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TRENTON, N.J. — The independent candidate running for governor in New Jersey says a Massachusetts Republican has urged him to quit the race. Chris Daggett says he’s received two phone calls and an e-mail from Christy Mihos, who warned that Daggett would be blamed if Republican Chris Christie loses a bid to unseat Democrat Jon Corzine.

The fastest-growing political group in America is "none of the above." There is mounting evidence that even as Democrats slog through a bruising health debate, mounting deficits and bleak unemployment numbers, those political difficulties aren't doing much to directly help their foes, the Republicans. In fact, Republicans themselves are sliding in public esteem, so much so that some polls are finding support for GOP leaders reaching historic lows. The category that's growing in 2009, by contrast, is political independents. Data produced by the Pew Research Center, in fact, show the share of Americans identifying themselves as independents at a historic...

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. — If Republican Chris Christie is being outspent by Democratic incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine in New Jersey's down-to-the-wire gubernatorial election, independent Chris Daggett is being swamped. Corzine, a former Wall Street executive who funded his own winning campaigns for U.S. Senate in 2000 and governor in 2005, is paying his own way again his re-election effort.

Unbelievable....these NJ commies will never give up their power and corruption!!

Exposing the Hoax Please view our three minute video report on the real meaning behind "Green Acres." To our astonishment, a number of State Legislators continue to support this reckless and irresponsible program. With the highest property taxes in the country, the worst and most destructive income tax in America, and a crippling debt load that threatens the future of our state, Democrat and Republican lawmakers join together for a bi-partisan fleecing of our state’s already over burdened taxpayers. Check out our Question One Scorecard and find out who has the guts to stand up against more debt and higher...

Dont forget to vote on november 3rd. please view this link for who the gun rights candidates are in your district. http://www.nrapvf.org/ELECTIONS/State.a ... 9&State=NJ If you do not know the district you are in, please click the following link: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/districts/ ... lities.asp

37 minutes agoCHATHAM, N.J. — A priest has been found dead in a New Jersey church rectory, and investigators are treating it as a crime.There was no word Friday afternoon on how the Rev. Ed Hinds died. The clothed body of the 61-year-old priest was found at St. Patrick's Church in Chatham in the morning.Capt. Jeffrey Paul of the Morris County prosecutor's office tells The Star-Ledger of Newark that the area is "being treated as a crime scene."Police have closed off a four-block area around the church. Chatham is about 10 miles west of Newark.Hinds has been at the parish...

NEWARK, N.J. -- A private security guard at Newark Liberty International Airport was arrested on charges of threatening Barack Obama the night before the president was to fly there. A Continental Airlines employee reported overhearing John Brek make threatening comments at an airport coffee cart Tuesday afternoon. The 55-year-old security guard was arrested several hours later, Port Authority spokesman John Kelly said. He denied making the threats, said Malcolm Wiley, a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service. Obama will be in New Jersey on Wednesday to campaign for New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine.

A new Monmouth University poll for Gannett New Jersey has the state's gubernatorial race in a dead heat two weeks before voters head to the polls. Once again, it's independent candidate Chris Daggett whose numbers are growing, pulling both major party candidates below the 40 percent line.

MAYS LANDING, N.J. - Eugene Robinson said sex was the last thing on his mind as he drove the pretty young woman who had asked for a ride to her motel. "I was waiting for God to send me the one that's supposed to be my Christian wife," he said. "That's what it says in the Bible." Yet within minutes of taking the woman to a cheap motel in neighboring Absecon, the 67-year-old Atlantic City Councilman and Baptist minister was receiving oral sex. "I was so surprised," he testified Wednesday in an Atlantic County courtroom. "I, um, hadn't really had...

Dozens of people, drawn by area “Tea Party” groups, protested on Monday across from a Burlington Township, NJ school — both about a video that has become an Internet sensation and the larger issue about molding young minds. (original video below) The video of a grade school’s performance for Black History Month flashed across the Internet like lightning: “Barack Hussein Obama…” And it became a lightning rod for groups who called it indoctrination: “Educate, don’t indocrinate!” Demonstrators chanted and waved signs on Monday morning across from the B. Bernice Young Elementary School, where the video was shot. Protesters Come to...

