Surprise! Walmart Health Plan is Cheaper, Offers More Coverage than Obamacare
New Obamacare health insurance enrollees may feel a pang of envy when they eye the coverage plans offered by Walmart to its employees.
Entries by Joe Miller
Video: Open-Carry Gun Advocate’s Confrontation with Grand Rapids Police that Sparked Lawsuit
A police car dash cam video obtained by MLive and The Grand Rapids Press shows the encounter between Grand Rapids Police officers and open-carry advocate Johann Deffert that sparked a federal lawsuit.
New Scandal, Same Old Christie
After swiftly dismissing a top official in his administration, Chris Christie was characteristically caustic when pressed by the press for the lesson to be drawn from the scandal: “Don’t lie to the governor.”
Maryland Officials Were Warned for a Year of Problems with Online Health-Insurance Exchange
More than a year before Maryland launched its health insurance exchange, senior state officials failed to heed warnings that no one was ultimately accountable for the $170 million project and that the state lacked a plausible plan for how it would be ready by Oct. 1.
Google’s Military Robotics: Humanoid Robots Future of Ground Warfare?
Google CEO Larry Page has rapidly positioned Google to become an indispensable U.S. military contractor.
Alaska Governor Unveils New Plan for Gas Pipeline
Gov. Sean Parnell on Friday announced a new way forward on a long-hoped-for natural gas pipeline that includes scrapping the terms of a 2007 law he says no longer works well for the situation.
Remembering An Earlier Time When a Theft Unmasked Government Surveillance
On March 24, 1971, I became the first reporter to inform readers that the FBI wanted the American people to think there was an “FBI agent behind every mailbox.” That rather alarming alert came from stolen FBI files I had found in my own mailbox at The Washington Post when I arrived at work the previous morning.
Smart Rifle Never Misses, Now Comes in Semi-Automatic Form
In the near future, you won’t even need to know how to fire a rifle to be a crack shot.
Data Shows More Young Veterans Committing Suicide
The rate among 18- to 29-year-old men climbed 44% over 3 years, a new analysis shows, although it declined among older male veterans.
LA County Votes to Restore Cross to Seal; ACLU Has Dracula-like Response
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, which represents a population greater than a number of states, has voted 3-2 to restore the cross to the San Gabriel Mission church on the L.A. County seal to accurately depict the Mission, which now appears on the county seal without its cross.