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Last night during the 101.5 Ask the Governor program, Governor Christie stated that he will veto Senate, No. S2239. Introduced September 13, 2010, this bill would establish a Health Care Reform Implementation Council and expand medicade. The audio of Governor Christie stating that he would veto the Weinberg bill can be heard here at approximately 1:50 into the segment.

Yesterday, a caller named Gina appeared on the Sean Hannity Show to question Governor Christie's stances on Cap & Trade and Obamacare. During the call, Sean mentioned reading our blog and, specifically, our recent entry pertaining to Bill S2239 which would set up the first Obamacare bureaucracy in the state -- called the NJ Health Care Reform Implementation Council. Mr. Hannity should be aware that Americans for Prosperity-New Jersey has pressured the Governor to join the multi-state lawsuits against Obamacare. Our petition drive yielded thousands of signatures this past spring yet the Governor failed to act. Subsequent to the federal...

PHILADELPHIA — An anti-Islamic Dutch lawmaker's visit to Temple University was cut short after a question and answer session turned nasty. Geert Wilders (VIL'-durz) was escorted from the Philadelphia university's lecture hall as some in the crowd of several hundred students began shouting jeers at the Dutch politician. Wilders' previous 30-minute address was met by a mixture of applause and boos Tuesday night at the public university serving about 34,000 students. He touched on common themes in his speeches, including calling the Muslim holy book, the Quran, "an evil book" that promotes violence and intolerance. The event was organized by...

The bitter war over Northeastern Hospital isn't over yet. Most of the battles in this months-long conflict have been won by Temple University Health System officials, who announced in March their decision to close the Port Richmond hospital because of mounting financial losses. Hundreds of layoffs followed when the hospital ceased inpatient services on June 30. Now, state Rep. John Taylor and other leaders who had fought to save the ill-fated hospital have fired a salvo that could deprive Temple University of $175 million in state and federal funds. "We told them we'd do this. Apparently they didn't understand," Taylor...

On Saturday August 8, 2009 my wife, children, and I attended a town hall meeting held by US Congressman John Adler, DEMOCRAT, Representative for New Jersey 3rd District. We arrived shortly after the meeting began, signed in, and found seats in the back of the assembly room, which was roughly the size of a gym. Few seats remained empty and people lined the perimeter walls. Essentially it was standing room only. Adler was speaking when we walked in and was touting what he saw as problems with the current health system. I heard him offer slight praise for health systems...

Thousands of low-income Coloradans reliant on public assistance could get a free cellphone under a plan before the state Public Utilities Commission. If approved, the plan by TracFone Wireless in Miami would make Colorado the 17th state it has settled into with free cell service for the indigent, a form of wireless welfare that proponents say taps into one of the last untapped markets for the telecom technology. "Our hope is to have it up and running by September," said Jose Fuentes, TracFone's director of government relations. "Historically, it's a very underutilized service, and we'd like that to change." The...

I'm writing this fairly quick because I wanted to see if anyone else in NJ experienced the same thing today. I just went to vote and was told I was not able to vote in the Republican primary because I was registered as a democrat. I've never voted for a democrat and have never registered with the dnc. "Well, someone must have entered the information wrong" is what I was told. "You'll have to take it up with the board of elections". Great. So I can't vote today? "Sure you can vote today. Just not in the Republican Primary."

Fernando Antonio Salguero grew up with his sister and mom in “a community of junkies and thieves” in a series of squats in Kensington. The worst year, he says, was 1985. Salguero is certain of this because it was the same year that Mayor Wilson Goode dropped a bomb on the West Philly building containing members of the radical group MOVE, killing six adults and five children. Salguero watched the bombing on a neighbor’s TV. 
 Salguero was 11 years old. This was also the year he, his mom and his younger sister learned to survive on the five gallons...

State authorities have removed Adolf Hilter Campbell and his two sisters from their parents' home in Holland Township, township police Chief David Van Gilson said today. New Jersey's Division of Youth and Family Services took the 3-year-old, as well as JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, 1, and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, who turns 1 in April, the chief said. The parents, Heath and Deborah Campbell, were to appear for a hearing today at the Hunterdon County Justice Center, the chief said, but the hearing was postponed. The chief didn't know why the children were taken but said his department received no...

The Bucks County "Mom Gone Wild" case ended yesterday with a split verdict that cleared Angela Honeycutt of the most serious sexual assault charges with underage boys, but left her facing a possible jail sentence on lesser charges. A jury in Bucks County Court convicted Honeycutt, 38, of two counts of corruption of minors, but acquitted her of statutory sexual assault arising from a teenage sleepover in Lower Makefield Township last April. Both sides in the lurid case claimed victory. "We're both extremely pleased," said defense lawyer Neils Eriksen. "It was exactly what we were hoping would happen, and it...

