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• ObamaCare

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  Posted: September 26, 2009, 10:23pm EDT
  

• Jon Corzine's Buddy

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  Posted: August 03, 2009, 10:34am EDT
  

• Thank You President Bush

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  Posted: January 16, 2009, 2:42pm EST
  

• What a Drag!

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  Posted: November 07, 2008, 10:37am EST
  

• McCain - Palin 2008

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  Posted: November 03, 2008, 9:36am EST
  

• New Jersey Health-care Choice Act

  Assemblyman Jay Webber is proposing legislation that would lower the cost of health insurance in New Jersey and reduce the number of uninsured without requiring a subsidy from taxpayers.We’ve supported similar ideas in the past and suggest our lawmakers in Trenton give serious consideration to Webber’s New Jersey Health-care Choice [...]
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  Posted: April 15, 2008, 1:19am EDT
  

• �Progressive� Democrats Target Small-Town America

  Has anyone else noticed a pattern of “progressive” Democrats venting their frustrations on small-town people?Gov. Jon Corzine has targeted small towns with a grossly unfair school aid funding formula and the reduction or total elimination of municipal aid. Corzine claims the state of New Jersey just can’t afford small towns [...]
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  Posted: April 14, 2008, 10:48am EDT
  

• Proposed State Aid To Municipalities

  Governor Jon Corzine’s proposed 2009 New Jersey state budget calls for cuts to municipal property tax relief based on population.Municipalities with populations of less than 5,000 would receive no municipal property tax relief from the state. Those with populations greater than 5,000 but less than 10,000 would have municipal aid [...]
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  Posted: February 27, 2008, 12:00pm EST
  

• New Jersey State Budget Comparison 2008 vs 2009

  The text of Governor Jon Corzine’s budget address may be read here and a summary of his proposed New Jersey state budget for 2009 may be reviewed here.The following is a comparison of Governor Corzine’s 2008 vs. 2009 state budget by revenue source and expenditure by budget area.Data Source: New [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2008, 4:14pm EST
  

• New Jersey Taxpayer Education Tour � Part 2

  In our previous post we provided a high-level overview of the spending side of New Jersey’s state budget. Today, we’ll take a look at the revenue side and again compare the changes from 1998 to 2008This year, the state’s income tax will generate $12.4 billion - more than all other [...]
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  Posted: February 15, 2008, 1:43am EST
  

• New Jersey Taxpayer Education Tour � Part 1

  Governor Jon Corzine has been conducting town hall meetings across the state to educate New Jersey residents about the state’s financial crisis and his $38 billion asset monetization plan. He uses graphs and charts in his Power Point presentation to explain his side of the story and to convince people [...]
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  Posted: February 07, 2008, 2:17pm EST
  

• Have You Heard About the $1 billion State Tax Cut?

  Governor Jon Corzine has pledged not to spend more next year than in 2008 if his “financial restructuring plan” is approved. With all the hullabaloo about the toll road increases, we must have missed the coverage about the nearly $1 billion tax cut we’ll be getting next year.Below are the [...]
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  Posted: January 29, 2008, 1:51pm EST
  

• Mitt Romney For President

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  Posted: January 23, 2008, 3:49pm EST
  

• New Jersey Needs $38 Billion Plan For Employee Benefits

  What’s the real purpose of Governor Jon Corzine’s $38 billion asset monetization plan? It’s all about paying for New Jersey’s public employee benefits. The conversation about the state’s bond debt and Transpiration Trust Fund is misdirection and cover for the real problem The funding requirements for both are basically flat, [...]
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  Posted: January 22, 2008, 12:39pm EST
  

• Does New Jersey Need A $38 Billion Asset Monetization Plan To Solve an $800 Million Transportation Funding Problem?

  Why is Governor Jon Corzine proposing a $38 billion asset monetization plan that will require large toll increases on the NJ Turnpike, the Garden State Parkway and the Atlantic City Expressway?The Governor says he needs the money to pay down the state’s debt to a more manageable level and to [...]
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  Posted: January 18, 2008, 3:51pm EST
  

• Why The Sudden Panic Attack Over New Jersey�s Bond Debt?