FRC Action PAC Endorses Chris Christie for New Jersey Governor Date: October 9, 2009 - Friday Washington, D.C. - Today FRC Action PAC, the political action committee connected to Family Research Council, is endorsing Chris Christie for New Jersey Governor. "Chris Christie will bring real change for New Jersey families. As a U.S. Attorney he was unapologetic in busting corrupt politicians," said Connie Mackey, President of FRC Action PAC. "As New Jersey's next governor he will continue to hold political leaders accountable." "He is a true friend to New Jersey's families, advocating school vouchers, smaller government, and pro-life legislation. New...

Another poll, this one from Rick Shaftan's Neighborhood Research, shows the race for Governor in a statistical dead heat. Republican Christopher Christie leads the Gov. Jon Crzine 36%-35%, with independent Christopher Daggett at 11%. Corzine's favorables are upside-down at 28%-46%, while Christie is also upside-down at 28%-31%. Daggett's favorables are at 17%-4%. Shaftan, a political consultant who works for conservative candidates, says that this is the first poll where Corzine and Christie have equal favorables, and that Corzine's favorables are actually higher among those definite in their intention to vote, 28% vs. 27%. According to Shaftan, the Daggett vote "is...

Conservatives 4 Palin blames Ed Gillespie, who’s soft on Mitt and hard on Palin, for turning Virginia candidate Bob McDonnell against her when he took over the campaign. But is this really so hard to understand that it requires an ulterior motive to explain it? Romney, Huckabee, Jindal, and Pawlenty have all been to Virginia on McDonnell’s behalf. Proof of a Gillespie vendetta against Palin? Or just basic no-brainer politics in not wanting to “benefit” from a cameo by someone whose favorable rating among independents is 33/59? McDonnell’s sitting on a nine-point lead in a state that broke for Obama...

Great chance for liberty lovers to meet, check out the facility for future meets and to discuss possible TEA party. Special table marked FR will be set up. Glen Spey Oktoberfest at MountainView Returns Historic Manor Celebrates 2nd Annual Oktoberfest, October 10 & 11 in Glen Spey, NY After a tremendous Oktoberfest last year, Verkhovyna - MountainView Manor will continue this new tradition for its second consecutive year on Saturday, October 10 and Sunday, October 11. MountainView Manor is located at 369 High Road, Glen Spey, New York and is home to the historic Ardmore Mansion, which has been recently...

Environmental Group Endorses Republican. No, Really. The New Jersey Environmental Federation has been around for almost 30 years, and has never endorsed a Republican for statewide office. Until today. Here's the statement from New Jersey Republican State Committee Chairman Jay Webber: The contrasts between Chris Christie and Governor Corzine in this race remain stark. Governor Corzine's broken promises and failed record on the environment were clear in his failure to secure key endorsements from environmental groups last month, and are unmistakably punctuated with the endorsement of Chris Christie by the New Jersey Environmental Federation today. Chris is the only candidate...

HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, N.J. - The last of six wolf-hybrid dogs who escaped from a fenced in property in northwestern New Jersey this week has returned home.

Once upon a time, when you were just a kid, Mom or Dad probably read you "The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge.” And years later maybe you read this 1942 classic by Hildegarde H. Swift to your own children.   Little Red was saved twice by children, once from being auctioned off and once from neglect. The story begins with the introduction of a little lighthouse sitting on the rocky Manhattan shore of the Hudson River.  “It was round and fat and red. It was fat and red and jolly. And it was very, very proud.”  The...

Rick Pressl burst into the board of trustees meeting, a boyish exuberance overcoming his normally reserved temperament. The retired fire chief pulled aside Tanya Sulikowski, the executive director of the Schiff Natural Lands Trust, to show off a rusty, barely recognizable object. It was a Revolutionary War era stirrup, Pressl said, his first major find while excavating the nature preserve. He would soon have much more to show the board. This summer, he and a few students from Ridge High School, unearthed spoons, tongs, nails, horseshoes and several other historic artifacts. The group also discovered a set of four brass...

