thank You section in the front of a book quickly turned to the [...]
Brandon Jacobs. Key man on a running offense. Passing game struggling. Plax is gone. They didn't go to him on short yard plays?
Oh and what about this guy?
1st and 5 at the 21 and Eli is in a shot-gun?
Who was on [...]
Go to www.FoxNews.com and click on the blue link just under the first few headlines.
[...]
Neptune Township is promising this moretorium for 2009: They won't use Eminent Domain to give your property to a private developer "so long as your property is not in a redevelopment zone."
The fact that they can't give your property to a developer unless [...]
Two years ago on Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday, Frank Pallone came to the Asbury Park Westside Community Center and promised a room full of Black people that he would bring them money to repair the dilapidated building to help Asbury youth.
It was a great applause [...]
The Republican Township of Wall is going to appoint a Republican Lawyer, Joe Oxley, as municipal attorney.
The members of the Asbury Park Press stand in amazement at the occurrence.
When is that newspaper turned pennysaver going to finally go out of business? They had some power for awhile [...]
This post is about CLOTHES.
This post is NOT about skin color or blaxsploitation cinema.
So the PC Police can just shut up before they even start talking, particularly weird little government committees in New Jersey, like the one that met twice to condemn blogger [...]
Art over at More Monmouth Musings has the latest scoop on the unfolding drama over what party will give out the most jobs.
Would the Democrats like to talk about taxes? Open space? Urban development?
No?
[...]
I'll be back as a guest on FoxNews.com's webcast, "The Strategy Room" on Monday December 15 at 9:00 am.
Hope you can catch the show.
Tommy.
[...]
If you don't know the story of 85 year old Sophie Bubis of Loch Arbour, you should.
Sophie loves to sit in her beach chair in the ocean. The problem started years ago when a rich fellow named Kassin bought the house adjacent to the beach, [...]
On the streaming Internet show at FoxNews.Com called "The Strategy Room." The host for that segment is Heather Nauert and there will be three other guests: Peter Feld, Bill Bailey and Kevin McCullough.
Hope you tune in.
Tommy.
[...]You are going to read today about the New Jersey Civil Union Review Commission issuing a report that says Civil Unions in New Jersey are unequal to Marriage in New Jersey.
They conclude that New Jersey should allow Gay Marriage.
What you won't read much about today is a New Jersey [...]
Art has the 411 at More Monmouth Musings about the fake diploma story over at Freehold Regional High School District that just won't go away.
[...]...and other PR stunts.
Bash lawyers all you like, but there is no escaping that the fees they charge to municipalities are 1/2 or more discounted from what lawyers charge private clients.
According to the Asbury Park Press the first order of grandstand for the now Democrat controlled Freeholder board will be [...]
Talk about your mixed metaphors.
In a statement reported in the Star Ledger about jobless numbers, the Gov said:
"Now the piper is coming home to roost. We have to pay that piper."
Roosting pipers? I guess they won't do parardes.
Don't look now Jon, but a different drummer has upset the apple cart of [...]
KEAN: MOVE ETHICS REFORM BILLS NOW
Reform Package Introduced For More Than A Month
Senator Tom Kean, the Senate Republican Leader, called on the Legislative Leadership today to move an ethics reform package that has been held up in committee for nearly two months.
“There seems to be some confusion [...]
The Asbury Park Press reports today that the Township of Neptune has issued a moratorium on using Eminent Domain.
Yea! How righteous!! What great defenders of people's property rights are those that govern Neptune!
If only it were true.
The announcement is complete shenanigans.
On December 7 the [...]
It’s Time for a Return to Common Sense In Affordable Housing Regulation
By State Senator Sean Kean
Affordable housing is a public policy goal thatdeserves attention from lawmakers at all levels of government.
For one thing, the inability to afford a home [...]
To call Jim Keady liberal doesn't draw the picture. He's a leftist. And he just quit his elected position as Councilman in Asbury Park, 6 months shy of the end of his term.
Despite his claims of undying commitment to the poor of Asbury Park during his campaign, Keady now [...]
After years of inattention to ethics and campaign finance reform, Governor Corzine has proposed measures he says will rein in the abusive "pay-to-play" system that plagues state and local government. The proposals are welcome, but they fall short of the real change we need in New Jersey.
The practice of pay-to-play [...]
Fate is writing on the wall as I'm writing this: Democrat Amy Mallet is ahead in the provisional ballot count by more than 300 votes against (sometimes) Republican John Curley.
Sure some die-hards are holding out hope because Middletown and Wall aren't counted yet. In normal years that would mean we won.
This isn't a normal [...]
(extended version)
July 23, 2008
Good evening Mayor Pringle, Borough Council members, Chief Hill and ladies and gentlemen of the public.
I’m here to speak on behalf of the Italian American One Voice Coalition and the Order of the Son’s of Italy of the City of Asbury Park. [...]
On August 10, 2007 the Superior Court of New Jersey singed "Commissions and Letters Rogatory" requesting the California Superior Court cause Google, Inc. to respond to Subpoenas seeking the identity of the bloggers known as "Monmouth Rastaman" and "Honest Abe."
[...]New Court Date for "Monmouth Rastaman" and "Honest Abe" Hearing
Please be advised:
Due to the conflict of interest declared by Judge Mullaney,
In the case of
Purcell v Monmouth Rastaman Docket No: MON-L-2355-07,
as well as the case of
Migliaccio v Honest Abe, Docket No: MON-L-1752-06,
The Court has assigned a new date, [...]
New Court Date for "Monmouth Rastaman" and "Honest Abe" Hearing
Please be advised:
Due to the conflict of interest declared by Judge Mullaney,
In the case of
Purcell v Monmouth Rastaman Docket No: MON-L-2355-07,
as well as the case of
Migliaccio v Honest Abe, Docket No: MON-L-1752-06,
The Court has assigned a new date, [...]
New Court Date for "Monmouth Rastaman" and "Honest Abe" Hearing
Please be advised:
Due to the conflict of interest declared by Judge Mullaney,
In the case of
Purcell v Monmouth Rastaman Docket No: MON-L-2355-07,
as well as the case of
Migliaccio v Honest Abe, Docket No: MON-L-1752-06,
The Court has assigned a new date, [...]
Since no one on behalf of Monmouth Rastaman or Honest Abe filed a response to the motions, the Court heard the matter "on the papers" without a hearing.
Typically, matters heard on the papers are the last thing the Court does before adjourning for the weekend. The orders are usually mailed [...]
Please be advised:
In the case of
Purcell v Monmouth Rastaman Docket No: MON-L-2355-07,
as well as the case of
Migliaccio v Honest Abe, Docket No: MON-L-1752-06,
The Court has assigned a new date, time and Judge to hear both the
Motion to Approve Letters Rogatory to request the California Court [...]
As many of you know, I handled the first ever case of Internet defamation on behalf of a public official in New Jersey. I often handle defamation cases, and my practice has grown to include celebrity clients.
It is a matter of public record that I have pending lawsuits against the [...]
