Stephen Jimenez concludes that Matthew Shepard’s death had nothing to do with homophobia. It was instead the horrific result of a drug deal gone wrong. Indeed, in The Book of Matt, Jimenez offers lots of circumstantial evidence that Shepard and one of his murderers, a violent and drug-addled bit of tumbleweed called Aaron McKinney, were rival dealers in crystal meth. Several named witnesses told Jimenez that the two even had a sexual relationship.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-10 01:10:252016-04-11 11:14:39Everything You Know about Matthew Shepard is Wrong
The UC Berkeley student government has banned the term “illegal immigrant” from its discourse, deeming the phrase racist, offensive, unfair and derogatory.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-10 01:05:132016-04-11 11:14:39Berkeley Bans Term ‘Illegal Immigrant’
Florida ran out of its primary lethal-injection drug last month and relied on a new drug that no state had ever used for an execution.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-10 01:01:572016-04-11 11:14:40Executions Stall as States Seek Different Drugs
Three people in Virginia, including a DMV employee, pleaded guilty this week to conspiring to get state IDs or driver’s licenses for at least 300 illegal immigrants.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-10 00:59:542016-04-11 11:14:40DMV Employee Pleads Guilty to Giving At Least 300 Illegals State ID’s or Licenses
Even as President Barack Obama sold a new health care law in part by assuring Americans they would be able to keep their insurance plans, his administration knew that tens of millions of people actually could lose those their policies.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-09 02:42:352016-04-11 11:14:41Analysis: Over 40 Million May Lose Their Employer Based Health Plans
President Obama’s old campaign operation rallied the troops today, warning of a “pretty scary” ban on abortions in the sixth month of pregnancy that voters in Albuquerque, N.M., might pass.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-09 02:34:042016-04-11 11:14:41Obama Camp Views 20-Week Abortion Ban as ‘Pretty Scary’ Pro-Life Tactic
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, served Treasury Secretary Jack Lew with another subpoena relating to the IRS scandal in which the organization targeted Tea Party organizations, the committee announced on Friday.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-09 02:32:002016-04-11 11:14:42Issa Subpoenas Lew for Tea Party Targeting Docs
Ben Sasse is doing what few Republicans have been able to accomplish: He’s uniting the GOP establishment with anti-establishment conservatives in his bid to become the next U.S. senator from Nebraska.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-09 02:19:092016-04-11 11:14:42Anti-Obamacare Candidate Bridges Tea Party and Establishment Divide
We live in oxymoronic times. Everyone recognizes the need for a streamlined, more efficient Pentagon. Yet Congress won’t let the Department of Defense close another base or increase the copayments military families make for their very generous health insurance plans.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-09 02:10:472016-04-11 11:14:43Military Must Do More with Less
Reports of sexual assaults in the military increased by an unprecedented 46 percent in the past fiscal year, the Pentagon said Thursday.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-09 01:48:002016-04-11 11:14:43Pentagon: Reports of Sexual Assaults Up 46 Percent
The Bureau of Economic Analysis’s (BEA) first estimate of economic growth for the third quarter of this year shows an economy that continues to grow at a plodding pace.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-08 01:41:052016-04-11 11:14:45Economy Continues to Grow at a Plodding Pace
The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case examining whether sectarian prayer should be allowed at government meetings.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-08 01:37:152016-04-11 11:14:45Supreme Court Opens Hearing on Public Prayer—With a Prayer
Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii to access some of the classified material he leaked to the media, sources said.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-08 01:28:132016-04-11 11:14:45Snowden Reportedly Persuaded Other NSA Workers to Give Up Passwords
Reflecting Americans’ increasing acceptance of gays, the Senate on Thursday approved legislation that would bar workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-08 01:01:252016-04-11 11:14:46Senate Approved Legislation Banning Workplace Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told a Senate panel Wednesday that there are no safeguards in place that would prevent convicted felons from becoming “navigators” for the new health care law implementation.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-07 02:49:592016-04-11 11:14:47Health Care Law Allows Hiring Convicted Felons as Obamacare Navigators
Long before Ted Cruz was orchestrating 21-hour homilies on the Senate floor, Graves, a Republican congressman from Georgia, was waging a lonely—and largely anonymous—campaign to defund the Affordable Care Act.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-07 02:48:042016-04-11 11:14:47Tom Graves: The Man Behind the Campaign to Defund Obamacare
The couple — Lee, 60, and JoEllen, 59 — have been paying $550 a month for their health coverage — a plan that offers solid coverage, not one of the skimpy plans Obama has criticized. But recently, Kaiser informed them the plan would be canceled at the end of the year because it did not meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-07 02:45:092016-04-11 11:14:47Loyal Obama Supporters’ Health Insurance Canceled by Obamacare
Filmmaker Michael Moore had a lot to say about guns to a paparazzo who caught up with him at LAX, the scene of a shooting last week that left a TSA worker dead.
