Rising crude oil prices and a fall in U.S. supplies are driving wholesale gas prices up sharply. Unfortunately, that has yet to be fully reflected at the retail level. See what you can expect in the coming days.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-12 04:27:592016-04-11 11:19:28Gas Prices Expected to Surge Again Soon
Acting IRS commissioner Danny Werfel’s promise to suspend taxpayer-funded bonuses to IRS officials might not be fully realized because it will violate a contract between the scandal-plagued agency and a public-employee labor union.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-12 04:23:252016-04-11 11:19:29Union Prevents Commissioner From Canceling IRS Bonuses as Promised
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney apparently isn’t reading his hometown paper as it carried a fairly explosive story on Wednesday about a $34 million boondoggle.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-12 04:20:232016-04-11 11:19:29What Boondoggle? Carney Unaware of $34M Military HQ Troops Won’t Use
The civil case in Manhattan’s federal court pits half a dozen child sex offenders against the former governor of New York, George Pataki, and a slew of former state prison and health officials.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-12 04:10:582016-04-11 11:19:30Convicted Child Sex Abusers Sue For $10M, Claim NY State Program Violated Their Rights
The House on Thursday narrowly passed a massive farm bill, after Republicans took the risky step of carving out the food stamp program — a move Democrats effectively boycotted.
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A conservative watchdog group accused the Justice Department of helping manage the “pressure campaign” last year against George Zimmerman in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting, citing documents that show an obscure agency spent thousands assisting local demonstrations.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-11 02:32:262016-04-11 11:19:31Report: Feds Helped Orchestrate Anti-Zimmerman Protests after Trayvon Martin Shooting
The National Security Agency, probably the most secretive of the U.S. intelligence branches, has very limited congressional oversight, and those privileged few – generally the chairmen of the respective intelligence committees in the House and Senate – cannot divulge information to other members.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-11 02:26:592016-04-11 11:19:31International Human Rights Group: NSA Surveillance Undermining US Democracy
A local Army veteran is fighting for permission to own a gun after a misdemeanor pot conviction from 1971 stopped him from buying .22 caliber rifle.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-11 02:23:272016-04-11 11:19:31Army Vet Discovers Feds Now Digging Up Decades Old Minor Convictions to Prevent Gun Ownership
Would experiencing a day in the life of a cow make you less likely to eat meat? How would chopping down a tree affect your paper usage? These are questions that the National Science Foundation awarded universities $748,000 dollars to use virtual reality to answer.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-11 02:19:182016-04-11 11:19:32Taxpayer-Funded Research Lets People Experience What it Feels Like to be a Cow
The state Senate on Monday approved legislation that would allow immigrants who are not U.S. citizens to assist voters casting a ballot.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-11 02:16:502016-04-11 11:19:32California Senate Passes Bill to Allow Non-Citizen Poll Workers to Help Non-English-Speaking Citizens to Vote
The Obamaphone lady is moving up in America: She isn’t a rabble-rouser in Cleveland anymore, but a real-estate developer in Maui, a ski-resort owner in Breckenridge, and a dedicated golfer in Scottsdale — and, more important, the telephone companies that serve them.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-11 01:57:142016-04-11 11:19:34The $100,000 Obamaphone for Millionaires
The U.S. Senate’s “Gang of Eight” immigration-reform plan, as well as a strikingly similar plan now being backed by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and a bi-partisan House “Gang,” both offer the “roadmap to citizenship” originally conceived and carefully developed by members of the Communist Party USA working within the Democratic Party and the radical left activist network for the purpose of using amnestied illegals to build a “permanent progressive majority.”
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-10 04:00:562016-04-11 11:19:34GOP Immigration Plan Devised by Communist Party
The Gang of Eight’s Immigration Reform bill was celebrated by groups as diverse as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, LaRaza, Karl Rove and the new leadership of the AFL-CIO. Some observers say this reflects the bipartisan sell-out of the American worker.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-10 03:47:502016-04-11 11:19:35Experts: Both Parties Selling Out American Workers with Amnesty Bill
Clayton Seymour, a 36-year-old IT specialist from Hilliard, Ohio, recently sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the NSA, curious as to whether any data about him was being collected. The NSA’s response infuriated him.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-10 03:40:222016-04-11 11:19:36Navy Vet’s FOIA for the NSA’s Data Collection on Him Rejected Due to “National Security”
A top official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) could not tell the House Committee on Financial Services how many Americans are being monitored through the agency’s secretive data collection program Tuesday.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-10 03:35:412016-04-11 11:19:38Head of Fed’s CFPB Has No Idea How Many Americans the Agency Has Under Surveillance
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, thinks President Obama’s delay of key provisions of Obamacare could force Senate Democrats to defend the unpopular law during the upcoming congressional debate on a new continuing resolution to fund the government through the 2014 election.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-10 03:34:362016-04-11 11:19:38Sen. Mike Lee: Defund Obamacare or Shut Down the Government
There is a clear and present danger to religious liberty within the military, says a coalition of groups who believe the Obama Administration is pushing a secular, anti-religious culture on the nation’s armed forces.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-10 03:33:552016-04-11 11:19:38Is the Obama Admin. Imposing Anti-Religious Culture in Military?
