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  • Just Because I'm Paranoid: Addressing Obstacles to Gun Control

    12/30/2013 4:26:52 PM PST · by marktwain · 19 replies
    didtheyvote.com ^ | 29 December, 2013 | Keith Kaplan
    The story of Joseph Pelleteri and others like him create one of the biggest obstacles to "commons sense" gun legislation -- the fear that otherwise law abiding citizens will be snared in a law enforcement nightmare.  It is that fear, embodied in the prosecutions of people attempting to navigate a labyrinthine system of regulations that dooms most gun control measures. Imagine winning a brand new sports car with a V8 engine in a contest hosted by your local police department.  You keep the car in your garage, never driving it, and one day while the cops are at your home...
  • Atlantic City Cop Ordered to Pay $250,000 From Own Pocket to Citizen He Abused

    12/28/2013 6:47:50 AM PST · by marktwain · 17 replies
    photographyisnotacrime.com ^ | 22 December, 2013 | Carlos Miller
    We’ve seen so many police abuse lawsuits settled before making it to trial where cops admit no wrongdoing while guiltily dishing out thousands of taxpayer dollars that it’s surprising to see one actually make it to trial.And it’s absolutely flabbergasting to see it result in a cop ordered personably liable.The cop is none other than Sterling Wheaton of the Atlantic City Police Department, whom we became familiar with back in September when he drove up to a group of five fellow officers beating on a suspect and sicced his dog on him in an incident caught on surveillance video.Then we...
  • Two teens killed, one injured in Christmas night shooting in Newark

    12/26/2013 5:10:44 AM PST · by Red in Blue PA · 3 replies
    Two teenagers were killed and another seriously wounded in a shooting late Christmas night in Newark, according to law enforcement authorities. A 13-year-old boy and 14-year-old girl were shot dead, Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio and Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray said in a statement to the Star-Ledger.
  • Shooting outside New Jersey strip club leaves 3 dead, 2 injured on Christmas

    12/26/2013 5:12:18 AM PST · by Red in Blue PA · 29 replies
    An armed man angry because he wasn’t allowed inside a New Jersey jiggle joint Christmas morning opened fire, killing three men — including the bouncer — and wounding two others, officials said. The man tried to enter Slick’s GoGo Bar in Irvington with his gun, but was stopped by a bouncer after he was patted down and the weapon was found around 12:45 a.m., according to officials and reports.
  • New Jersey 'go-go bar' shooting: 3 dead, 2 hurt

    12/25/2013 11:02:51 AM PST · by Libloather · 52 replies
    NBC News ^ | 12/25/13 | Alexander Smith
    Three men were shot dead and two others wounded outside a "go-go bar" in New Jersey early Christmas morning, officials said. The shooting happened outside Slick's Go-Go Bar, in Irvington, N.J., at 12.45 a.m. ET on Wednesday, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office told NBC News. The prosecutor's office identified two of the victims as Pierre Clervoyant Jr., 34, the son of the club's owner, and Woodley Daniel, 32, an employee of the club.
  • Man gunned down outside luxury NJ mall (thought NJ was a gun free zone?)

    12/16/2013 5:28:47 AM PST · by Red in Blue PA · 35 replies
    Carjackers shot and killed a man in front of his horrified wife Sunday in the parking structure of an upscale New Jersey mall. The 30-year-old victim was attacked by two thugs and shot in the head at The Mall at Short Hills in Millburn at around 9:10 p.m. “It was at least two gunshots. People started ducking and panicking,” Rick Ramos, who works at the mall’s California Pizza Kitchen, told The Post. “We had to barricade everyone inside. I could hear a woman screaming her head off. It was brutal. She was shrieking.”
  • Senators Booker, Menendez join fast for immigration reform

    12/12/2013 1:54:55 PM PST · by moonshinner_09 · 14 replies
    MSBC ^ | 12/12/13 | Traci G. Lee
    New Jersey Sens Robert Menendez and Cory Booker will join activists in Washington, D.C., for a 24-hour fast in support of immigration reform. “I’m sure that there are those who said, when Dr. King led marches and boycotts, that that was extreme and not herding the cause of movement to civil rights. I’m sure that there are those who considered Rosa Parks’ defiance in sitting in the front of the bus and not the back of the bus not productive,” Menendez said in a video posted Wednesday from the fast. “So history teaches us that while we would love to...
  • AP: NJ City to Quiz Gun Vendors on Safety Issues

