Ice continued to build this past week on the Great Lakes due to the cold air and temperatures staying below freezing, and Lake Superior’s new record shows it.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-08 01:01:212016-04-11 11:12:37Great Lakes Ice Cover Spreading Rapidly; See Which Lake Set a New Record
The Congressional Budget Office published an estimate on Tuesday that the labor market is 6 million jobs short of full health. In the Hamilton Project’s separate calculations, it will take almost six years for the economy to recover its pre-recession health at the current pace of job creation.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-08 00:57:172016-04-11 11:12:37Another Jobs Report Disappoints: 113,000 New Jobs, Unemployment Rate to 6.6 Percent
The White House and congressional Democrats are trying to limit the fallout from the politically damaging conclusion in a Congressional Budget Office report that the Obamacare entitlement creates a major incentive for some people not to work.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-08 00:46:192016-04-11 11:12:38CBO Report Fallout: Specter of Welfare State Jolts Democrats
George Soros’ ex-girlfriend flew into a rage and hit the billionaire before slapping Hollywood lawyer-to-the-stars Marty Singer in the face, knocking off his glasses, during a heated hearing in her $50 million lawsuit against the mogul.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-08 00:42:382016-04-11 11:12:38Report: Ex-Girlfriend Physically Attacked George Soros and his Lawyers During Deposition
In a speech during Thursday morning’s National Prayer Breakfast, President Barack Obama acknowledged, “It’s also clear that around the world, freedom of religion is under threat.”
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-07 02:36:202016-04-11 11:12:39Obama Says ‘Freedom of Religion is Under Threat’ as Catholics Sue Administration
Following a string of setbacks, the Obama administration reportedly is considering yet another extension of existing individual health insurance policies in an effort to smooth the transition to the federal exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-07 02:32:392016-04-11 11:12:39Could Another ObamaCare Extension Be in the Works Going Beyond 2016?
“I don’t like goodbyes; NBC does,” Jay Leno said in his latest last opening monologue, as he bid farewell to “The Tonight Show” — again — on Thursday night.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-07 02:23:582016-04-11 11:12:39Video: Leno’s Star-studded Farewell From ‘The Tonight Show’ for Second Time
Three Republican senators have sent a letter to President Barack Obama demanding answers to questions his interview with Bill O’Reilly raised about the Benghazi attack.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-07 02:15:482016-04-11 11:12:39GOP Senators Send Letter to Obama Demanding Benghazi Explanation
Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, the executive vice president for the Family Research Council, is blasting the Southern Poverty Law Center for still maintaining – a year after it was linked to a domestic terror case – an online feature that identifies the family group as a “hate” organization.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-07 01:55:192016-04-11 11:12:40General: Supposed Anti-Group Incites Hatred and Violence Against Christian Organizations in U.S.
The Obama administration has unilaterally eased restrictions on asylum seekers with loose or incidental ties to terror and insurgent groups, in a move one senator called “deeply alarming.”
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-07 01:45:512016-04-11 11:12:40Administration Eases Restrictions on Asylum Seekers with Loose Terror Ties
Senate Republicans narrowly blocked the advance of legislation to restore benefits for the long-term unemployed on Thursday for the second time in less than a month, and Democrats said they intended to call yet another vote on the issue.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-07 01:45:012016-04-11 11:12:40GOP Thwarts New Try to Restore Unemployment Benefits
Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law & Justice, said it was “very well possible” that the IRS’s targeting and harassment of conservatives and Tea Party groups impacted the 2012 presidential election between President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-07 01:43:282016-04-11 11:12:40ACLJ Chief Counsel: Very Possible IRS Targeting Impacted 2012 Election (+video)
A Predator drone designed to catch terrorists in Afghanistan was used to track a recalcitrant North Dakota rancher and his sons accused of cattle thieving and monitor them to see when they were unarmed and alert the police in a case believed to be the first where an American citizen was arrested with the aid of a drone.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-07 01:37:062016-04-11 11:12:41Predator Drone Used to Arrest American Ranch Family
The Denver District Attorney’s Office has declined to file criminal charges against a female Transportation Security Administration agent at Denver International Airport after a passenger complained the pat-down she received amounted to sexual assault.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-07 01:12:402016-04-11 11:12:41No Criminal Charges Against TSA Agent Over Pat-Down At DIA
The U.S. Postal Service is currently seeking companies that can provide “assorted small arms ammunition” in the near future.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-07 01:06:022016-04-11 11:12:41Report: U.S. Postal Service Announces Giant Ammo Purchase
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told law students at the University of Hawaii law school Monday that the nation’s highest court was wrong to uphold the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II but that he wouldn’t be surprised if the court issued a similar ruling during a future conflict.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-06 02:57:412016-04-11 11:12:42Scalia: US Supreme Court May Force Americans Into Internment Camps Again
Several influential conservative Republicans on Wednesday put House Speaker John Boehner and other GOP leaders on notice that immigration reform legislation is dead because they don’t trust President Obama to honestly implement any new legislation they might pass.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-06 02:47:062016-04-11 11:12:42House Conservatives: ‘Overwhelming Support for Doing Nothing’ On Immigration
Big budget cuts over the next decade will force the Pentagon to make painful cuts to personnel and readiness and could make it hard to execute a global security strategy, defense analysts predicted on Wednesday.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-06 02:42:382016-04-11 11:12:42Cuts in U.S. Defense Spending Force Hard Strategic Choices
As Americans have grown increasingly comfortable with traditional surveillance cameras, a new, far more powerful generation is being quietly deployed that can track every vehicle and person across an area the size of a small city, for several hours at a time.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-06 02:42:022016-04-11 11:12:42New Surveillance Technology Can Track Everyone in an Area for Several Hours at a Time
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning to U.S. and some foreign airlines traveling to Russia for the Olympic Games to be on the lookout for toothpaste containers, which some intelligence indicates may actually hold ingredients that could be used to construct a bomb aboard a plane, a senior U.S. official told ABC News.
