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At her plea hearing, Webb-Washington, a self-described housing activist serving as head of the Webb-Washington Community Development Corporation, admitted that between March 2009 and May 2009, while seeking to win a seat on the Jersey City council, she accepted three corrupt cash payments totaling $15,000 from a cooperating witness. Webb-Washington admitted that the payments were in exchange for her exercising her future official assistance, as an anticipated member of the city council. Webb- Washington agreed that she would use her future city council position to assist the cooperating witness in obtaining certain development approvals for a purported development project on...

A few weeks ago I posted the above photo on Flickr. It was taken at a recent healthcare forum in Philly and I titled it: "A Paid Protester - Note Who Sponsored the Sign". The title ruffled the feathers of a Philly photographer who left a series of comments on my Flickr account trying to disclaim the idea of a paid protester. When I steered him back to common sense with my replies, he lamely tried to paint my Sheepdogs as paid hacks. If I had a dime for every time that false accusation was laid down, I would...

Last night I attended the Rooney town hall. As I walked into the building, someone on the sidewalk shouted "we need health care now." He was handing out Obamacare material. There was also a group with a professional video camera filming people's reactions to this. Unfortunately, I had shown up a little late and literally couldn't make it inside. Over 300 people had lined up two hours early for the forum. I then walked out to the front of the building where I saw the same group of people arguing with a guy. One young guy in a camouflage shirt...

Obama has set up web site that will automatically make appointments for you to visit your Congressional Representative. They have set this up for use by their congregation to scare Representatives into voting for the socialist health care take over. There is no reason why we can not and should not use this tool to set up appointments for ourselves. It would be great irony if thousands of Freepers showed up because of Obama's efforts. I have made my appoints. The web site for making the appointment is:http://my.barackobama.com/OfficeVisit

"For all you “conservatives” who kept insisting that there was NO difference between John McCain and Barack Hussein Obama, this is all your fault! You have no one but yourselves to blame when this Wise Latina (in other words, Aztlanist shill) legislates from the bench. To his credit, John McCain at least opposed Sotomayor’s nomination. " [I have a different take on this. Conservatives were absolutely justified in opposing the "pro-amnesty" rino John McCain. Those of us who did choose to vote for the ticket, voted for Palin, not McCain. If it were not for her, McCain would have been...

Recent headlines about Sonia Sotomayor from around the net - be sure to sign the petition opposing her confirmation at www.StopSotomayor.com Sotomayor Guns For The 2nd Amendment Second Senator Says Sonia Sotomayor Backs Roe v. Wade Abortion Case Arkansas group to oppose confirmation ofSotomayor New Documents RevealSotomayor's White House Contacts Sotomayor process began before Souter announcement

Around Christmas of 1973, a fellow sophomore approached Frank Reed, a leader of Princeton University's Chicano Caucus, to hand him a formal complaint she had typed up and to ask him to support it. Sonia Sotomayor was head of the other Latino organization on campus, Acción Puertorriqueña. And after a history of fruitless student talks with Princeton administrators over the lack of Hispanic professors and staff, Sotomayor believed the time had come to lodge a grievance with the federal government over the university's hiring practices. The written complaint, filed that April with what was then the U.S. Department of Health,...

Sign the petition against Sonia Sotomayor at www.stopsotomayor.com Organized for Life has stepped up as the leading force against President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Souter. Organized for Life's PAC, OFL Action, has opened a petition site at www.stopsotomayor.com to oppose the addition of another potentially pro-abortion justice to the Supreme Court. Sonia Sotomayor has a record of legislating from the bench that stands against the will of the majority of Americans. Fifty-one percent of Americans call themselves pro-life. Eighty-two percent of Americans do not want a justice who would support partial-birth and late term...

Dear xxxxx, At an emergency board meeting held this evening, your executive board unanimously passed the following resolution. We stand adamantly opposed to the fact that the Republican Party of Florida is openly and actively endorsing one candidate over another without following Rule 8 set forth in the Republican Party of Florida Rules and Procedures. We are also opposed to efforts that would invoke RNC Rule 11 in an effort to further that endorsement. Please understand our resolution is not about supporting any one candidate over another, the resolution is about the fundamental principle of following the Constitution of the...

Flanked by two prominent activist attorneys and backed by a throng of supporters, Minneapolis resident Rosemary Williams spent her 60th birthday in court Wednesday, resisting a lender's attempt to evict her from her foreclosed house. She and supporters vowed that if she loses in court, they will use non-violent civil disobedience to try to block authorities from removing her from the south Minneapolis house where she's lived for 23 years.

