The non-partisan Government Accountability Office confirmed Thursday it is launching an investigation into how the country’s largest abortion provider spent millions of taxpayer dollars.
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The S&P has rallied 19 percent in 2013, which is impressive by any measure. But the market did far better in 1987, when stocks added more than 30 percent from the beginning of the year to Aug. 8. The market ended up tanking in the second half of that year—dropping 36 percent from the Aug. 25 peak to the October low, before closing out 1987 nearly exactly where it began. Marc Faber predicts it will happen again.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-09 01:17:552016-04-11 11:17:29Marc Faber: Look out! A 1987-Style Crash is Coming (+video)
A coalition of Republican congressmen have introduced the Stop Pay for Violent Offenders Act, which would suspend pay for military service members if charged with a violent offense, including rape, sexual assault, or murder.
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Some government officials seem to live in a time warp as they pursue a murky deal to “solve” the dissipating housing crisis by marrying government power with private enrichment.
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Two Democratic lawmakers from Illinois worked to help lift economic sanctions against Zimbabwe after being targeted by an illegal $3.4 million lobbying scheme, according to FBI testimony unsealed in federal court.
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Derek Medina’s life was open to the world. On Thursday, Medina shocked many by making one last announcement on Facebook — he had killed his wife, Jennifer Alfonso, 26, before posting a photo of her twisted, bloodied body lying on a linoleum floor.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-09 01:00:242016-04-11 11:17:30Miami man Confesses to Killing Wife on Facebook, Posts Picture of her Body (+video)
Federal regulators are having a busy summer as they go after the nation’s two biggest banks for mortgage securities they issued before the financial crisis.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-09 00:58:292016-04-11 11:17:30BofA Not Alone, JPMorgan Chase May Face Criminal Charges Over Mortgages
House Republicans suspect election officials joined with the Internal Revenue Service in a strategy that curbed the effectiveness of conservative organizations in the 2012 election.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 01:43:282016-04-11 11:17:30IRS and FEC Colluding to Attack Conservatives?
As Congress faces a fast-approaching deadline on passing a federal spending bill, Republican lawmakers are reviving a Tea Party-backed plan with a catchy title that they claim could balance the budget.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 01:34:002016-04-11 11:17:31Republicans Revive ‘Penny Plan’ as Sequester Alternative to Balance Budget
It’s “total nonsense” to say Congress was told about the NSA collecting communications data on Americans, and as a matter of fact, efforts are made to keep members of Congress in the dark, says Rep. Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan.
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The Pentagon is poised to extend healthcare, housing and other benefits to the same-sex spouses of military members by the end of August, but may reverse earlier plans to provide benefits to gay partners who are not married.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 00:41:382016-04-11 11:17:32Gay US Troops in Line for Marriage Benefits
The standby attorney for the soldier charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage accused Maj. Nidal Hasan on Wednesday of deliberately charting a course toward a conviction and death sentence, abruptly halting the trial after only one day.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 00:27:482016-04-11 11:17:32Lawyer: Fort Hood Shooting Suspect Trying to Get Death Penalty (+video)
President Obama has launched a series of speeches seen as a pivot back to the economy, but voters aren’t impressed. A just-released Fox News poll finds they think the president isn’t offering any new economic ideas, and he would help the country more by staying in the nation’s capital and working with Republicans.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 00:19:082016-04-11 11:17:3271 Percent Say Obama’s Offering Nothing New on Economy
An out-of-control wildfire growing with great speed in the Southern California mountains Wednesday night burned homes, forced the evacuation of several mountain communities and left three people injured, two of them firefighters.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 00:13:412016-04-11 11:17:33Residents Ordered to Evacuate as Southern California Wildfire Rages
Congress has won some partial relief for lawmakers and their staffs from the “Obamacare” health reforms that it passed and subjected itself to three years ago. What’s wrong with this picture?
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 00:10:062016-04-11 11:17:33Congress Wins Relief on Obamacare Health Plan Subsidies
The judge at US soldier Bradley Manning’s sentencing hearing rejected some government evidence Wednesday that the classified information he disclosed through the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks had a “chilling effect” on US foreign relations.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-07 23:51:102016-04-11 11:17:34Manning Sentencing: Judge Rejects Claim Leaks had ‘Chilling Effect’ On US Foreign Relations
An anonymous Republican senator has delayed a vote on legislation that would require police to obtain a warrant before accessing emails and other online messages.