The Burlington Township School District in New Jersey is no stranger to political controversy. The district, which is being criticized for a video that shows elementary school students singing President Obama's praises, drew howls in March 2007 when it hosted an "emergency management exercise" at Burlington Township High School. The purpose of the mock terror drill, according to a statement released by township officials, was to "evaluate the response and mitigation procedures" of police, fire and emergency medical services. But conservatives were incensed that the district invented a fictional right-wing fundamentalist group it called the "New Crusaders" for the exercise....

The principal of a New Jersey elementary school where young students were videotaped singing the praises of President Obama is making no apologies for the videotape and says she would allow the performance again if she could, according to parents who spoke with her Thursday night. Three parents told FOXNews.com that Dr. Denise King, principal of B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, N.J., defended the controversial performance, which was videotaped and posted on YouTube, when they approached her during a "Back to School" event. Parent Jim Angelillo said King told him the lesson was merely part of Black History...

"Video shot by Charisse-Carney Nunes and uploaded to her youtube account here... You can clearly see her book "I am Barack Obama" on a stand to the left of the kids by the stage. She was there to pimp her book. She is a former Harvard Law School friend of Obama's. She is the Senior VP of Programs for the Jamestown Project... Drudge posted the video on his page and I spoke to the guy who posted the video tonight for over an hour. He emailed Charisse as a "fan" and got her to give up that the school was...

New Jersey homeowners put 7 percent of their paychecks toward property taxes in 2008 — the highest in the country, a tax group said today. The state, with the highest property taxes in the nation, is home to six of the nation’s 10 most expensive counties, according the Tax Foundation, a nonprofit group that analyzed Census data released this week. But this year’s list was better for New Jersey than 2007, when the state claimed seven of the top 10 spots.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Three teenagers who say they were tossed from a New Jersey ballpark for sitting through the song "God Bless America" are suing the minor league Newark Bears.

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Arguments are scheduled Monday in the 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia on a school district's decision to censor Christmas carols – even holiday melodies without words. Attorneys with the Thomas More Law Center say they will argue to reverse a lower court ruling affirming a policy in the South Orange-Maplewood School District that banned the music after someone complained. The law firm says the school's ban was specifically aimed at preventing Christmas music, including simple instrumentals without words, during holiday concernts. The district had allowed the performance of traditional Christmas music for more than 60 years but...

Thank you sooooo much to the fantastic people of New Jersey!! We just completed our last Tea Party Express rally before we hit Washington, D.C. and we were blown away. We arrived 1 1/2 hours late (due to atrocious traffic on the roads from Bridgeport, CT) and again faced a cold, windy, rain-soaked environment. But much to our excitement and dismay — we were greeted by a tremendous crowd of thousands of enthusiastic patriots. When we finally pulled up to the rally at the Town Hall square in Toms River, NJ the police were on hand to escort our big...

NJ FReepers! A co-worker from North Jersey wants to go to DC for 9/12 with her husband. They would be driving down. She is not a FReeper (she didn't even know about FR until I told her about it today) but is interested in getting together with a New Jersey group. Are any of you planning to meet up down in DC, or caravan down? I'll pass along the info if you have it. Sorry for the late request.

Thanks everyone for turning out, even if only in spirit. Estimated attendance was 5700-6000, well above the 4000 of July 4th. We were greeted early Monday AM to flyers taped to every light pole around the green denouncing us as "Racists & Seditionists." Other than that, no problems at all from a handful of opposition protesters. Everyone appeared to have had a very good time.

This is what happened when a Raritan, New Jersey woman programmed Glenn Beck's 5:oop.m. show on her Cable DVR Program,...she documents the results with a handheld camera...

God, I’ve got a headache. I just got back from the Townhall Meeting with Rush Holt, and as promised I’ve started drinking. A lot. I need to. And maybe you will too if these things go through. The meeting was scheduled to start at 7pm, so like a good anal-retentive type I got there at 4:30…and I was about the 20th person on line.

