What is it about Presidential 2nd terms? A President gets re-elected, and all hell seems to break loose.
Witness the mushrooming scandal over the Internal Revenue Service singling-out certain non-profit groups for its magnifying glass, searching out key words such as "Tea Party" and "Patriots", but later, shifting criteria such as "organizations involved with political lobbying or advocacy", or "political-action type organizations involved in limiting/expanding government, educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, social economic reform/movement"...
So, which stories / topics / issues grab you this weekend?
The second time proved to be the charm for the Appoquinimink school district. On the second try, about sixty-and-a-half percent of those voting approved the Appoquinimink tax referendum...
A trio of State Department officials offered a House committee intense accounts of last year's deadly attack on U.S. installations in Benghazi, Libya
The officials again criticized the Obama Administration's early hesitation to characterize the attacks as premeditated terrorist acts...
For a time it looked as though ex-South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was so damaged, his Democratic challenger Elizabeth Colbert Busch (sister of comedian Stephen Colbert) might actually beat him in South Carolina's special Congressional election...
For several weeks, I had been hearing gay marriage was more likely to clear the Delaware General Assembly than capital punishment abolition.
And indeed it has...
A downstate lawmaker - State Senator Gerald Hocker (R-Ocean View) - wants Delaware's public schools to start classes AFTER Labor Day. He wants a task force to study the issue...
'Tis the season (or era) for 3D printers.
For good and/or bad.
From Scotland recently came word scientists had printed stem cells, meaning researchers are that much closer to reproducing human tissue...
So what's on your mind this weekend?
New Castle County Executive Tom Gordon is catching heat for his plan to give the Wilmington Fire Department a 225-thousand-dollar grant, part of the Gordon Administration's proposed budget for 2014...
In this modern world of marketing & audience research, one wonders HOW PepsiCo could have unleashed such a repugnant advert for Mountain Dew (created by the founder of a hiphop group)...
We've covered on this blog before how the current establishment Republican push for some type of immigration reform might never deliver the G.O.P. the ultimate goal - Hispanics giving the Republicans a second look - because the Democrats almost inevitably would be perceived as the more immigrant-friendly political party...
Until now, only Russia had warned the United States about accused Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Still unclear: How seriously U.S. officials treated the Russian warning, particularly if they assumed the Russians were driving their own agenda in Chechnya and Dagestan quite apart from international terrorism...
A judge sentenced a former Essex County (New Jersey) "Teacher of the Year", Erica DePalo, to life on probation for having sex with a 15-year-old student...
In a televised interview on "Morning Joe", New Jersey Governor Chris Christie declared President Obama followed through on promises to New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy delivered widespread devastation along the coast...
For those folks who believe America is too litigious a society - that we have too many lawyers - delicious irony abounds: Eight alumni of Widener University's School of Law recently slapped a lawsuit against their alma mater, and their suit has so far overcome the university's attempts to get it thrown out...
So which stories / topics / issues have captured your attention as we reflect on the week?
Efforts to abolish capital punishment in Delaware stalled in a House Committee...
The story of insulting internet postings about customers' behavior and tipping at Hockessin's Padi restaurant now appears in London's DAILY MAIL, with many more photos than in the NEWS JOURNAL's original story...
On the "Rick Jensen Show" here on WDEL - and in a NEWS JOURNAL Page One story - we get more about the April 13th fight at Pastabilities restaurant in Wilmington's "Little Italy" section...
To many Americans, it may be a moot or irrelevant point, but the Federal criminal complaint against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev accuses him of "unlawfully using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction...
So many questions remain about the Boston Bombing brother suspects:
Did they hatch their plot alone, albeit, with ideological encouragement from Islamist sites?
Did something happen during their lives in the U...
Let's leave this column for comments on stories OTHER than the Boston story.
Haven't had the time to do my normal compilation but I know regular commenters have no shortage of stories and topics provoking interest and debate...
