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Time To Lower The Boom On Planned Parenthood?

And now this from our friend, Matt Rooney at one of our very favorite blogs, Save Jersey:

Promising news in the fight to protect our republic’s most vulnerable citizens, Save Jerseyans.

The Government Accountability Office (GOA) will investigate the use of federal funding by America’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.

This announcement was made earlier in the week by U.S. Senator David Vitter (R–LA), Representatives Diane Black (R–TN), Pete Olson (R–TX), and our very own pro-life champion Chris Smith (R–NJ).

Planned Parenthood certainly doesn’t need the money. It netted almost $90 million in 2011 and boasts $1.2 billion in assets; nevertheless, it received over half of a billion in taxpayers dollars that same year. Amazing cash flow didn’t stop Planned Parenthood from allegedly practicing improper billing of Medicaid for non-family planning services provided here in New Jersey.

Improper billing practices also haven’t stopped Trenton Democrats from demanding millions of state tax dollars for these abortionists and, most recently, Barbara Buono from seeking expanded Medicaid coverage for family planning.

Let’s focus on the issue at hand: even if you are partial to infanticide, Save Jerseyans, why the hell should taxpayers — pro-life, pro-choice, pro-coin flip, whatever — willingly subsidize a billion dollar organization that’s currently fleecing us?

Giving this organization another single dime is the very definition of insanity. We’ll await further confirmation from Rep. Smith and GOA…- 

See more at: http://savejersey.com/2013/08/feds-to-probe-planned-parenthood/#sthash.L99lkXWk.dpuf

Does Every Fiat REALLY Come Equipped With This?

Here's a mock commercial that Fiat created just for laughs. It's created quite a buzz.

Video: Chris Christie's Lesson In 'Moving The Needle'

Great Fall Author Events, Free Library Of Philadelphia

Tickets for Fall 2013 Author Events at the Free Library of Philadelphia go on sale Friday, August 23 at 10:00 AM! Look at this great lineup! Subscription Orders We're pleased to continue to offer Flexible Subscription Packages. Purchasing a subscription package is a great way to show your support for this award-winning program. Please note that your event selection is subject to ticket availability. Call 215-567-4341 to place your subscription order. Single Ticket Orders  Order single tickets online at freelibrary.org/authorevents or by phone at 1-800-595-4TIX (4849). Free Events No tickets or reservations are required for free Author Events. Seating is first come, first seated. Visit us online for details about all of these events and more.   See you at the Library!

Event Rescheduled! Salman Rushdie | Joseph Anton    with Martin Amis | Lionel Asbo   Tuesday, October 1, 2013 Meelya Gordon Memorial Lecture We will honor tickets purchased for the original event, which was postponed due to Hurricane Sandy, and issue refunds to ticket holders who cannot attend on the new date. Martin Amis skewers English tabloid culture in his 13th novel. Joseph Anton is Salman Rushdie's long-awaited memoir of his time in hiding after the publication of The Satanic Verses.

Ticketed Author Event Series Highlights  Terry McMillan | Who Asked You  with Jesmyn Ward | Men We ReapedThursday, September 19, 2013 Family bonds are tested in the new novel from Terry McMillan, author of Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Men We Reaped is a piercing memoir about poverty and loss from Jesmyn Ward, the National Book Award-winning author ofSalvage the Bones.

Jhumpa Lahiri | The Lowland  Monday, September 30, 2013 The Lowland is an intimate portrayal of unraveling family ties by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies.

Pat Conroy | The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son Tuesday, November 5, 2013 Bestselling author Pat Conroy recounts the tender final days of the abusive father he first laid bare in The Great Santini.

Deepak Chopra | What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being, and Lightness of Soul Monday, November 18, 2013  "The poet-prophet of alternative medicine" (Time) outlines an approach to eating that will lead to permanent weight loss and spiritual well-being.

Doris Kearns Goodwin | The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism Monday, December 2, 2013 Pine Tree Foundation Endowed Lecture  Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin examines the first decade of the Progressive Era through the lives of Theodore Roosevelt and his successor, William Howard Taft.

Free Author Event Series Highlights James McBride | The Good Lord Bird Thursday, September 12, 2013 In former One Book, One Philadelphia author James McBride's new novel, a boy born into slavery joins abolitionist John Brown's crusade.

Alice Hoffman | Survival Lessons   Monday, October 21, 2013 In her first work of nonfiction, Alice Hoffman shares her suggestions for finding beauty in the world during a crisis of illness or loss.

Donald Fagen | Eminent Hipsters  In conversation with David Dye Thursday, October 24, 2013 Eminent Hipsters is a revealing memoir about music and life on the road from the cofounder of Steely Dan.

Donna Tartt | The Goldfinch Wednesday, October 30, 2013 The acclaimed author of The Secret Historyshares her long-awaited third novel.

Lester Brown | Breaking New Ground: A Personal History  Thursday, December 12, 2013 The founder of the Earth Policy and Worldwatch Institutes presents a memoir tracing his rise from small-farm childhood to leadership as a global environmental activist.

Free Library Author Events Andy Kahan, Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams Director, Author Events Laura Kovacs, Associate Director Jason Freeman, Program Assistant phone: 215-567-4341 email: authorevents@freelibrary.org

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The Obamas: Here They Go Again!

