Green Fatigue Sets In: The World Cools On Global Warming
Worldwide concerns about climate change have dropped dramatically since 2009.
Entries by Joe Miller
Harvard Crimson To Conservatives: Don’t Apply To Harvard
The Crimson editorial may inadvertently support assertions about the liberal campus’ hostility toward conservatives.
Video: Maxine Waters – ‘Over 170 Million Jobs Could Be Lost’ Due To Sequestration
Unfortunately for the good representative, her numbers are a little off considering there aren’t 170 million Americans who are even gainfully employed.
Only 6% Rate News Media As Very Trustworthy
69% of Republicans and a plurality (44%) of unaffiliateds view the average reporter as more liberal than they are. Thirty-eight percent (38%) of Democrats think they share about the same views as the average reporter, while 30% more say that reporter is more conservative than they are.
DOJ Spends Millions On ‘Nonmission’ Luxury Travel For Attorney Generals, FBI Director
A Government Accountability Office report reveals that the Justice Department has spent $11.4 million to fly the Attorney General and FBI director on FBI luxury jets for travel unrelated to the agency’s mission.
Revolving Door: Speaker Boehner’s Right-Hand Man Heads To K Street
Jackson has agreed to join Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as a strategic adviser, delivering a coup to one of the top-earning lobby firms in Washington. The firm also announced that it has hired Elizabeth Maier, who was former Sen. Jon Kyl’s (R-Ariz.) legislative director.
New Year’s Eve On the Cliff: Lawmakers Have No Bill and No Deal (+Update)
The President and Congress continue to dawdle on the cliff. What will be the fallout of going over the cliff is anybody’s guess. (See update on this story here)
Biblical Baby Names Fall Out of Favor in US, Uptick in Names from Pop Culture such as Erotic Shades of Grey
Biblical names are out and pop culture is in for America’s newborns – if this year’s list of most popular baby names are anything to go by.
Death of Tea Party Exaggerated? Members in House Appear to Hold Key Fiscal Vote (+video)
Purged Tea Party members, ironically, may have the last word if conservatives can muster the votes to kill leadership’s brokered deal to raise taxes. Such a scenario would be devastating to House Leadership, as they would get neither the credit of having delivered a compromise, nor the moral high ground of having stood by their principles.
Californians’ Support for Death Penalty Goes Against Trend
California’s recent vote to continue the death penalty keeps it in the minority of states with capital punishment still on the books.