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Op-Ed
Jan 13, 2013
Opinion: Obama and his ‘band of brothers’
The Record
The emerging Cabinet is one that reflects Obama’s own views, not the contrarian ones he once said he welcomed.
Comment
Kelly: Get ready for armed cops in our schools
The Record
Before America spends millions more on cops in schools, let’s consider several myths about this sort of armed protection.
Comment
Opinion: For Christie, a new script
The Record
Christie, the master political strategist that he is, recognizes that Congress as a |whole is a perfect foil for a new brand of “us-versus-them” politics – a key theme |that has been essential ...
Comment
Opinion: Congress: Now disliked more than root canals, lice
The Record
THE CONGRESS that just ended was dysfunctional and unpopular, and its successor promises to have as much trouble passing effective legislation.
Comment
Jan 10, 2013
Opinion: Hall of Fame snubs show bald hypocrisy
The Record
Athletes suspected of taking performance enhancing drugs are rejected, but the billions they generated in the form of television contracts and publicly funded stadiums is not being refunded.
Comment
Opinion: Why Medicaid expansion is good for New Jersey
NorthJersey.com
Expansion will save New Jersey money, because the state will receive much more in federal funds for individuals that are state-funded now.
Comment
Jan 11, 2013
Doblin: Sweeney is the Democrats’ Rocky Balboa
The Record
STEPHEN Sweeney is Rocky Balboa, the Rocky of the first film, not the increasingly tired one of the endless sequels. In that first “Rocky” movie, Balboa, the underdog, goes against Apollo Creed in a title fight. Rocky loses the fight but wins everything.
Comment
Jan 09, 2013
Opinion: State of the State: Nice rhetoric, no beef
The Record
The governor gave a bunch of misleading statistics meant to show everyone that the sun is shining in our state, when it is actually raining.
Comment
Opinion: Why I decided to give up my guns
The Record
Oddly enough, it is the joys of hunting that have pushed me to reconsider owning guns.
Comment
Opinion: Can Chris Christie rescue the GOP?
The Record
The Tea Party’s record lows and Christie’s record highs tell a larger story: Americans are crying out for an end to ideological warfare.
Comment
Jan 08, 2013
Opinion: Hagel’s next battle: Washington
The Record
IN VIETNAM in 1968, two separate mine explosions left Chuck Hagel with shrapnel in his chest and burns on his face and arms.
Comment
Opinion: A question on centennial of Nixon’s birth: What if?
The Record
An inquiry into what might have been if things had gone differently for President Nixon.
Comment
Opinion: Fat chances
The Record
Multiple studies have documented weight bias in employment, health care, education and public spaces — unequal treatment based on stereotyping fat people as lazy, unmotivated, sloppy and ...
Comment
Jan 07, 2013
Opinion: How N.J. towns can avoid their own fiscal cliffs
The Record
For some of us, the status quo of maintaining our 565 separate municipalities must be preserved and protected at all cost — even if it is the most expensive and the most inefficient way to deliver local services.
Comment
Opinion: John A. Boehner: the man in the middle
The Record
SPARE a little sympathy, if you can, for John A. Boehner of Ohio, speaker of the House of Representatives.
Comment
Opinion: Will the buck stop here?
The Record
At issue is whether Uncle Sam should discontinue production of $1 bills and replace them with small-size $1 coins.
Comment
Jan 06, 2013
Opinion: The numbers all add up for Republicans - or do they?
The Record
Thanks in part to deft redistricting based on the 2010 census, House Republicans may be protected from the vicissitudes of the voters for the next decade.
Comment
Opinion: For Christie, name of the game is small ball
The Record
While Christie has vetoed a number of the Democratic proposals in the past, he’s softened his position somewhat |and has promised to consider the bills in light of their budgetary impact |and ...
Comment
Opinion: Why are we still in Afghanistan?
The Record
How long should we as a nation continue to sacrifice blood and treasure for what is clearly a losing proposition?
Comment
Opinion: Cliff notes
The Record
Two summers ago, politicians tried to concoct a deadline so terrible that even they — mistrustful, divided, weakly led — would be scared into doing something big to solve the nation’s tax and ...
Comment
Jan 03, 2013
Opinion: The balancing act of parenting
The Record
The problem seems to be that we’re confusing good or bad behavior with being a good or bad person.
Comment
Opinion: At the close of 25 years in public office
The Record
I end my political career with heartfelt thanks toward every single person who has provided me with opportunities to learn and be of service.
Comment
Jan 02, 2013
Opinion: GOP needs a new script for the new year
The Record
Faced with an economy that was struggling to recover from the Great Recession — the worst recession since the Great Depression — the senators and representatives willfully sent all the wrong signals and did all the wrong things.
Comment
Opinion: Albom - How we were
The Record
IT’S THE LAST weekend of the year. Everyone is looking back, analyzing and ranking. I’ve given this some thought. I’ve combed through the headlines from last January to December. Here, then, is my 2012 Year in Review:
Comment
Opinion: If he can’t act on storm aid, Boehner should step down
The Record
For the families and the small businesses in New Jersey who have been struggling in the wake of Sandy, John Boehner’s decision is unacceptable. At a time when our country needed bipartisan leadership from the Speaker of the House, Boehner punted.
Comment
Jan 07, 2013
Opinion: Robert Bork earned his rejection
The Record
SOMEHOW or other, the media has managed to transform the late Robert Bork, the man who presided over the odious Saturday Night Massacre during the Watergate scandal nearly 40 years ago, from a villain into a victim.
