Alaska May Make Gay Partners ‘Family’
The Alaska State Personnel Board is considering including same-sex partners of state employees in the definition of “immediate family” for purposes of leave.
Entries by Joe Miller
U.S. Spy Agency Edges into the Light After Snowden Revelations
There was a time when the U.S. National Security Agency was so secretive that government officials dared not speak its name in public. NSA, the joke went, stood for “No Such Agency.”
When Energy Dreams Fall Short
If the energy visions of past years had come true, throngs of Americans would be using switchgrass to fuel their cars and running their homes on electricity from nuclear fusion or carbon-capturing coal plants.
No, Obamacare Is Not A Good Deal For Young People In The Long Run, Not Even Close
Progressives are becoming increasingly concerned at the prospect of millions of uninsured young people deciding to push the easy button next year by simply paying a very small fine[1] rather than obtain health coverage. Consequently, they have turned to a new argument to get those under 30 to act against their self interest by signing up for the Exchanges.
Egyptians are convinced Obama is backing the Muslim Brotherhood
There seems to be something of a disconnect between who Egyptians think America is supporting, and who America actually is supporting in Cairo. In the U.S., story after story has been written about how the Obama Administration has bent over backwards not to call this latest change in government a “coup” and has been relatively muted in its reaction to the deaths of so many civilians – upwards of 1,000 in the last week alone.
FAA OKs Drones Over Alaska Oil Area
The FAA has cleared the way for unmanned aircraft, or drones, to fly for the Alaskan oil industry.
Razor Sales Dropping Precipitously as World Embraces the “Scruffy Look”
It’s a hairy situation! Both Gillette and Schick report that their razor sales are down—and across the pond in the U.K., men are even getting beard transplants.
State Dept. Corruption: Egyptian Gov’t Claims Evidence that U.S. Bribed Muslim Brotherhood Officials
A question apparently being raised in next week’s trial in Cairo of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leaders facing criminal charges is this: Was the Obama administration paying bribes as large as $850,000 a year to the Morsi government that were distributed by top ministerial level officials to Muslim Brotherhood leaders, with the direct involvement of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo?
Obama: Assault Weapon Industry’s No. 1 Customer, Buys 600,000 AK-47 Magazines
There he goes again. President Obama’s anti-gun administration, which recently pushed legislation banning assault weapons and large ammo magazines, is proving again that it is the industry’s No. 1 customer.
NSA Officers Spy on Love Interests
National Security Agency officers on several occasions have channeled their agency’s enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests, U.S. officials said.