WOODVILLE, Miss. - The trial of a Woodville woman on charges of voter fraud stemming from the 2007 Democratic party primary is scheduled for Monday in Wilkinson County Circuit Court.
Connie Hollins was indicted on three counts of voter fraud after the yearlong election contest that followed the August 2007 Democratic primary. She allegedly hand-delivered three absentee ballots to Jackson and assisted the recipients in voting.
Even though allegations against other people on both sides of the election were raised, Hollins was the only one charged.
District Attorney Ronnie Harper tells the Natchez Democrat that the trial should last from one to three days, depending on how long jury selection takes.
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If you haven't been under a rock the last few weeks, or relying on the mainstream media as your sole source of news, you are likely aware of some of the questionable circumstances surrounding the organization Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
A pair of intrepid investigative reporters, James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, with the help of Andrew Breitbart, made it possible for the public to be aware of these practices by ACORN. However, the embattled organization, in a retaliatory maneuver, has filed a suit against O'Keefe, Giles and Breitbart. Breitbart appeared on Fox News Channel's Sept. 24 "The O'Reilly Factor" and responded to the suit.
"So, all I can see is that this lawsuit is an attempt to stifle free speech and the First Amendment and an attempt to make sure that the American people don't see the rest of the tapes and there are more tapes," Breitbart said.
According to Breitbart, there is an initiative underway at his Web site, BigGovernment.com, to form a legal defense fund, which includes a link where contributions can be made.
"We're working on that right now," Breitbart said. "And I want everybody to know that we will be advertising Hannah and James' legal defense fund at BigGovernment.com. The amount of, the response in e-mail form are overwhelming. But the lawsuit, apparently was filed yesterday and Hannah and James have to lawyer up. I have to lawyer up. It's happened very quickly. We still have a report to issue to the world because what is found on these tapes is the story, not what the media is trying -- the mainstream media is trying to do and trying to make it about Hannah, James, and me."
Breitbart also called out ACORN for appointing John Podesta, the president of the Center for American Progress to head an internal investigation into the organization, while at the same time Podesta's organization's Web site is making personal attacks against Giles and O'Keefe.
"I want to talk about the fact that John Podesta, who has been put in charge of the internal investigation of ACORN, his site, [Center for American] Progress is out there attacking Hannah and James," Breitbart said. "They are making it about us. And so this guy who is supposed to be looking into ACORN is looking into us. The American people should be outraged by that."
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Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance.
Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty, Barthold wrote on JCT letterhead. He signed it "Sincerely, Thomas A. Barthold."
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On the bright, the gov pays 100% for prison health care.
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On the bright side
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Ok, well...a friend of mine brought up an interesting point. Say you are a Christian Scientist or some other religious group that doesn't believe in going to doctors for whatever reason. Do you get a freedom of religion pass for that or are you headin' to the slammer?
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The Social ists are determined to make every serf citizen guilty of some crime so they can sell penitence in the style of the Medieval church. In the name of GODthe Statethe Children the People, you are inherently evil and must obey me to receive absolution.
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So when it comes down to your last dollar do you buy food so you can eat, pay the rent so you're not homeless, pay your car loan so you can get to work? Nope, because they don't put you in jail for those.
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Re #4 - Blondie, I don't think that Christian Scientists will have to go to a doctor. They just have to pay for other people to go to doctors.
Of course, I, as a Catholic, will also be forced to pay for others to have abortions.
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Can't Dear Leader just give us all free health care?
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Constitutionality is the condition of acting in accordance with an applicable constitution[1]; the status of a law, a procedure, or an act's accordance with the laws or guidelines set forth in the applicable constitution. When one of these (laws, procedures, or acts) directly violates the constitution it is unconstitutional[2]
The commissioner of New Jersey's Department of Education ordered a review on Friday following the posting of a YouTube video depicting school children singing the praises of President Obama.
Good. I wonder what that press release from the principal will say.
Education Department spokeswoman Kathryn Forsyth says the commissioner has directed the school superintendent to review what happened. Forsyth says the commissioner wants to ensure that students can celebrate Black History Month without "inappropriate partisan politics in the classroom."
As critics of the video claimed it amounted to "indoctrination," the tension at B. Bernice Young Elementary School escalated to such a degree Thursday that the school was placed temporarily on lockdown after its principal received death threats over a YouTube video that showed nearly 20 children being taught songs lauding the president, though back-to-school night events continuing as planned Thursday night at the school.
