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Anyone who has ever heard of Newark, NJ, probably has heard a bad thing or two about its crime rate– but is it really this bad? A city councilman is now proposing a law that would require certain small restaurants to have “armed guards” standing over the places after 9 PM. On last night’s Freedom Watch, Judge Andrew Napolitano explained the law and demanded to know one element of it that seems still unclear: who would pay for the guards?

A few months ago, Mayor Cory Booker jokingly sent Snooki a Tweet threatening to give her a ticket for texting while driving after she Tweeted about being stuck in Newark traffic. That was funny. This, though, is awesome. After a resident let him know via Twitter that his sister’s street was still snowed under and she couldn’t leave to get diapers, he responded that he’d deliver them personally. Within a half an hour, he’d actually done it!

It sucked to be at Newark tonight — the entire Terminal C was on lockdown thanks to some wayward dude wandering unchecked through a security gate into a secure area. Flights were grounded, planes were stuck on the tarmac, and passengers weren’t going anywhere. But — things that suck mightily can always be made better through song, and that is just what musician Josh Wilson demonstrated….when he led the entire crowd around him in the terminal in a rendition of “Hey, Jude.”

Newark is a city in transition and at the center of that transformation is its mayor, Cory Booker. Crippled by riots that took place in 1967, the city struggled to recover and it was only until recently, almost a half century later, that Newark has begun to rise again. Booker’s sweeping reforms in city government [...]