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Sep 27, 2013
Doblin: Booker’s naked truth about vegan strippers
The Record
IT’S A NATURAL progress. Mani. Pedi. Pasties. Only a month ago, Cory Booker was fighting off gay rumors after a Washington Post article quoted Booker saying that a part of him thought it was ...
Comment
Sep 26, 2013
Opinion: Still waiting for the real New Jersey comeback
The Record
It’s hard to take the governor’s boasts about job creation seriously when statistics show that working families around the state are falling behind as the rest of the nation recovers from the economic crisis.
Comment
Opinion: A cigarette for the digital age
The Record
Some say e-cigs are safer than cigarettes, can help you eliminate the habit and don’t produce secondhand smoke. Others counter that they create new smokers and can be addictive.
Comment
Sep 25, 2013
Opinion: Hot tempers and gun lunacy span the ages
The Record
We settle our issues with bullets in this country. We’ve been doing it since we rode horses. And sadly, there is no end in sight.
Comment
Opinion: Knee-deep in stuff
The Record
Clutter is the cholesterol of the home; it’s clogging the hearth.
Comment
Opinion: From green eggs and ham to Nazis, Cruz takes a stand
The Record
His action hurt his fellow Republicans without doing anything to abolish Obamacare.
Comment
Sep 24, 2013
Opinion: PSE&G; needs stronger approach to energy efficiency
The Record
PSE&G; is requesting $3.9 billion for improvements to the grid over the next 10 years as part of its Energy Strong program. But without better efficiency measures, we will be Energy Weak.
Comment
Opinion: Party extremists are calculating, not crazy
The Record
Most Republicans lining up to vote for shutdown of the government were acting in their own rational self-interest, doing what’s necessary to survive in a political system gone mad.
Comment
Opinion: Conflict resolution? Turn to James Dean
The Record
In its simplest form, the Syrian standoff was a classic game of “chicken,” the game played by James Dean in “Rebel Without a Cause” when he was challenged by a bully named Buzz to race stolen ...
Comment
Sep 23, 2013
Opinion: Why we are using Open Records Act to obtain Sandy data
The Record
THE CHRISTIE administration’s motto is “Stronger than the Storm.” The experience of many Sandy victims is more like “Still stuck with the storm.”
Comment
Opinion: Searching for the tipping point on gun control
The Record
The opposition to gun-law reform is focused, passionate, unyielding and indefatigable. How do you counter that?
Comment
Opinion: How video games will disrupt Hollywood
The Record
THERE’S A GOOD chance you’ve heard: “Grand Theft Auto V,” the latest installment of the storied video game franchise, took in more than $1 billion in its first week. That’s more than any movie ...
Comment
Doblin: Walk for hope in Paterson
The Record
I scanned the headlines online before I reached for a newspaper. There it was: “33-year-old man killed in Paterson shooting.” It was a short story. A few paragraphs. A man fatally shot in the torso. An unidentified young woman was shot in the arm. An abbreviated ...
Comment
Sep 22, 2013
Opinion: What Christie’s ad neglected to say
The Record
Pay raises for elected officials are never popular, but criticizing Buono in this situation is a particularly cheap shot.
Comment
Opinion: Preserve boardwalks with smarter construction
The Record
AS LONG as there have been seaside boardwalks, there have been fires. Ever since the appropriately named Alexander Boardman placed his first wood planks on the sands of Atlantic City in 1870, ...
Comment
Opinion: Syria’s biological weapons may hold greater threat
The Record
Leonard A. Cole is an adjunct professor of emergency medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and of political science at Rutgers University-Newark. He is author of “The Anthrax Letters.” SYRIAN President Bashar Assad agreed earlier this ...
Comment
Kelly: Are we ignoring home-grown terrorists?
The Record
The most deadly attacks on American soil in recent years have not been orchestrated by Islamic jihadists but by ordinary people who are able to obtain high-powered, multi-shot, semi-automatic military-style weapons.
Comment
Opinion: Ticket splits and coattails
The Record
Despite Governor Christie’s commanding lead in election polls, several dynamics are in play that mitigate against a partisan turnabout in the Legislature this November.
Comment
Opinion: Save New Jersey’s judiciary from political interference
The Record
Our framers understood, and it has proved true, that an independent judiciary enforcing a written constitution is an essential check on an overreaching executive and on the worst impulses of ...
Comment
Opinion: Don’t look now, but the superbugs are coming
The Record
I reacted as I usually do to such reports. I covered myself head to toe in Purell, donned a respirator and hid under my bed.
Comment
Sep 20, 2013
Doblin: Pope Francis rips off the roof
The Record
Something remarkable is happening in Rome. Fifty years ago, Pope John XXIII opened a window in the Catholic Church. Pope Francis has torn off the roof.The pope does more than tug at the ...