Folks, check your NJ driver license for the expiration date. How often do you look at your license? Like me, probably not very often. The other day, I pulled out my license in preparation for an ID screening (for a potential job opportunity). When I looked at it, I noticed it had expired IN JANUARY. And I NEVER received a notice to renew. Like you, I have the new high-tech license -- which can't be renewed by mail. You'd think they would send a notice to renew. So I'm going down to DMV first thing in the morning to straighten...

August 25, 2009 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Red Bank Middle School 101 Harding Road Red Bank, NJ‎ Google Map http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

The patches of dense hair, located near the white-tipped pincers, earned the Chinese mitten crab its deceptively benign name. But there is nothing soft or comforting about these invasive Asian critters, and lately that have taken a sudden shine to New Jersey waters. While long treasured as a culinary delight in their native East Asia, the crabs have become a scourge to most everyone else. In Europe, they have eroded estuaries by burrowing into earthen dams and river banks. In California, the only state where they have gained a major foothold so far, mitten tribes have exploded into a major...

There are thousands of varieties of the insect, their movements are fascinating and their population numbers are excellent indicators of the environment. They transform, within weeks, from squishy, accordion-like caterpillars to winged creatures whose pollination keeps wild plants and flowers alive. Some, like the famed Monarch, migrate thousands of miles with the seasons, while many may never travel more than 100 yards from where they were born. "There's a lot going for them," said Jeffrey Glassberg, president and founder of the North American Butterfly Association, which he runs out of an office in his Convent Station home. And with butterfly...

Backyard swimming pools in foreclosed homes have become popular breeding grounds for mosquitoes in North Jersey — and officials are fighting back with fish. Bergen County Mosquito Control workers have dumped some 30,000 fish in abandoned, stagnant pools of foreclosed homes and other spots to control an explosion of mosquitoes without pesticides. The fish, called gambusia affins, or simply, mosquitofish, are no staple on restaurant menus. But they favor mosquito larvae and pupae. "They eat the mosquito larvae up like piranhas," said Peter Rendine, the county mosquito control program's chief inspector, who has gone several times this summer to a...

Come September, hunters in New Jersey will have a new weapon to shoot — one that has been around since the Dark Ages.   Ramsey Outdoor salesman Paul Haines displaying a crossbow, which can shoot an arrow at more than 400 feet per second.  The mechanized crossbow can now be used by all when the fall bow season opens Sept. 12. Once feared by armored cavalry as far back as the Crusades, the crossbow is the state's newest weapon in a battle on two fronts: a declining number of hunters and a growing deer problem, particularly in suburban areas. "If it...

OLD BRIDGE -- A drama teacher at Old Bridge High School pleaded guilty today to having a four-month sexual relationship with one of her students last year. Lisa Glide, 35, of Howell Township, tearfully admitted to Superior Court Judge Frederick De Vesa in New Brunswick that she had sexual relations with one of her male students twice. But under questioning by her attorney, Michael Nolan, she said neither time was on high school property.

Now, New Jersey authorities fear the next target is the state's ash trees -- the same northern white ash already threatened in Pennsylvania and New York, where the timber is a coveted source for the "Louisville Slugger" and other major league baseball bats. The culprits are invading bugs. The Asian longhorned beetle that was destroying maples in and around Jersey City for years has been eradicated, for now, said environmental and agricultural officials today. But they took no time to celebrate. The state departments of Environmental Protection and Agriculture jointly urged people to keep a look-out for new infestations of...

There are two universes of American gun culture. In one universe, the Second Amendment is a stanchion of protected American freedoms, as sacred as free speech. In this universe, when the right to bear arms dies, so does a free America. In another universe, guns make blood run in our city streets. They kill and maim criminals and innocent alike, make good people prisoners in their own homes. Last week in New Jersey, it wasn't hard to visit both universes. At the Riverdale Pistol Club Range in Passaic County, instructors from the National Rifle Association were teaching first-timers how to...

