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There is a sickness in the American mind, a willful forgetting of what is true and what is not. It did not begin yesterday, nor with the last election, but it has found its most potent vessel in the former president, a man who treats truth as a negotiable commodity. An apocryphal quote often attributedContinue reading “The sickness in America is that Trump’s supporters don’t know they have been duped”

There is a spectacle playing out in the halls of power that would have once seemed beneath the dignity of a republic, yet here we are, watching it unfold. The rock band Pearl Jam, veterans of a thousand stages and witnesses to decades of American life, has stepped into the arena not to sing, butContinue reading “Pearl Jam slam: Rock band urges fans to call senators in opposition to voting bill”

President Donald Trump’s war against Iran has set off an economic chain reaction so severe that the United States has been forced to abandon a core pillar of its foreign policy: the crippling of Russia’s war machine. With global oil prices spiraling past $100 a barrel after Tehran choked the Strait of Hormuz, the WhiteContinue reading “Trump sending another 2,500 Marines & 3 more warships to the Middle East”

March 17, 2026, marks the 80th anniversary of a pivotal moment in American history and professional sports. On this day in 1946, Jackie Robinson took the field for the Montreal Royals, the minor league affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming the first Black player to compete in organized professional baseball in the modern era. ThisContinue reading “March 17, 2026, marks 80 years since Jackie Robinson overcame racial segregation”

The Republican Party controls every lever of power in this coastal township of 95,000 souls. You would hardly know it watching them try to govern. What has unfolded here over the past year is not merely political disagreement but a full-blown civil war, complete with walkouts, personal insults, dueling legal opinions, and a government soContinue reading “Republican civil war paralyzes Toms River as mayor & council majority trade blows”

Some of New Jersey’s most powerful Democratic leaders are lining up behind State Sen. Joseph Cryan for re-election in 2027, offering a full-throated endorsement that places political loyalty above his documented history of ethical failings, including greed, deception, and the manipulation of public resources for personal gain. Senate President Nicholas Scutari, who leads the UnionContinue reading “Union County Democratic bosses eagerly support greedy, anti-abortion villain”

Mark Twain is often reputed to have said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes,” —and when it comes to American presidents declaring victory in the Middle East, the couplets are becoming embarrassingly predictable. We are witnessing the latest verse in this sorry saga: Donald Trump, airborne aboard Air Force One, declaring that IranContinue reading “Trump saying Iran is ‘essentially defeated’ is like Bush’s ‘Mission Accomplished’”

Governor Mikie Sherrill’s proposed $60.7 billion state budget would have very different impacts on four Union County school districts with the same legislative representation, with two seeing major funding cuts, one getting a big increase, and the other staying close to the same. Under the Fiscal Year 2027 proposal, Elizabeth schools would lose $1,616,638 inContinue reading “Sherrill budget proposes steep cuts to some of Union County’s biggest school districts”

A leading voice for government accountability issued a direct challenge to Governor Rebecca ‘Mikie’ Sherrill to repair the extensive damage done to public transparency by the administration of outgoing Governor Phil Murphy. C.J. Griffin, a lawyer who has dedicated her practice to fighting for government transparency and press freedom, presented a meticulous indictment of Murphy’sContinue reading “Lawyer challenges Sherrill to repair Murphy’s ‘fatal blows’ to public access”

President Donald Trump has removed Carrie Prejean Boller from the White House Religious Liberty Commission after she refused to support what she called the panel’s efforts to silence Jewish and Christian voices who oppose Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and reject describing all criticism of Zionism as antisemitic. The former Miss California USA — whoContinue reading “Trump ousts religious liberty commissioner for opposing Israeli genocide”

By Airman 1st Class Haeleigh Bayle The 305th Operations Support Squadron’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape team from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst led water survival readiness training alongside the 305th OSS aircrew flight equipment, 108th OSS SERE, 87th Medical Group, and U.S. Coast Guard Station Atlantic City, carrying out Exercise Neptune’s Gauntlet at USCG Station AtlanticContinue reading “Joint training strengthens water survival with preparation, partnership performance”

In a move that has ignited a firestorm of protest from coast to coast, the Republican-controlled Congress and President Donald Trump have enacted a sweeping package of punitive laws and executive actions against states that dare to defy his immigration edicts. This coordinated assault, which critics are already branding the “Intolerable Acts” of the 21stContinue reading “Sons of Liberty must the 21st century “Intolerable Acts” of tyrannical President Donald Trump”

By James J. Devine Investing in fossil fuels should disqualify any politician seeking a Democratic nomination, but Rebecca Bennett owns stock in ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, and Phillips 66, but she is considered the fundraising frontrunner in New Jersey’s competitive 7th Congressional District. Bennett flew Navy helicopters for 15 years, much of it fighting in America’s oilContinue reading “Rebecca Bennett’s big oil stock undermines her claim to Democratic values”

Team Trump is the gang that couldn’t fly straight. There was a time when the mere sight of an American warbird in the sky meant something. It meant you could sleep soundly in your bed, or it meant you’d better find a deep hole to crawl into, depending on which side of the fence youContinue reading “The grand aerial operation that went sideways over a Middle Eastern desert”

At 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, the last emergency room in the Jersey City Heights will go dark, leaving a 154-year-old institution a hollowed-out shell and its neighborhood to fend for itself. Heights University Hospital, the brick-and-mortar remnant of what generations knew as Christ Hospital, will cease all emergency operations on March 14. The facility, acquiredContinue reading “Jersey City’s Heights University Hospital will go dark on Saturday”

President Donald Trump told Republican lawmakers that they must enact sweeping new voting restrictions to guarantee the party’s success in November’s midterm elections, threatening to refuse to sign any legislation until Congress delivers what voting rights advocates call the most restrictive election bill in a generation. Speaking to House Republicans gathered at his Doral golfContinue reading “Trump wants Republicans to cheat to guarantee success in November’s midterm elections”

Two hundred fifty years after the Sons of Liberty dumped tea into Boston Harbor rather than answer to an unaccountable king, a legal doctrine has emerged from the nation’s courts and conservative legal circles that would vest in a single president precisely the kind of monarchical authority the Founders took up arms to reject. TheContinue reading “The ghosts of the American Revolution wouldn’t recognize the government we built”

by Hannah Allam | ProPublica  Images from the missile strike in southern Iran were more horrifying than any of the case studies Air Force combat veteran Wes J. Bryant had pored over in his mission to overhaul how the U.S. military safeguards civilian life. Parents wept over their children’s bodies. Crushed desks and blood-stained backpacksContinue reading “Trump scrapped America’s blueprint to avoid civilian war casualties”

A bitter fight over a 470,000-square-foot warehouse off Route 46 has erupted into a moral battle for the soul of Roxbury, a leafy, Republican stronghold, as some activists want Democratic state legislators to rename the township “Auschwitz” to protest what they call the Trump administration’s growing network of concentration camps on American soil. The demand,Continue reading “Activists want to rename Roxbury “Auschwitz” to protest Trump’s concentration camp”