It’s bad enough the federal government spies on us. Must it insult our intelligence too?
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It’s bad enough the federal government spies on us. Must it insult our intelligence too?
PERTH AMBOY -- Leslie Dominguez-Rodriguez was re-elected as leader of the City Democratic Party by a 36 to 23 vote at the municipal committee's reorganization meeting last night at the ZPA.
Benjamin Franklin said, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
STATE -- General Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver will compete with two congressmen -- Reps. Frank Pallone and Rush Holt -- for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in the August 13th special primary election.
TRENTON – U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone hand-delivered nominating petitions to the state Division of Elections and formally announced his intention to run for the remaining term of the late U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg this afternoon.
NEW BRUNSWICK -- More than three quarters of New Jersey voters believe Gov. Chris Christie made a bad call when he scheduled a special election to replace the late U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg just three weeks before this year's general election, according to a new Rutgers-Eagleton Poll.
TRENTON -- Assemblyman Joseph Cryan refused to vote in committee for gun control legislation that was approved along partisan lines in the Legislature's upper house because he is engaged in a political battle with Senate President Steve Sweeney over the control of the state party apparatus.
I never thought of myself as a calm person. Given my family tree, I am convinced that it is not even genetically possible for me to be calm. Yet, many people who know me would be surprised to hear this because I am not an over-reactor to life’s curve balls. But on the inside? Appearances…
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Conservative Republicans in our nation’s capital have managed to accomplish something they only dreamed of when Tea Partiers streamed into Congress at the start of 2011: They’ve basically shut Congress down.
LIVINGSTON -- Summer is here and families across the state are spending their days outside enjoying the warm weather and the fun activities it brings.
