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Last night's Candle Light Vigil in Fieldsboro, organized by the citizens, pardon me, make that family of Fieldsboro, was widely covered by the news media. Nutty Buddy, the Mayor of Fieldsboro, has done a great thing, h e's really brought the people of that town together. Mayor Nutty Buddy Tyler was interviewed by EVERY Philadelphia station and two from NYC. At the end of the report by Sharon Crowley of FOX Philadelphia, she noted that the controversy isn't over and that a rally was planned for Saturday. She said that Mayor Nutty Buddy had told her that he would...

MODERATORS: As this is a Freep on a short fuse, please leave in "Breaking News" all day Saturday. Have an idea for a protest against the "Fieldsboro's Stinking Six" who have equated Yellow Ribbons supporting our troops with the Nazi flag. Fieldsboro is 5 minutes from Exit 7 of the New Jersey Turnpike. The exact location is Rt 130 and Dunn's Mill Rd. Dunn's Mill Rd crosses Rt 130, a tenth of a mile south of the junction of I-295 and Rt 130 in Bordentown. There is a NJ State Police Barracks and a NJ National Guard Maintenance Facility...

U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. Welcome to "Warrior Wednesday" Where the Freeper Foxhole introduces a different veteran each Wednesday. The "ordinary" Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Marine who participated in the events in our Country's history. We hope to present events as seen through their eyes. To give you a glimpse into the life of those who sacrificed for all of us -...

The Donald & Paula Smith Family Foundation Presents a debate Immigration: Who Gets In? Featuring Donald J. Boudreaux Chairman, Department of Economics, George Mason University Peter Brimelow Author, Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster & Columnist, CBS Market Watch Michelle Malkin Author, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals & Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores & Syndicated Columnist, Creators Syndicate Frank Sharry Executive Director, National Immigration Forum America is the most popular destination for emigrants in world history. The ideals of individualism and freedom are stronger here than blood ties or mere regional loyalties. Our diversity has...

<p>Many of Trent Lott's defenders have been saying he's not a racist.</p> <p>Of course he's a racist -- if by "racist" you mean someone who believes the government should act differently toward each individual citizen based on that citizen's skin color.</p>

Newark Archbishop John J. Myers issued a pastoral letter Wednesday that expresses his traditional Catholic positions on human sexuality, but makes no mention of the clergy sex abuse scandal that has thrown his church into crisis. The 13-page document, titled "And the Word became Flesh," is Myers' most explicit statement of principles since he became spiritual leader of the archdiocese 14 months ago. The letter dwells on the sanctity of the human body, and how some behavior - including sex outside marriage and sex with contraception - damages the spiritual integrity of the body. Myers said his letter grew out...

<p>New Jersey tax collections continued to fall short of projections by millions of dollars in November, worsening the state budget picture and prompting the Treasurer to warn that a freeze on state spending may be needed in coming months.</p> <p>Treasurer John McCormac said tax returns for November fell $115 million short of projections, with a sharp drop in sales tax returns highlighting the bad news.</p>

Academy thriving a year after Paterson takeover Thursday, December 05, 2002 By SCOTT FALLON Staff Writer Sixth-grade student Joseph Moore. (DANIELLE P. RICHARDS/THE RECORD) PATERSON At a glance, the Alexander Hamilton Innovative Academy looks today much like it did in September 2001 when it was still a charter school. Classes still have no more than 15 students. The teachers are still young and inexperienced, but full of energy. And parental involvement remains high. But only a year ago the school was emerging from a two-year morass that saw financial mismanagement, lack of leadership, abysmal standardized test scores, and even embezzlement...

Pathologist helps clear N.J. cop in wife's death Thursday, December 05, 2002 By JOHN CURRAN Associated Press MAYS LANDING - A police officer accused of suffocating his wife was cleared Wednesday after prosecutors acknowledged she died of coronary artery failure. A medical examiner had called her death a homicide and listed the cause of death as asphyxiation. "It was the most disgraceful thing," said Officer James Andros III. "I can't imagine how it ever happened." Andros, 34, was charged with murder in the March 31, 2001, death of his wife, Ellen, who was found dead by her husband after he...

The younger of two men arrested Thursday morning in connection with the Washington, D.C.-area sniper shootings is believed to have attended public school last year in south Fort Myers. John Lee Malvo, 17, was arrested at a rest stop in Frederick County, Md., and is one of two suspects in recent sniper attacks that have left 10 individuals dead and three wounded. Lee County school officials confirm that a teenager named Lee Boyd Malvo attended Cypress Lake High from Aug. 13 to Oct. 16, 2001, and authorities presume that individual is the same person arrested Thursday. Police also arrested John...

"Somebody Blew Up America" By Amiri Baraka Somebody Blew Up America They say its some terrorist, some barbaric A Rab, in Afghanistan It wasn't our American terrorists It wasn't the Klan or the Skin heads Or the them that blows up nigger Churches, or reincarnates us on Death Row It wasn't Trent Lott Or David Duke or Giuliani Or Schundler, Helms retiring It wasn't The gonorrhea in costume The white sheet diseases That have murdered black people Terrorized reason and sanity Most of humanity, as they pleases They say (who say?) Who do the saying Who is them paying Who...

Informant: Top cop mob-friendly Wednesday, October 16, 2002 By WENDY RUDERMAN AND CLINT RILEY Trenton Bureau A confidential informant linked to organized crime told a state police investigator that he feared for his life if Newark Public Safety Director Joseph Santiago became the state police superintendent, state police documents show. On Jan. 11, the day Governor-elect James E. McGreevey announced his intention to nominate Santiago for the state police post, the informant told an investigator that he was afraid Santiago would have access to state police files on informants. "I'm dead if he sees who I am," the informant told...