  As of June 2007, New Jersey’s debt was $29,719,322,000. As you can see from the state’s payment schedule shown below, the required annual payment is fairly consistent - $2,570,837,000 in 2007 and by 2013, it’ll be $2,524,619,000.That’s not to say New Jersey’s debt isn’t much higher than it should be. [...]
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  Posted: January 16, 2008, 10:48am EST
  

• The Traitorous Twelve

  Without the support of a small group of Republicans in the state Senate and Assembly, Governor Jon Corzine’s school spending and state aid bill would have failed. These senators and assemblymen have much to answer for having betrayed the public school students and taxpayers of New Jersey, their constituents and [...]
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  Posted: January 09, 2008, 11:46pm EST
  

• Republicans Should Support Corzine�s Plan

  We have studied the numbers and we agree with Jon Corzine. There's little choice but to either raise taxes (which we oppose) or leverage state assets in some way similar to what he has proposed. Even with major spending cuts (which should occur regardless of what happens), the people of' [...]
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  Posted: January 08, 2008, 11:52pm EST
  

• What�s Wrong With New Jersey? 2008 Edition - Exhibit #2

  New Jersey’s Economic Development Authority approved $11.5 million in corporate or personal income tax cuts for filmmakers and stars including Alec Baldwin, Bruce Willis and Anjelica Huston.The saga of a recovering sex addict and a film about a serial-killer piano tuner are among 11 movies that were approved for tax [...]
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  Posted: January 08, 2008, 1:36pm EST
  

• State Aid Profile � Quick Facts

  The New Jersey Department of Education has posted the school spending and state aid details for each district based upon Governor Jon Corzine’s proposed plan.Corzine’s plan is complex, but there are a few key figures in the State Aid Profile you should review to understand what the plan will mean [...]
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  Posted: January 06, 2008, 9:24pm EST
  

• Decoding Your School District�s State Aid Profile

  You can now view your school district’s State Aid Profile based on Governor Jon Corzine’s school spending and state aid program.To help you understand Corzine’s plan and the State Aid Profile, we’ve created this post to guide you along using the Livingston school district as an example. Livingston is represented [...]
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  Posted: January 06, 2008, 8:15pm EST
  

• What�s Wrong With New Jersey? 2008 Edition - Exhibit #1

  Here’s a great example of what’s wrong with New Jersey,The idea:Politicians in New Jersey and every state should wake up to this opportunity to fill their state treasuries. A system should be devised whereby all gift cards and certificates issued by chain stores, individual stores, shops and restaurants in a [...]
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  Posted: January 04, 2008, 12:38am EST
  

• Republican Leaders Introduce School Aid Proposal

  Governor Corzine has proposed a $711,836,000 adequate school budget for the Newark school district and $707,109,000 in state aid. That represents a 2 percent increase in state aid over last year.Based upon Newark’s student enrollment of 44,720 students, Corzine’s spending and state aid per student is as follows:Corzine’s Proposal – [...]
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  Posted: January 03, 2008, 1:20pm EST
  

• Happy New Year!

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  Posted: January 01, 2008, 1:03am EST
  

• Corzine�s School Spending: Adequate Spending Per Student

  Governor Corzine’s new school spending plan is based on the assumption that education recourses should be tied to a student’s relative economic status as well as the school district’s that he or she attends. His proposal establishes adequate spending for a thorough and efficient education at 47 percent more for [...]
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  Posted: December 29, 2007, 4:49pm EST
  

• Corzine�s School Aid Plan: State Aid Does Not Follow the Child

  The Star-Ledger wrote in an editorial, School funding plan shows promise:Whether a child goes to school in Perth Amboy or Mountain Lakes makes no difference.The premise is that money should follow the child. It's hard to argue with that.It just doesn’t happen to be true. State aid does not “follow' [...]
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  Posted: December 28, 2007, 2:38pm EST
  

• Corzine�s School Aid Plan: �Local Fair Share�

  In this post we’ll review one of the basic components of Governor Jon Corzine’s proposed state aid formula for New Jersey’s public schools – the “local fair share” formula. We’ll also explain why it’s unfair and should be rejected by our lawmakers in Trenton..The proposed aid formula begins by calculating [...]
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  Posted: December 27, 2007, 4:59pm EST
  

• Corzine�s School Spending Plan: Base Per Pupil Amount Unrealistic

  Governor Jon Corzine’s adequate school spending and state aid plan is built on several key assumptions. If any of these assumptions are incorrect the entire Formula for Success should be scrapped . Many key assumptions are seriously flawed and Corzine’s proposal should be rejected. Taking first things first. The most basic [...]
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  Posted: December 26, 2007, 4:00pm EST
  

• The �Simplified� Formula For Calculating Adequate Spending For New Jersey�s Public Schools.