Death threats? Utterly unacceptable. I hope the police find the idiots and prosecute them... unless it's an FBI concern.
Video of the students at the Burlington, N.J., school shows them singing songs seemingly overflowing with campaign slogans and praise for "Barack Hussein Obama," repeatedly chanting the president's name and celebrating his accomplishments, including his "great plans" to "make this country's economy No. 1 again."
One song that the children were taught quotes directly from the spiritual "Jesus Loves the Little Children," though Jesus' name is replaced with Obama's: "He said red, yellow, black or white/All are equal in his sight. Barack Hussein Obama."
The video has set off some families in Burlington, who said they were horrified that their children at the being "indoctrinated" to view the president like a cult figure. "I'm stunned -- I can't believe it's our school," said Jim Pronchik, who told FOXNews.com his 8-year-old son Jimmy was one of the 18 students in the video. "We don't want to praise this guy like he's a god or an idol or a king or anything like that. That's the wrong message to be sending."
We shouldn't be teaching the children political things at all, although it's important for them to understand the steps of our political process. I believes that class is generally called Civics, or sometimes American Government.
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This song heaps praises on a man, not praise or respect for our country and it is frighteningly wrong whoever the man is. The parallels between this and songs and other gestures of adulation for despotic leaders like Mao are unavoidable.
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One song that the children were taught quotes directly from the spiritual "Jesus Loves the Little Children," though Jesus' name is replaced with Obama's
To me,this is worse than worshiping Mao. Obama is not the Messiah.
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"Kusasa ekuseni ngo 4 o' clock seyo khulula uMandela" that means " Tomorrow morning at 4 o' clock we are going to free Mandela! all the political prisoners and open the borders."
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Lefties always go for kids - it's only by indoctrinating the young and naive that they have a chance of any kind of parity of support. Those who are independent thinkers, if they are lucky, pass through the 'educators'' echo chamber unswerved, but most youths are susceptible to some degree, and its often not until into middle age and a life of observing the counter-factuality of Leftist dogma that they realise the sham that it is. Leftist ideology isn't something that many people evolve as a political creed for themselves, as it's simply too patently nonsensical and disadvantageous to decent people and most members of society - it's something which has to be taught.
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The commissioner of New Jersey's Department of Education ordered a review on Friday following the posting of a YouTube video depicting school children singing the praises of President Obama.
Translation: find the Enemy of the People who leaked the video and fire him/her!
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I admit my head assploded when I saw this video. Put up a link on my Facebook, but took it down a couple minutes later to seethe in quiet. It's creepy-scary.
I am a university educator, and one of the small percentage of them that votes center-right.
I live in Estonia (the former USSR), and I show videotapes in class from the Soviet period that look EXACTLY like that clip.
I hope people keep digging on it. I, for one, try to keep my political beliefs out of the classroom. I'm outraged by this.
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the commissar teacher retired in June. Good timing
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It's creepy-scary.
That sums it up pretty well.
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"Adolf Hitler, you are our great Leader. Thy name makes the enemy tremble. They Third Reich comes, thy will alone is law upon earth. Let us hear daily thy voice and order us by thy leadership for we will obey to the end even with our lives. We praise thee! Heil Hitler!"
-- The League of German Girls
"Fuhrer, my Fuhrer, sent to me from God, protect and maintain me throughout my life. Thou who hast saved Germany from deepest need, I thank thee today for my daily bread. Remain at my side and never leave me, Fuhrer, my Fuhrer, my faith, my light. Heil my Fuhrer!"
-- Grace prayer taught to elementary school children
Computerworld - A proposed amendment that would have given Congress more oversight over the White House cybersecurity czar and at least 17 other czars appointed by President Obama was shut down in the U.S. Senate today.
The amendment, proposed by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), sought to restrict federal funds for the expenses of White House-appointed czars unless two conditions are met. One of them was to require the president to agree that every czar would respond to "reasonable requests" to testify before Congress on matters related to the office. The other required White House-appointed czars to issue a report to Congress twice a year. The proposed amendment was in an Interior Department environmental appropriations bill on the Senate floor.
In a statement, Collins said the amendment was needed to ensure greater transparency and accountability. She had claimed that direct White House appointees were largely insulated from congressional oversight and often duplicated or diluted the statutory authority and responsibilities of Cabinet-level appointees who had been vetted by Congress.
