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Recalling Bob Menendez

March 16, 2010

New Jersey’s non-comatose Democrat Senator, Bob Menendez, just got some bad news today.  As it turns out, NJ is one of 18 states which has a recall provision on elected representatives, so a Tea Party activist attempted to recall Bob Menendez.  Well, that effort just passed its first hurdle — a three-judge panel has allowed [...]

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NJ Transit: Going Nowhere Fast

March 6, 2010

Governor Chris Christie inherited a huge mess in New Jersey when he took office about six weeks ago.  Since then he’s taken an approach which has dealt with cutting large state expenditures in order to try to deal with the state’s $2.2 billion budget deficit.  His first offensive was against the pension system (which I [...]

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Rush Likes NJ Governor Chris Christie

February 17, 2010

I don’t always get a chance to listen to Rush, but last Friday Rush said the following:
Chris Christie, New Jersey governor, has frozen spending. The state’s budget is in shambles. He has sliced into the school surpluses, the New Jersey transit subsidies. The Democrats are furious. They’re furious because he’s doing exactly what he promised [...]

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Gay Marriage Defeated in NJ Senate

January 7, 2010

Earlier this afternoon, the New Jersey State Senate voted 20-14 (with 5 not voting and 1 vacancy) to defeat the latest gay marriage proposal.  Lame-duck Governor Jon Corzine vowed to sign it into law, while Governor-elect Chris Christie said he would veto any gay marriage bill.  Neither will get that chance now.
Here’s a few things [...]

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Lessons from Election Night, 2009

November 4, 2009

The media is focusing on NY-23, as well they should, as Conservatives put a lot of emphasis on that race.  Conservatives essentially ousted an establishment-backed liberal Republican (not even a moderate, but a liberal who supported ObamaCare and Cap-and-Trade) in Dede Scozzofava, and backed Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman, who lost the race by under [...]

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“Hope” in Burlington, New Jersey

October 12, 2009

Remember this creepy Obama Song from Burlington, New Jersey, a few weeks ago?  (Barack Hussein Obama mmm mmm mm, yeah that one!)  Well, hope sprang up today in that town as concerned parents, members of the community and other outraged New Jerseyans got together to have a small, but important protest outside of the elementary school [...]

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Jon Corzine’s Ace in the Hole

September 25, 2009

So is Jon Corzine telling us that the rest of America is about to look like New Jersey?  Oh dear.
HT:  The Campaign Spot

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Corzine’s Troubles in New Jersey

September 1, 2009

Seen as a major political bellwether for Obama-ism, the New Jersey Gubernatorial election between Democrat Governor/Obama buddy Jon Corzine and Republican opponent Chris Christie is favoring Christie the week before Labor Day by ten points.  In a recent late-August Quinnipiac poll of 1,612 likely Jersey voters, Christie leads Corzine 47-37. 
If any incumbent struggles to hit 40 [...]

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A Snapshot of Two Polls

July 9, 2009

It’s the first full week of July and there are some political trends worth checking out.  Usually the summer is very slow news time since so many people are on vacation or otherwise busy enjoying what summer has to offer.  However, with Cap-and-Trade, Obamacare, and Tea Parties galore, both June and July have already been [...]

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Don’t Text and Drive: Who Knew?

June 25, 2009

Here’s a study you know everything about before you even click on the link:  texting while driving is… (wait for it)… pretty dangerous!  I know this comes as a huge shock, and I’m glad the report has a tinge of humor about it.
Beyond the sarcasm, I tried it once after I got a surprisingly interesting text that I absolutely had to respond [...]

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Blame Reagan? Not So Fast!

June 9, 2009

Nope, I’m not surprised.  New York Slimes lackey Paul Krugman blamed Ronald Reagan for the deregulation that led to the current economic crisis last week.  Obviously, that’s ridiculous and others have chimed in to refute that claim.  
I hear that same kind of argument every three seconds from Kool-Aid drinking Democrats out here in Jersey — all [...]

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Latest New Jersey Gubernatorial Race Poll: Christie Up Big on Corzine

June 5, 2009

I’ve followed a simple rule in NJ politics since arriving here in 2001:  in the primaries, you vote your conscience; in the general election, you vote against Corzine.
Thusly, I voted in last Tuesday’s Republican primary for Steve Lonegan.  I met him last summer and know where he stands on the issues, so I was convinced [...]

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Californians Vote for Fiscal Responsibility

May 20, 2009

Californians rejected a series of ballot measures yesterday that would have significantly raised their taxes so that the state could address its severe budget deficit without any major cuts in spending.  According to the liberal SFGate, the state will now be forced to “consider deeper cuts to education, public safety and health and human services.”  [...]

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Freedom Across the Fruited Plain: A Study

March 17, 2009

Freedom!!!  We love it, we cherish it, we want to spread it!  Well, of course we do, we’re Americans and (at least on this site) conservatives too.
However, as Nicole Russell writing for the American Spectator points out, not all states are created equal when it comes to securing people’s freedom.  She cites a George Mason [...]

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The Answer to NY’s Budget Woes: Tax EVERYTHING!

December 17, 2008

New York Governor David Paterson is acting exactly the way Democrats do when dealing with budget issues: cut little meaningless stuff if anything at all, and make sure you get creative in raising existing taxes or by creating brand new taxes.  You’ve probably heard the details by now, but just in case here are a few new taxes [...]

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Planned Parenthood Covers Up Statutory Rape

December 5, 2008

A “nurse” at Planned Parenthood in Indiana was caught on secret camera covering up child abuse in the form of statutory rape.  A 20-year-old college student posing as a pregnant 13-year-old went to a Planned Parenthood in Bloomington, Indiana, looking for an abortion.  Granted, she was there to look for potential abuses (as she was not pregnant) [...]

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Global Warming Gone Missing in New Jersey!

October 28, 2008

It snowed in New Jersey today. 
We were supposed to get rain. 
We did.
However, the catch was that it got too cold to stay that way.  The transition started while one of my classes was taking a World War II test.  Anyone who’s ever been a kid knows that whenever it snows in school kids act like they’ve never seen [...]

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Just Another Day in Jersey

April 1, 2008

Here are a few tidbits from the Garden State on this very slow news day:

Truckers, looking for vengeance due to high diesel prices, take it out on (where else!) the New Jersey Turnpike by stalling traffic in one of the nation’s busiest corridors.  Tax and cut Governor Jon Corzine was not present to extract extra [...]

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New Jersey A National Bellwether?

November 8, 2005

According to the New York Times, “In a swing state often considered a national bellwether, voters leaving polling stations today explained their choices in terms of issues that go beyond local concerns, like embryonic stem cell research, the Iraq war and gay marriage.”  They are describing New Jersey.
New Jersey a national bellwether????!! That’s why NJ [...]

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