Comment
Dec 26, 2012
Opinion: No, time does not heal all wounds
The Record
I learned that platitudes don’t work. She is not in a better place. God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.
Comment
Opinion: Demarest police merger is example for the county
The Record
The merger will provide equal or better policing of Demarest at a reduced cost to Demarest taxpayers and at no additional cost to the taxpayers in the other 69 towns in the county.
Comment
Opinion: GOP, a party of dysfunction
The Record
In a democratic system with separated powers, two houses of Congress, split between the parties, a normal party accepts that compromise is the only way to legislate. A normal party takes into ...
Comment
Dec 25, 2012
Opinion: ‘I will honor Christmas in my heart…’
The Record
SO, HERE WE ARE, Christmas Day, and we wonder where Advent went. Maybe we resolved that this year would be different. We weren’t going to get caught up in commercialism. Certainly the state of the economy and the lightness of our pocketbooks might have “helped” ...
Comment
Opinion: At Christmastime, everyone sees the star
The Record
The stories connected with the birth of Jesus make it clear that everyone, whether a humble shepherd or a scholar from a far country, can indeed come to that light.
Comment
Opinion: A season’s melody
The Record
“O, Holy Night,” the famous Christmas carol created by the French composer Adolphe Adam in 1847 was, in 1906, the first song ever broadcast on the radio. This was also the last song the ...
Comment
Dec 23, 2012
Opinion: 2nd thoughts on the Second Amendment
The Record
“[The Second Amendment] has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud — I repeat the word fraud — on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my ...
Comment
Opinion: Reacting to Newtown massacre: 'Enough is enough'
The Record
Carl Golden, a former aide to Govs. Tom Kean and Christie Whitman, is a senior contributing analyst with the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at the Richard Stockton College of ...
Comment
Opinion: The conservative case for limits
The Record
If we can’t find a way to draw sensible lines with guns that balance individual rights and the public interest, we may as well call the American experiment in democracy a failure.
Comment
Opinion: Standing up to the gun lobby
The Record
Once again faced with incomprehensible tragedy facilitated by a weapon of war, we must learn from our history.
Comment
Dec 21, 2012
Doblin: What the NRA says shouldn’t matter
The Record
THE NATIONAL Rifle Association is scheduled to end its silence today over the slaughter in Newtown, Conn. Political pressure is on the NRA to support stricter regulations on the sale of firearms at gun shows. Optimists take it further and hope the NRA will get ...
Comment
Dec 20, 2012
Opinion: Will we forget Newtown’s kids?
The Record
The gun lobby is counting on the NRA’s success in embedding itself into the DNA of the Republican Party and the modern conservative movement. When the NRA talks, conservatives listen — and do ...
Comment
Opinion: Stop the madness: Put everything on the table
The Record
Gun control impinges upon the Second Amendment; involuntary commitment impinges upon |the liberty clause of the Fifth Amendment; curbing “entertainment” violence impinges upon First Amendment ...
Comment
Dec 19, 2012
Opinion: On Obama and the GOP’s plan to cut Social Security
The Record
This is what Democrats — and most Republicans — said during the recently finished campaign that they would never do.
Comment
Opinion: Garrett needs to come on board and back Sandy aid
The Record
Despite the storm’s devastating impact on our state – including in the local towns of Moonachie and Little Ferry — our own congressman, Scott Garrett, is the lone holdout and is poised to be ...
Comment
Opinion: Taking on the NRA - Let Bloomberg lead the way
The Record
Then there was the heartless — nothing but gutless — silence from the NRA for days after the slaughter. This, from the lobby group that made it possible for private citizens to purchase ...
Comment
Doblin: The slaughter of the lambs of Newtown
The Record
The Second Amendment guarantees the right of U.S. citizens to keep and bear arms, but the weapons were not defined by James Madison. The National Rifle Association did not guide his pen. Our Founding Fathers enshrined gun ownership in the Constitution, but that ...
Comment
Dec 18, 2012
Opinion: NRA members can help bring sensible change
The Record
The inescapable fact remains that the United States is a country saturated with guns — as many as 300 million of them, the majority owned legally, but many not. Some 47 percent of adult ...
Comment
Dec 17, 2012
Opinion: Tragedy in Newtown - What did they dream about?
The Record
THERE’S A LUMP lodged in my throat. The gymnasium was packed on Friday morning at my son’s elementary school in Fair Lawn. The large crowd had gathered for the annual holiday show. The show, which began at 9 a.m., featured children from Grades K-5 performing a ...
Comment
Opinion: Tragedy in Newtown - The gun-control fallacy
The Record
MUST EVERY tragic mass shooting bring out the shrill ignorance of “gun-control” advocates? The key fallacy of so-called gun-control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law-abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find ...
Comment
Opinion: Tragedy in Newtown - Mourn, and stay angry
The Record
WE SHOULD MOURN, but we should be angry. The horror in Newtown, Conn., should shake us out of the cowardice, the fear, the evasion and the opportunism that prevent our political system from acting to curb gun violence.
Comment
Opinion: Tragedy in Newtown - We are better than this
The Record
THIS TIME the shots didn’t ring out in a movie theater in Colorado, or outside of a Safeway in Arizona, or a spa in Wisconsin, or a temple or a college campus. This time it was children, elementary school boys and girls in Newtown, their bodies carted out like ...
Comment
Opinion: Tragedy in Newtown - Something’s going to give
The Record
TURN ON the news. We’ve become far too used to that sentence. It usually means something horrible has happened. We heard it when O.J. Simpson was being chased by police cars. We heard it when planes flew into the World Trade Center.
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