http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/de-news/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:37:39 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418219/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Michael Castle is a member of an endangered species in the U.S. Congress: He's a moderate Republican. He's also a key figure in next year's election.Castle is running to fill the Senate seat for Delaware formerly held by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, and his likely Democratic foe is Biden's son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden.Castle, a member of the House of Representatives since 1993, is seen as among the Republicans' best bets to end the Democrats' 60-vote super-majority in the 100-member Senate.Sixty votes lets Democrats pass legislation without Republican support in that chamber, including a landmark... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418219/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:37:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415404/posts As a parent on the Delmarva penninsula I have followed this local story with interest. This is a parent's worst nightmare and our thoughts and prayers are with Sarah and her family. There safeguards to help prevent these types of things. While no one seemed to suspect the alleged perpetrator, there seems to be an indication that something was amiss: read more... Examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415404/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:04:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414970/posts Thanks to strong community support, the Annual Christmas Day Crossing will take place (the dress rehearsal for the Crossing will be on December 13). Parties interested in assisting the community efforts should contact the Bucks County Conference and Visitors Bureau. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414970/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:54:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414074/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Michael Castle is a member of an endangered species in the U.S. Congress: He's a moderate Republican. ... Castle is running to fill the Senate seat for Delaware formerly held by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, and his likely Democratic foe is Biden's son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden. Castle, a member of the House of Representatives since 1993, is seen as among the Republicans' best bets to end the Democrats' 60-vote super-majority in the 100-member Senate. ... The contest unfolds as conservative activists take on Republican moderates like Castle, fueling an internal ideological battle that has... Reuters on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414074/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:54:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409929/posts BEAVER -- The Beaver County Sheriff's Office has arrested three men suspected in a series of burglaries. According to the Spectrum, deputies said Luis M. Lopez, Andy F. Lopez, and Oren T. Hounchell admitted to varying levels of involvement in a series of break-ins at homes, stores and the Beaver City Library. They were also found in possession of an undisclosed amount of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia. All three face multiple burglary and drug charges. Deputies discovered a set of footprints left in the snow after one of the home burglaries. They followed those footprints to the Hounchell's home. The... ksl.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409929/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:44:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407338/posts President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. won't be the midterm ballot next year, but their former Senate seats will be, and both races are now eighter tossups or leaning Republican in high visibility contests. . . The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407338/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:11:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407086/posts President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. won't be on the midterm ballot next year, but their former Senate seats will be, and both races are now either tossups or leaning Republican in high-visibility contests. Mr. Obama, who was a freshman senator from Illinois when he was elected president, and Mr. Biden, who was in his sixth term as a senator from Delaware, come from states that have been running strongly Democratic in past elections. No one doubts that Mr. Obama would have been a re-election shoo-in had he remained in the Senate and that Mr. Biden had... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407086/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:19:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403309/posts I just received this email today and would love to see Patriots and pro-lifers to step up to the cause. Please join and let your voice be heard. Please tell everyone about this.Thanks OverturnRoe.com - Randall Terry - ProLifeWarrior.com "If a wound when necessary is not cauterized or cut out with steel, but simply covered with ointment, not only does it fail to heal, but it infects everything, and many a time death follows from it...Why does that shepherd go on using so much ointment? Such a man is a right hireling shepherd, for, far from dragging his sheep from... