China Loosens Its One-Child Policy (+video)
The shift may be too late to offset the damage already done to China’s economy and society.
Entries by Joe Miller
Modern Day Cannibalism? Scientists Plan to Produce Gelatin from Human DNA
Reports last week that researchers could be just six months away from producing the world’s first artificial meat, using thousands of stem cells bred in a laboratory, sent a wave of fascination around the world. Yet there is an even more ghoulish prospect ahead: the idea of eating artificial food made from humans.
Five Jaw-Dropping Quotes from the Catastrophically Awful Obamacare Press Conference
President Obama had three goals coming into yesterday’s press conference: First, to shift responsibility for the Obamacare fiasco onto insurers by saddling them with mid-implementation changes. Second, to quell Democratic panic on Capitol Hill. And third, to nudge the media toward turning the page on his healthcare debacle. He accomplished none of these things. Indeed, he made things worse — sinking his presidency to a new nadir.
Obama Announces One Year Optional Delay In Requiring Insurance Companies To Cancel Policies (+video)
Bowing to pressure, President Barack Obama on Thursday announced changes under his health care law to give insurance companies the option to keep offering consumers plans that would otherwise be canceled.
Miller Calls Out Begich Duplicity On ANWR
In response to the junior senator’s statement earlier this week on US Interior Secretary Sally Jewell’s Speech before the National Press Club, US Senate candidate Joe Miller today highlighted the duplicity of Mark Begich’s position on resource development in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Obama Likens Health Care Law To Forcing People to ‘Buy a New Car’ (+video)
President Barack Obama on Thursday compared the grandfather clause in Obamacare to telling people they have to buy a new car right now even if they can’t afford it – when cars were first required to have seat belts or air bags.
State Insurance Regulators ‘Concerned’ about Obama’s Proposed Health Care Fix
At a Thursday press conference, President Obama, in attempt to calm the backlash from millions of Americans losing their insurance coverage, announced that insurers would no longer be bound by the requirements of his health care law for plans currently in effect.
Health Law Rollout’s Stumbles Draw Parallels to Bush’s Hurricane Katrina Response
Barack Obama won the presidency by exploiting a political environment that devoured George W. Bush in a second term plagued by sinking credibility, failed legislative battles, fractured world relations and revolts inside his own party.
Ben Stein: Obama Making ‘Annihilation’ of Jews Possible
Commentator Ben Stein said on Thursday that President Barack Obama’s “deeply naïve” premise that Iran would suddenly end its nuclear activities in exchange for an easing of sanctions that have crippled its economy for five years would make the “annihilation” of Jews possible.
Americans’ Personal Data Shared with CIA, IRS, Others in Security Probe
U.S. agencies collected and shared the personal information of thousands of Americans in an attempt to root out untrustworthy federal workers that ended up scrutinizing people who had no direct ties to the U.S. government and simply had purchased certain books.