A friend lives a hyphenated life. He likes the Philadelphia Phillies and the Flyers but his favorite football team is the New England Patriots. He posed a question after the Patriots lost Monday night in New Orleans. Why are there so many people getting on the Saints bandwagon?
There are two [...]
There was a message for me at work today. From a man at the Philadelphia Daily News, Will Bunch. Will doesn’t believe he’s related to the Bunch family, which founded Acme Electric in Cuba, New York, where three generations of my family worked. This is fine for Will as the [...]
Driving to church today I stopped to buy some newspapers. I also had an old lottery ticket I found last week while cleaning my Jeep (I should note last Sunday I gave the Jeep the most thorough washing since I bought it last year and then we got clobbered by [...]
This is the end of a horrid day. It started so well. I met a friend for breakfast. He’s a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel and he’s what I believe America should be and was all about. He served his country well as an Executive Officer with the Thunderbirds and [...]
I think we’ve swapped out the West Coast for the East Coast. This morning a friend commented weeks have passed since we’ve seen more than two days in a row filled with sunshine.
A Nor’easter came roaring through at one point and gave us 4 consecutive days of deluge. The [...]
Another friend is scheduled to soon come home from war. He’s a good man. Actually he’s one of the best I’ve ever met. He loves God, his family and his country. What makes him exceptional is that some of us view him as Superman and he’s extremely humble.
His name [...]
No longer can I deny it, I signed the registration card in a ceremony at the Sussex County GOP picnic and there were a barn full of people watching. Eight days after my 47th birthday I joined the Republican Party, which is to say I’ve been a Republican for years [...]
Today I was driving along some country roads and looking for some inspiration. No other reason than to brighten my spirits after the assault they’ve taken following several days of rain. We’re waiting out a Nor’easter, the worst of which appeared to pass Thursday night with high winds and heavy [...]
Silent for the moment, the tea party event planned for Saturday is on hold. Without pointing a finger at any specific media outlet, let me tell you why. It appears there are some folks making editorial decisions based on petulance. When I was in the news business we dealt with [...]
I came home from work tonight and turned on the TV to MSNBC. I doubled Keith Olbermann’s audience. I’d go outside and play but a Nor’easter is blowing through and it’s a tad nasty beyond the door. It could be worse. My sister had me check the weather forecast for [...]
Brett Favre shares a birthday with me. I’m 7 years older but on Monday night he made me feel again like a kid. Favre will be 40 Saturday. Me? Do the math. More than 30 years have passed since I played organized football and all I really miss is the [...]
Look, I’m a neutral observer when it comes to state sponsored gambling, however. If the elected folks in the state of Delaware believe they and the state aren’t getting a fair shake in court then it may be time to ponder a Tenth Amendment resolution. “The powers not delegated to [...]
My neighbor, I’ll call him Jim, grew up one of 17 children of Italian immigrants. Now 75, he’s one of the last of the children still living. Recently he buried a 93 year old brother. The brother had been what we now call developmentally disabled. He spent the last 75 [...]
Terror alerts worry me. Could these be preparation for a false-flag attack? It would distract us from some debates in the House and Senate, enhance the President’s cult-of-personality and provide him with fodder for his latest proposal. He wants a single world economic system.
My question is simple. Will Americans die [...]
This one’s for the guys. Does your wife or girlfriend let you watch football? A little football, some football or a lot of football? My first marriage faltered, as most of you know, not because of football but because we grew apart in other areas. I stayed sane. She didn’t. [...]
White Devil Bill Colley checking in this lovely Saturday morning on the Lower Shore and reading the latest arguments as to why I’m a racist. A fellow at the New York Times writes today it’s as obvious as the lily-white nose on my face. Bob Herbert is a successful and [...]
I imagine while growing up Jimmy Carter’s mother kept telling him he was better than all the other children in Plains, Georgia were. A younger Carter brother missed the lessons but Jimmy made sure he didn’t wipe his mouth with a sleeve and didn’t play in his Sunday best. At [...]
Few things in nature quite touch me like an autumn sky. It’s why I’m including a grainy shot from my cell phone camera, snapped while leaving work tonight. Autumn sunsets make me long for those past falls in Upstate New York. The sun sets early and [...]
I’ve developed decent relationships with the 2 most recent Ombudsman at The Washington Post. The man currently holding that job emailed me this morning with news the Post is looking again at Saturday’s crowd estimate. I used comments from the paper’s story (and the NY Times) Saturday evening and the [...]
I took a drive at sunset and listened to George Jones. Driving without any serious purpose is something I rarely do but after running on adrenalin all day Saturday I needed to relax. Ballads by George Jones relax me. I popped in the CD and watched the pink sky slip [...]
First, don’t put a den of Marxists in an office in Georgetown, Delaware. Two, don’t pretend you didn’t notice. Three, opening the window at your office and shouting, “Go away”; in the direction of 108 North Bedford Street isn’t an effort at distancing yourself. Four, don’t go on the radio [...]
Are they afraid to count the people? Saturday I attended the vast right-wing Woodstock on the greens at a place called Washington, D.C. In advance of the event there were even right-of-center people expecting no more than “tens of thousands”. This is because only about 30-thousand people responded to an [...]
