More than 1,600 new employees hired by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the aftermath of Obamacare’s passage include just two described as ‘consumer safety’ officers, but 86 tasked with ‘criminal investigating’ – indicating that the agency is building an army of detectives to sleuth out violations of a law that many in Congress who supported it still find confusing.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-23 00:37:392013-08-23 00:37:39Feds are Building a Detective Squad to Target Consumers and Companies that Don’t Follow Obamacare’s Rules
Campus Pride, a gay rights advocacy group, released its annual list of the “Top 25 LGBT Friendly Colleges and Universities” on Tuesday, which includes schools with gender-neutral bathrooms and a minor in “queer studies.”
President Obama’s half-brother in Kenya could cause the White House more headaches over new evidence linking him to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and establishing that controversial IRS supervisor Lois Lerner signed his tax-exempt approval letter.
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United Parcel Service, the nation’s largest package delivery company, plans to drop health insurance coverage for thousands of employees’ spouses in a cost-cutting move it blames partially on President Obama’s health care law.
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Outside of the federal government’s Bureau of Labor statistics, the Gallup polling organization also tracks the nation’s unemployment rate.
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Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh went after the mainstream media over its shallow coverage of the racial details in the Oklahoma shooting of student Chris Lane “for the fun of it.” On his radio show Wednesday, he said the case is like “Trayvon Martin in reverse, only worse.”
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Katy Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngKaty Miller2013-08-22 00:41:522013-08-22 00:41:52Rush Limbaugh Eviscerates Media: Thrill Kill of White Athlete is ‘Trayvon Martin in Reverse, Only Worse’
Senior GOP aides of a super PAC linked to Speaker John Boehner are lobbying House Republicans to pass the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, legislation that Boehner has said he will not bring to the House floor.
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) is demanding a new round of briefings on U.S. domestic surveillance operations.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-22 00:41:112013-08-22 00:41:11Corker: Lawmakers Learn More about NSA from Newspaper than Briefings
Al Gore was vice president of the United States from 1993-2001. Since leaving politics, he’s been heavily involved in the campaign to fight global warming, even winning a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts. And he says he’s more optimistic than ever that the issue has reached “a tipping point.” In this lightly edited interview transcript, he explains why.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-22 00:40:572013-08-22 00:40:57Al Gore Explains Why he’s Optimistic about Stopping Global Warming
The Internal Revenue Service soon will have a larger role to play in managing the health records of Americans. But they’re having a hard time managing their own records, it seems.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-22 00:39:262013-08-22 00:39:26New Audit Finds IRS Can’t Keep Track of its Own Software
Manning says ‘It’s OK – I’m going to get through this’ after military judge hands down stiff penalty for WikiLeaks disclosures.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-22 00:39:012013-08-22 00:39:01Bradley Manning to Request Pardon from Obama Over 35-Year Jail Sentence
Voters in Weld County will vote on whether to secede from Colorado after commissioners this week unanimously agreed to put the question on November’s ballot.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-22 00:36:582013-08-22 00:36:58‘North Colorado’ Secession Movement Inches Forward
Republican Ken Buck holds the early lead over what a Denver pollster called a “strange” field of GOP contenders hoping to unseat Colorado Democratic Sen. Mark Udall.
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Looking for a good paying job? Well, look no further. No, really, stop looking. In 35 states, welfare benefits pay more than a minimum wage job, according to a new study by the libertarian Cato Institute, and in 13 states welfare pays more than $15 per hour.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-20 23:13:062013-08-20 23:13:06Study: Welfare Pays More than Work in Most States
Several member’s of the ’72 undefeated NFL Dolphins refused an invite to the White House, due to ‘real moral compass issues in Washington’ and ‘views diametrically opposed to the President’s’. Read more on what these former players had to say about the invite here.
