Archives for February 2007
Election ’06: School board filings
Published on 28 Feb 2007 at 12:05 pm.
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Courier News Candidates wanting to run for a seat on their local school board filed their paperwork Monday to run in the April 17 election.
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POWER: GORE MANSION USES 20X AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD
Published on 27 Feb 2007 at 8:31 am.
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CONSUMPTION INCREASE AFTER ‘TRUTH’ Drudge Report The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through free market policy solutions, issued a press release late Monday: Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but [...]
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Somerset County GOP candidates are not all following form
Published on 26 Feb 2007 at 11:07 am.
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BY JOE TYRRELL Star-Ledger Staff John Graf wants to be a Somerset County freeholder, and endorsement from the county Republican committee is a virtual requirement of the job.
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The Democrats’ Special Forces Fetish
Published on 25 Feb 2007 at 6:47 pm.
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A fatuous promise to “double the size” of our elite military units. by Michael Fumento It was one bullet point in the plan for the Pelosi Congress’s “first 100 hours,” two sentences in the Democrats’ 31-page “New Direction for America” document released last June: In order to “Defeat terrorists and stop the spread of weapons [...]
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Think outside budget box, Corzine asks
Published on 23 Feb 2007 at 9:39 am.
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Governor’s annual address champions asset sell-off and change in course BY ROBERT SCHWANEBERG AND JOE DONOHUE Star-Ledger Staff Proposing a $33 billion state budget with no new taxes, Gov. Jon Corzine yesterday issued dual challenges to lawmakers: End the “midnight spending sprees” of budgets past and restructure the state’s “crushing debt burden,” even if it [...]
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ZUCKER TAKES ON THE IRAQ STUDY GROUP AND JAMES BAKER
Published on 21 Feb 2007 at 9:44 pm.
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Appeals Court: Guantanamo Bay Detainees Can’t Challenge Detention in U.S. Courts
Published on 20 Feb 2007 at 2:47 pm.
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Fox News WASHINGTON — Guantanamo Bay detainees may not challenge their detention in U.S. courts, a federal appeals court said Tuesday in a ruling upholding a key provision in a law at the center of President Bush’s anti-terrorism plan.
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Democrats Signal a Wider Battle Lasting the Rest of President’s Term
Published on 17 Feb 2007 at 1:50 pm.
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By Peter Baker Washington Post Staff Writer After enjoying great deference in the conduct of national security for his first six years in office, President Bush now faces an assertive opposition Congress that has left him on the defensive.
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N.J. agency holding up Dubai’s port sales
Published on 15 Feb 2007 at 8:24 am.
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Port Authority looks for compensation BY JOE MALINCONICO Star-Ledger Staff A year after Dubai Ports World sparked a national uproar by acquiring operating rights at Port Newark and five other major U.S. ports, the company’s efforts to sell those operations have hit a snag in New Jersey.
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BofA aims new credit card at illegal immigrants
Published on 13 Feb 2007 at 9:09 am.
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NEW YORK – Bank of America Corp. has begun offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, typically illegal immigrants, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.