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403309/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 00:44:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400411/posts In early November, retired Senior Chief Jeffrey Sparenberg was the guest of honor at military heritage day in Delaware. Sparenberg spent 23 years in the Navy, including time on the destroyer Cole, and he was at Fort DuPont State Park that day to donate a flag that he said flew over the Cole shortly after it was attacked nine years ago. The flag, he hoped, would be put on view at the planned Delaware Military Museum. A photograph from the ceremony shows Sparenberg on the steps of a shuttered brick building. The left side of his chest is covered with... The Virginian-Pilot http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400411/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 19:33:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394885/posts William Klesse, chief executive of oil refiner Valero Energy, is riled up. "I think cap-and-trade is ludicrous," he says. "The whole bill is a hidden tax." The so-called climate bill wending its way through the Senate aims to create a cap-and-trade regime covering emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. If it passes in anything close to its current form, the bill would milk more carbon cash (payments to the government for the right to pollute) out of refiners than any other industry--somewhere between $30 billion and $110 billion a year. Valero, as America's biggest refiner (2.4 million barrels... Forbes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394885/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:53:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391868/posts Oil-refinery workers on the Delaware River yesterday received their second big blow in six weeks, when Valero Energy Corp. said it would close its operation in Delaware City, Del., casting 550 out of work. When workers heard the news, "it was like a time bomb went off," said Matt Edler, who has worked for 10 years at the refinery that rises out of the lowlands near the Delaware River in southern New Castle County. "My grandfather worked there, my father, and I worked there," said Edler, who yesterday afternoon joined other shocked refinery workers at Red Lion Inn in Bear,... Philadelphia Inquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391868/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:07:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390769/posts Valero Energy Corp., the largest U.S. refiner, announced today that it will permanently close its Delaware City, Del., plant because of losses brought on by the poor economy. The shutdown is expected to affect about 550 employees. "A safe and orderly shutdown of the refinery will commence immediately," the San Antonio, Texas-based company said today in a statement, adding that employees were told today of the move. The company said it expects to save $450 million in operating expenses next year by shutting the refinery. Philadelphia Inquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390769/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:08:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389362/posts <p>Contact your Senators and let them know what you think!</p> <p>U.S. veterans or subsidies for United Nations (U.N.) bureaucracy.</p> Email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389362/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:20:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376729/posts New York beef manufacturer Fairbanks Farms has issued a voluntary recall of a little more than half a million pounds of ground beef. The recall, which affects states from Maine to North Carolina -- Maryland included -- comes after one person died in New Hampshire and people were sickened in other states after eating beef thought to be contaminated by the bacteria E.coli. The products, which include ground beef, meatloaf and meatball mix, carry sell-by dates from Sept. 19-28 and were sold under such brands as Trader Joe's Butcher Shop Fine Quality Meats, Giant Meatloaf & Meatball Mix and BJ's... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376729/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:58:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376638/posts CNN) - Former Vice President Joe Biden challenged Republican voters in New York's 23rd congressional district to teach conservative "absolutists" a lesson in the special House election Tuesday by voting for the Democratic candidate in the race "We aren't asking you to switch your party," Biden said at a rally for Democrat Bill Owens in Watertown, New York Monday morning. "We are just saying join us in teaching a lesson to those absolutists who say no dissent is permitted within your own party." CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376638/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 17:22:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376358/posts Delaware beats Switzerland as most secretive financial center By: Reuters | 31 Oct 2009 | 07:59 PM ET Text Size By Kim Dixon WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Move over Switzerland. The tiny state of Delaware beats the Alpine country in a contest for the most secretive financial jurisdiction, a tax justice rights group said on Saturday. The United States, led by the eastern seaboard state, took in $2.6 trillion in deposits from non-resident corporations and individuals in 2007, according to a survey of financial jurisdictions analyzed by the Tax Justice Network. The survey of laws, practices and size of inflows in... CNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376358/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:41:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374992/posts BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Brooklyn. Vinny. You're next. Hello, sir. CALLER: Hello El Rushbo, mmm, mmm, mmm. RUSH: Yeah, I love that. REPORTER: Listen, two days ago, and I only heard this once, ABC reported that President Obama did a midnight run to Dover airfield base. My first question to you is I've never heard of any other president doing that, and why would he go out to view the dead coming back from Afghanistan? I mean this seems like some kind of, look at me, I'm the president, you see how sorry I feel for our dead soldiers returning, but... The Rush Limbaugh Show http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374992/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:55:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374849/posts