Sex Partners' Secrets: Video, Americans In Bed

The U.S. has one of the highest marriage rates in the developed world, as well as the third-highest rate of divorce, with as many as half of unions failing. Brimming with genuine emotion and honesty, AMERICANS IN BED spotlights some of the many reasons people come together - and grow apart.

Director Philippa Robinson conducts wide-ranging interviews with subjects who are filmed in the comfort of their own beds, asking probing questions about what people look for in a partner and how they know when they have found it. From a couple that has been together for 71 years to a pair of fresh-faced newlyweds, she encourages her subjects to open their hearts and minds as they share candid and touching insights into their relationships, underscoring the fact that no union is as simple as it seems on the surface.

Each couple gradually discloses intimate thoughts about the sometimes painfully private issues that affect every relationship, including passion, fidelity, family obligations, separation, conflict, negotiation and illness. As they talk about how they met and fell in love, some even surprise each other with feelings long held back, while others revisit old hurts as if they had happened yesterday.


AMERICANS IN BED premieres MONDAY, AUGUST 12 (9:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

New Christie Unit To Smackdown Pension Fraud, Abuse

Building on his commitment to ensure the long-term recovery and solvency of New Jersey’s public employee pension system, Governor Chris Christie today issued an Executive Order creating the Pension Fraud and Abuse Unit. As part of the state Treasury Department, the Unit will detect pension and disability fraud and ineligibility, as well as facilitate civil and criminal prosecutions where appropriate.

The Unit will be headed by Jim Scott, a highly experienced former Internal Revenue Service criminal investigator, who will move from the Attorney General’s Office, where he currently investigates public corruption and white-collar crime, to the Treasury Department. Scott will report to state Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff

“We’ve taken historic, bipartisan action to fix a broken public pension system that would have been insolvent in a matter of years without bold intervention. This is a serious and significant new step to protect the integrity of the system and guard every taxpayer dollar and employee contribution from fraud and abuse,” said Governor Christie. “Siphoning of pension and disability benefits by fraud or ineligibility hurts everyone, including honest current and future pensioners and, above all, New Jersey taxpayers who support the system and expect it to be fair and free of fraud.”

Executive Order No.138 takes effect today with the Governor’s signature. The Treasurer will appoint and assign investigators and other employees to the Unit to investigate public pension claims and payments, including disability pension claims and claims of improper participation in the retirement systems.

Governor Christie and other members of his senior staff and Cabinet who previously worked with the Governor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office relied on Scott as an investigator in major public corruption and white-collar criminal investigations.

“Jim is one of the many smart, methodical and thorough investigative agents I had the pleasure to work with as United States Attorney. I expect good things from him. He is extremely well-suited and highly qualified for this important role in my Administration to protect the pension and benefits system for state employees and New Jersey taxpayers,” said Governor Christie.

The Pension Fraud and Abuse Unit will work closely and coordinate with the Division of Pensions and Benefits in the Treasury Department and the Attorney General’s Office and will also take referrals from the Office of the State Comptroller, under Matt Boxer. Those agencies, according to Governor Christie’s Executive Order, will “undertake investigations, share information and resources, develop strategies for curtailing fraud and abuse, and identify cases for civil and criminal prosecution.” The Unit will recommend all civil and criminal remedies available under the law and petition the appropriate boards as needed for denial of a pension or disability application or revocation of an improperly granted benefit. The agencies will meet regularly to coordinate and ensure maximum cooperation in their work.

The Pension Fraud and Abuse Unit will also encourage the public to report fraudulent pension and benefit claims and payments. It will maintain a website, mailing address and toll-free number to take such reports from the public. The Unit is also authorized to call upon the expertise and assistance of all state departments and agencies to carry out its mission – including the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Treasury, Motor Vehicle Commission and others.

Obama Gets Some Good News From The IRS

Animal Cruelty: Christie Signs Tough New Law

Legislation sponsored by Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean Jr. to establish and enhance animal cruelty penalties in the wake of an infamous case of Patrick the Pitbull in Newark was signed in to law today by Governor Chris Christie.

S1303 or “Patrick’s Law” criminalizes the failure to provide an animal with necessary care and establishes that crime and inflicting unnecessary cruelty on an animal is a disorderly persons offense, punishable by a maximum 6 months imprisonment and a $2,000 fine. This bill establishes the offenses of cruelly abusing a living animal and causing bodily injury to a living animal by failing to provide necessary care as fourth-degree crimes, unless as a result of these acts the animal dies or suffers serious bodily injury in which case the offenses are third-degree crimes.

“Pet ownership is a privilege and carries with it a basic responsibility for loving care,” said Kean. “This law now appropriately punishes and holds accountable any cowardly person who abuses an animal.”

Senator Kean’s legislation was introduced in 2011, in response to the treatment of Patrick, a pit bull who was starved to emaciation, placed in a garbage bag and dropped down a garbage chute in a Newark apartment complex. A 29-year old Newark woman has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty in connection to the case and is scheduled to be sentenced on August 29.

“Patrick suffered deplorable, inexcusable abuse,” Kean added. “These types of sickening actions against innocent animals will not be taken lightly.”