The Jim Gearhart Show

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The last time NJ government got anything useful done Dec 24, 2019

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As the decade comes to a close, Jim Gearhart wonders: What in the last 10 years has New Jersey government done to make your life better? "I could be wrong, but I cannot thing of anything that has been done in the last 10 years that really changed anything significantly," Jim says in this week's episode of his weekly Facebook Live show and podcast. The last time he can remember government that made a difference was under Gov. Jim McGreevey, who resigned amid a scandal in 20015. See Jim's full episode on Facebook. Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app. ... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A ... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ

Scammers capitalize on horrific Jersey City shooting Dec 24, 2019

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The horror of this month's news in Jersey City was bad enough. Mindy Ferencz, 31, Douglas Miguel Rodriguez, 49 and Moshe Deutsch, 24 died inside the JC Kosher Supermarket when two shooters got out of a van and opened fire with rifles on the store on Martin Luther King Drive earlier this month. Jersey City police detective Joseph Seals was gunned down in a cemetery by the same shooters shortly before, authorities say. There's so much we still don't know. But what's unmistakable: The sheer tragedy is overwhelming. And yet scammers with fake charities have made it worse. See our list of real, verified charity efforts to help the families here. See Jim's full episode on Facebook. Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app. ... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A ... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ

I'm sorry to see Chick-fil-A's throwing in the towel Nov 26, 2019

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Chick-fil-A -- the Christian-owned fast food chain -- took another step away from its controversial associations with religious and anti-LGBT values this month. And Jim Gearhart says he seeing the chain "throwing in the town was rather disappointing." "The reason for that, the alphabet (LGBT) group, these intimidation, have successfully intimidated them into not giving money to a group that the group didn't approve of," Jim says this week's episode of his weekly Facebook Live show and podcast. See Jim's full episode on Facebook. Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app. ... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A ... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ

Immigrants here illegally will get licenses, and you won't do anything Nov 19, 2019

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Jim's made clear: He thinks demonizing immigrants here illegally is wrong. Many, he said, are smarter, kinder, more affable people than native-born Americans he's known for ages. But, he says in this week's show: You give an inch ... Jim's concerned driver's licenses could normalize illegal immigration a step further. And then what? Voting's no trivial right to award -- even immigrants here legally can't do that -- but Jim worries about what happens when people who are breaking the law by being here get treated more and more as just another part of American society. See Jim's full episode on Facebook. Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app. ... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A ... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ

Were NJ kids being racist? 'None of your damn business' Nov 07, 2019

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There's little question it was a bad idea. A photo of a Watching Hills Regional High School student has been circulating online -- with the teen in blackface at a Halloween party. But Jim Gearhart wants to know: Why is their school getting involved? Why are police? See Jim's full episode on Facebook. Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app. ... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A ... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ

This NJ Democrat is against impeachment ... for some reason Nov 04, 2019

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He's something of an anomaly in this true-blue state. Freshman U.S. Representative from New Jersey and Democrat Jeff Van Drew voted against a resolution formalizing impeachment hearing rules for the Congressional investigation into President Donald Trump. Nearly a month earlier, he encouraged his fellow Democrats to cool their heels -- prompting a thanks on Twitter from the commander in tweet. And Jim Gearhart, in this week's episode of his weekly Facebook Live show and podcast, wants to know ... why? See Jim's full episode on Facebook. Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app. ... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A ... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ

The Phil Murphy years: NJ governor without a legacy? Oct 25, 2019

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"Everybody's looking for a legacy," Jim Gearhart says during his weekly Facebook Live show, which happens every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. "I don't know that this (administration) will have one. It'll be kind of like the Corzine administration. Nobody remembers it." Is Gov. Murphy set to disappear into history?

'Looney left' has a point when it comes to health care Oct 18, 2019

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Jim Gearhart has long said conservatives make good points, and liberals make good points -- and that he's happy to hear both out on any issue. But the far-leftist, the radical left, the progressives ... whatever you might call them ... they go too far, Jim says. Usually. But as Jim looks at the extraordinary, inconsistent and often shocking price of health care-- well, the longtime New Jersey 101.5 personality starts to lean in their direction. "There is a certain amount of reason on the side of the looney, the radical left," Jim says in this week's Jim Gearhart Show -- live on Facebook every Thursday at 10:30 a.m., and available here as a podcast every week. "This is free enterprise or capitalism on steroids." See the full video on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/nj1015/videos/2320852408170159/

I don't see anything wrong 'illegal alien' Oct 14, 2019

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What's wrong with the term "illegal alien?" Jim Gearhart asks. Enter the immigration debate fray, and you'll run into all sorts of variations on the term, and all sorts of alternatives to it. Some sound clinical, others border on pejorative. Illegal immigrant. Unauthorized immigrant. Undocumented alien. Illegals. Since at least 2013, the Associated Press Stylebook -- basically, the grammar Bible for most news writers -- has frowned on just about all of those, even though it used to be fine with "illegal immigrant." Jim asks: Why? See Jim's recording this week on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/nj1015/videos/881519772243254/

Why I was a Democrat 'when it was a legitimate party' Sep 27, 2019

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Jim's been worried for a while about what he says is the too-left slant of the Democratic party -- liberals have something to contribute, he says, but Jim argues progressives take things too far. And Jim says he, himself, was a Democrat "back when it was a legitimate party." That didn't sit right with one New Jerseyan who tuned into the Facebook Live presentation. I was a Democrat 'when it was a legitimate party' Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app. ... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A ... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ

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