    12/11/2013 3:04:52 PM PST · by Red in Blue PA · 23 replies
    New Jersey's second-largest city is adopting a novel approach to gun control by requiring weapons-makers bidding on municipal contracts to answer questions about their positions on gun safety issues. Jersey City, a city of 250,000 across the Hudson River from Manhattan, is believed to be the first U.S. municipality to incorporate social responsibility questions into public contract bids. Mayor Steven Fulop says he wants municipalities to use their purchasing power to influence America's gun-safety conversation. The bid specification going out Wednesday — for roughly $200,000 worth of guns and $150,000 in ammunition — includes six questions measuring vendors' gun safety...
  • Immigrant Rights Advocates Protest At Elizabeth Detention Center

    12/10/2013 4:33:20 PM PST · by moonshinner_09 · 3 replies
    http://CBS.NEWYORK ^ | Dec 10,2013 ? | CBS.NEWYORK
    Immigrant Rights Advocates Protest At Elizabeth Detention Center ELIZABETH, NJ - DECEMBER 10: Protesters block the entrance of an immigrant detention center on December 10, 2013 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. A coalition of immigrant advocacy groups marked international Human Rights Day, staging the civil disobedience action at the Elizabeth Detention Center, and eight protesters were arrested by police. Organizers said the event was designed to draw attention to the continued mass deportations of undocumented immigrants by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as well as Congress' inability to pass immigration reform. The Obama administration is on track to have removed...
  • BREAKING: NEW JERSEY ACTION SHUTTING DOWN OBAMA’S DEPORTATION QUOTA

    12/10/2013 11:05:13 AM PST · by moonshinner_09 · 17 replies
    notonemoredeportation.com ^ | December 10th, 2013 | notonemoredeportation.com
    Elizabeth, NJ – December 10th, 2013 During the week that Congress will close for 2013 without having passed an immigration reform bill, a group of Jersey residents locked themselves together in the street that serves as an entrance to the Elizabeth Detention Center (625 Evans St.) to protest the President’s deportation arbitrary quota policy and call on him to stop removals and expand deferred action instead. “We can’t let more families to be separated. We can’t wait for Congress. After what I saw my family go through I want to help other families that are in the same situation,” explains...
  • Waitress claiming couple didn’t tip because she’s gay gets fired

    12/07/2013 2:15:23 PM PST · by conservative98 · 108 replies
    New York Post ^ | December 7, 2013 | Kate Briquelet
    A New Jersey waitress who raked in thousands in donations after claiming a couple didn’t tip her because she’s gay was fired from her job on Saturday. Dayna Morales, 22, was finally canned from Gallop Asian Bistro in Bridgewater — nearly a month after she made national headlines over what’s likely a hoax. (snip) “She exaggerated every story,” former coworker Julie Howat told The Post. “I knew [the receipt] was fake. When the articles came out, everyone at my job laughed.”
  • Crime Rate in Camden, NJ Going Down After Unionized Police Force Sacked

    11/30/2013 3:56:30 AM PST · by cutty · 16 replies
    Reason 24/7. ^ | Nov. 27, 2013 | Ed Krayewski
    Last year, the city of Camden decided to can its unionized police force in favor of ununionized county cops who hit the streets this April. ... The city has been run exclusively by Democrats for several generations, and some local leaders openly worried that Camden, which already had the highest crime rate per capita last year, would get worse. But it hasn’t. In fact, crime’s gone down
  • Crime rate plunges after city dumps unionized police (Camden,NJ)

    11/30/2013 10:55:10 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 25 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 11/30/2013 | Thomas Lifson
    Camden, New Jersey dumped its unionized police force last spring, unable to afford the lucrative union contract the city was stuck with, and instead contracted for police services with the nonunion county force. Crime promptly dropped. Ed Krayewski reports for Reason: The city has been run exclusively by Democrats for several generations, and some local leaders openly worried that Camden, which already had the highest crime rate per capita last year, would get worse. But it hasn't. In fact, crime's gone down, as Fox News Latino reports: The reorganization increased the amount of police on the streets and incorporated cutting...
  • New Jersey Opens Up for Online Gambling

