Even before the latest Medicare trustees report came out at the end of May, the White House spin masters had already crafted a story to go with it, suggesting Obamacare has saved it. Turns out, the opposite is true.
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It was just discovered that Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook who was formerly responsible for protecting the personal information of Facebook’s more than one billion users from outside attacks, went to work for the NSA in 2010.
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With a potentially ground-breaking decision on gay marriage expected next week, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Friday morning that he and other judges should stop setting moral standards concerning homosexuality and other issues.
Cable news channels regularly stoke their viewers’ fears about China holding $1.1 trillion of U.S. debt. But they’re focused on the wrong $1.1 trillion of loans.
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Gov. Jan Brewer signed an elections bill that basically wipes out Libertarian and other third-party candidates, boosting their signature requirements to unattainable levels. Green Party candidates would actually have to collect more signatures than they have party members.
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The cost of health care has been a nagging public policy issue for decades, even before the government took on the task of insuring retirees in the 1960s. Read this article about the ingenious ways doctors are revamping medicine as we know it in the US – for the better.
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Secret FISA judges are appointed, not by the President, but by the judiciary itself. They have been quietly expanding – through Supreme Court-style opinions – the fed’s reach into the private lives of unwitting Americans, including records on “health, guns, and credit cards.”
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The inflammatory terms “profiling,” “wannabe cop” and “vigilante” will be permitted in opening statements Monday by prosecutors in the George Zimmerman trial, a judge ruled Friday.
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In an article published online Friday, Rachel Rose Hartman of Yahoo! News lamented that President Obama’s upcoming trip to Africa would not include a stop in Kenya, “the country of his birth.”
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A battle is raging in the U.S. military – over religious rights of the soldiers who defend American lives and values.
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Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) on Thursday proposed legislation that would require federal workers to be fired if they don’t answer questions from Congress.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) have inserted a provision that amounts to little more than a handout to Las Vegas casinos into the repackaged immigration reform bill.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-06-23 04:22:532013-06-23 04:22:53Casino Crony Kickback: Reid, Heller Slip Las Vegas Tourism Handout Into Immigration Bill
When former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio was running for the Senate in 2010–as a conservative candidate backed by the Tea Party movement–he insisted that illegal aliens inside the United States would need to go home and that giving illegal aliens “an earned path to citizenship” was “code for amnesty.”
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-06-22 05:37:312013-06-22 05:37:31Candidate Marco Rubio in 2010: An ‘Earned Path to Citizenship is Basically Code for Amnesty’
A journalist from Slate, a subsidiary of the Washington Post, labeled both Sen. Paul and his father racists in a clear sign that the left is increasingly terrified of a Rand Paul candidacy in 2016.
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The crash that killed journalist Michael Hastings was ruled an accident by police, but conspiracy theories continued to circulate on Friday.
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Imagine the scenario: A federal agent attempts to arrest someone for illegally selling a machine gun. Instead, the federal agent is arrested – charged in a state court with the crime of enforcing federal gun laws.
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The Internal Revenue Service sent 23,994 tax refunds worth a combined $46,378,040 to “unauthorized” alien workers who all used the same address in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Federal prosecutors have filed a criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents about top-secret surveillance programs, and the United States has asked Hong Kong to detain him on a provisional arrest warrant, according to U.S. officials.
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While congressional lawmakers are questioning why former Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman paid dozens of visits to the White House during his tenure, Shulman’s top political aide seems to have spent even more time working side-by-side with members of the Obama administration.
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As President Obama nominates a new FBI director, the bureau is coming under rising pressure from lawmakers to explain the limits of its recently disclosed drone fleet flying over the United States.
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The National Security Agency has spent years demanding that companies turn over their data. Now, the spy agency finds the shoe is on the other foot.
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The GPS location information embedded in a digital photo is an example of so-called metadata, a once-obscure technical term that’s become one of Washington’s hottest new buzzwords.
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President Obama has gotten his fair share of verbal abuse from conservatives since his re-election. But now, even his own party is turning on him as reflected by the reaction at the annual progressive conference Netroots Nation.
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While Americans have been understandably focused on important issues such as the Immigration Bill and the Obama administration scandals, on Thursday, by a vote of 195-234, the House defeated the nearly $1 trillion farm subsidy and food stamp bill–known collectively as “The Farm Bill,” in a searing rebuke to House leadership.
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Medicare by the Scary Numbers
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by JOHN C. GOODMAN and LAURENCE J. KOTLIKOFFEven before the latest Medicare trustees report came out at the end of May, the White House spin masters had already crafted a story to go with it, suggesting Obamacare has saved it. Turns out, the opposite is true.
New Surveillance Disclosure: Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Went to Work for NSA in 2010
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by JAMES RISEN and NICK WINGFIELDIt was just discovered that Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook who was formerly responsible for protecting the personal information of Facebook’s more than one billion users from outside attacks, went to work for the NSA in 2010.
Judges: America’s Mullahs
/4 Comments/in Featured, News /by Michael GordonWith a potentially ground-breaking decision on gay marriage expected next week, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Friday morning that he and other judges should stop setting moral standards concerning homosexuality and other issues.
NBC’s Gregory Asks Guardian Reporter Who Broke Snowden Story, “Why Shouldn’t You be Charged?”
/3 Comments/in Featured, News, Updates /by FREDERIC J. FROMMERTrue to form, the sycophantic US media moves even a step lower in their embrace of the surveillance state.