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According to a recent study, fatal car crashes involving pot use have tripled in the U.S.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-06 02:32:232016-04-11 11:12:43Study: Fatal Car Crashes Involving Marijuana Have Tripled – Now 1-in-9
When the Arab oil embargo of 1973 shocked the U.S. into long gas lines and rationing, Congress approved what was a no-brainer at the time — a ban on exporting crude oil produced at home.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-06 02:26:472016-04-11 11:12:43Calls Mount to End Ban On Oil Exports as US Production Booms
Former “American Idol” singer Clay Aiken said on Wednesday he will run for U.S. Congress as a Democrat in his home state of North Carolina, where he once worked as a special education teacher.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-06 02:09:032016-04-11 11:12:43‘American Idol’ Singer Clay Aiken to Run for Congress in North Carolina
Every vulnerable Senate Democrat up for re-election in 2014 voted with President Barack Obama at least 90 percent of the time in 2013, according to CQ Roll Call’s latest vote studies, released Monday.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-02-05 03:07:182016-04-11 11:12:44Begich, Other Red State Dem Senators Up for Re-election Stand By Their Man
Great Lakes Ice Cover Spreading Rapidly; See Which Lake Set a New Record
/8 Comments/in Featured, News /by Mark TorregrossaIce continued to build this past week on the Great Lakes due to the cold air and temperatures staying below freezing, and Lake Superior’s new record shows it.
Another Jobs Report Disappoints: 113,000 New Jobs, Unemployment Rate to 6.6 Percent
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Joseph LawlerThe Congressional Budget Office published an estimate on Tuesday that the labor market is 6 million jobs short of full health. In the Hamilton Project’s separate calculations, it will take almost six years for the economy to recover its pre-recession health at the current pace of job creation.
CBO Report Fallout: Specter of Welfare State Jolts Democrats
/5 Comments/in Featured, News /by Dave BoyerThe White House and congressional Democrats are trying to limit the fallout from the politically damaging conclusion in a Congressional Budget Office report that the Obamacare entitlement creates a major incentive for some people not to work.
Report: Ex-Girlfriend Physically Attacked George Soros and his Lawyers During Deposition
/13 Comments/in Featured, News /by Emily SmithGeorge Soros’ ex-girlfriend flew into a rage and hit the billionaire before slapping Hollywood lawyer-to-the-stars Marty Singer in the face, knocking off his glasses, during a heated hearing in her $50 million lawsuit against the mogul.
Obama Says ‘Freedom of Religion is Under Threat’ as Catholics Sue Administration
/6 Comments/in Featured, News /by Christopher BedfordIn a speech during Thursday morning’s National Prayer Breakfast, President Barack Obama acknowledged, “It’s also clear that around the world, freedom of religion is under threat.”
Could Another ObamaCare Extension Be in the Works Going Beyond 2016?
/5 Comments/in Featured, News /by Fox NewsFollowing a string of setbacks, the Obama administration reportedly is considering yet another extension of existing individual health insurance policies in an effort to smooth the transition to the federal exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.
Video: Leno’s Star-studded Farewell From ‘The Tonight Show’ for Second Time
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Brian Lowry“I don’t like goodbyes; NBC does,” Jay Leno said in his latest last opening monologue, as he bid farewell to “The Tonight Show” — again — on Thursday night.
GOP Senators Send Letter to Obama Demanding Benghazi Explanation
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Greg RichterThree Republican senators have sent a letter to President Barack Obama demanding answers to questions his interview with Bill O’Reilly raised about the Benghazi attack.
