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http://www.philly.com/philly/polls/18765614.html One week ago Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski was shot at least 5 times with an AK-47 by a trio of bank robbers fleeing the scene of their crime. One of the three was later killed by Police gunfire; the other two have been apprehended. Sgt. Liczbinski was laid to rest yesterday. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20080509_Sgt__Liczbinski_mourned_at_Cathedral.html

Dover, DE (LifeNews.com) -- The family of Lauren Richardson continues to press her case and is now calling on the governor of Delaware for help to save her life. Richardson has become the next Terri Schiavo as her parents engage in a massive legal and philosophical debate about whether she should live or die.Richardson is a 23-year-old woman who overdosed on heroin in August 2006 while she was three months pregnant with a baby girl.Doctors kept Lauren on life support until she delivered her baby in February 2007. Shortly thereafter, her parents began a fight that is reminiscent of...

I was filling out my DuPont proxy this morning and came across a shareholder proposale regarding global warming. At first I rolled my eyes and then laughed when I read it. This proposal is right up the alley of any Freeper who doesn't believe in global warming. If you have Dupont common stock or know someone who does, tell them it and remember to vote YES on Proposal 4!

Voluntary, Not Mandatory, Indoctrination by: Bethany Stotts, April 17, 2008 The University of Delaware is considering a revival of its controversial residence life program, confirming Accuracy in Academia’s suspicions that President Patrick Harker’s halt to the program was a result of the media coverage rather than remorse over the curriculum content. Indeed, President Harker argued in his letter to the community that he was upset “that the actual purpose [of the program] is not being fulfilled,” but that he still promotes residence life programs which “support the intellectual, cultural and ethical development of our students.” President Harker later referred the...

At home in Delaware, Joe Biden has talked for years like he's middle-of-the-road. But something strange happens when Joe Biden gets to Washington, D.C. Suddenly, Biden becomes among the most liberal Senators in America Do you know how LIBERAL Biden REALLY is? Take THE BIDEN QUIZ and see how long it takes you to get mad

Sen. Biden: Troop buildup is failure 16 minutes ago A leading Democrat on Saturday declared last year's troop buildup in Iraq a failure. Sen. Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the military push didn't succeed because U.S. troops remain committed there in large numbers and political reconciliation has not been achieved. "The purpose of the surge was to bring violence in Iraq down so that its leaders could come together politically," said Biden, D-Del., in this week's Democratic radio address. "Violence has come down, but the Iraqis have not come together." He later added, "There is...

DELAWARE. Republicans have already conceded they will not field a viable candidate in the open gubernatorial contest. Governor Ruth Minner (D) is term-limited. Lieutenant Governor John Carney and State Treasurer Jack Markell will compete in a very hotly contested Democratic primary in September. On the GOP side, the only two candidates are airline pilot/frequent candidate Mike Protack and state employee/'04 candidate Dave Graham. All of the other big GOP names have announced they will not run, with State Representative Donna Stone (R) saying last week she was passing on the race because it would be impossible to financially compete against...

Iknew Molly Pitcher, Molly Pitcher was a friend of mine, and Ms. Steinem you are no Molly Pitcher. http://www.thebulletin.us/site/index.cfm?newsid=19366059&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=8

The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change Sponsored by The Heartland Institute March 2 - March 4, 2008Marriott New York Marquis Times Square Hotel1535 BroadwayNew York City, NY U.S.A. James M. TaylorConference CoordinatorSenior Fellow, The Heartland InstituteManaging Editor, Environment & Climate News The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change is the first major international conference to focus on issues and questions not answered by advocates of the theory of man-made global warming.Hundreds of scientists, economists, and public policy experts from around the world will gather on March 2-4, 2008, at the Marriott New York Marquis Hotel on Manhattan’s Time Square,...

Copyright issues force me to just post the link: http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080221/OPINION12/802210310/1189/OPINION

As the widow and father of gunned-down Miami Police Det. James Walker stood at his side Thursday, Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff called on Congress to bring back an assault weapons ban that ended four years ago. Walker, who was off duty in the early morning hours of Jan. 8, and on his way to visit his wife, was shot dead by an AK-47 as he sat behind the wheel of his car in an alley in the 1700 block of South Glades Drive in North Miami Beach. Andrew James Rolle, 20, was later arrested and charged with first-degree and...

