Raises All Around? Federal Agency Scraps Employee Rating System
America’s new consumer watchdog agency has come up with a unique solution for its troubled employee-rating system: Give almost everyone a gold star.
Entries by Joe Miller
Greenwald’s Finale: Naming Victims of Surveillance
The man who helped bring about the most significant leak in American intelligence history is to reveal names of US citizens targeted by their own government in what he promises will be the “biggest” revelation from nearly 2m classified files.
WATCH: After VA Scandal, Even Dems Call Obama ‘Detached, ‘Incompetent’
So, is Obama detached and incompetent? The continuing pattern suggests so. In the minds of a growing number Democrats, anyway.
Is America Starting To Target Thought Crime?
Last week, Michelle Obama made headlines when she exhorted graduating high schoolers in a commencement address to monitor their families for politically incorrect thoughts and behaviors.
Colorado City Pays $25k To Man Arrested For Bringing A Gun To The Movies
A man who was arrested for carrying a holstered handgun into a movie theater a week after the Aurora shootings in 2012 received a $25,000 settlement check from the city of Thornton last week, according to Denver’s 7News.
In California, Life With Parole Increasingly Leads To Freedom
California has more than 26,000 inmates serving life sentences with the possibility of parole. Until recently, that possibility was a slim one; “lifers,” who are mostly murderers, rarely got out of prison.
Nigeria Army Claims to Know Whereabouts of Abducted Girls
Nigeria’s military knows where the more than 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram are but has ruled out using force to rescue them.
Unions, Employers Square Off Over ObamaCare Costs in Collective Bargaining
Disputes between unions and employers over paying for new costs associated with the Affordable Care Act are roiling labor talks nationwide.
Final Word on U.S. Law Isn’t: Supreme Court Keeps Editing
The Supreme Court has been quietly revising its decisions years after they were issued, altering the law of the land without public notice. The revisions include “truly substantive changes in factual statements and legal reasoning,” said Richard J. Lazarus, a law professor at Harvard and the author of a new study examining the phenomenon.
Black Pro-Lifer NAACP Silenced After Blasting Its Pro-Abortion Stance Appeals Decision
A leading black pro-life advocate has appealed a judge’s decision effectively silencing him and prohibiting him from criticizing the NAACP after the civil rights group sued him for calling it the “National Association for the Abortion of Colored People.”