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Former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) on Monday night urged voters to replace any Republican lawmaker unwilling to vote to defund ObamaCare during next month’s budget showdown.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-20 23:08:252013-08-20 23:08:25DeMint: Republicans Unwilling to Defund ObamaCare ‘Need to be Replaced’
Tabloid headlines. Personal dramas. Organizational disarray. Score-settling between rival factions documented in news accounts like a soap opera.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-20 22:52:242013-08-20 22:52:24Clinton Dramas: Here We Go Again
Debuting at Amazon Number One (for all, not merely political, books) is syndicated radio talk show host Mark Levin’s The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic. Read this story for why Levin’s new book is a game changer.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-20 22:51:442013-08-20 22:51:44Mark Levin’s Game Changer: Using the Constitution to Arrest Federal Drift
After delivering a number of “economic growth” speeches this summer, President Obama has failed to inspire any confidence, falling all the way back to square one in a recent Gallup poll. Actually, make that less than square one. Gallup reported that Obama’s approval rating on the economy has sunk to this…
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-20 22:45:532013-08-20 22:45:53Obama Skips the Kennedy Tax Cuts
Of the 12.2 million Americans who were unemployed as of December 2012, 39 percent (4.7 million) had been out of work for 27 weeks or more, according to a new report from the Urban Institute.
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A man who hacked into Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page to expose a software bug is getting donations from hackers around the world after the company declined to pay him under a program that normally rewards people who report flaws.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-20 22:43:072013-08-20 22:43:07Man who Hacked Zuckerberg’s Facebook Account to Get Cash Reward … but not from Facebook
In late September 2010, Iowa senator Chuck Grassley and six of his colleagues grew suspicious that a senior Obama administration official had improperly accessed the tax information of industrial behemoth Koch Industries.
Less than 24 hours after the Dallas Morning News reported that he likely maintains dual citizenship to the U.S. and Canada, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced Monday evening that he will renounce his Canadian citizenship.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-20 00:45:042013-08-20 00:45:04Ted Cruz to Renounce Canadian Citizenship: ‘Nothing Against Canada, but I’m an American’
The White House has quietly placed military aid to Egypt on hold, despite not saying publicly whether the Egyptian military takeover was a coup.
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Feds are Building a Detective Squad to Target Consumers and Companies that Don’t Follow Obamacare’s Rules
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by David MartoskoMore than 1,600 new employees hired by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the aftermath of Obamacare’s passage include just two described as ‘consumer safety’ officers, but 86 tasked with ‘criminal investigating’ – indicating that the agency is building an army of detectives to sleuth out violations of a law that many in Congress who supported it still find confusing.
Top ‘LGBT Friendly’ Colleges Offer ‘Gender-Free’ Bathrooms, ‘Queer Studies’ Minor
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Melanie HunterCampus Pride, a gay rights advocacy group, released its annual list of the “Top 25 LGBT Friendly Colleges and Universities” on Tuesday, which includes schools with gender-neutral bathrooms and a minor in “queer studies.”
Obama’s Brother Linked to Muslim Brotherhood
/20 Comments/in Featured, News /by Jerome R. CorsiPresident Obama’s half-brother in Kenya could cause the White House more headaches over new evidence linking him to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and establishing that controversial IRS supervisor Lois Lerner signed his tax-exempt approval letter.
UPS Drops Health Insurance for Employee Spouses, Blames Obamacare
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by SEAN LENGELLUnited Parcel Service, the nation’s largest package delivery company, plans to drop health insurance coverage for thousands of employees’ spouses in a cost-cutting move it blames partially on President Obama’s health care law.
Gallup: Unemployment Rate Jumps from 7.7% to 8.9% in 30 Days
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by News EditorOutside of the federal government’s Bureau of Labor statistics, the Gallup polling organization also tracks the nation’s unemployment rate.
Rush Limbaugh Eviscerates Media: Thrill Kill of White Athlete is ‘Trayvon Martin in Reverse, Only Worse’
/5 Comments/in Featured, News /by Jason HowertonConservative radio host Rush Limbaugh went after the mainstream media over its shallow coverage of the racial details in the Oklahoma shooting of student Chris Lane “for the fun of it.” On his radio show Wednesday, he said the case is like “Trayvon Martin in reverse, only worse.”
Boehner Super-PAC Aides Push Senate Amnesty Bill
/6 Comments/in Featured, News /by Jonathan StrongSenior GOP aides of a super PAC linked to Speaker John Boehner are lobbying House Republicans to pass the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, legislation that Boehner has said he will not bring to the House floor.
Corker: Lawmakers Learn More about NSA from Newspaper than Briefings
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by Carlo MuñozSen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) is demanding a new round of briefings on U.S. domestic surveillance operations.
Al Gore Explains Why he’s Optimistic about Stopping Global Warming
/5 Comments/in Featured, News /by Ezra KleinAl Gore was vice president of the United States from 1993-2001. Since leaving politics, he’s been heavily involved in the campaign to fight global warming, even winning a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts. And he says he’s more optimistic than ever that the issue has reached “a tipping point.” In this lightly edited interview transcript, he explains why.
