Hollywood: Hey, This Obamacare Thing is Going to be Pretty Costly and Complicated For Us
Not even the kind of cash Hollywood donated to President Obama can protect them from unintended consequences.
Entries by Joe Miller
Iranian Official Signals No Scaling Back in Nuclear Activity
Iran will press ahead with its uranium enrichment program, its nuclear energy chief said on Friday, signaling no change of course despite the victory of a relative moderate in the June 14 presidential election.
License-Plate Readers Let Police Collect Millions of Records on Drivers
When the city of San Leandro, Calif., purchased a license-plate reader for its police department in 2008, computer security consultant Michael Katz-Lacabe asked the city for a record of every time the scanners had photographed his car.
Inspector General Finds Park Police Lost Track of Weapons
The U.S. Park Police, the law enforcement agency responsible for safeguarding the National Mall and critical American landmarks, has lost track of a large supply of handguns, rifles and shotguns, according to a harshly critical report issued Thursday.
NC Becomes 1st State To Drop Federal Jobless Funds
With changes to its unemployment law taking effect this weekend, North Carolina not only is cutting benefits for those who file new claims, it will become the first state disqualified from a federal compensation program for the long-term jobless.
Scalia: ‘High-Handed’ Kennedy Has Declared Us ‘Enemies of the Human Race’
Dissenting from the opinion on the Defense of Marriage Act, Justice Antonin Scalia – as expected – holds nothing back. His comments are a ‘must read.’
Man Faces 13 Years in Jail for Criticizing Big Banks with Sidewalk Chalk Messages
The case against a North Park man who wrote anti-big bank messages on city sidewalks with chalk will go to trial, and the defendant can’t argue that the First Amendment protects his written protests.
Zimmerman Murder Trial: State’s Key Witness Damaged; Trayvon Friend Says Screams on Tape Weren’t His (+video)
From the witness stand Wednesday, the state’s star witness in the George Zimmerman murder trial, Rachel “Diamond” Jeantel, gave her account of Trayvon Martin’s last seconds — and they were dramatic.
Passage of the Amnesty Bill Will Spell the End of Our Republic
The true purpose of the amnesty proposal is to capture future votes for the Democratic Party. Those who do not acknowledge that blatantly obvious fact either suffer from some debilitating mental illness or are working for the other side.
Obama’s Gun Control Agenda Now Attempts to Link Public Health Issues to Gun Ownership
In the near future, Americans who own or want guns likely will be subject to rafts of new questions from social scientists, medical researchers and law enforcement officials intent to discover just what guns they own, why they own them and what they intend to use them for — not to mention where and how they keep them.