  The following is the proposed “simplified” formula for calculating adequate spending for New Jersey’s public schools. (We will refer to this information in subsequent posts) Adequate Regular Education Student Cost The cost per regular education student (RESC) is calculated as follows RESC = base per pupil amount x grade weight The base per pupil [...]
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  Posted: December 26, 2007, 11:32am EST
  

• Merry Christmas

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  Posted: December 25, 2007, 10:37am EST
  

• New Jersey Employment 2007

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  Posted: December 22, 2007, 1:51pm EST
  

• Exposing Corzine�s School Spending and Aid Plan As Absurd and Unfair

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  Posted: December 21, 2007, 4:34pm EST
  

• Children�s Health Insurance Problem Solved � �Progressives� Discover Cost Shifting

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  Posted: December 20, 2007, 4:01pm EST
  

• New Jersey Expands SCHIP� No Help From The Federal Government Or Taxpayers Required

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  Posted: December 19, 2007, 2:41pm EST
  

• Inequity Continues To Grow Under New School Aid Plan

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  Posted: December 17, 2007, 1:40pm EST
  

• The Cost of Pre-School: It�s More Than You Imagine

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  Posted: December 17, 2007, 12:10am EST
  

• New Jersey�s Death Penalty

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  Posted: December 14, 2007, 3:27pm EST
  

• Corzine�s �New Formula for Success� Is A Formula For Wasteful Spending

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  Posted: December 14, 2007, 12:38pm EST
  

• Republican Respond To Corzine�s School Spending Proposal With Facts

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  Posted: December 13, 2007, 4:08pm EST
  

• Corzine�s �New Formula For Success�: Forgo Property Tax Relief

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  Posted: December 13, 2007, 3:22pm EST
  

• Corzine�s �New Formula For Success� Lacks Logic, Accountability and Financial Responsibility

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  Posted: December 13, 2007, 2:25pm EST
  

• Corzine Releases New School Spending Plan

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  Posted: December 12, 2007, 4:11pm EST
  

• Stop The Proposed New School Funding Formula Or Kiss Property Tax Relief Goodbye

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  Posted: December 11, 2007, 4:12pm EST
  

• Chairman of the New Jersey Democratic Party Embraces I&R

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  Posted: December 04, 2007, 10:52am EST
  

• Updated - New Jersey Schools: Rich, Poor, Unequal

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  Posted: December 02, 2007, 2:56pm EST
  

• Zeroing In On A New School Funding Formula

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  Posted: December 01, 2007, 10:25pm EST
  

• Media Bias

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  Posted: December 01, 2007, 12:32pm EST
  

• Corruption Costs New Jersey Taxpayers $1 Billion Annually

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  Posted: November 29, 2007, 1:30pm EST
  

• A New School Aid Formula Is Coming

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  Posted: November 28, 2007, 11:18am EST
  

• THE GIVING THANKS CAMPAIGN

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  Posted: November 21, 2007, 11:22am EST
  

• Inner European

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  Posted: November 07, 2007, 3:40pm EST
  

• New Jersey Election 2007 Recommendations

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  Posted: November 05, 2007, 4:00pm EST
  

• 77 Percent of Psychiatrists Are Crazy About New Jersey

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  Posted: October 31, 2007, 1:51pm EDT
  

• Expanding S-CHIP: Let�s Skip the Middlemen In Washington

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  Posted: October 07, 2007, 2:44pm EDT
  

• Menendez And Lautenberg Choose Sides

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  Posted: September 20, 2007, 2:37pm EDT
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• Quote of the Week

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  Posted: September 19, 2007, 11:55am EDT
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• The 2007 Campaign Issue

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  Posted: September 13, 2007, 12:23pm EDT
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• Remembering Nicholas John

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  Posted: September 11, 2007, 9:08am EDT
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• Another Day, Another Tax Dollar, Another Corrupt Democrat

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  Posted: September 06, 2007, 1:47pm EDT
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• �This Whole Debacle Does Not Make Sense�

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  Posted: September 04, 2007, 11:56am EDT
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• Gone Fishin'

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  Posted: August 19, 2007, 7:57am EDT
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• New Jersey’s Highways Paved With Gold

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  Posted: June 30, 2007, 2:57pm EDT
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• Life and Liberty

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  Posted: June 29, 2007, 12:59pm EDT
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• Senate Immigration Bill Goes Down In Defeat

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  Posted: June 28, 2007, 12:26pm EDT
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• Stand Up For America!