Watch Video  2No surfing allowed at Sandy Hook because of threat of rip current The National Park Service issued a "no water entry" order for Sandy Hook Saturday and Sunday, forbidding bathers and surfers alike from entering the water, fearing they could be swept away by rip currents formed by Hurricane Bill. Surfers, who are often exempt when bathing is prohibited due to high surf conditions in other parts of New Jersey, were surprised and frustrated.

In the midst of their protracted fight over political corruption and allegations of ethical misdeeds, Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine and Republican contender Chris Christie are having another heated battle -- this time on health policy. While the issue seems one for the wonks, it's prompted a nasty volley of charges. Through news conferences and testimonials from breast cancer survivors, Corzine's supporters say Christie is indifferent to women's health issues because he proposed a low-cost insurance plan that excludes any legally mandated health benefits. Such a plan, Corzine's allies forcefully say, would undo a law enacted five years ago that requires...

In the firmament of Jersey Shore boardwalks, Seaside would rank a very dead last. Tacky, seedy, dumpy -- these are some of the nicer things people have said about the Shore's most-maligned destination. But Seaside Heights and its somewhat better-behaved cousin, Seaside Park, make for the second best Jersey boardwalk experience. Only Wildwood -- livelier boardwalk, more rides and that incomparable, and free, beach -- tops Seaside. You can spend a day on the Seaside boardwalk and have enough material for a major motion picture, or novel. And enough food to last all summer. Start with a cheesesteak at Midway...

This is what it's like to nearly lose your home. Usually smiling, Martha Abraham was angry all the time. A parent liaison for Newark public schools, Abraham goes to basketball games for kids whose parents don't show up. She was used to telling them not to give up hope. But people interested in buying her house were starting to come by. She turned them away, saying it was her home and she still lived there. She was losing chunks of her hair from the stress. Abraham, 42, just wanted to prove to the bank she'd made her mortgage payments on...

NEWARK—Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini and Edward Cheatam, an official in both Hudson County and Jersey City, were charged today in a one-count Indictment with conspiring to extort corrupt cash payments, illicit political contributions and other benefits under color of official right, in return for Beldini’s and an elected Jersey City official’s influence in Jersey City government matters, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr., announced. Beldini, 74, and Cheatam, 61, both of Jersey City, were originally arrested on a criminal Complaint on the morning of July 23, 2009, along with 42 other individuals, resulting from a two-track federal...

The "Save New Jersey" blog produces quality work. They've hit on a "Godfather" theme to explore Corzine's filthy approach to governing. Six million dollars of his money to a girlfriend that ran one of the largest unions working for his state constitutes filth by any standard. Here's the latest video:

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. — A dozen New Jersey hospitals are paying doctors as an incentive to save the hospitals money.

On a rainy day last week in Long Branch, NJ, Bob Dylan, wearing a hood, was peering into a for-sale home when a neighbor called the police fearing he might be a burglar. Two young officers arrived on the scene and neither of them knew who Bob Dylan was. They asked for I.D. - he had none but explained he was a musician on tour with John Mellencamp and they were set to play at a nearby stadium in Lakewood. Without fuss or anger, Mr. Dylan was escorted back to his tour bus where he produced I.D.

NEW Jersey's incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine thinks Republican challenger Chris Christie, who's clobbering him in the polls, is hiding something. A press release sent out by Corzine, a former US senator as well as the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, accuses Christie, a major fund-raiser for George W. Bush, of failing to comply with his campaign's efforts to obtain basic information about Christie's stint as the Garden State's US attorney.

New Jersey's subsidized health insurance program for the working poor came under attack in the U.S. Senate this week for being too generous, and state officials rallied to its defense.  Governor Corzine traveled to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to lobby his former colleagues to extend and expand the 10-year-old program, which expires at the end of September. He also urged defeat of Republican amendments that would reduce the federal money New Jersey would get. Cost of living variations New Jersey battled attempts to mandate a single income cutoff for federal health insurance subsidies by arguing that the same amount...