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How Medicaid Saved My Life!

It is with some trepidating that i share this story. But the message is an important one so, here goes. In february 2003, after a decade-long battle against methamphetimine use, I finally sought out...

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Gentle, Loving Demonstration

Nice to have a nice snowy weekend at home in cherry hill, NJ to relax. one inportant  project i am tending to this weekend is a little war protest that i hope others will become excited about, too. i...

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Philly Peace Protest Turns Violent

When George Bush's motorcade rolled into Center City Philadelphia today the President was greeted with a loud and sustained chorus of boos and whistles from the crowd of protesters that assembled...

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cop violence at philly anti-bush rally/AN UPDATE

i posted an entry about the cops running roughshod on the crowd that had assembled to pretest bush's philly speech.  see link here: http://www.dailykos.com/...  Here is another link to a bit-piece that...

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I sure hope my Congressman had plenty of VASELINE!

Because after the two-pronged attack we laid on  Reprentative Jim Saxton (R, NJ 3rd) i am sure he needed it!! When I arrived at Mr. Saxton's district office in Mount Holly for a noontime petition-drive...

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should i be worried about getting hits on my blog from the axis-of-evil?

When I sat down a month ago to write my first blog entry about hugo chavez  http://einkleinesblog.blogspot.com/... I wondered to myself how much traffic the site would get. I specifically remember...

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Ed Rendell Screws the Pooch (Again)

I worked to get Ed Rendell elected Governor of Pennslyvania in 2oo2. I lived in Philly for a few years while he was mayor and I was quick to volunteer for his Gubernatorial campaign. I have to say that...

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catholics and liberals, strange bedfellows

I just got home to Jersey from wisconsin where my partner's family lives.  i even went to midnight mass with my partner's catholic family on Christmas night. now call me crazy, but afterwards as i...

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12 years ago today i found out i was hiv +

i was 19 at the time. and scared shitless.  we all remember what the stigma was like then.  My salvation  at the time was the whitman walker clinic in DC which provided the meds and treatment and...

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Breathin' Easier in NJ! THANKS GOV. CODEY!!

It is nice to see the NJ State legislators finally making progress with a proposed ban on smoking in public spaces , save casinos. Just this morning, the bill went to the full Assembly from committee...

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last night's "justice sunday" event in philly, i was there.

Last night's so called 'Justice Sunday' event was the latest attempt by the radical rightwing to impose their fundamentalist religious views onto the judicairy. With Sam Alito's Supreme Court...

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Everything I Know About the Death Penalty, I Learned from PopeJohn Paul II

Last Wednesday, NJ lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to suspend executions while a task force studies the ethical issues and costs associated with imposing capital punishment. When Gov. Codey signs the...

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Being HIV+ has it's advantages......

........bitterly ironic as that must sound. Take last year's flu-shot shortage as an exapmle. last thing any of us wants is a nasty influenza, right? while everyone was wondering how they were gonna...

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At least President Reagan Put Braces On MY TEETH......

Dear Diary, Is Bush *SO* bad that I'm waxing nostalgic for President Reagan??Yesterday I heard a fascinating a story on NPR (co produced by Youth Radio) about young soldiers, sailors and Marines who...

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A Homosexual, a Newspaper Editor and a Radical Danish Imam Walk into a Bar....

I got a call from the BBC yesterday inviting me to be a guest on their show "World Have Your Say." I was given the opportunity to ask a some questions of two major figures in this whole Muhammad...

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New Jersey Supreme Court Hears Gay Marriage Argument

Yesterday's Supreme Court battle in Trenton over gay marriage is something I was glad to be a part of, even if all I did was stand outside holding a sign.  While it's impossible to predict the outcome,...

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Achilles, meet Katrina

Six months ago today, while Hurricane Katrina was having her way on the Gulf Coast, I was in an operating room having my recently-ruptured Achilles tendon repaired. (see pic on my blog...

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Dubya+Dubai=Love/maybe bush has a point?

With the Bush Administration's curious announcement to turn over American port operations to the United Arab Emirates, we sure have been hearing a lot about Dubai lately.  As it turns out, that plan is...

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Move "You're Still Too Angry" by Stephdray TO THE FRONT PAGE!

I just read the entry by Stephdray http://www.dailykos.com/... this guy's is a little long-winded, but he's brilliant! I challenge front page (Daily Kos) posters. I hope those who write amazingly...

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Ex-death row inmate tells tale of exoneration by DNA in interview with bloggers!

Last January, NJ lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to suspend executions while a task force studies the ethical issues and costs associated with imposing capital punishment. When then-Gov. Codey signed...

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NJ-3 campaign update/Challenge to Blog readers

Yesterday's fundraiser for Congressional candidate Rich Sexton went really well.   (Rich has blogged on DailyKosbefore as one of the Fightin' Dems.)   Anyway, the weather was picture perfect, the food...

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One step closer to a death penalty ban in New Jersey

Yesterday, New Jersey's Death Penalty Study Commission took testimony yesterday both for and against executions.  Its report (with suggestions for the legislature) is due in November.  At that point,...

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I discuss war and peace with Senator Bob Menendez

It's not every day that I get to interview a United States Senator.  You you can imagine when I landed a Q&A with New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez.   Lucky for me, Sen. Menendez is very blog-friendly....

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more (unbelievable) war shit

A few months ago, a young Airman from New Jersey, Carl Ware Jr. was shot and killed in Iraq. Around the time of his  funeral questionsbegan to emerge about the exact nature of his death.  A week ago, I...

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Delivering NJ-3

John Adler's campaign in NJ-3 got a lot of attention for raising big bucks and making a run at reclaiming this seat for the Dems for the first time in over a century. But with half his district in the...

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New Jersey: leftier all the time, an 'o8 retrospective

Despite our relative shortcomings, New Jersey is the coolest most liberal place in all the land, as highlighted in this year-end retrospective. Don't live in New Jersey?  Well that's fine, too.  But...

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isolating the GOP's lapdog gene (or "Nancy Reagan's legacy")

Unless you live in a state with no republicans congresscritters, you've got some lapdogs in your delegation.  Here in NJ we're down to just 5, ranging from pro-gay moderates to batshit crazy. if you're...

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New Jersey legalizes Pot for sick people

When the NJ Senate and Assembly overwhelmingly passed a medical marijuana bill yesterday it put the Garden State in line to be the 14th state in the union to decriminalize cannabis for sick people.If...

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