Comment
Sep 19, 2013
Opinion: Cyberbullies who prodded girl’s suicide will feel pain, too
The Record
IF William Golding were writing his classic dystopian novel “Lord of the Flies” today, it might well be titled “Lord of the Mousepad.”
Comment
Opinion: Obamacare: Where are the alternatives?
The Record
The American public needs to hear more about the alternatives, about “replace” rather than “repeal.”
Comment
Sep 18, 2013
Opinion: Extremists blind to harmful impact of shutdown
The Record
THE COMING battles over budgets, the debt ceiling, a government shutdown and Obamacare are not elements of a large political game. They involve a fundamental showdown over the role of ...
Comment
Opinion: Save SNAP lifeline that aids millions of jobless
The Record
While SNAP provides a critical support to the unemployed, it helps working families, too.
Comment
Opinion: Battling childhood obesity
The Record
So there is reason to be relieved that the childhood obesity rate, after rising significantly for several decades, appears to have stabilized.
Comment
Opinion: After the shootings: business as usual
The Record
The shootings earned, at best, a respectful pause.
Comment
Opinion: Gun insanity tears at our civilization
The Record
“What sort of people are we, we Americans? Today, we |are the most frightening people on this planet.” – ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY IN 1968
Comment
Sep 17, 2013
Opinion: Vote ‘No’ on the minimum wage question
The Record
What we oppose is using the N.J. state constitution to institutionalize private-sector fiscal decisions.
Comment
Opinion: Can the GOP save itself?
The Record
Unless the Republican Party “gets real,” it will eventually be no more than a fading voice crying in the political wilderness.
Comment
Sep 16, 2013
Opinion: Why we must repeal the War Powers Resolution
The Record
ON THIS DAY 226 years ago, 39 delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia signed the document they had so delicately crafted to secure the blessings of liberty. Today, our ...
Comment
Opinion: Tale of two obituaries: How will you be remembered?
The Record
WHAT WILL they say about you when you’re gone? I attended a funeral this past week of a woman named Sarah Lewis, the widow of my childhood rabbi, Albert Lewis. A 92-year-old pillar of her community, she was eloquent, brilliant, devoted and religious.
Comment
Opinion: From Colorado, lessons on guns and persistence
The Record
Gun control proponents should borrow from the NRA playbook and never allow setbacks to demobilize them.
Comment
Sep 15, 2013
Opinion: President, Congress in political tug of war
The Record
UNDER THE U.S. Constitution, does the president have the power to use military force in Syria on his own? Or does he need congressional permission?
Comment
Opinion: Democracy’s blueprint
The Record
The flexibility of our Constitution — which turns 226 this week — helps keep it strong, a living document that adapts to modern sensibilities.
Comment
Will: Why we’re still fascinated by the ‘perfect failure’ of Bay of Pigs
The Record
Fifty-two years and many misadventures later, the invasion still fascinates us.
Comment
Kelly: For Joe, once you pay, you can play
The Record
WHEN Joe Ferriero was riding high as one of New Jersey’s most powerful Democratic kingpins, I bluntly asked him whether he thought it was wrong to dole out government jobs to people who gave ...
Comment
Harrison: Charmed - New Jerseyans flock to two radically different candidates
The Record
The policy stances of Governor Christie and U.S. Senate candidate Cory Booker typically reflect their ideological underpinnings – and often their stances and priorities are at odds.
Comment
Opinion: The Birmingham bombing
The Record
This is for four little girls who died, 50 years ago today.
Comment
Sep 13, 2013
Doblin: Buono is more a Met than a Democrat
The Record
Political campaigns are like baseball. When you’re running a candidate for governor, you’re in the majors. The pitches are fast and hard. And as a rule, they are not aimed at your own candidate. Barbara Buono’s campaign is looking more and more like the N.Y. ...
Comment
Sep 12, 2013
Opinion: NYC victor tapped into a growing discontent
The Record
BILL DE BLASIO, the insurgent and defiantly progressive New York City mayoral candidate, did not hold his Tuesday night victory party in one of those faux-ornate midtown Manhattan hotel ...
Comment
Opinion: In recall vote over gun control, democracy subverted
The Record
ONE COULD make a good case that American democracy suffered a significant setback when one of its basic tenets — the right of duly elected lawmakers to cast an honest vote of conscience or ...
Comment
Sep 11, 2013
Opinion: The power of a random act of kindness
The Record
It’s a heartwarming tale that reminds us that the most valuable thing you can share with another person isn’t time or money but empathy.
Comment
Opinion: What we gain with Russia’s Syrian solution
The Record
Opening Syrian stockpiles to inspectors and destroying even a fraction of the weapons could go further to achieve the West’s goals than the type of limited attack under consideration.