The amendment however was ruled "non-germane" to the pending bill in the Senate this afternoon and will not move forward, a spokesman for Collins said in an e-mail. "The amendment fell," following an objection by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), he said.
Collins, who is the ranking minority member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had raised similar concerns previously, especially with regard to Obama's plans to appoint a White House cybersecurity czar, or agency coordinator.
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These people (dems) are crazy---they're cutting own throats.
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No they aren't. Susan Collins got to look tough for her constituents. They had to know they didn't have the votes to pass it. It seems a fairly clever, though devious, plan to me. Now when she casts her vote on an issue that will screw the entire nation, she will point to this bill and say, see how tough I am? I was here for ya.
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That's the way it works. Next election her literature will be saying how she "led the fight" for accountability, not mentioning that it was entirely proforma and came to squat.
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Forget the People's Republic of Massachusetts. We are now the Banana Republic of Massachusetts.
That's not original, but it's truer than ever. Laws? We don't need no stinkin' laws.
"First we shred the rules," said Rep. Brad Jones, the House Republican leader. "Now we shred the Constitution."
Here's how it's supposed to work. If the Legislature wants a bill to become law immediately, they have to attach what's called an "emergency preamble." It takes a two-thirds vote to pass such a preamble. Otherwise, the bill becomes law in 90 days.
So Wednesday, the Legislature approved Ted Kennedy's deathbed wish to repeal his 2004 nondeathbed wish to take away a (Republican) governor's power to appoint an interim senator. See, now that the governor is a Democrat, the law is an "abomination."
The vote to change Teddy's law for Teddy was 24-16 in the Senate, 95-57 in the House. That's not two-thirds. But pay no attention to that pesky Constitution. We'll just have the governor decide it's an "emergency." So much for separation of powers.
I don't care how many times Mitt Romney used this maneuver, it's still wrong.
Again the larger question: What exactly was the "emergency?"
Teddy missed 97 percent of the roll calls in the Senate before his death this year. None of the moonbats were braying about an emergency. Apparently it was such a nonissue that Teddy himself never considered resigning - even though once he knew he was dying, he could have sent in a letter saying his resignation would be effective in five months.
Ever hear of Sen. Susan Fargo? On Sept. 10 she sent a letter to a constituent of hers in Waltham saying she wouldn't vote to change the law - "in the interest of fairness and good policy, any change should be considered only after the current special election process has been completed."
Then, 12 days later, she voted to change the law. So much for fairness and good policy.
But then, this is the same solon who voted in May to increase the state sales tax, then penned an op-ed piece in the Lowell Sun earlier this month denouncing the hike, while neglecting to mention that she was for the increase before she was against it.
This is your one-party state, folks. It's called democracy, where the people get exactly the government they deserve.
File a lawsuit to stop the appointment? Are you kidding? The judiciary in this state is at least as corrupt as the Legislature. They don't have time for such frivolous issues. The SJC's got bigger fish to fry - one of the good old boys, ex-Sen. Jim Marzilli, is asking them to throw out one of the counts in his indictment - assault to commit a crime, indecent assault.
The argument by the perv in the Prius is that there is no "indecent assault" law here in the Banana Republic. Anyone care to bet against the well-connected perv on this one?
Then there's Chuck "Superfly" Turner, the indicted Boston city councilor. Caught on camera in a federal sting accepting cash, he got 52 percent of the votes Tuesday in his Roxbury district. You really showed The Man this time, Chuck!
Over in Cambridge, former Boston City Councilor Dave Scondras is holding a barbeque for political candidates Sunday. Nevermind that he was convicted in 2006 of enticement of someone he thought was a 15-year-old boy. Wonder if Deval will make it to the convicted hack's barbeque this year, the way he has in the past.
And now we have a new senator , whose greatest service to the Kennedys came in 1994, when at a Faneuil Hall debate against Mitt Romney, he arranged for the candidates to use a giant podium, the better to hide his master's enormous girth from the TV audience. For this, he is rewarded with a Senate seat.
Will the last taxpayer leaving the Banana Republic please turn out the lights?
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t has long been claimed that Rahm Emanuel wanted to find someone to keep his congressional seat warm while he served as President Obama's chief of staff.
