NEW YORK — Jurors can hear about New Jersey bombs at the October trial of a man charged in a 2016 New York bombing that injured 30 people, but they will not be told that he was arrested after a shootout with police, a judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman in Manhattan […]
A crowd of state and local politicos came out to the Dublin House in Red Bank on Tuesday night for a fundraiser to support Rob Cressen, former Executive Director of the NJ Republican State Committee under two governors and veteran of Assembly Republican Majority campaigns under former Speaker Jack Collins. Cressen has been battling […]
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Fresh off his official nomination last week, Glen Rock Councilman Bill Leonard has hired his first campaign staffer. Alex Cucciniello, 20, of Mahwah, has been hired to run the day-to-day operations of the campaign. Cucciniello is returning to New Jersey politics after spending the summer as an Intern at the White House in the Office […]
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Monmouth County Republican Chairman Shaun Golden issued a statement this morning congratulating newly elected Assemblyman Ned Thomson on his victory at the special election last evening and thanking all involved for a successful and orderly convention. “Congratulations to Assemblyman Thomson. I personally thank Ned for his willingness to take on the rigors of being […]
Before Charlottesville flipped the script? Even liberal rags like The Atlantic were beginning to discuss the rise of a “violent Left” embodied by the group “Antifa,” a radical, far-Left outgrowth of the Occupy Movement of the 2000s supportive of Marxist economic policies. Reporters on the ground in Charlottesville saw that Antifa was spoiling for a […]
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It’s easy to forget in the noisy aftermath that last weekend’s Charlottesville fiasco began with a fight over a Confederate monument, Save Jerseyans. No one was there to protest a particular law or governmental edict. Fringe factions clashed over publicly displayed… history. Put another way, they were there to force a confrontation over something immutable […]
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Online gambling, which got off to an unimpressive start initially, has turned it around and now is emerging as a significant source of revenue for the state. Nearly four years ago, when it was first introduced in New Jersey, online gambling missed revenue estimates by more than $100 million. But the gross revenue from New […]
PennEast Pipeline LLC is seeking an expedited order from a federal agency to fast track approval of its 120-mile project, arguing it is needed to meet obligations to ship natural gas to major energy markets. In a letter sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission this past Thursday, the company is asking the agency to […]
President Donald Trump returned from Bedminster, New Jersey to Washington, D.C. today to recap the weekend’s events in Charlottesville, Virginia. His Justice Department is opening a civil rights investigation. You can watch him here if you missed it. How’d he do? In your opinion? Weigh in: Do you approve of President Trump’s overall Charlottesville response? YES […]
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TRENTON — The head of a New Jersey pharmaceutical giant resigned in protest from a White House advisory board Monday, prompting President Donald Trump to attack the company on Twitter. Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier stepped down from the American Manufacturing Council, citing Trump’s response to the violence that unfolded at a white supremacist rally in […]
If a quorum of the the 30th district GOP County Committee members show up at the convention at the IBEW Local #400 union hall tonight, a new member of the State Assembly will be elected. 122 Committee members must show up for the convention to proceed. The winner must get 50% +1 of the […]
Posted with permission from The Dan Cirucci Blog — Every day in a multitude of situations, everywhere I turn I see Americans joining together, treating each other with respect and dignity and cooperating with one another. I see ALL Americans getting along with one another day in and day out. And I see this in a […]
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA | Eight years after it was proved – even more convincingly than the moon landing – that a black man can get elected president of the United States of America, we still have slow learners stuck in the past. It’s the “Obliterate History Neanderthals” versus the “I’m White and I’m Proud Brass Knuckle […]
Cory Booker (D-Twitter) is known for expertly mixing love with a calculated dosage of partisan intolerance in his ambition-driven social media diatribes, race-baiting for Hillary Clinton while auditioning for the vice presidency and, more recently, comparing Planned Parenthood activists to veterans of the D-Day landings. In the wake of Saturday’s fatal clash between Nazis and Communists/Socialist/Anti-Police […]
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—One person is dead and 19 are injured after a vehicle plowed through a group of people Saturday near a demonstration by self-proclaimed white nationalists who were met by counterprotesters. The incident, reportedly involving a silver or gray Dodge Charger, occurred in the early afternoon during clashes involving white supremacists and members of Black […]
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Attorneys on Thursday agreed to postpone Dr. Salomon Melgen’s sentencing in his Medicare fraud case until after he faces a federal jury in New Jersey along with U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez. Melgen an ophthalmologist, was scheduled to be sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida […]