CNN Projects McCain and Obama Win Delaware

OK, aside from the fact that they both happen to be running for President of the United States of America… A: Even though the two disagree on the major issues and how to achieve solutions to America’s problems, they both agree on one thing - that there isn’t a lot of room between Hillary Clinton’s views and those of John McCain. Just after Romney described McCain as “indistinguishable” from Clinton at a rally in Illinois, Obama asked a crowd of 20,000 Delawareans, “If John McCain is the nominee, then the Democratic Party has to ask itself, ‘Do you want a...

NEWARK, Del. (AP) — Employees at a Chrysler plant in Newark, Del. who don't drive a Chrysler now have to park in the back, where passers-by can't see them. Plant management issued the directive Jan. 25. Workers have been told local union officials endorsed the decision. After March 24, vehicles that aren't made by Chrysler will be towed if they're not parked in the proper lot. Workers at the plant face a planned shutdown next year.

The city is facing a looming financial crisis, as health care and pension costs for municipal workers are rising faster than revenues and could potentially threaten the most basic services, according to a new report. The report, released Wednesday by The Pew Charitable Trusts and Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, concludes that serious troubles lie ahead without swift and substantial change. It also suggests that a weakening economy will make the road rougher still. "The city cannot just throw more money at pensions and health care without raising taxes or immediately strangling other services," ---snip--- Health care for municipal workers...

When Diversity Training Goes Awry by Jamal Watson Jan 24, 2008, 17:00 When Diversity Training Goes Awry Done incorrectly, what should be a useful exercise can and has backfired on some colleges and universities. By Jamal Watson Initially, Courtney Halligan, a first-year student at the University of Delaware, was not opposed to attending a diversity training session that was required of all incoming freshmen. In fact, the 18-year-old New Jersey native assumed that the experience would be an opportunity for her to learn more about students from different backgrounds. It didn’t take long for Halligan to change her mind. Dr....

Dozens of friends and family gathered in Manhattan Wednesday to honor New York National Guard soldiers being deployed to Afghanistan - but not one politician showed up. The soldiers of the legendary Manhattan-based Fighting 69th rushed to Ground Zero on 9/11 to help secure the area and search for survivors. They guarded one of the most dangerous roads in Iraq in 2004. Now about 350 soldiers will head to Afghanistan for a year to help train local police. While not every politician was invited to the Hunter College ceremony - one of nine across the state - the lack of...

Federal, state and local authorities arrested seven illegal immigrants in connection to an international drug-trafficking circle that allegedly used knick-knack owls to mask heroin dealing. ---snip--- At least one of the suspects was found to be a member of a criminal street gang, police said, noting that all are from Mexico and in the U.S. illegally.

It's not how the world is meant to work — and it sears, like no other pain. "I went from thinking there was a benevolent God to blaming God," said Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del.

DES MOINES, Iowa - Delaware Sen. Joe Biden abandoned his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday after a poor showing in the state's caucuses. Biden was expected to announce his decision to withdraw from the contest at a campaign rally in Des Moines, according to advisers who spoke on condition of anonymity. The veteran lawmaker and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee received less than 1 percent of the vote in Iowa's caucuses despite a spirited campaign in which he emphasized his international policy credentials and long career in public service. It's a case of deja vu for...

SO I'M lying on a sunshiny beach in Florida earlier this week, enjoying 84 degrees of warmth, and find that I'm thinking about Joey Vento. No, I wasn't yearning for a "cheeze-wit." I was reading about a language dispute even more insane than the decision by the Philadelphia Human Relations Commission to haul Vento into court. As we all know, Vento is charged with discrimination for asking his customers to speak English. (The sign at Geno's reads, "This is America. When ordering, please speak English.")

Mout Iv owns a barbershop in Olney. Chally Dang repairs copiers and fax machines. Hak Ouk works at a packaging company. The U.S. government brought them to Philadelphia as refugees from Cambodia's killing fields. Now, two decades or more later, the U.S. government is threatening to deport them back - for what they did, and didn't do, here in America --snip--- With immigrants pouring into the United States, legal and illegal, it is also a cautionary tale about what happens to those from desperately poor countries who grow up in America's toughest city neighborhoods, isolated, desperate and confused. The government's...

