Monday, Sept. 17 was Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It was also Constitution Day – the day 39 delegates from the original 13 states agreed on a new Constitution in 1787.

This week’s column represents my personal views only, and probably does not represent the views of most members of www.LIBERTYandPROSPERITY.org. 

As with most Americans, most of our members have very strong opinions on the abortion issue. And because each side bases its opinions on a different set of assumed facts, it is almost impossible for either side to change the opinion of the other.

You can add former Galloway Township Councilman Dennis Kleiner to the growing list of Republicans who are interested in succeeding New Jersey Assemblyman John Amodeo (R-2nd), should he leave the state Legislature and take a key senior executive position with the South Jersey Transportation Authority.

 "Jose Ortiz, 59, was Atlantic City's 14th homicide victim this year. He spent much of his time helping and caring for his mother."

– from Saturday's Press of Atlantic City

By SETH GROSSMAN
Political Columnist

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
– George Orwell, British journalist and author of
“1984” and “Animal Farm,” 1903-1950

In 1783, America won its independence from England after eight years of war. But our peace treaty with England got us into a new war with four Arab kingdoms (the Barbary States) on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa – Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli.

The Coalition for Peace and Justice and the UNPLUG Salem Campaign (nuclear power watchdogs) will be participating in the Town of Hammonton's fifth annual Green Day Festival, scheduled for noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16 on the grounds of St. Joseph's High School, 328 Vine St.

Here is an important potential political issue that before now I was unable to reveal publicly because my sources shared it with me in the strictest confidence for deep background purposes only. 

However, www.PolitickerNJ.com has recently broken some of the news and my well placed sources have now released me to be able to report about it.

We have seen many minor departures from our civil liberties throughout the years. These maneuvers are done so gradually that most people never even realize it's even happening.

Every week, this newspaper publishes a letter or column that in some way attacks or ridicules people like me who believe in America’s “exceptional” 400-year tradition of individual liberty, limited government, and low taxes.

Several of them remarked that conservatives are for big corporations, and that Republicans even believe that “corporations are people.”

By the time this week's Current reaches our readers, the Republican convention will be well under way, tropical storm or not. The forecast may well be for rivers of mud, not in New Orleans from the hurricane and rain, but in Tampa from many of the convention speakers continuing the Romney-Ryan basic campaign plan – when in doubt, toss mud at Obama.

Governor Mitt Romney's early selection of Congressman Paul Ryan to be his vice-presidential running mate is paying fast dividends.

Multiple polls have been released over the past week in the key battleground states of Florida, Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina. Romney leads the incumbent in all four key states. Should this pattern hold, and Romney wins all four of these critical states on November 6, 2012, he will be the next President of the United States.

I know I have written about Peace Pilgrim in previous years, but I feel it is important to continue to recognize her legacy of peace. Friends of Peace Pilgrim will host the fifth annual Peace Pilgrim Celebration Friday through Sunday, Sept. 14-16. The theme this year is "Peace in Oneself; Peace in the World."

In 1776, “our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty.” They did it to preserve their special government and way of life that had evolved slowly in British North America during the previous 169 years.

I have maintained from the beginning that the Obama campaign and its allies would play dirty this election season. Another prediction has now come true. No bragging is required, because this one was a layup.
Obama can't run on his record, so this is the kind of campaign you can expect to see for the next 10½ weeks.