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  Posted: June 26, 2007, 2:13pm EDT
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• Doing What Menendez Does Best - Playing Politics And Raising Money

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  Posted: June 25, 2007, 12:08pm EDT
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• Lunching Ladies and Property Taxes

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  Posted: June 25, 2007, 10:28am EDT
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• Corzine Fails To Address Staggering Costs For Public Employee Health Care

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  Posted: June 20, 2007, 3:01pm EDT
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• Is This Fair?

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  Posted: June 18, 2007, 12:24pm EDT
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• Buyout Offers Backfire

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  Posted: June 16, 2007, 5:38pm EDT
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• New Jersey Taxpayer Hell Story #1,835,412

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  Posted: June 15, 2007, 1:55pm EDT
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• This Brand of Journalism Should R.I.P

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  Posted: June 14, 2007, 3:57pm EDT
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• Democrats Agree On State Budget, Ignore Republicans

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  Posted: June 13, 2007, 2:14pm EDT
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• Corzine Looks to Recycle Failure

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  Posted: June 12, 2007, 2:46pm EDT
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• The War On New Jersey’s Taxpayers

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  Posted: June 11, 2007, 12:44pm EDT
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• What Illegal Immigration Crackdown

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  Posted: June 07, 2007, 12:44pm EDT
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• Bi-partisan Opposition To Senate Immigration Reform Bill

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  Posted: June 06, 2007, 1:18pm EDT
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• Environmental Policies

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  Posted: June 04, 2007, 8:30am EDT
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• New Jersey News Below the Fold - Edition I

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  Posted: June 03, 2007, 5:39pm EDT
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• Influence?

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  Posted: June 01, 2007, 10:27pm EDT
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• It Was 40 Years Ago Today!

  Daniel Levitin in today's Washington Post commemorates the 40th anniversary of the release of Sgt. Pepper: Yes, it's been 40 years exactly since Sgt. Pepper, having labored the previous 20 years teaching his band to play, arranged for its debut in full psychedelic regalia. Paul McCartney may be the closest thing our [...]
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  Posted: June 01, 2007, 4:11pm EDT
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• The Worst New Jersey’s Political Machines Has To Offer

  The Star-Ledger’s Tom Moran on the worst New Jersey's political machines has to offer: The latest example is Sandra Cunningham, who is running for Senate as the choice of the infamous Hudson County Democrats. Cunningham says her main concerns are crime, jobs and housing. Sounds reasonable. So how would she address those [...]
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  Posted: June 01, 2007, 12:01pm EDT
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• Federal Authorities Launch Civil and Criminal investigations Into NJ Pension Funding

  Federal criminal investigators and the Securities and Exchange Commission are looking into New Jersey's pension system after a report found the state diverted billions of dollars from it for other purposes, such as state aid to Abbott school districts. Abbott districts have been spending at some of the highest levels in [...]
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  Posted: May 31, 2007, 2:35pm EDT
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• Senate Immigration Reform Bill Gets a Thumbs Down From Voters

  According to the latest Rasmussen poll (conducted May 29), only 26% of American voters favor passage of the Senate immigration reform bill. Unaffiliated voters are now more opposed to the bill than either Republicans or Democrats. 81% of American voters are closely following news stories about the issue. 75% want the Senate [...]
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  Posted: May 30, 2007, 1:47pm EDT
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• Are You Aware Hillary Clinton Failed the Bar Exam?

  The former Justice Department liaison to the White House Monica Goodling was questioned before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Much of Rep. Steve Cohen, (D-TN) questioning dealt with Goodling’s education: Rep. Steve Cohen: Miss Goodling, I've read your vitae, and it says that you grew up and you mostly went [...]
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  Posted: May 25, 2007, 1:57pm EDT
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• U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Decline, Economy Grows, Environmentalists Complain

  U.S. carbon dioxide emissions dropped 1.3 percent last year even as the economy grew by 3.3 percent. The 1.3 percent drop in CO{-2} emissions marks the first time that U.S. pollution linked to global warming has declined in absolute terms since 2001 and the first time it has gone down since [...]
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  Posted: May 24, 2007, 10:22am EDT
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• Why Did Corzine Give Katz More Than $6 million?