General: Supposed Anti-Group Incites Hatred and Violence Against Christian Organizations in U.S.
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Bob UnruhLt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, the executive vice president for the Family Research Council, is blasting the Southern Poverty Law Center for still maintaining – a year after it was linked to a domestic terror case – an online feature that identifies the family group as a “hate” organization.
Administration Eases Restrictions on Asylum Seekers with Loose Terror Ties
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Judson BergerThe Obama administration has unilaterally eased restrictions on asylum seekers with loose or incidental ties to terror and insurgent groups, in a move one senator called “deeply alarming.”
GOP Thwarts New Try to Restore Unemployment Benefits
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by Associated PressSenate Republicans narrowly blocked the advance of legislation to restore benefits for the long-term unemployed on Thursday for the second time in less than a month, and Democrats said they intended to call yet another vote on the issue.
ACLJ Chief Counsel: Very Possible IRS Targeting Impacted 2012 Election (+video)
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by News EditorJay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law & Justice, said it was “very well possible” that the IRS’s targeting and harassment of conservatives and Tea Party groups impacted the 2012 presidential election between President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney.
Predator Drone Used to Arrest American Ranch Family
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Barbara BolandA Predator drone designed to catch terrorists in Afghanistan was used to track a recalcitrant North Dakota rancher and his sons accused of cattle thieving and monitor them to see when they were unarmed and alert the police in a case believed to be the first where an American citizen was arrested with the aid of a drone.
No Criminal Charges Against TSA Agent Over Pat-Down At DIA
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Brian MaassThe Denver District Attorney’s Office has declined to file criminal charges against a female Transportation Security Administration agent at Denver International Airport after a passenger complained the pat-down she received amounted to sexual assault.
Report: U.S. Postal Service Announces Giant Ammo Purchase
/6 Comments/in Featured, News /by Kit DanielsThe U.S. Postal Service is currently seeking companies that can provide “assorted small arms ammunition” in the near future.
Scalia: US Supreme Court May Force Americans Into Internment Camps Again
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Audrey McAvoyU.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told law students at the University of Hawaii law school Monday that the nation’s highest court was wrong to uphold the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II but that he wouldn’t be surprised if the court issued a similar ruling during a future conflict.
House Conservatives: ‘Overwhelming Support for Doing Nothing’ On Immigration
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Paul BedardSeveral influential conservative Republicans on Wednesday put House Speaker John Boehner and other GOP leaders on notice that immigration reform legislation is dead because they don’t trust President Obama to honestly implement any new legislation they might pass.
Cuts in U.S. Defense Spending Force Hard Strategic Choices
/4 Comments/in Featured, News /by David AlexanderBig budget cuts over the next decade will force the Pentagon to make painful cuts to personnel and readiness and could make it hard to execute a global security strategy, defense analysts predicted on Wednesday.
New Surveillance Technology Can Track Everyone in an Area for Several Hours at a Time
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by Craig TimbergAs Americans have grown increasingly comfortable with traditional surveillance cameras, a new, far more powerful generation is being quietly deployed that can track every vehicle and person across an area the size of a small city, for several hours at a time.
Olympic Threat: US Warns Airlines About Toothpaste Tube Bomb
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by James Gordon MeekThe Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning to U.S. and some foreign airlines traveling to Russia for the Olympic Games to be on the lookout for toothpaste containers, which some intelligence indicates may actually hold ingredients that could be used to construct a bomb aboard a plane, a senior U.S. official told ABC News.
Study: Fatal Car Crashes Involving Marijuana Have Tripled – Now 1-in-9
/7 Comments/in Featured, News /by CBS SeattleAccording to a recent study, fatal car crashes involving pot use have tripled in the U.S.
Calls Mount to End Ban On Oil Exports as US Production Booms
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Dan SpringerWhen the Arab oil embargo of 1973 shocked the U.S. into long gas lines and rationing, Congress approved what was a no-brainer at the time — a ban on exporting crude oil produced at home.
‘American Idol’ Singer Clay Aiken to Run for Congress in North Carolina
/8 Comments/in Featured, News /by Colleen JenkinsFormer “American Idol” singer Clay Aiken said on Wednesday he will run for U.S. Congress as a Democrat in his home state of North Carolina, where he once worked as a special education teacher.
Long Forgotten Pot Bust, Bureacratic Screwup Prompt Agents to Seize California Man’s Guns
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Fox NewsMichael Merritt had all but forgotten about the pot bust way back in 1970 when state agents came knocking on the door of his Bakersfield, Calif. home.
Begich, Other Red State Dem Senators Up for Re-election Stand By Their Man
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Meredith ShinerEvery vulnerable Senate Democrat up for re-election in 2014 voted with President Barack Obama at least 90 percent of the time in 2013, according to CQ Roll Call’s latest vote studies, released Monday.