Now, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned that Emanuel wanted then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich to appoint Cook County Commissioner Forrest Claypool to his 5th Congressional District seat.
Claypool would serve one or two terms and then be considered for a place in Obama's Cabinet, according to sources familiar with Emanuel's proposal. That would give Emanuel the option of returning to Congress, where he could vie to become House speaker.
Reached Thursday, Claypool said he knew of no such plan. Emanuel declined to comment, as did the White House.
In the end, Blagojevich did not have the authority to appoint somebody to the congressional seat, as Emanuel had thought.
Still, the proposal raises questions about whether Emanuel was contemplating offering a coveted presidential Cabinet post in exchange for a benefit for himself.
Blagojevich was arrested last Dec. 9 on charges that he sought to sell Obama's former U.S. Senate seat for a personal benefit -- including trying to attain a presidential Cabinet post for himself.
Asked about Emanuel's seat, Claypool said he spoke to the outgoing congressman last year "for 2œ minutes" about running to replace him. But Claypool insisted a Cabinet post wasn't discussed, he was never asked to act as Emanuel's placeholder, and that he never would have agreed to it.
"Knowing Rahm, I can't believe that because that's silly," Claypool said. "That is insanity. Never happened. Never would. Never discussed. Insanity. False."
Claypool also said he ruled out running for Emanuel's seat a week after the Nov. 4 presidential election because he was poised to pose a strong challenge to Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, whose approval rating has been tanking.
But earlier this year, Claypool announced he's retiring from county politics when his term as a county commissioner ends in 2010. A former chief of staff to Mayor Daley who also served as Chicago Park District chief, he said he couldn't resist leaving politics for an opportunity to found a health care company that he believes can "lower costs and increase quality of care" for consumers.
According to Blagojevich's recently released book, The Governor, Blagojevich and Emanuel spoke Nov. 7 and 8. They discussed Blagojevich appointing a "placeholder," for the congressional seat, according to the book.
At the time, Emanuel also pushed Valerie Jarrett for the U.S. Senate seat Obama once held. An Obama report detailing contacts between his staff and Blagojevich indicates Emanuel spoke to the ex-governor once or twice between Nov. 6 and Nov. 8 about Emanuel's seat, as well as the Senate seat.
A conversation concerning Emanuel's congressional seat was caught on a secret FBI wiretap, according to a reference in the criminal complaint filed in the Blagojevich case. That could prove to be an embarrassment to Emanuel, should the recording be played at Blagojevich's trial next June.
Claypool's announcement that he would not seek Emanuel's seat came Nov. 12, just days after the discussion between Emanuel and Blagojevich.
On the same day as Claypool's announcement, Jarrett publicly pulled herself out of contention for the Senate seat. She is now a top adviser to the president.
Emanuel had hoped Blagojevich had the authority to appoint a candidate to fill out the remaining weeks of Emanuel's term before a new Congress was sworn in the following January, sources said. The temporary appointment would give Claypool a leg up before any special election took place.
But, unlike the Senate seat, which is filled by an appointment by the governor, a vacant congressional seat must be filled through a special election.
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It doesn't matter what Rahm does. He is a Democrat, and a part of the High Holy Inner Circle of the White House.
Therefore, he is above and exempt from all ethical charges.
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"CLAYTON POOL" Character = Comedian-Actor JERRY LEWIS???
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This is Chicago, the Constitution does not apply. Fasten your seat belts and put your tray tables in the upright position, there are THREE more years of this stuff on the way.
Gov. Jon Corzine has decided that to win re-election, he has to sit at the cool kids' table.
Several new billboards throughout the state -- including one on Perry Street in Trenton -- portray President Obama at a podium, with Corzine looking on. The slogan of the billboards reads "Keep it going."
"It's about continuing the progress that New Jersey has helped start in November by electing President Barack Obama," said Elisabeth Smith, Corzine's press secretary. "Jon Corzine has been a true partner to President Obama."
The new thrust comes as Corzine trails Republican nominee Chris Christie by anywhere between five and 11 percentage points.
The intended interpretation might get lost on the voting public, especially when it is emblazoned on a billboard that appears to be advertising an Obama-Corzine ticket.
"Slogans are meant to mean whatever you want it to mean," said Peter Woolley, a political scientist who runs the polling institute at Fairleigh Dickinson University. "The connotation is 'Come out and vote again.' To those who voted for Obama, come vote again, and vote for Corzine."