Illinois on Tuesday became the last state in the nation to allow gun owners to carry concealed weapons, as lawmakers overcame a last-minute attempt by Gov. Pat Quinn to change the legislation.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-10 03:24:222016-04-11 11:19:39Illinois Becomes Last State in Nation to Allow Concealed-Carry
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has no plans to resign following disclosures to the Senate Intelligence Committee that he did not tell Congress the truth about widespread National Security Agency electronic surveillance of Americans.
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Wearing the uniform of the Few and Proud doesn’t rate preferential treatment from the Transportation Security Administration or California capitol security officers, retired Marine Cpl. Nathan Kemnitz recently found.
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The Guardian released the second part of Snowden’s interview with Glenn Greenwald in Hong Kong. In it Snowden, made it clear that he loved America but hated what its government has become.
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Last year, the official Twitter account for President Barack Obama was found to be following a semi-erotic website. Now, it appears that the account was following a full-on porn company.
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A District police officer accused of threatening Michelle Obama has been cleared of administrative charges related to the first lady but was found guilty of posting a derogatory job description on social media and depicting the president as a communist, his attorney said Monday.
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The number of Americans receiving subsidized food assistance from the federal government has risen to 101 million, representing roughly a third of the U.S. population.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-07-09 02:21:102016-04-11 11:19:42101 Million Americans on Gov’t Food Assistance, More than Those in Private Work Force
Gas Prices Expected to Surge Again Soon
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Gary StraussRising crude oil prices and a fall in U.S. supplies are driving wholesale gas prices up sharply. Unfortunately, that has yet to be fully reflected at the retail level. See what you can expect in the coming days.
Union Prevents Commissioner From Canceling IRS Bonuses as Promised
/6 Comments/in Featured, News /by Patrick HowleyActing IRS commissioner Danny Werfel’s promise to suspend taxpayer-funded bonuses to IRS officials might not be fully realized because it will violate a contract between the scandal-plagued agency and a public-employee labor union.
What Boondoggle? Carney Unaware of $34M Military HQ Troops Won’t Use
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Fox NewsWhite House Press Secretary Jay Carney apparently isn’t reading his hometown paper as it carried a fairly explosive story on Wednesday about a $34 million boondoggle.
Convicted Child Sex Abusers Sue For $10M, Claim NY State Program Violated Their Rights
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Eric ShawnThe civil case in Manhattan’s federal court pits half a dozen child sex offenders against the former governor of New York, George Pataki, and a slew of former state prison and health officials.
House Narrowly Passes Farm Bill After Republicans Carve Out Food Stamps
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Fox NewsThe House on Thursday narrowly passed a massive farm bill, after Republicans took the risky step of carving out the food stamp program — a move Democrats effectively boycotted.
Report: Feds Helped Orchestrate Anti-Zimmerman Protests after Trayvon Martin Shooting
/21 Comments/in Featured, News /by News EditorA conservative watchdog group accused the Justice Department of helping manage the “pressure campaign” last year against George Zimmerman in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting, citing documents that show an obscure agency spent thousands assisting local demonstrations.
International Human Rights Group: NSA Surveillance Undermining US Democracy
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by News EditorThe National Security Agency, probably the most secretive of the U.S. intelligence branches, has very limited congressional oversight, and those privileged few – generally the chairmen of the respective intelligence committees in the House and Senate – cannot divulge information to other members.
Army Vet Discovers Feds Now Digging Up Decades Old Minor Convictions to Prevent Gun Ownership
/8 Comments/in Featured, News /by Dane SchillerA local Army veteran is fighting for permission to own a gun after a misdemeanor pot conviction from 1971 stopped him from buying .22 caliber rifle.
Taxpayer-Funded Research Lets People Experience What it Feels Like to be a Cow
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Michael BastaschWould experiencing a day in the life of a cow make you less likely to eat meat? How would chopping down a tree affect your paper usage? These are questions that the National Science Foundation awarded universities $748,000 dollars to use virtual reality to answer.
California Senate Passes Bill to Allow Non-Citizen Poll Workers to Help Non-English-Speaking Citizens to Vote
/8 Comments/in Featured, News /by Associated PressThe state Senate on Monday approved legislation that would allow immigrants who are not U.S. citizens to assist voters casting a ballot.