New Audit Finds IRS Can’t Keep Track of its Own Software
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Eric BoehmThe Internal Revenue Service soon will have a larger role to play in managing the health records of Americans. But they’re having a hard time managing their own records, it seems.
Bradley Manning to Request Pardon from Obama Over 35-Year Jail Sentence
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Paul LewisManning says ‘It’s OK – I’m going to get through this’ after military judge hands down stiff penalty for WikiLeaks disclosures.
‘North Colorado’ Secession Movement Inches Forward
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Greg CampbellVoters in Weld County will vote on whether to secede from Colorado after commissioners this week unanimously agreed to put the question on November’s ballot.
Cruz: Ignore Media, GOP ‘Can Win’ Defunding Obamacare Argument
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Katrina TrinkoAt a spirited town hall today, Senator Ted Cruz pushed for Obamacare to be defunded in the upcoming spending bill.
Pollster: Ken Buck Leads ‘Thin’ GOP Field to Unseat Mark Udall
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by Greg CampbellRepublican Ken Buck holds the early lead over what a Denver pollster called a “strange” field of GOP contenders hoping to unseat Colorado Democratic Sen. Mark Udall.
Study: Welfare Pays More than Work in Most States
/4 Comments/in Featured, News /by Michael BastaschLooking for a good paying job? Well, look no further. No, really, stop looking. In 35 states, welfare benefits pay more than a minimum wage job, according to a new study by the libertarian Cato Institute, and in 13 states welfare pays more than $15 per hour.
Members of ’72 Dolphins Refuse White House Invite, “Diametrically Opposed” to Obama
/15 Comments/in Featured, News /by Ryan WilsonSeveral member’s of the ’72 undefeated NFL Dolphins refused an invite to the White House, due to ‘real moral compass issues in Washington’ and ‘views diametrically opposed to the President’s’. Read more on what these former players had to say about the invite here.
DeMint: Republicans Unwilling to Defund ObamaCare ‘Need to be Replaced’
/6 Comments/in Featured, News /by Mario TrujilloFormer Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) on Monday night urged voters to replace any Republican lawmaker unwilling to vote to defund ObamaCare during next month’s budget showdown.
Clinton Dramas: Here We Go Again
/4 Comments/in Featured, News /by News EditorTabloid headlines. Personal dramas. Organizational disarray. Score-settling between rival factions documented in news accounts like a soap opera.
Mark Levin’s Game Changer: Using the Constitution to Arrest Federal Drift
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Ralph BenkoDebuting at Amazon Number One (for all, not merely political, books) is syndicated radio talk show host Mark Levin’s The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic. Read this story for why Levin’s new book is a game changer.
Obama Skips the Kennedy Tax Cuts
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Larry KudlowAfter delivering a number of “economic growth” speeches this summer, President Obama has failed to inspire any confidence, falling all the way back to square one in a recent Gallup poll. Actually, make that less than square one. Gallup reported that Obama’s approval rating on the economy has sunk to this…
39 Percent of Unemployed Workers Have Been Out of Work Longer than 27 Weeks
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by ASHE SCHOWOf the 12.2 million Americans who were unemployed as of December 2012, 39 percent (4.7 million) had been out of work for 27 weeks or more, according to a new report from the Urban Institute.
Man who Hacked Zuckerberg’s Facebook Account to Get Cash Reward … but not from Facebook
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by ReutersA man who hacked into Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page to expose a software bug is getting donations from hackers around the world after the company declined to pay him under a program that normally rewards people who report flaws.
The Missing Koch Report
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Eliana JohnsonIn late September 2010, Iowa senator Chuck Grassley and six of his colleagues grew suspicious that a senior Obama administration official had improperly accessed the tax information of industrial behemoth Koch Industries.
Ted Cruz to Renounce Canadian Citizenship: ‘Nothing Against Canada, but I’m an American’
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by News EditorLess than 24 hours after the Dallas Morning News reported that he likely maintains dual citizenship to the U.S. and Canada, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced Monday evening that he will renounce his Canadian citizenship.
Senator Says Obama Administration Secretly Suspended Military Aid to Egypt
/7 Comments/in Featured, News /by Josh RoginThe White House has quietly placed military aid to Egypt on hold, despite not saying publicly whether the Egyptian military takeover was a coup.