Being Asian, a contractor and a businesswoman, Vicki Lee would love to get her hands on some of the $700 million that will be spent to expand the Convention Center. But, she won't be bringing any unionized Asian bricklayers to the job site, ---snip--- If the mostly-white building trades have been slow to bring African Americans into unions, they have been beyond molasses in recruiting Asians. And Asians have not been pushing to join unions, nor have their leaders agitated for union jobs the way African American leaders have.

THEY SAY YOU can't fight City Hall, but last Friday Joey Vento stood tall (at 5-foot-5) in the center ring of the circus to answer a discrimination complaint filed against him by the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations. Vento's been a handy punching bag for the press. Local editorial writers and columnists have vilified him as a racist, a nativist, a know-nothing, a do-badder, because of his (now world-famous) 4-by-9-inch sign at the window of his Geno's Steaks that reads: "This is America. When Ordering, Please Speak English." Some believe that is hate speech. For some reason (hate, perhaps?) the...

Lunch hour at Geno's Steaks in South Philadelphia bought out a boisterous bunch of supporters who defended owner Joey Vento, who would be defending himself and his infamous "speak English" sign this afternoon before the city's Commission on Human Relations. "We think this city is raking Joey over the coals," said retiree Nick Skolsky from Media, who came via a half-full motorcoach organized by radio host Dom Giordano of WPHT (1210 AM

The Philadelphia Commission of Human Relations will hold a public hearing Friday to address a controversial sign at the popular Geno's Steaks that has gained national attention. The hearing was scheduled after allegations were made accusing Geno's Steaks of discrimination for posting a sign that reads: "This is America. When ordering please speak English." Geno's owner Joey Vento said it is freedom of speech. "Since we have a little problem in the country with the language, it is also telling people at Geno's Steaks, all we speak is English," Vento said. Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations (PCHR) does not see...

According to the Department of Elections, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee have been certified to be on the Delaware primary ballot on Feb.5th. Unfortunately, Fred Thompson fell short of the 500 signature mark, and will not be on the ballot. The Delaware ballot for Feb 5th: Rudy Giuliani Mike Huckabee John McCain Ron Paul Mitt Romney Tom Tancredo Others could be added in the near future should they decide to accept federal matching funds. UPDATE: Jason Bonham at Race42008.com is reporting that the DOE said Thompson only had 281 out of 500 signatures, and that most of their signatures were...

NOTE: this is interesting. Senator Joe Biden will move for impeachment if the President bombs Iran without Congressional approval. Perhaps, Joe, if you want to do that, you should become a member of the House. That is the body that moves for impeachment. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Biden: Impeach if Bush bombs Iran Scott Yates photoBy Adam Leech aleech@seacoastonline.com November 30, 2007 6:00 AM PORTSMOUTH — Presidential hopeful Delaware Sen. Joe Biden stated unequivocally that he will move to impeach President Bush if he bombs Iran without first gaining congressional approval. Biden spoke in front of a crowd of approximately 100 at a...

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- Joe Biden is complaining that his foes keep saying he'd be a great secretary of state. ...

Thanksgiving turned bloody for some city residents, with one man slain in Mill Creek, two children playing with a gun seriously injured in Fairhill and four people hospitalized after a family fracas in East Germantown. As reported in yesterday's paper, Coy Sharpe, 50, of Parrish Street near 48th, was found shot in the stomach shortly before 4 a.m. on Parrish Street near Ramsey, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police knew of no and had no suspects. At 9:20 p.m., an 11-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy were seriously injured when a gun discharged as they played...

Through the confluence of commerce and cable television, a crooked road finally is made straight. It took the NCAA and ESPN to see the wisdom of scheduling the University of Delaware and Delaware State University in football when the two schools - OK, UD - couldn't seem to find a way to make it happen for eight decades. That it is happening for the first time this afternoon, in the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs, at Delaware's Tubby Raymond Field in Newark, with a berth in the national quarterfinals at stake, only heightens the drama between the state's big school and...