    11/26/2013 6:58:01 PM PST · by Libloather · 5 replies
    NY Times ^ | 11/26/13 | KATE ZERNIKE
    New Jersey began allowing Internet gambling on Tuesday in a much-watched bet that there are untapped sources of revenue on bedside iPads and cubicle desktops, and even among people checking their phones while they wait in line for coffee. Gambling analysts say it is the most significant development since casinos opened in Atlantic City over three decades ago, ultimately setting off what became a furious competition among states for a share of the take.
  • FREEP THIS POLL: Should Chris Christie sign bill allowing in-state tuition to illegal aliens?

    11/25/2013 3:52:37 PM PST · by montag813 · 28 replies
    New Jersey Star Ledger ^ | 11-25-2013 | Stand With Arizona on Facebook
    Please take a moment to vote in this poll on the #1 news website serving New Jerseyans: "Should Chris Christie sign a bill allowing in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants?" I think you know the answer to that. Now let's use our numbers and make Gov. Christie understand the price he will pay in 2016 if he hands a tuition gift to illegal aliens now. VOTE AND SHARE! LINK TO POLL HERE
  • Chris Christie is no presidential contender

    11/18/2013 4:04:48 PM PST · by ReformationFan · 26 replies
    One News Now ^ | 11-18-13 | Star Parker
    If the last two presidential elections tell us anything, it’s that Republicans don’t succeed with candidates who lack clear vision and conviction consistent with the party’s conservative platform. Given this, I understand why Democrats think that New Jersey governor Chris Christie should be a leading contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. But why would any Republican see a typical political operative like Christie as presidential material? With the information we have in front of us today, there is every reason to believe that 2016 will be a year of opportunity for Republicans to run a serious and exciting reform-minded...
  • Did Chris Christie just try to knife an ally?

    11/08/2013 11:17:33 AM PST · by Pan_Yan · 11 replies
    Washington Post ^ | November 8 at 9:23 am | Reid Wilson
    New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), fresh off a landslide reelection win and seemingly with an eye on the 2016 presidential race, spent Thursday trying to oust a longtime Republican ally from power. Christie and his staff lobbied Republican state senators to dump their leader, Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean Jr., after three terms atop the GOP conference. At least four Republican senators paraded through Christie’s office Thursday morning to get the hard sell. ... Christie appeared to defer to Democrat Sweeney too, angering some in Kean’s camp. In the days before the election, when Christie turned his attention to...
  • Health insurance cancellation notices soar above Obamacare enrollment rates (NJ - 800,000)

    10/24/2013 2:12:44 PM PDT · by Libloather · 34 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 10/24/13
    **SNIP** Nearly 800,000 New Jersey residents’ health-care plans will not longer exist in 2014, forcing insurers to create new ones for individuals and small business owners that hew to the Obamacare’s new regulations, The New Jersey Star Ledger found in early October. “I don’t feel like I need to change, but I have to,” Jeff Learned, a television editor in Los Angeles, told Kaiser Health News. Learned now needs to scramble to find a plan to coverage his teenage daughter, whose health problems have required several surgeries. More Americans have lost their individual health coverage in Florida and California than...
  • Chris Christie drops appeal of NJ state court ruling authorizing gay marriage

    10/21/2013 8:48:05 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 13 replies
    Hotair ^ | 10/21/2013 | AllahPundit
    I’m a little surprised, even though he’s undoubtedly correct that the appeal was doomed. The New Jersey Supreme Court all but legalized gay marriage in its provisional ruling on Friday; a final ruling next year upholding that judgment was a fait accompli.But as we spent the last three weeks discovering, the fact that a fight is obviously unwinnable and possibly self-defeating from the start is no excuse not to undertake it. Gov. Chris Christie announced today that he was dropping the fight against same-sex marriage in New Jersey by withdrawing his his appeal of a major case that was being...
  • Election officials report light to steady turnout for US Senate election

    10/16/2013 12:36:33 PM PDT · by Gefn · 18 replies
    NEwark Star Ledger ^ | 10/16/2013 | Matt Friedman
    It's been one of the biggest questions leading up to today's special election for US Senate, how many people would actually turn out to vote?