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Dear Rush: Pardon my French, but you’re full of s***! As I listened to your show last week, you chose to criticize and attack conservative Americans like myself who feel the Republican Party does not deserve to win in November. Rush, since when did you become such a shill for the GOP? Choosing the party over the base is a very disappointing move to this long time listener. I’m very disappointed in you, Rush Limbaugh, you’ve lost touch with the reality that is life for the common man in America. I heartily recommend you take pause and reconsider your programming...

Fox News' White House Wendell Goler reported tonight that Congressional Democrats have inquired with the Library of Congress whether administration officials like Karl Rove can be impeached.This was reported with a straight face by Goler......

A judge tossed out a lawsuit brought by a 115-year-old private club that sought to strike down no-smoking laws so it could continue to honor its members - who include Walter Cronkite and Carol Burnett - with ceremonies that include lighting up. The Players Club is no more entitled to special privileges with city and state health inspectors enforcing the laws than are pro-tobacco organizations that tried unsuccessfully to overturn them, U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero said Wednesday. "Individuals have no 'fundamental' constitutional right to smoke tobacco," the judge wrote.

<p>In 1990, New Jersey banned semiautomatic rifles known as assault weapons. Appalled gun fanciers joined hands with Hands Across New Jersey -- an anti-tax outfit -- to limit Gov. Jim Florio to one term. Florio was in due course beaten in the 1993 election, and the gun lobby -- the Coalition of New Jersey Sportsmen -- got a lot of credit.</p>

David will take on Goliath, Mar. 13, as Southern Golden Gate Estates property owner Jesse Hardy fights the state of Florida for 160 acres of land he has called home for 27 years.Located in what is called the "Hole in the Donut," the property is part of the state's 55,000-acre buy-out to restore natural water flows to the SGGE, once slated for development.Hardy says his property is not necessary to the restoration project and will not be adversely affected by it."I'm not against any of the environmentalists' work to re-hydrate the Southern Golden Gate Estates," he says. "I'm all for...

Bush Releases $200M in Heating AidFriday January 24, 2003 4:40 PMWASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush on Friday ordered the release of $200 million to a federal home heating aid program to help millions of low-income people pay their heating bills. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said the money would help such individuals ``respond to the rising cost of home heating oil, particularly during this cold snap.'' Fleischer said the president had directed the Department of Health and Human Services, which administers the program, to release the funds. Some 4.6 million Americans will receive assistance this year under the Low Income...

Piscataway gets OK to condemn farmland December 3, 2002 By Patrick Jenkins, Star-Ledger Staff pjenkins@starledger.com 732-634-3607 To submit a Letter to the Editor: eletters@starledger.com The future of the Cornell Dairy Farm was decided yesterday when a state judge granted Piscataway the power to condemn property that has been at the center of a bitter, three-year legal battle between the Halper family and township officials. Superior Court Assignment Judge Robert Longhi rejected arguments by Halper attorney John J. Reilly to dismiss the condemnation proceeding. Longhi restated his ruling from June 2000 that Piscataway had a legitimate purpose in taking the 75-acre...