Kasich: The Ledger’s Last, Best Hope
As you know, tomorrow, April 13, is the last day you can declare party affiliation in advance of New Jersey’s June 7 primary election. For Blue Jersey readers, that means it’s time for the Democratic...
View ArticleSheneman: Free speech is expensive for Scott Garrett
Drew Sheneman wonders why it took Wall Street so long to get religion and cut off the money and love supply to Scott Garrett. After all, he’s been a bigot for years. With Sheneman, I always come for...
View ArticleThis Wednesday: Bring cookies, bring your kids – Show the love to Verizon...
Nearly 5,000 New Jersey Verizon workers went out on strike 19 days ago; on the East Coast almost 40,000. This strike is big, and the issues at its heart are now in the narrative of the Democratic...
View ArticleQOTD Re: Your Track Record
Quote of the Day today goes to our friend Giancarlo Tello, taking note of Tom Moran’s advice how to vote in this post: Don’t love Hillary? Fine, but vote for her anyway “That’s what y’all said about...
View Article“Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled...
Tom Moran, the voice behind the Star Ledger Editorial Board, just published a piece in favor of fracking. He claims that environmentalists are wrong to oppose this method of extracting natural gas as a...
View ArticleWillie Clark, Just Another Fighter for Peace, Love, and Patience
I’m very sad to learn of the passing of passing of Mr. Willie Clark, someone I’ve had the privilege of working with at Greater Newark Habitat for Humanity for the past few years. He “retired” from his...
View ArticleThe first thing we do, lets fire all the copy editors.
Bad things happen when you jettison those nerdy word technicians, the copy editors. And it’s sadly prevalent, especially – but not only – at dead tree publications. A few days ago, hundreds of...
View ArticleMcKeon writes Frelinghuysen about Donald Trump’s bizarre statements to Native...
… And reminds Frelinghuysen that his father, Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr, spoke out against McCarthyism in 1954; distancing himself from Senator Joseph McCarthy’s reckless persecutions at the height of...
View ArticleCD5: Maybe Steve Lonegan’s staff should rethink how they title emails …
Arrived in our inbox this morning, the below. I think they’re trying to tell supporters where Gottheimer’s GOP opponent will be this weekend, so fans come out and meet him. But this kind of reads like...
View ArticleStar-Ledger endorses Mikie Sherrill, calls Jay Webber “fanatical”
Yesterday, Tom Moran ridiculed House Speaker Paul Ryan for coming to New Jersey and trying to gin up interest in Jay Webber by painting fairly moderate military veteran Mikie Sherrill as some sort of...
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