The following statistics for the Maplewood (NJ) Maples Baseball team were gathered by the late Bob Roellke from records maintained by coach Russ Neide.  The Maples were a semi-professional baseball team that played in the Maplewood Twilight League, the Lackawanna League and the Essex County League during the period of 1947-1965.   A number of the [...]

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I don’t know, the face on the right is a bit thinner than the one on the left, but which one is more honest? There are pockets of niceness in New Jersey, but you have to search for them – I know, I hail from the Garden State and once found those pockets.  But for [...]

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What do you think about a get-away? What do you have in mind? Well, I would like to do something different. You mean you don’t want to go on a cruise? You got it! How about we visit the White House? What?

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I received several forwards today coming off of internet passages that have been making the rounds, some asking me to check out a 4-minute You Tube excerpt from a speech by Lord Christopher Monckton, a noted climate change skeptic, claiming that President Obama is about to cede US Sovereignty if he signs a United Nations [...]

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Perhaps it’s the cynic in me that says President Obama will make a decision on Afghanistan after two critical gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia take place, both governorships presently held by troubled Democrats, which signals another Chicago-style political maneuver by the White House while American soldiers die in vein fighting a war on [...]

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There is an Obama backlash surfacing across America as evidenced by the president’s sharp decline in approval rating and concern within his own party that he has brought “Chicago-style politics” to Washington DC.

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While troops are dying in Afghanistan and jobs are rapidly disappearing in the US – 11,000 in one week – President Obama is having a war of the words with Fox News.

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There were three bad calls on the base paths in tonight’s American League Championship Series game 4 between the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Angels that should be cause for review for expansion by Major League Baseball of the instant replay rule, which today only includes whether a ball is hit fair or [...]

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Two news events surfaced over the weekend signaling President Obama’s move to media censorship and control, targeting Fox News, and suggesting a further government attempt to steer reporters away from negative news.

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When the White House sends out its advisers to make the rounds on Sunday talk shows they are armed with talking points surrounding President Obama’s policies.  We decided to review the salient policies and talking points and measure them against achievements.  We found the following while conducting the analysis:

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