The FBI on Tuesday will for the first time add the name of a domestic-terrorism suspect to its list of Most Wanted Terrorists, a post-Sept. 11 creation that until now has included only suspected Islamist terrorists, a law enforcement official told The Washington Times. Daniel Andreas San Diego, a 31-year-old animal rights activist, is wanted in connection with the 2003 bombings of two companies in the San Francisco Bay Area linked to an animal-testing laboratory. San Diego will take his place on a list that has included notorious international terrorists such as Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahri and Adam Gadahn,...

Washington Activists Liberate One Final Straight Bar: Washington, D.C. -- After five years, 43 bars, 48 events, and at least one instance of a guy whipping his shirt off and gyrating to Madonna in front of confused Georgetown University parents, it was time for a beloved gay and lesbian institution to end. So on Friday night, an estimated 200 members of the GLBT community headed to Rhino Bar and Pumphouse for the District's very last Guerilla Queer Bar, the friendliest of activist movements, in which gay men and lesbians descend on a typically "straight" bar for the evening and mingle...

A memorial service is planned for May 16 for Steve Hamilton, a prominent Bay Area anti-war activist and member of the Oakland 7 who was acquitted in a notorious conspiracy trial.

Al-Arish, Egypt- Multi-national activists belonging to British MP George Galloway's 'Viva Palestina' humanitarian aid convoy clashed on Sunday with Egyptian security forces in the north Sinai town of al-Arish, close to the border with Gaza. Clashes erupted after the convoy was refused entry to the crossing point at the town of Rafah, which is bisected by the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. Galloway arrived in Cairo on Saturday to join the road convoy that had set out from London last month carrying relief for war-torn Gaza, and which had entered Egypt from Libya on Thursday. Galloway, who has...

For decades, Vivian Milligan complained that the government ignored the Ramapough Mountain community when Ford Motor Co. dumped a sea of waste in their Upper Ringwood community.   Longtime environmental activist Vivian Milligan says her heart was "pounding" when former state DEP chief invited her to Washington D.C. for her senate confirmation hearing as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.  On Wednesday, Milligan, who rarely ventures out of the area, plans to make her first trip to Washington D.C. – at age 57 — as a guest of former DEP Commissioner Lisa Jackson.  The U.S. Senate is expected to confirm...

Gunmen broke into the house of a women's rights activist in the volatile northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday and beheaded her, police said. The victim was identified as Nahla Hussain, the leader of the women's league of the Kurdish Communist Party. She was alone in the house at the time of her death. It is not known what the circumstances were that led to the attack. Violence against women has been an ongoing problem in Iraq. The killing comes ahead of next month's provincial elections, a post-Saddam era watershed event that's generating an uptick in civil unrest and...

(IsraelNN.com) A prominent pro-Israel activist was found dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft in a San Francisco building . The pro-Israel activist, Dr. Daniel Kliman was the co-founder of the San Francisco-based Voice for Israel, an affiliate of the national Israel advocacy group, StandWithUs. His body was found in the elevator shaft of a building where he was taking Arabic language classes. “He was the public face of grass-roots Israel advocacy in the San Franciso Bay area,” stated Mike Harris, Kliman’s colleague at Voice for Israel. Harris is unaware of specific threats against Kliman, who had previously been...

In the dark post-election ’08 night, comes a strong beaming light: ReaganAction.com. Just when it was most needed, Michael Reagan launched his new activist website for conservatives.

As Republicans, we face a choice- Either we can spend the next several months -- or years -- trying to figure out what just happened, excusing our defeat away as a temporary blip or the result of a poor environment, and waiting for Barack Obama to trip up. Or we can refuse to take this defeat lying down, and start building the future of our party now. 2008 made one thing clear: if allowed to go unchecked, the Democrats' structural advantages, including their use of the Internet, their more than 2-to-1 advantage with young voters, their discovery of a better...

Yes, from little ACORNS... Democrats grow. But it remains to be seen whether or not the American people are sufficiently outraged at efforts by the Obama campaign to steal the 2008 presidential election through outright fraud and vote-buying. The far left organization, ACORN, a former Obama client and a favorite Obama “charity,” is now under federal investigation in at least 13 states. After a recent raid on an ACORN office in Nevada, FBI agents found voter registration forms containing the names of the entire starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys. But none of this is new. To speak of the...