Nude man accused of causing I-95 crashes BRANDYWINE HUNDRED, Del. - Delaware State Police have arrested a Chester, Pennsylvania, man who they said was running naked and drunk on Interstate-95 and caused three accidents. Police said Ardonas Gilbert, 26, was running along the southbound lanes near Marsh Road about 10 p.m. Monday. He is charged with two counts of assault and a single count of being drunk on the highway. Two citizens tried to help Gilbert, but police say he began to assault them. Then police said he ran back into traffic and caused three accidents when cars tried to...

JOINT FEDERAL INVESTIGATION NETS DOZENS OF ARRESTS ON SALE AND USE OF FRAUDULENT IDENTITY DOCUMENTS Colm F. Connolly, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement , and the United States Postal Inspection Service today announced the initial arrests resulting from a year-long investigation into the illegal sale and use of valid Puerto Rican birth certificates and Social Security cards in Delaware. The joint investigation targeted several vendors/brokers who transported various identity documents from Puerto Rico to the lower Delaware Hispanic community. According to indictments returned by a federal Grand Jury last week, these...

Diversity Training by: Bethany Stotts, November 16, 2007 In October, the University of Delaware launched a mandatory diversity reeducation program for approximately 7,000 of its students with the express intent of “treating” them for politically incorrect assumptions about race, the environment, morality, and sexuality. Not only were the students required to these attend sessions, the campus resident assistants (RA’s) were required to document student progress toward university social goals. After massive parent protests and a media campaign by the watchdog group Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), University President Patrick Harker returned from China to publicly suspend the program....

Group shines a light on PC nonsense run amok. When the government funds education, it's always wise to be alert for the potential for a "two-tiered" curriculum. The public curriculum is easy to ascertain. Ask those in charge of any university for an official list of the subject matter being taught. A handsome catalog is often available, bragging that students have wide opportunities to take courses in engineering and the sciences, in English and foreign literature, in history and psychology and any number of other disciplines. But if your son was attending the University of Delaware in recent years, where...

<p>WILMINGTON, Del. — Delaware police are looking into using a new device to help track gunfire. The device is known as ShotSpotter and can locate gunfire in seconds through the use of audio sensors.</p>

We continue to get reports from the front, from University of Delaware students—and a former RA—who say that yes, the thought reform program really is this bad at the University of Delaware. These reports are in addition to the reports published earlier this week. One former RA and current student is so scared of retribution that he/she wrote us from an anonymous email address, writing: I was an RA before they started this new curriculum at the University of Delaware. When they instituted this curriculum, they had a "you better love it, or get out!" attitude. I didn't like it,...

When A New Article Is Released You Will Know It First! Sign-Up For Al Benson's FREE e-Newsletter -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Copperhead Chronicle | Homeschool History Series | Al Benson, Jr. Articles "All Whites Are Racist"--And Only Whites Are Racist! by Al Benson Jr. Well, the word is officially out in academia--it has been established that all white people are racist pigs, at least according to the University of Delaware. And what proof do they have? They don't need any proof, all they have to do is say it and that makes it so. That being the case, I would urge any...

When University of Delaware freshmen showed up at their dorms this semester, their orientation included an exercise aimed at bridging cultural divides. But the program backfired after they were told to write down stereotypes of different ethnic and religious groups and publicly give their views on issues such as gay marriage and affirmative action. "You have girls giving you hard looks because they're Jewish, and you just wrote something offensive, like they're cheap, even though you don't believe it," said Grace Banks, 18, of Smyrna. "It caused a lot of separations. . . . The whole situation was really uncomfortable."...

University President Ends Mandatory Ideological Reeducation Program November 2, 2007 FIRE Press Release NEWARK, Del., November 2, 2007—After an intense campaign led by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the University of Delaware has dropped an ideological reeducation program that was referred to in the university’s own materials as a “treatment” for students’ incorrect attitudes and beliefs. The program’s stated goal was for the approximately 7,000 students in Delaware’s residence halls to adopt highly specific university-approved views on politics, race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism. Following FIRE’s campaign, which called the attention of the national media and...