Troop cuts and civilian layoffs are imminent unless Congress and the White House reach a deal to avert another round of automatic budget cuts this fall, according to the Pentagon’s No. 2 official.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-07 03:16:282016-04-11 11:17:35Obama Admin. to Gut the Military Because of Sequestration
The U.S. government on Tuesday filed two civil lawsuits against Bank of America for what the Justice Department and securities regulators said was a fraud on investors involving $850 million of residential mortgage-backed securities.
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Concerned about a rise in pedestrian fatalities at a time when walking is strongly encouraged (“Let’s Move!”), the Obama administration is spending $2 million to give local communities the “resources and the tools they need” to prevent pedestrian deaths.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-07 03:05:072016-04-11 11:17:35‘Everyone Is a Pedestrian’: Gov’t Spending $2M to Increase Communities’ ‘Walkability’
On a day when terror threats continued to dominate the U.S. headlines, the Secret Service — a division of the Homeland Security Department since 2003 — tweeted the following message… Read more here.
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Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents from the Department of Justice (DOJ) revealing that between March 27, 2009, and August 24, 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder accrued $4,263,704.01 in total travel expenses.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-07 02:45:202016-04-11 11:17:35Judicial Watch Obtains Documents Revealing AG Holder Travel Expenses Exceeded $4 Million in Four Years
The Obama administration has been accused of behaving ‘like a bunch of cowards’ after 19 embassies were closed in the wake of the al-Qaeda terror alert.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-07 02:35:242016-04-11 11:17:36Gohmert: Obama Administration Acting Like ‘a Bunch of Cowards’ for Closing 19 U.S. Embassies in Response to Terror Threat
From the no-this-race-could-not-get-weirder department: The former madam running for New York city comptroller against former call girl client Eliot Spitzer has been charged by federal authorities with selling prescription drugs.
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There is a relentless assault on the family in America today unlike anything that we have ever seen before. For decades, the entertainment industry and the mainstream media have been portraying marriage as the time “when your fun is over” and they have been encouraging young adults to put off marriage for as long as possible.
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GAO Opens Investigation into Planned Parenthood’s Use of Taxpayer Money
/4 Comments/in Featured, News /by Fox NewsThe non-partisan Government Accountability Office confirmed Thursday it is launching an investigation into how the country’s largest abortion provider spent millions of taxpayer dollars.
Marc Faber: Look out! A 1987-Style Crash is Coming (+video)
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Alex RosenbergThe S&P has rallied 19 percent in 2013, which is impressive by any measure. But the market did far better in 1987, when stocks added more than 30 percent from the beginning of the year to Aug. 8. The market ended up tanking in the second half of that year—dropping 36 percent from the Aug. 25 peak to the October low, before closing out 1987 nearly exactly where it began. Marc Faber predicts it will happen again.
Congressmen Move to Strip Military Paycheck From Fort Hood Shooter, Other Violent Offenders
/4 Comments/in Featured, News /by Kate AndrewsA coalition of Republican congressmen have introduced the Stop Pay for Violent Offenders Act, which would suspend pay for military service members if charged with a violent offense, including rape, sexual assault, or murder.
Foreclosure ‘Solution’ Smacks of Crony Capitalism
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Steven GreenhutSome government officials seem to live in a time warp as they pursue a murky deal to “solve” the dissipating housing crisis by marrying government power with private enrichment.
FBI Ties Chicago Representatives to Zimbabwe Lobbying
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Emma DumainTwo Democratic lawmakers from Illinois worked to help lift economic sanctions against Zimbabwe after being targeted by an illegal $3.4 million lobbying scheme, according to FBI testimony unsealed in federal court.
Miami man Confesses to Killing Wife on Facebook, Posts Picture of her Body (+video)
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by David Ovalle and Daniel DucassiDerek Medina’s life was open to the world. On Thursday, Medina shocked many by making one last announcement on Facebook — he had killed his wife, Jennifer Alfonso, 26, before posting a photo of her twisted, bloodied body lying on a linoleum floor.
BofA Not Alone, JPMorgan Chase May Face Criminal Charges Over Mortgages
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Halah TouryalaiFederal regulators are having a busy summer as they go after the nation’s two biggest banks for mortgage securities they issued before the financial crisis.
IRS and FEC Colluding to Attack Conservatives?
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by News EditorHouse Republicans suspect election officials joined with the Internal Revenue Service in a strategy that curbed the effectiveness of conservative organizations in the 2012 election.
Republicans Revive ‘Penny Plan’ as Sequester Alternative to Balance Budget
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Joseph WeberAs Congress faces a fast-approaching deadline on passing a federal spending bill, Republican lawmakers are reviving a Tea Party-backed plan with a catchy title that they claim could balance the budget.