The $100,000 Obamaphone for Millionaires
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Kevin D. WilliamsonThe Obamaphone lady is moving up in America: She isn’t a rabble-rouser in Cleveland anymore, but a real-estate developer in Maui, a ski-resort owner in Breckenridge, and a dedicated golfer in Scottsdale — and, more important, the telephone companies that serve them.
GOP Immigration Plan Devised by Communist Party
/6 Comments/in Featured, News /by James SimpsonThe U.S. Senate’s “Gang of Eight” immigration-reform plan, as well as a strikingly similar plan now being backed by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and a bi-partisan House “Gang,” both offer the “roadmap to citizenship” originally conceived and carefully developed by members of the Communist Party USA working within the Democratic Party and the radical left activist network for the purpose of using amnestied illegals to build a “permanent progressive majority.”
Experts: Both Parties Selling Out American Workers with Amnesty Bill
/5 Comments/in Featured, News /by GINA LOUDONThe Gang of Eight’s Immigration Reform bill was celebrated by groups as diverse as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, LaRaza, Karl Rove and the new leadership of the AFL-CIO. Some observers say this reflects the bipartisan sell-out of the American worker.
Navy Vet’s FOIA for the NSA’s Data Collection on Him Rejected Due to “National Security”
/3 Comments/in Featured, News, Updates /by David Harris-GershonClayton Seymour, a 36-year-old IT specialist from Hilliard, Ohio, recently sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the NSA, curious as to whether any data about him was being collected. The NSA’s response infuriated him.
Head of Fed’s CFPB Has No Idea How Many Americans the Agency Has Under Surveillance
/6 Comments/in Featured, News /by Brendan BordelonA top official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) could not tell the House Committee on Financial Services how many Americans are being monitored through the agency’s secretive data collection program Tuesday.
Sen. Mike Lee: Defund Obamacare or Shut Down the Government
/5 Comments/in Featured, News /by Joel GehrkeSen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, thinks President Obama’s delay of key provisions of Obamacare could force Senate Democrats to defend the unpopular law during the upcoming congressional debate on a new continuing resolution to fund the government through the 2014 election.
Is the Obama Admin. Imposing Anti-Religious Culture in Military?
/7 Comments/in Featured, News /by Todd StarnesThere is a clear and present danger to religious liberty within the military, says a coalition of groups who believe the Obama Administration is pushing a secular, anti-religious culture on the nation’s armed forces.
Rush Limbaugh Says Rapper Jay-Z Takes Page Out of Obama’s Book, Snatches Private Data from Cell Phones
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by WNDRush Limbaugh gets it. Barack Obama gets it. Even Samsung and the producers who manage Jay-Z get it.
Illinois Becomes Last State in Nation to Allow Concealed-Carry
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Fox NewsIllinois on Tuesday became the last state in the nation to allow gun owners to carry concealed weapons, as lawmakers overcame a last-minute attempt by Gov. Pat Quinn to change the legislation.
Director of National Intelligence Clapper Won’t Resign Over Lying to Congress
/6 Comments/in Featured, News /by Bill GertzDirector of National Intelligence James Clapper has no plans to resign following disclosures to the Senate Intelligence Committee that he did not tell Congress the truth about widespread National Security Agency electronic surveillance of Americans.
Disabled Marine Hero IN UNIFORM Forced to Undergo Humiliating Screening by TSA, Capitol Guards
/6 Comments/in Featured, News /by Patricia KimeWearing the uniform of the Few and Proud doesn’t rate preferential treatment from the Transportation Security Administration or California capitol security officers, retired Marine Cpl. Nathan Kemnitz recently found.
Snowden Loves America, Not Its Government; Says He’s Unwilling to Live Under Constant Surveillance
/6 Comments/in Featured, News /by News EditorThe Guardian released the second part of Snowden’s interview with Glenn Greenwald in Hong Kong. In it Snowden, made it clear that he loved America but hated what its government has become.
Obama Account Caught Following (Another) Porn-Related Website on Twitter
/6 Comments/in Featured, News /by Liz KlimasLast year, the official Twitter account for President Barack Obama was found to be following a semi-erotic website. Now, it appears that the account was following a full-on porn company.
Officer Cleared of Threatening Michelle Obama But Guilty of Calling Barack a Commie
/13 Comments/in Featured, News /by Peter HermannA District police officer accused of threatening Michelle Obama has been cleared of administrative charges related to the first lady but was found guilty of posting a derogatory job description on social media and depicting the president as a communist, his attorney said Monday.
101 Million Americans on Gov’t Food Assistance, More than Those in Private Work Force
/4 Comments/in Featured, News /by Elizabeth HarringtonThe number of Americans receiving subsidized food assistance from the federal government has risen to 101 million, representing roughly a third of the U.S. population.