Bad News for McCain This morning, the talk radio guy, michael smerconish, stated he was voting for obama. WPHT airs Rush, Beck, and Hannity, but they have been shifting to the middle over the past couple of years, probably in order to bigger audience. They had Imus for a while, then replaced him with smerconish a few years ago. smerconish is a registered republican, served in the GHW Bush administration, and is a proponent of closed borders, the 2nd amendment, profiling, and has long advocated for Daniel Falwkner (the police officer murdered by mumia abdul jamail). He parts company with...

Bar Stool Economics Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3. The seventh would pay $7. The eighth would pay $12. The ninth would pay $18. The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59. So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite...

Today Senator Obama expressed his distress over the latest "made-up controversy". Here is a look at a couple of other controversies that popped up during this campaign. Obama Aide Concedes 'Dollar Bill' Remark Referred to His RaceObama Strategist Calls McCain's Attack Ad Insulting; McCain Camp Defends It By MARK MOONEY Aug. 1, 2008 Sen. Barack Obama's chief strategist conceded that the Democratic presidential candidate was referring to his race when he said Republicans were trying to scare voters by suggesting Obama "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills." The comment had triggered a charge Thursday from...

It didn't take John Walsh and a national TV show to start finding Philadelphia's Most Wanted. Just a week after Mayor Nutter and Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey released a list of 150 of the city's most violent felons, 21 have been captured. Five were wanted for rape, eight for robbery with a gun, and eight for aggravated assault with a gun. All were found locally. None made it to the ranks of the popular America's Most Wanted. "I'm very much encouraged," Ramsey said last night of the 14 percent dent in the number of suspected felons on the lam...

When Mayor Street spent 15 hours waiting in line for an iPhone recently, the city was not impressed by his love of new technology. Rather, Street had to answer to a passerby asking, "How can you sit here with 200 murders in the city already?" Local politicians say they know the source of the problem: the lack of gun control. Gov. Rendell recently complained the state legislature "has been in the control of the NRA." Street blames the increasing murder rate on "the dangerous proliferation of guns on our city streets." Last Tuesday, two City Council members announced the novel...

Photojournalist Captures the Troop Surge Firsthand, as Soldiers Navigate the Perils of Baghdad More than 30,000 U.S. troops are trying to tame the violence in Baghdad as part of President Bush's troop surge. American soldiers describe the constant stress of living in a war zone, voice their frustrations over the politics with the war strategy in Washington, and are seen as they watch an armored vehicle burn with six of their fellow troops trapped inside, in a rare and raw look at what American troops are experiencing on the front lines in Baghdad. ABC News has an exclusive look at...

On the first day of summer, two violent outbursts less than 15 hours apart and about two miles from each other left five people dead and a sixth person clinging to life. And before the night ended, another homicide was recorded, this time in Kingsessing. Thursday's six slayings - three young men gunned down in North Philadelphia in the early hours; two people killed, one critically wounded, in Kensington in the afternoon; and an unidentified man shot to death about 10:30 p.m. in Southwest Philadelphia's Kingsessing neighborhood - pushed the year's homicide total to 195, compared with 177 at the...

I was listening to the radio on this morning and heard a segment on an organization that has developed a website to highlight comments made by radical jihadist. The organization is Let Freedom Ring, Inc. They also have a tv commercial campaign encouraging others to visit their website. When you get a chance visit http://www.theirownwords.com "This site features constantly-updated examples of statements by religious extremists concerning the United States, Western Civilization, Israel and Christianity." From their About Page: "TheirOwnWords.com is a project of Let Freedom Ring, Inc., a public policy non-profit [501 (c)(4)] organization whose website is www.LetFreedomRingUSA.com. Our goal...

December 10, 2006 -- Police and firefighters yesterday rescued a Long Island man who had been trapped in his bedroom for four days after piling up a 7-foot-high mountain made up of bags of his own feces, jars of urine and other debris. An officer responded to Charles Ruoff's dilapidated home in Centerport around 3:30 a.m. after receiving an anonymous 911 call asking police to check up on the 64-year-old veteran who hadn't been seen in days. As he explored the house, the cop heard Ruoff calling weakly from a second-floor bedroom where he had walled himself in with a...

PARIS (AP) -- Vacationers visiting France's beaches are getting some unusual promotional goodies - such as condoms stamped with the logo of the ruling conservative political party. With presidential elections coming up in the spring, French politicians are testing new waters in a country that usually emphasizes rhetoric - speeches and pamphlets - over image-building buzz. Members of the conservative Union for a Popular Movement have been touring beaches and vacation spots across France with truckloads of party merchandise to shore up support for Nicolas Sarkozy, interior minister and party leader. Before the tour ends on Sept. 1, the party,...