Rep. Amash: Congress Purposely Kept in Dark on Surveillance Efforts
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Greg RichterIt’s “total nonsense” to say Congress was told about the NSA collecting communications data on Americans, and as a matter of fact, efforts are made to keep members of Congress in the dark, says Rep. Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan.
Gay US Troops in Line for Marriage Benefits
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by News EditorThe Pentagon is poised to extend healthcare, housing and other benefits to the same-sex spouses of military members by the end of August, but may reverse earlier plans to provide benefits to gay partners who are not married.
Lawyer: Fort Hood Shooting Suspect Trying to Get Death Penalty (+video)
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by News EditorThe standby attorney for the soldier charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage accused Maj. Nidal Hasan on Wednesday of deliberately charting a course toward a conviction and death sentence, abruptly halting the trial after only one day.
71 Percent Say Obama’s Offering Nothing New on Economy
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by Dana BlantonPresident Obama has launched a series of speeches seen as a pivot back to the economy, but voters aren’t impressed. A just-released Fox News poll finds they think the president isn’t offering any new economic ideas, and he would help the country more by staying in the nation’s capital and working with Republicans.
Residents Ordered to Evacuate as Southern California Wildfire Rages
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by Associated PressAn out-of-control wildfire growing with great speed in the Southern California mountains Wednesday night burned homes, forced the evacuation of several mountain communities and left three people injured, two of them firefighters.
Congress Wins Relief on Obamacare Health Plan Subsidies
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by David LawderCongress has won some partial relief for lawmakers and their staffs from the “Obamacare” health reforms that it passed and subjected itself to three years ago. What’s wrong with this picture?
Manning Sentencing: Judge Rejects Claim Leaks had ‘Chilling Effect’ On US Foreign Relations
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by Associated PressThe judge at US soldier Bradley Manning’s sentencing hearing rejected some government evidence Wednesday that the classified information he disclosed through the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks had a “chilling effect” on US foreign relations.
Anonymous Republican Blocks Bill Requiring Email Search Warrants
/8 Comments/in Featured, News /by Brendan SassoAn anonymous Republican senator has delayed a vote on legislation that would require police to obtain a warrant before accessing emails and other online messages.
Obama Admin. to Gut the Military Because of Sequestration
/13 Comments/in Featured, News /by Tom Vanden BrookTroop cuts and civilian layoffs are imminent unless Congress and the White House reach a deal to avert another round of automatic budget cuts this fall, according to the Pentagon’s No. 2 official.
DOJ Files Civil Suit Against Bank of America (+video)
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by ReutersThe U.S. government on Tuesday filed two civil lawsuits against Bank of America for what the Justice Department and securities regulators said was a fraud on investors involving $850 million of residential mortgage-backed securities.
‘Everyone Is a Pedestrian’: Gov’t Spending $2M to Increase Communities’ ‘Walkability’
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Susan JonesConcerned about a rise in pedestrian fatalities at a time when walking is strongly encouraged (“Let’s Move!”), the Obama administration is spending $2 million to give local communities the “resources and the tools they need” to prevent pedestrian deaths.
Secret Service: Contact Us to ‘Report a Tweet’
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by News EditorOn a day when terror threats continued to dominate the U.S. headlines, the Secret Service — a division of the Homeland Security Department since 2003 — tweeted the following message… Read more here.
Judicial Watch Obtains Documents Revealing AG Holder Travel Expenses Exceeded $4 Million in Four Years
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Judicial WatchJudicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents from the Department of Justice (DOJ) revealing that between March 27, 2009, and August 24, 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder accrued $4,263,704.01 in total travel expenses.
Gohmert: Obama Administration Acting Like ‘a Bunch of Cowards’ for Closing 19 U.S. Embassies in Response to Terror Threat
/5 Comments/in Featured, News /by David MartoskoThe Obama administration has been accused of behaving ‘like a bunch of cowards’ after 19 embassies were closed in the wake of the al-Qaeda terror alert.
Spitzer Rival, Former Madam, Charged with Drug Dealing
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Martha T. MooreFrom the no-this-race-could-not-get-weirder department: The former madam running for New York city comptroller against former call girl client Eliot Spitzer has been charged by federal authorities with selling prescription drugs.
Time Magazine Promotes A Childless Lifestyle As The Path To The Good Life For U.S. Couples
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by Michael SnyderThere is a relentless assault on the family in America today unlike anything that we have ever seen before. For decades, the entertainment industry and the mainstream media have been portraying marriage as the time “when your fun is over” and they have been encouraging young adults to put off marriage for as long as possible.