  According to a report in the New York Times, Jon Corzine gave Carla Katz a financial settlement that exceeded $6 million. They have repeatedly declined to disclose the total amount or specific contours of the financial agreement their lawyers negotiated upon their breakup in 2004, but lawyers familiar with the settlement [...]
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  Posted: May 23, 2007, 11:12am EDT
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• Congress Takes Taxpayers for A Ride

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  Posted: May 22, 2007, 4:18pm EDT
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• New Jersey’s Top High Schools

  New Jersey has 43 schools on Newsweek’s list of the top five percent of U.S. public high schools. Billed as The Top of the Class: The complete list of the 1,200 top U.S. schools, there are actually 1,253 schools included. Public schools were ranked according to a ratio devised by Jay [...]
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  Posted: May 21, 2007, 11:10am EDT
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• Making Matters Worse: The Immigration Reform Act of 2007

  It should have been obvious that Congress had little interest in actually preventing future illegal immigration or solving, to the benefit of Americans, the problems associated with 12 to 20 million currently “living in the shadows”. After reading the Immigration Reform Act of 2007 all doubt should be removed. Under the [...]
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  Posted: May 21, 2007, 12:10am EDT
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• Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007.

  Here’s a link to the controversial Senate immigration bill - Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007. [...]
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  Posted: May 19, 2007, 11:36am EDT
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• The Whole Thing Is Crazy

  The immigration “plan hatched by a bipartisan group of senators yesterday”, according to the Star-Ledger, “inspires confusion, criticism from both sides”. Here’s the first bit of confusion the plan inspires in us - Does congress represent American citizens or illegal aliens? Based on press reports, the plan offers a menu of [...]
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  Posted: May 18, 2007, 1:39pm EDT
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• The Federal Government Knew For 16 Years

  The U.S. government has known for 16 years the Duka family, including Fort Dix Six brothers —Dritan, Eljvir and Shain—were in the country illegally. It’s believed the family unlawfully slipped into the U.S. in 1984 by crossing from Mexico at Brownsville, Texas. In 1989, Ferik Duka filed a claim for asylum [...]
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  Posted: May 17, 2007, 11:52am EDT
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• Obama on Health Care Insurance

  Barack Obama was in New Jersey yesterday pledging to deliver universal health insurance coverage during his first term as president, if elected. The Democratic hopeful from Illinois said he would pay for his plan by saving $75 billion through emphasizing preventative health care, providing better care for the chronically ill and [...]
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  Posted: May 15, 2007, 11:03pm EDT
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• Heretics On The Left

  The Nation magazine’s Alexander Cockburn has joined the ranks of heretics. He doesn’t believe anthropogenic CO2 is primarily responsible for global warming. That’s an amazing admission from one manning “the flagship of the left’. No response is more predictable than the reflexive squawk of the greenhouse fearmongers that anyone questioning their [...]
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  Posted: May 15, 2007, 12:47am EDT
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• New Jersey on ICE

  Father of Fort Dix Six Arrested on Immigration Charges Ferik Duka, the father of three men charged in the Fort Dix terror plot was arrested this week on immigration violations and is in federal custody. “It was unclear why the Duka's had not been charged with immigration violations earlier.” N.J. Terror Suspects [...]
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  Posted: May 10, 2007, 9:08pm EDT
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• Only In New Jersey

  Maggie Gallagher - Only In New Jersey, snips below: I'd say "only in America," but I suspect this is a story that could happen only in New Jersey. The feds are closing in on indicting your fundraising pals, one of whom even claims you arranged a special code word, "Machiavelli," signaling that [...]
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  Posted: May 10, 2007, 6:08pm EDT
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• Three of “Fort Dix Six” Jihadis Were Illegal Aliens

  Six Islamic radicals planning a heavily armed attack against soldiers at Fort Dix as part of a jihad against the United States were arrested last night in New Jersey. Officials identified the men as Dritan Duka, Eljvir Duka, Shain Duka, Serdar Tatar, Mohamad Shnewer and Agron Abdullahu. Five have been charged [...]
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  Posted: May 08, 2007, 1:19pm EDT
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• Global Warming Debate

  Click to enlarge Global Warming Facts from the Heartland. [...]
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  Posted: May 08, 2007, 9:29am EDT
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• Ethics Complaints

  Back in March, Bob Ingle discovered Democrats had a state-paid intern going through years of financial-disclosure forms from state legislators. Republicans suspected the effort was an election-year opposition research project being conducted at taxpayer expense. Back then, Democrats claimed the intern was looking for ways to strengthen disclosure. Yesterday, Democrats exposed [...]
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  Posted: May 04, 2007, 4:29pm EDT
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