From the NEWS Desk of Tom Mongelli:
· Mon 8/22 – Fri 8/25: Erik Hellum circulates among the campuses
· Mon 8/22: Australian firefighters en route to NYC from DC via kayak land at Barnegat Light and Island Beach State Park, raising funds for International Fallen Firefighters Association
· Mon 8/22: Congressman Frank Pallone lobbies for Make It In America manufacturing job creation program, Piscataway
· Wed 8/24: Ignite! workshop/networking for young job seekers, Monmouth County Workforce Investment Board, Eatontown
· Thu 8/25: MODC Anniversary Summer Bash, Stone Pony, Asbury Park
· Mon 8/29: ATG
· Tue 8/30: ATC
· Fri 9/2: Labor Day Weekend starts – hope everyone has a bonus off-day!
· Sun 9/11: Special programming commemorating 10 years since the attacks on our stations
· Fri 9/16: MODC Legislative Candidates Luncheon, Branches, West Long Branch
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Garlic capital of America
Gilroy, California
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Stocks: Fear takes center stage
http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/19/markets/stocks_lookahead/index.htm?iid=HP_LN
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Obama slammed for vacation, but that's nothing new
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/08/19/president.vacations/index.html?hpt=po_t2
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4 Mainland HS Athletes Killed In Parkway Crash
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Crashing the Tea Party
Excerpt:
"Our analysis casts doubt on the Tea Party’s “origin story.” Early on, Tea Partiers were often described as nonpartisan political neophytes. Actually, the Tea Party’s supporters today were highly partisan Republicans long before the Tea Party was born, and were more likely than others to have contacted government officials. In fact, past Republican affiliation is the single strongest predictor of Tea Party support today.
What’s more, contrary to some accounts, the Tea Party is not a creature of the Great Recession. Many Americans have suffered in the last four years, but they are no more likely than anyone else to support the Tea Party. And while the public image of the Tea Party focuses on a desire to shrink government, concern over big government is hardly the only or even the most important predictor of Tea Party support among voters.
So what do Tea Partiers have in common? They are overwhelmingly white, but even compared to other white Republicans, they had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and they still do.
More important, they were disproportionately social conservatives in 2006 — opposing abortion, for example — and still are today. Next to being a Republican, the strongest predictor of being a Tea Party supporter today was a desire, back in 2006, to see religion play a prominent role in politics. And Tea Partiers continue to hold these views: they seek “deeply religious” elected officials, approve of religious leaders’ engaging in politics and want religion brought into political debates. The Tea Party’s generals may say their overriding concern is a smaller government, but not their rank and file, who are more concerned about putting God in government."
Read more:
http://forums.kffl.com/threads/288918-Harvard-Notre-Dame-study-of-Religion-Tea-Party?s=9761a575dcec53860a39a6c3e8ee10b3#ixzz1VfMyKHg4 .
Obama Amnesty Begins:
Halts Deportations for 300,000 Illegal Aliens; Offers ‘Work Permits’
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Obama to deport illegals by ‘priority’
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