Contrary to popular belief, New Jersey's same sex marriage equality legislation isn't dead yet.

When the bill cleared the state Senate Judiciary Committee last month, marriage equality supporters didn't see the votes in the full body and decided to move it in the state Assembly first to create some momentum.

In case you needed any more proof that Senator Joe Lieberman wants only to slow down and kill health care reform, Greg Sargent has the smoking gun. In a September interview with the Connecticut Post, Lieberman whole-heartedly endorsed the Medicare buy-in, which he now says is the reason he...

Last week, the New York state Senate denied marriage equality to same-sex couples. And now it seems New Jersey's might, too.

The opponents of equality are using the bad economy to make legislators appear out of touch, saying that they should be focused on "jobs, the economy and the...

What happens when New Jersey's pro- and anti-marriage equality forces hold rallies at the statehouse on the same day?

On Thursday December 3, one day after the New York state Senate voted down marriage equality legislation, hundreds of people in New Jersey lobbied their state legislature and will now get...

There ought to be sympathy for Mike Huckabee.

He was vested with the power to free convicted criminals, and one of them appears to have committed a crime so despicable it's almost surreal: gunning down four uniformed police officers simultaneously. What an awful thing to happen -- and surely Mike...

On Feb. 22, 1965, Mrs. Blanche Griswold rushed across the tarmac at the Saranac Lake airport, amidst upstate New York's Adirondack mountains. She had just checked her luggage and thought she was going to miss her plane, a connecting flight to her vacation in Florida.

She didn't waste any time...

Today, Senator Robert C. Byrd broke the record of a one-time colleague as the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history. As you may have read, Byrd broke the record of Arizona Senator/Representative Carl Hayden, who served his state in Congress from 1912 (a special election on being accepted...

There's this intriguing observation that newspaperman William V. Shannon once made. He wrote that after the 1960 election, President John F. Kennedy stopped using the phrase 'The New Frontier.'

On the face of it, Shannon was wrong. Kennedy used the words in his public utterances several times as president, including...

Over the last few months, a number of prominent political columnists have pointed to historian and social critic Richard Hofstadter to explain what is happening to the Republican Party. 1964's The Paranoid Style in American Politics and his 1954 essay, "The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt," among others, tell us why so many...

The White House wants David Paterson out of the running for New York's 2010 gubernatorial election. Paterson hopes they'll reconsider.

Because hey -- it worked for Jon Corzine.

In early August, David Axelrod and Patrick Gaspard met at a New York City hotel with Corzine's campaign staffers, asking whether...

"I feel wonderful," Republican state Senator Joe Pennacchio told PolitickerNJ.com's Matt Friedman tonight after Chris Christie was declared the governor-elect of New Jersey. "A pro-life, pro-gun conservative in a blue state. How did that happen?"

Two words: Jon Corzine.

In the end, the Democratic incumbent hit a ceiling in...

The word 'if' is in high use among in-the-know New Jersey politicos these days. Ask who they think will win the governor's race on Tuesday, and you'll hear a lot of: 'Well, Christie wins if....' or 'Corzine's got it in the bag if....' Not a lot of confident voices.

The...

Poor Chris Christie. The New Jersey Republican's gubernatorial campaign is being run by the same brainiacs who thought hiding Rudy Giuliani's 2008 presidential bid in Florida was the way to the GOP nomination. Maybe the third time's a charm for these wayward strategists? Unfortunately for Christie, this is only their...

After the Republicans got thrashed in the 1964 elections, a GOP senator told columnist Joe Alsop, "That damn Lyndon Johnson hasn't just grabbed the middle of the road. He's a bit to the right of center, as well as a bit to the left of center. And with Johnson hogging...

New Jersey's off-year gubernatorial race has been pretty boring for outsiders, except for maybe the TV ad accusing Chris Christie, the Republican nominee, of "throwing his weight around." (Christie's on the heavy side.)

The ad was supposed to draw attention to the fact that Christie got away with some...

In the first year of his first elected term, Lyndon Johnson made the presidency look easy. Landmark bills on education, health care and civil rights were flying through Congress. He put a new justice on the Supreme Court, escalated Vietnam and invaded the Dominican Republic. Johnson could do anything.

But...

Top players in the New York Democratic Party took out an ad on the front-page of Sunday's New York Times. That kind of space doesn't come cheap, but luckily for them, they didn't pay in dollars -- they paid in political capital.

Don't worry if that doesn't make complete sense....

Not to go all Maureen Dowd on you, but today's Republican Party is a lot like the line from that old Brando movie, The Wild One. Somebody asks Brando, "What're you rebelling against, Johnny?" And he says, "Whaddya got?"

With all due respect to former President Carter, he is wrong...

In the age of expansive punditry, we tend to over-analyze events as they happen. Everything is historic, everything is a game-changer, and our rhetoric reflects that.

The truth is, none of us can say for sure how something will figure into American history because none of us can predict the...

It's jarring how disconnected Republicans have been from reality these past several weeks. Giddy at the prospect of President Obama failing, they've let lunatics run roughshod over civil American discourse, trying to kneecap health care reform. They're so high on themselves that one thought nothing of screaming, "Lie!" at the...