A group of 15 Senate Democrats–all up for re-election in a year–met with President Barack Obama Wednesday to get an update on the beleaguered website where Americans are supposed to be able to register for exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-07 02:30:242016-04-11 11:14:48Obama, Biden Meet with Begich, Other Senate Dems Up For Re-electiion
A new study suggests clay may have been the birthplace of life on Earth.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-07 02:30:062016-04-11 11:14:48Study Suggests Life Began with Clay, Echoing Bible Creation Story
John Cardillo, the president and CEO of PsyID, a company specializing in actionable social media intelligence and analytics, appeared on The Glenn Beck Program Wednesday to explain what Americans should know when reading the polls.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-07 02:30:042016-04-11 11:14:49Everything You Need to Know About Reading the Polls
The number of poor people in America is 3 million higher than the official count, encompassing 1 in 6 residents due to out-of-pocket medical costs and work-related expenses, according to a revised census measure released Wednesday.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-07 02:28:542016-04-11 11:14:49Number of Poor People in America is 3 Million Higher than the Official Count
Everything You Know about Matthew Shepard is Wrong
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Andrew FergusonStephen Jimenez concludes that Matthew Shepard’s death had nothing to do with homophobia. It was instead the horrific result of a drug deal gone wrong. Indeed, in The Book of Matt, Jimenez offers lots of circumstantial evidence that Shepard and one of his murderers, a violent and drug-addled bit of tumbleweed called Aaron McKinney, were rival dealers in crystal meth. Several named witnesses told Jimenez that the two even had a sexual relationship.
Berkeley Bans Term ‘Illegal Immigrant’
/9 Comments/in Featured, News /by Jennifer KabbanyThe UC Berkeley student government has banned the term “illegal immigrant” from its discourse, deeming the phrase racist, offensive, unfair and derogatory.
Executions Stall as States Seek Different Drugs
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Manny FernandezFlorida ran out of its primary lethal-injection drug last month and relied on a new drug that no state had ever used for an execution.
DMV Employee Pleads Guilty to Giving At Least 300 Illegals State ID’s or Licenses
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Tony LeeThree people in Virginia, including a DMV employee, pleaded guilty this week to conspiring to get state IDs or driver’s licenses for at least 300 illegal immigrants.
Analysis: Over 40 Million May Lose Their Employer Based Health Plans
/10 Comments/in Featured, News /by Kevin G. Hall and Anita KumarEven as President Barack Obama sold a new health care law in part by assuring Americans they would be able to keep their insurance plans, his administration knew that tens of millions of people actually could lose those their policies.
CNN Blames Christians for Obamacare Problems
/10 Comments/in Featured, News /by Joel B PollakCNN has blamed Christians for the problem of Americans without health insurance, calling it “The Obamacare ‘scandal’ you haven’t heard about.”
Obama Camp Views 20-Week Abortion Ban as ‘Pretty Scary’ Pro-Life Tactic
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Joel GehrkePresident Obama’s old campaign operation rallied the troops today, warning of a “pretty scary” ban on abortions in the sixth month of pregnancy that voters in Albuquerque, N.M., might pass.
Issa Subpoenas Lew for Tea Party Targeting Docs
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Matthew BoyleRep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, served Treasury Secretary Jack Lew with another subpoena relating to the IRS scandal in which the organization targeted Tea Party organizations, the committee announced on Friday.
