Things are bad in Iraq — real bad and getting worse, with the violence spreading throughout the region — but the president doesn’t seem to understand.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
Slow down, part 2
An update on my column:
The Police Department has posted one of those speed limit warning devices — the ones that tell you how fast you’re going — on Pyne Road. Maybe that will serve as a reminder that you’re all driving too fast.
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Another convenience store
That’s a QuickChek going up on the corner of Route 522 and Stouts Lane, across from the new shopping center — in case anyone was wondering.
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Not so ceased, I guess
Israel Strikes Deep in Lebanon — this ceasefire has always seemed tenuous, with both sides looking for excuses to restart hostilities. Will this fan the flames again?
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Bad idea
This is an example of how you can make faulty government even more faulty.
Blue Jersey, a liberal Democrat site, explains why (though it incorrectly attributes the oversight of elections to the Department of State, when it actually resides in the AG’s office):
Sarlo seems to think that the person who is ultimately responsible for overseeing New Jersey’s elections — the Secretary of State — should be an at will employee who the Governor can fire. So, if the SoS doesn’t want to do things that are unethical — as opposed to, say, Kathryn Harris of Florida in 2000? — she can simply be removed by the de facto head of one of the parties running in the election.
Sarlo also wants the person who is responsible for investigating official misconduct in the Governor’s administration — the Attorney General — should be an at will employee who the Governor can fire. So if there is a major scandal and the AG refuses to back off, the Governor can just remove the offending “top cop” and be done with it.
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