Despite declining approval ratings nationally, Obama is still popular in New Jersey, with an approval rating of 56 percent in the most recent Farleigh Dickinson poll.
He's especially popular in Trenton, where he crushed Republican John McCain by an 11-to-1 margin last November.
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"Slogans are meant to mean whatever you want it to mean."
And with your help we will Pulverize Bush and Christie!
Weeks after a public outburst made him a national name, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) is becoming a hot commodity on the fundraising circuit, pulling in big bucks for fellow Republicans around the country.
During President Obama's Sept. 9 address to a joint session of Congress, Wilson shouted "You lie!" when Obama said healthcare legislation would not cover illegal immigrants. He was later reprimanded in a largely party-line vote.
But instead of making him a pariah, the episode made Wilson a star. His campaign committee has raised about $2 million, nearly twice what he raised and spent during the 2008 election, and suddenly, Republicans around the country are clamoring for his time.
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The National Endowment for the Arts said Thursday that its communications director, Yosi Sergant, has resigned.
"This afternoon Yosi Sergant submitted his resignation from the National Endowment for the Arts. His resignation has been accepted and is effective immediately," said a spokeswoman, Sally Gifford, in a statement.
Sergant, who helped make artist Shepard Fairey's "Hope" image ubiquitous as an organizer of Obama campaign support from artists, had seemed to mix the NEA's work -- essentially non-partisan politics -- with the administration's legislative agenda on a conference call reported on by Andrew Breitbart's new conservative site, Big Government.
"I would encourage you to pick something, whether it's health care, education, the environment, you know, there's four key areas that the corporation has identified as the areas of service," Sergant told artists on the call, which he reportedly invited some of them to attend. "My ask would be to apply artistic, you know, your artistic creative communities utilities and bring them to the table," he said.
Texas Senator John Cornyn, among critics, complained that the call politicized subjected the agency to "political manipulation, though the NEA initially defended the call. NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman later said the call "inappropriate" and that Sergant had acted "unilaterally" in helping to organize it.
"This call was completely unrelated to NEA's grantmaking, which is highly regarded for its independence and integrity," Landesman said.
The White House has sought to downplay the story, which has gotten little mainstream media attention, despite heavy coverage on the right. But it did issue new guidelines aimed at preventing politics from mixing with agency business.
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"...despite heavy coverage on the right (which will end once the FCC Diversity Czar, Mark Lloyd, manages to ram through legislation to nationalize broadcast radio).
A large military spending bill moving through Congress contains a little-noticed outlay for Boston that has nothing to do with national defense: $20 million for an educational institute honoring late Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts.
The earmark, tucked into the defense bill at the request of Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, requires US taxpayers to help the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate realize its goal of building a repository for Kennedy's papers and an accompanying civic learning center on the University of Massachusetts at Boston campus in Dorchester, next to the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum.
The item is drawing fire from fiscal watchdog groups, who assert that military funds should not be raided to pay for an institution that has nothing to do with improving military readiness.
"Whatever beneficial value civic education may have, it's hard to see why the Defense Department should pay for it,'' said Laura Peterson, a senior policy analyst at the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Common Sense in Washington. "It would seem the location of this hefty earmark has more to do with the powerful position of its sponsor than [the Defense Department's] responsibility to educate elementary school children.''
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After all, there is no way that the Kennedy family could afford to pay for it.
Oh, wait.
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We're broke and they still keep on spending. They really really don't get it.
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The Kennedy family should build this institute. Or the people of Massachusetts who elected him repeatedly. Or it should be done privately by donors who want a monument for him. The American people shouldn't have to foot the bill.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
WOODVILLE, Miss. - The trial of a Woodville woman on charges of voter fraud stemming from the 2007 Democratic party primary is scheduled for Monday in Wilkinson County Circuit Court.
The commissioner of New Jersey's Department of Education ordered a review on Friday following the posting of a YouTube video depicting school children singing the praises of President Obama.
Gov. Jon Corzine has decided that to win re-election, he has to sit at the cool kids' table.
The National Endowment for the Arts said Thursday that its communications director, Yosi Sergant, has resigned. 
A large military spending bill moving through Congress contains a little-noticed outlay for Boston that has nothing to do with national defense: $20 million for an educational institute honoring late Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts.