Comment
Opinion: Obama must go on offensive
The Record
The president has failed to convincingly communicate his own best messages.
Comment
Sep 10, 2013
Opinion: What residents will get in return for water rate hike
The Record
Jim Glozzy is vice president and general manager of United Water New Jersey. A RECENT editorial (“Close the spigot,” Sept. 1) in The Record questioned the rate relief United Water New Jersey has requested from the New Jersey Board of Public ...
Comment
Opinion: Liability in texting-related accidents may cut both ways
The Record
First-of-its-kind New Jersey court ruling paves way for charges against both senders and receivers of text messages.
Comment
Opinion: Stepping back from the precipice
The Record
For the deepening crisis over Syrian chemical arms, what a difference a day made.
Comment
Sep 09, 2013
Opinion: How minimum wage measure will help New Jerseyans
The Record
Just as our federal Constitution is famously dedicated to “promote the general welfare,” our state constitution’s overarching goal is to ensure a basic standard and quality of life for residents.
Comment
Opinion: Polarization will damage our role on world stage
The Record
President Obama has to show how a priority on “nation-building at home” can |be squared with our international responsibilities.
Comment
Opinion: Our Syrian dilemma
The Record
Many of the arguments on both sides are sound. Supporters of any course of action must do so with great caution.
Comment
Sep 08, 2013
Opinion: Getting past the insult that wasn’t
The Record
THE FAT FLAP has been inescapable. Governor Christie launched a media attack on his gubernatorial opponent state Sen. Barbara Buono after she allegedly alluded to Christie’s weight in a Labor ...
Comment
Kelly: 1 World Trade Center - Not just another address
The Record
WE LOVE to name people and things. It’s not just a habit. It’s basic to our human condition. Naming bestows identity, significance and meaning. But as we approach another 9/11 anniversary, we ...
Comment
Opinion: The greatest economist you never heard of
The Record
In 1960, Chicago’s great economists were convinced that Ronald Coase was right. His ideas help to rule our world.
Comment
Opinion: When is war just?
The Record
As the Obama administration prepares to respond to the use |of chemical weapons in Syria, ethicists weigh in |on the morality of military intervention.
Comment
Sep 06, 2013
Doblin: The dead do not care how they died
The Record
If we ask the dead killed in war whether they would have preferred to have died from a bullet, a knife, a bomb or gas, the answer would be the same: Silence. The war dead do not speak to us. They only cry out for justice. There is no justice to be found in Syria.
Comment
Sep 05, 2013
Opinion: Syria: A ‘red line’ for the GOP
The Record
Obama has compelled Republicans to divert their attention from their concocted crises to an issue of actual substance.
Comment
Opinion: Syria: Now wanted, an accomplice
The Record
In foreign policy, Obama luxuriates in acting, as most modern presidents have improvidently done, without the tiresome persuasion required to earn congressional ratifications.
Comment
Sep 04, 2013
Opinion: It’s not about Obama, it’s about our moral obligation
The Record
A ruthless dictator, desperate to maintain power, is punishing his own people with a kind of warfare that has been banned in the civilized world for nearly 100 years.
Comment
Opinion: Younger than yesterday... the new old
The Record
AGELESS. That wasn’t always true. Not too long ago, mandatory retirement was 65. You had no choice but to graciously accept that company watch, pack up your belongings, say your goodbyes and ...
Comment
Opinion: Saving the disappearing orange tree
The Record
The pestilence that is devastating Florida citrus is a disease called citrus greening.
Comment
Sep 03, 2013
Opinion: Memo to self for next vacation: Log off
The Record
Sometimes you have to remember to put the screen down and simply drink in the stars.
Comment
Opinion: Syrian crisis demands bipartisan action
The Record
Denied backing from the United Nations, Britain’s parliament and public polls, Obama has turned to a Congress more polarized along partisan lines than any other in recent memory.
Comment
Opinion: New approaches needed for open space funding
The Record
This summer a proposal to dedicate $200 million from existing sales tax revenue faced opposition because it could have led to cuts in other existing programs. Here are alternative funding plans.
Comment
Aug 30, 2013
Opinion: Obsession with race doesn’t help the poor
The Record
ONE WONDERS what Martin Luther King Jr. would have made of Wednesday’s event at the Lincoln Memorial. T
Comment
Aug 29, 2013
Opinion: Fed snubs emerging markets at U.S.’s peril
The Record
U.S. officials have taken to the airwaves over the last few days to absolve the Federal Reserve of blame for the recent turmoil in emerging markets, a response to some of the debate that arose from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s annual meeting last ...
Comment
Opinion: Obama’s continued failings on female appointments
The Record
WHY AM I not surprised? This White House has done a stunningly less-impressive job of appointing women to Cabinet-level jobs than its most recent Democratic predecessor, the Clinton ...
Comment
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