Nov. 1, 2007 The University of Delaware strives for an environment in which all people feel welcome to learn, and which supports intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, free inquiry and respect for the views and values of an increasingly diverse population. The University is committed to the education of students as citizens, scholars and professionals and their preparation to contribute creatively and with integrity to a global society. The purpose of the residence life educational program is to support these commitments. While I believe that recent press accounts misrepresent the purpose of the residential life program at the University of Delaware,...

The University of Delaware is defending its program that includes the teaching "all whites are racist" and offers "treatment" for any incorrect attitudes regarding class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality, WND reported yesterday on concerns raised by The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which wrote to university President Patrick Harker citing documents from the schools' Office of Residence Life Diversity Education Training program. "Somehow, the University of Delaware seems terrifyingly unaware that a state-sponsored institution of higher education in the United States does not have the legal right to engage in a program of systematic thought reform," the letter...

October 31, 2007 - A fourth person is dead because of a grinding crash Monday night in Newark. Delaware State Police investigators report the driver of the Honda, Matthew Wilson, 23, died Tuesday night because of his injuries. The sole survivor of the BMW, Hector Villa Gran-Merida, 18, is out of a coma, but still in critical condition. The driver of the BMW, Israel Palmero Merida, 17, did not have a drivers license. Police believe drunk driving and speeding led to the horrific crash that killed four people and critically injured one other in Newark, Delaware Monday night. Around 9:45...

The University of Delaware recently made a decision to subject its students to mandatory "treatment" ('treatment' is a term used by the university) where they learn that "all whites are racist", racism by the 'people of color' is impossible, and George Washington is merely a "famous Indian fighter, large landholder and slave owner". ... Student are also forced to take actions that outwardly indicate their agreement with the university’s ideology, such as displaying specific, school-approved door decorations and taking action by advocating for a social group that is defined as "oppressed" by the University.

A mandatory University of Delaware program requires residence hall students to acknowledge that "all whites are racist" and offers them "treatment" for any incorrect attitudes regarding class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality they might hold upon entering the school, according to a civil rights group. "Somehow, the University of Delaware seems terrifyingly unaware that a state-sponsored institution of higher education in the United States does not have the legal right to engage in a program of systematic thought reform. The First Amendment protects the right to freedom of conscience – the right to keep our innermost thoughts free from governmental...

FIRE Press Release NEWARK, Del., October 30, 2007—The University of Delaware subjects students in its residence halls to a shocking program of ideological reeducation that is referred to in the university’s own materials as a “treatment” for students’ incorrect attitudes and beliefs. The Orwellian program requires the approximately 7,000 students in Delaware’s residence halls to adopt highly specific university-approved views on issues ranging from politics to race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is calling for the total dismantling of the program, which is a flagrant violation of students’ rights to freedom...

Earlier this month, as Senator Joe Biden looked at his latest poll numbers, then he looked at his schedule of campaign appearances (not his Senate schedule, that’s secondary to his real job: campaigning to get a better job), then the Democratic candidate for President decided that he needed to mislead people about the war in Iraq again. If that’s not what happened then all of his years on committees, all of the meetings he allegedly attended, all of the briefings he supposedly read were for nothing; useless, nothing but resume fodder. Either he chose to deliberately mislead people again this...

Campus Watch Associate Fellow Asaf Romirowsky was removed from an academic panel at the University of Delaware yesterday because one of the panelists, Muqtedar Khan, refused to share the panel with a veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces. Michael Rubin at NRO's The Corner has posted the details: Academic Freedom? [Michael Rubin] Yesterday, the University of Delaware asked Asaf Romirowsky to step down from an academic panel at the University of Delaware because another panelist, University of Delaware political scientist Muqtedar Khan, didn't want to share the podium with anyone who served in the Israeli Defense Forces. Romirowsky, who holds...

It's time for a TGIF edition of one of our favorite games: WIARHSI. For you beginners, that's "What If A Republican Had Said It?" What if a Republican had said, in explaining why schools in Iowa are performing better than those in Washington: "There's less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with."

WASHINGTON (CNN) — In what the Washington Post is describing as a "stumble," Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said in an interview with the paper Wednesday that Washington's high minority population is one of the reasons for the city's education problems. Explaining why schools in Iowa are performing better than those in Washington, D.C., Biden told the Post, "There's less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what...