Anti-Obamacare Candidate Bridges Tea Party and Establishment Divide
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Daniel HalperBen Sasse is doing what few Republicans have been able to accomplish: He’s uniting the GOP establishment with anti-establishment conservatives in his bid to become the next U.S. senator from Nebraska.
Military Must Do More with Less
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Michael O'HanlonWe live in oxymoronic times. Everyone recognizes the need for a streamlined, more efficient Pentagon. Yet Congress won’t let the Department of Defense close another base or increase the copayments military families make for their very generous health insurance plans.
Pentagon: Reports of Sexual Assaults Up 46 Percent
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Pauline JelinekReports of sexual assaults in the military increased by an unprecedented 46 percent in the past fiscal year, the Pentagon said Thursday.
Republican Senators Rally Behind Abortion Ban
/9 Comments/in Featured, News /by Elise ViebeckRepublican senators facing primary challenges are rallying behind the most exhaustive congressional push to restrict abortion rights in a decade.
Economy Continues to Grow at a Plodding Pace
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by Curtis DubayThe Bureau of Economic Analysis’s (BEA) first estimate of economic growth for the third quarter of this year shows an economy that continues to grow at a plodding pace.
Supreme Court Opens Hearing on Public Prayer—With a Prayer
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Penny StarrThe United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case examining whether sectarian prayer should be allowed at government meetings.
Snowden Reportedly Persuaded Other NSA Workers to Give Up Passwords
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Mark Hosenball and Warren StrobelFormer U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii to access some of the classified material he leaked to the media, sources said.
Senate Approved Legislation Banning Workplace Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Donna CassataReflecting Americans’ increasing acceptance of gays, the Senate on Thursday approved legislation that would bar workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Botched NC DOT Traffic Alert Warns Of ‘Women Drivers, Rain, ObamaCare’
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by CBS CHARLOTTEThe message then advised drivers: “Stay Home.”
Health Care Law Allows Hiring Convicted Felons as Obamacare Navigators
/5 Comments/in Featured, News /by News EditorHealth and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told a Senate panel Wednesday that there are no safeguards in place that would prevent convicted felons from becoming “navigators” for the new health care law implementation.
Tom Graves: The Man Behind the Campaign to Defund Obamacare
/4 Comments/in Featured, News /by Tim AlbertaLong before Ted Cruz was orchestrating 21-hour homilies on the Senate floor, Graves, a Republican congressman from Georgia, was waging a lonely—and largely anonymous—campaign to defund the Affordable Care Act.
Loyal Obama Supporters’ Health Insurance Canceled by Obamacare
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Charles OrnsteinThe couple — Lee, 60, and JoEllen, 59 — have been paying $550 a month for their health coverage — a plan that offers solid coverage, not one of the skimpy plans Obama has criticized. But recently, Kaiser informed them the plan would be canceled at the end of the year because it did not meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act.
Filmmaker Michael Moore: ‘Guns don’t Kill People, Americans Kill People’
/7 Comments/in Featured, News /by Fox NewsFilmmaker Michael Moore had a lot to say about guns to a paparazzo who caught up with him at LAX, the scene of a shooting last week that left a TSA worker dead.
Obama, Biden Meet with Begich, Other Senate Dems Up For Re-electiion
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Jim AcostaA group of 15 Senate Democrats–all up for re-election in a year–met with President Barack Obama Wednesday to get an update on the beleaguered website where Americans are supposed to be able to register for exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act.
Study Suggests Life Began with Clay, Echoing Bible Creation Story
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Fox NewsA new study suggests clay may have been the birthplace of life on Earth.
Everything You Need to Know About Reading the Polls
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Erica RitzJohn Cardillo, the president and CEO of PsyID, a company specializing in actionable social media intelligence and analytics, appeared on The Glenn Beck Program Wednesday to explain what Americans should know when reading the polls.
Number of Poor People in America is 3 Million Higher than the Official Count
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by Hope Yen/APThe number of poor people in America is 3 million higher than the official count, encompassing 1 in 6 residents due to out-of-pocket medical costs and work-related expenses, according to a revised census measure released Wednesday.