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1. 'Man Nobody Knew' movie review, trailer: A CIA spy documentary
(Entertainment/Movies)

... the CIA were as much a part of his character as any covert activities. Bill Colby’s least enigmatic feature appears to have been loyalty to his government, whether the President’s name was Kennedy, Nixon ...

2. Letterman offers Christie fat jokes in Top 10 list
(Entertainment/Movies)

... 10 list under the topic “Ways the Country Would be Different if Chris Christie was President.” 10. Al-Qaeda taunts America with ‘Yo president’s so fat’ jokes. 9. Goodbye White House vegetable garden. ...

3. White House details what Obama's Jobs Act could mean for N.J.
(U.S./Nation)

... Small Businesses Hire and Grow The president’s plan will cut the payroll tax in half to 3.1 percent for employers on the first $5 million in wages, providing broad tax relief to all businesses but ...

4. President Obama should consider throwing deep for jobs
(Opinion/Commentary)

... discontent among his fellow Democrats is evidence of a belief that the President’s been too timid, too eager to seek compromise and accommodations with House Republicans. Even some of his staunchest supporters ...

5. Mayor Mike Bloomberg wins for Hurricane Irene and sex education mandate
(Life/Style)

... four-day Agricultural Society Livestock Show and Fair in Martha’s Vineyard, where the products of “farm, field, pasture, workshops, and kitchens are celebrated.” (The president’s daughters also took in ...

6. President Obama to inspect flood damage in Paterson
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... on Wednesday afternoon visited Lincoln Park to inspect flood damage Additional details on the president’s visit have yet to be announced. It will be Obama's first visit to New Jersey since Oct. 6 when ...

7. New Jersey would not re-elect President Obama
(U.S./Nation)

...  “The continuing economic climate, coupled with voter frustration at Washington, has created feelings of discontent that are clearly hurting the president’s chances for re-election,” Prof. David Redlawsk, ...

8. Race to the Top shows that the Obama administration can fight Christie and other Republicans
(Opinion/Commentary)

... and the President’s chances for re-election. Throughout most of his time in the Oval Office, Barack Obama has been a punching bag, absorbing hits from Republicans and occasionally from members of his own ...

9. Christie's popularity with New Jerseyans rises as Obama's takes a dive
(N.J./State)

... is headed in the wrong direction as New Jerseyans disapprove 52 percent to 44 percent of the job he is doing, down from a 50 percent to 46 percent positive score in a June 21 Quinnipiac poll, and the president’s ...

10. It’s about competence, Mr. President
(Opinion/Commentary)

... opened. To borrow one of our president’s favorite phrases, “let me be clear”; our problems are all about the lack of competence this White House has demonstrated in the three years since the vast majority ...

11. Picking over the wreckage of the debt ceiling debate
(Opinion/Commentary)

... wowing his crowd of admirers by throwing rhetorical cream pies in the President’s face. The Tea Party contingent seemed bent on shutting down government and dancing on the grave, unconcerned that it ...

12. Obama names New Jersey historian Prof. Clement A. Price to federal advisory post
(U.S./Nation)

... of the president’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation by President Obama. Price is Rutgers’ Board of Governors Distinguished Service professor of history and the founder and director of the Institute ...

13. From Barack Obama’s mother, a wise message for teenage girls
(Life/Style)

... recounts that Maya Soetoro-Ng, Dunham’s daughter by a second marriage and the president’s half-sister, was thinking of getting married and turned to her mother for advice. At the time, Maya was five years ...

14. Remembering Richard Holbrooke
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY PAUL ARONSOHN COMMENTARY Every once and a while, amidst all of the stories about Osama bin Laden and the U.S. war on terrorism, I am reminded of one very sad fact: Richard Holbrooke, the President’s ...

15. Bodybagging bin Laden gives Obama a big boost
(U.S./Nation)

President’s performance rating jumps in New Jersey President Barack Obama’s job performance rating with New Jerseyans has jumped 13 percent since September, mainly for his role in bodybagging Osama bin ...

16. U.S. SBA provided New Jersey small businesses $1.1 billion in loans in 2010
(Money/Economy)

... jobs. Efforts to identify, prepare and support small exporters have included the president’s advocacy with world leaders in India, Korea, Colombia, Panama, and others, including advancing trade agreements ...

17. Former N.J. Congressman John Adler remembered
(Opinion/Commentary)

...  John told me that he had a one-on-one talk with President Obama about his position on the health care reform bill, but he had not wavered in the face of the president’s arguments. He did represent a ...

18. IRS tax filing deadline is upon us
(Money/Economy)

... recently returned to Rutgers after serving as director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. Her prior stints in Washington include serving as senior economist to the President’s Advisory Panel on ...

19. Favorability ratings for Obama and Christie drop slightly among New Jerseyans
(U.S./Nation)

... moderates really are split, though on balance currently more positive than negative.” Obama’s job performance grade has remained mostly stagnant since late February. Among voters grading the president’s ...

20. Poll: Majority of New Jerseyans still back Obama but support slipping
(N.J./State)

... is “headed in the right direction,” a decrease of 7 points. “The decline in the president’s approval mirrors the apprehension voters feel about the direction of the country,” Woolley said. New Jersey ...