Apparently Walter Cronkite died twice. There was a second and belated funeral today. Are we at all surprised? The mainstream United States media now believes it not only is the arbiter of culture and political correctness but also knows best how to run this country. When one of its icons [...]
The folks who founded my country were some very, very bright people. As I grow older my respect for their efforts and goals grows exponentially. Do schools still teach about the genius these men had in designing a constitution? When I was a boy my teachers often were old women [...]
The television tells me this morning a bridge in San Francisco is cracked and is closed. Glad I didn’t build the thing. I did build a bridge Sunday afternoon. Weeks ago the redhead bought a small bridge for her garden. The box wouldn’t fit in the Jeep and I had [...]
Twenty five years ago I walked out of college with a degree that didn’t exactly make me marketable. Now I look back and wonder why I didn’t seek a degree in economics. Oh, right, wanted to be a radio announcer. Twenty five years later I get out of bed every [...]
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Curt Schilling, J.C. Watts, Jim Bunting, Steve Largent, Jack Kemp. It isn’t just the ballplayers; it’s the coaches as well. Why? Hard work. During the 1960s, Vince Lombardi dumped his allegiance to the Democrat Party. “Gentlemen, you will find whatever success you have in life is directly proportional to the [...]
9/12 busses to D.C. in Short supply but some new seats are available from Delmarva. Received this today:
Reservations are being taken by ed nelson at ednelson@verizon.net or at 410-860-2824.
[...]A 2 year old girl lost her daddy tonight. He was working to keep other people’s children safe. Our thoughts and prayers are with his daughter, family and Georgetown Police.
[...]Exhibition football. The Chargers look great. Easily converting third and long but why are they ashamed of the old uniforms? The same with the Bills. If it was good enough for Jack Kemp, Tom Sestak and Ernie Ladd then why not the modern game?
I now live on Delmarva. The [...]
Walt Simmons hasn’t changed much in 20 years. He has a goatee with a few whiskers of gray. He hasn’t gained a pound since college. He turned his back on the rat race a long, long time ago and we all thought he’d gone off his rocker. It all happened [...]
Recently I had to write a brief biography of myself for a large radio network as I may find myself substituting for a once very large syndicated radio show host. I wrote some about the Ischua Valley . The assorted branches of my family arrived in North America from 3 [...]
I was asked about next week’s Congressional visits and I wrote this as an answer:
We gather outside Castle’s office just before 9:30 as I gather parking is quite spread out. I’m hopeful everyone will bring a greeting card for Castle (the same for Carper Tuesday and we’ll meet at The [...]
Today I’m reading the post mortems about sports betting in Delaware. It makes me believe the obituary is written a little too soon but there should be a warning here. If government doesn’t get radically smaller its options at squeezing the people it serves will shrink inversely and ultimately the [...]
For Delaware readers. There will be an attempt for a spontaneous town hall meeting with U.S. Representative Michael N. Castle at his Dover office next week.
Monday, August 31 at 9:30 A.M. The address is 300 South New Street, Dover, DE.
If Mr. Castle isn’t available then I’ll be leaving a greeting [...]
Vacation ends in sweltering lower Delaware. Much of it was spent within 30 miles of home and some of it 360 miles from home. My daughter says it’s strange I spent so much of it locally, but it wasn’t local for her and she was here much of the week. [...]
I’m on vacation. Tom Carper is apparently the same. Or halfway there as his useless and stage managed town hall teleconference reveals. I wrote his press assistant today and suggested the once proud aviator was cowering from constituents. She then charged I was unprofessional. I followed with this salvo, which [...]
Some of us in Delaware, and I in person polled in excess of 1,000 Saturday, demand that our two U.S. Senators and at-large U.S. Representative, each hold town hall meetings in all of our state’s counties before the summer recess ends at Labor Day. We urge you to write these [...]
I’m guessing the overall turnout was 1,000. When I left it appeared we had nearly 1,000 signatures on the scroll. Blue skies for much of the event and some great folks also came over the bridge from Washington and spoke with us.
Media coverage was abysmal. No TV, no radio [...]
I hadn’t noticed the downed trees. Driving home tonight I passed through a stretch of road historically so thick with trees you would think it’s twilight at noon. A couple of acres have been cleared. This county is roughly 85 percent fields and forest and I’m not opposed to the [...]
Remember HB 5 and SB 121? Read the liberal Mr. Cohen and draw some conclusions:
[...]Christie Shirey at Delaware Tea Party sent this my way. Details about the Eighth of August:
kentcountyteaparty@gmail.com for more information. Please do this by Monday.
Greetings All,
Silent No More Rally
I just wanted to send out an update since our Silent No More Rally is a week away. We are very [...]
Dear Friends:
I’m writing with excitement. My friend and former talk radio co-host, Jon Alvarez, is running for a vacant seat in New York State’s 23rd Congressional District. The seat is being vacated by Representative John McHugh as he has been nominated the new Secretary of the Army.
Jon Alvarez defines “patriot”. [...]
Some genius has posted a comment somewhere on the internet that contains my name. I received a Google Alert late this Saturday afternoon. The writer suggests if a minority police officer arrested Sgt. Crowley of Cambridge and me for doing something criminal we wouldn’t like it either. It’s a reference [...]