General Motors (GM) closed its Wilmington, Delaware plant in July, leaving 550 active employees out of work, and another 500 laid-off hourly workers without the hope of being called back to work. Vehicle manufacturing used to be Delaware’s second largest private employer. Perhaps it will be again. Fisker Automotive announced on October 27 it signed a letter of intent to buy the plant for $18 million after a routine four-month evaluation period. Built by GM in 1947, the Wilmington plant produced 8.5 million cars, and has a production capacity of 300,000 cars a year. The Wilmington plant will support the... Triple Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374849/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:28:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374703/posts ABC News' Pentagon correspondent Luis Martinez reports that Barack Obama brought twenty-four reporters, photographers and videographers from fourteen media outlets to Dover Air Force Base to cover his 'surprise' visit there early Thursday morning.The New York Times reported earlier that there was a "small contingent" of media at Dover. However, two dozen is a crowd, especially when vulnerable grieving families are involved.Liz Cheney is being attacked (and here) for pointing out that Obama imposed the question of media coverage on the families by his presence at Dover. Seventeen out of the eighteen families of the fifteen soldiers and three DEA... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374703/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:36:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373908/posts Barack Obama was nearly denied the photo-op he traveled to Dover Air Force Base for early this morning as all but one of the military and civilian families of the fallen refused permission for the media to report on the return of their loved ones.The sole family to allow media coverage was the family of Sgt. Dale R. Griffin.According to media reports, Griffin's casket was the last to be brought off the C-17 cargo plane that carried the bodies of 15 soldiers and 3 DEA agents killed this week in Afghanistan.That is a stark contrast to the reported 60% approval... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373908/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:27:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373434/posts The unannounced trip began around midnight and was expected to have the president back at the White House before dawn on Thursday. ...The White House kept Obama's plans off his schedule, informing a small group of traveling reporters in advance on condition of secrecy. Obama was expected to observe a somber ceremony on the tarmac of the base without public comment. Fox News/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373434/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:26:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368170/posts WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Republican Senator John McCain said on Wednesday his party needed a positive agenda to better attract those Americans who are disenchanted with Democratic policies. McCain said he sensed "a lot of anger and a lot of frustration" among Americans over taxpayer-backed bailouts of banks and auto companies while they cope with a persistently high U.S. jobless rate of 9.8 percent and see bank executives get "obscene" bonuses. McCain, who was his party's presidential nominee and lost the 2008 election to Democrat Barack Obama, spoke to a Reuters Summit in a roundtable interview with journalists. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368170/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:34:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363635/posts Demure Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution, but since then has not made many waves. It might, however, be part of a political wave a year from now, thanks to a direct descendant of Benjamin Franklin. The great man's great-great-great-great-great grandson, Mike Castle, 70, a nine-term Delaware congressman, will be next year's Republican nominee for the Senate seat Joe Biden held for 36 years. This and other candidate-recruitment successes make it reasonable for Republicans to hope that in January 2011 the Senate will contain fewer than 60 Democrats. Biden's seat is currently occupied by a former Biden... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363635/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:59:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363659/posts Demure Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution, but since then has not made many waves. It might, however, be part of a political wave a year from now, thanks to a direct descendent of Benjamin Franklin. The great man's great-great-great-great-great grandson, Mike Castle, 70, a nine-term Delaware congressman, will be next year's Republican nominee for the Senate seat Joe Biden held for 36 years. This and other candidate-recruitment successes make it reasonable for Republicans to hope that in January 2011 the Senate will contain fewer than 60 Democrats. Biden's seat is currently occupied by a former Biden... TownHall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363659/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:36:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363112/posts After nearly a year-long tour in Iraq, Vice President Joe Biden's son, Joe "Beau" Biden III, said he is "absolutely" considering a run for the Senate seat his father occupied for 36 years. "I'll be making the decision in due course," Biden, 40, told "Good Morning America" today in his first television interview since his return to Delaware last month amid speculation that he would make a bid for the seat.One of a handful of elected officials to serve in Iraq since the U.S. led invasion in 2003, Biden took a leave of absence from his job as Delaware's attorney... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363112/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:07:00 GMT