Okay, I predict that the Dems will really fuck something up — but you already knew that. What do you see happening in 2014?

Pope Francis shows Democrats how to take back America.

Brown is the woman commonly believed to be Christie’s (as the New York Post would put it) “gal pal”:

TRENTON — After months of delay, Gov. Chris Christie’s administration has released several dozen boilerplate pages of “Stronger Than the Storm” contract documents — but officials are promising to turn over the cache of additional in-depth information sought by Gannett New Jersey.

The Asbury Park Press, a sister paper to the Courier-Post, requested on Aug. 7 the notes and communications generated by the state evaluation committee that awarded the $25 million tourism advertising contract resulting in television commercials starring Christie and his family.

The contract was funded by federal Sandy recovery dollars, and the commercials aired in the spring and summer. Christie at the same time was gearing up his re-election campaign, giving him an unfair political benefit, critics have said.

To date, none of the transcripts, notes, memorandums, emails, texts or minutes from the evaluation committee’s meetings have been made public.

The six-member committee was headed by Michele Brown, who is CEO of the state Economic Development Authority at a salary of $225,000. Brown is a former federal prosecutor in New Jersey; she resigned that post in 2009 amid controversy over a loan of $46,000 from Christie.

The loan, which since has been repaid, was given in 2007 when Christie was a U.S. attorney and she was a subordinate in his office. Christie’s failure to disclose the loan became an issue in his first gubernatorial campaign.

When do we, as a nation, stand up to police brutality? When do we say no to cops acting like members of an occupying army? What does it take?

DURHAM — A month after Jesús “Chuy” Huerta died in police custody, dozens of armored police officers assembled as an alliance of about 150 friends, families and protesters marched for a second time on the Durham Police Department Thursday evening.

Police, some dressed in riot gear and equipped with rifles and shotguns, assembled in rows around the building, waiting, as the marchers streamed toward police property around 7:30 p.m., demanding answers for a family’s pain.

Protest organizers and police alike had in prior days urged marchers to remain peaceful, hoping to avoid the window-breaking and small number of arrests that marked the first protest for Huerta.

Thursday’s march, however, ended with several more arrests. Firecrackers and at least one bottle was thrown by protesters. Then several canisters of gas discharged by police before the crowd finally dispersed around 9 p.m.

The uproar over Huerta’s death has calmed little in the last few weeks, seeming only to intensify with Chief Jose Lopez’s claim that the 17-year-old shot himself in the head while his hands were cuffed behind his back in a police cruiser.