Over a Trillion Dollars of Student Loans on the Brink; Fall-Out Could Be Enormous
/5 Comments/in Featured, News /by Adam B. WolfCable news channels regularly stoke their viewers’ fears about China holding $1.1 trillion of U.S. debt. But they’re focused on the wrong $1.1 trillion of loans.
Arizona Republicans Effectively Eliminate Third Parties from Congressional Elections
/4 Comments/in Featured, News /by Laurie RobertsGov. Jan Brewer signed an elections bill that basically wipes out Libertarian and other third-party candidates, boosting their signature requirements to unattainable levels. Green Party candidates would actually have to collect more signatures than they have party members.
Cash as an Alternative to Obamacare (+video)
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by News EditorThe cost of health care has been a nagging public policy issue for decades, even before the government took on the task of insuring retirees in the 1960s. Read this article about the ingenious ways doctors are revamping medicine as we know it in the US – for the better.
Judicial Tyranny? FISA Courts Fashioning Their Own Rules, In Secret, to Spy on Every American
/6 Comments/in Featured, News /by Peter Wallsten, Carol D. Leonnig and Alice CritesSecret FISA judges are appointed, not by the President, but by the judiciary itself. They have been quietly expanding – through Supreme Court-style opinions – the fed’s reach into the private lives of unwitting Americans, including records on “health, guns, and credit cards.”
Zimmerman Trial: Judge Allows Prosecutors to use Inflammatory “Wannabe Cop” and “Vigilante” to Describe Defendant
/9 Comments/in Featured, News /by News EditorThe inflammatory terms “profiling,” “wannabe cop” and “vigilante” will be permitted in opening statements Monday by prosecutors in the George Zimmerman trial, a judge ruled Friday.
Yahoo News Reports Obama Born in Kenya
/52 Comments/in Featured, News /by Drew ZahnIn an article published online Friday, Rachel Rose Hartman of Yahoo! News lamented that President Obama’s upcoming trip to Africa would not include a stop in Kenya, “the country of his birth.”
Battle Raging Within US Military Over Religious Rights of Soldiers
/5 Comments/in Featured, News /by Jack MinorA battle is raging in the U.S. military – over religious rights of the soldiers who defend American lives and values.
“Lerner Bill” to Fire Federal Employees Who Refuse to Testify
/6 Comments/in Featured, News /by Pete KasperowiczRep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) on Thursday proposed legislation that would require federal workers to be fired if they don’t answer questions from Congress.
Casino Crony Kickback: Reid, Heller Slip Las Vegas Tourism Handout Into Immigration Bill
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by MATTHEW BOYLESenate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) have inserted a provision that amounts to little more than a handout to Las Vegas casinos into the repackaged immigration reform bill.
Candidate Marco Rubio in 2010: An ‘Earned Path to Citizenship is Basically Code for Amnesty’
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Terence P. JeffreyWhen former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio was running for the Senate in 2010–as a conservative candidate backed by the Tea Party movement–he insisted that illegal aliens inside the United States would need to go home and that giving illegal aliens “an earned path to citizenship” was “code for amnesty.”
Fearing 2016: Slate Reporter Calls Sen. Rand Paul “White Supremacist”
/13 Comments/in Featured, News /by LARRY O'CONNORA journalist from Slate, a subsidiary of the Washington Post, labeled both Sen. Paul and his father racists in a clear sign that the left is increasingly terrified of a Rand Paul candidacy in 2016.
Hastings Sent Colleagues Email About “Big Story,” “Need to Go Off the Radar” Hours Before Fatal Crash
/11 Comments/in Featured, News /by KTLAThe crash that killed journalist Michael Hastings was ruled an accident by police, but conspiracy theories continued to circulate on Friday.
Federal Nullification Efforts Mounting in States
/6 Comments/in Featured, News /by DAVID A. LIEBImagine the scenario: A federal agent attempts to arrest someone for illegally selling a machine gun. Instead, the federal agent is arrested – charged in a state court with the crime of enforcing federal gun laws.
IRS Sent $46 Million in Refunds to 23,994 ‘Unauthorized’ Aliens at a SINGLE Atlanta Address
/9 Comments/in Featured, News /by Terence P. JeffreyThe Internal Revenue Service sent 23,994 tax refunds worth a combined $46,378,040 to “unauthorized” alien workers who all used the same address in Atlanta, Georgia.
U.S. Charges Snowden with Espionage
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Peter Finn and Sari HorwitzFederal prosecutors have filed a criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents about top-secret surveillance programs, and the United States has asked Hong Kong to detain him on a provisional arrest warrant, according to U.S. officials.
IRS Commissioner’s Top Aide Visited White Houses Hundreds of Times, No Explanation
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Susan FerrechioWhile congressional lawmakers are questioning why former Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman paid dozens of visits to the White House during his tenure, Shulman’s top political aide seems to have spent even more time working side-by-side with members of the Obama administration.
FBI Under Pressure to Explain Drone Use, as Obama Names New Director
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by Fox NewsAs President Obama nominates a new FBI director, the bureau is coming under rising pressure from lawmakers to explain the limits of its recently disclosed drone fleet flying over the United States.
Lawyers Eye NSA Data as Treasure Trove for Evidence in Murder, Divorce Cases
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Bob SullivanThe National Security Agency has spent years demanding that companies turn over their data. Now, the spy agency finds the shoe is on the other foot.
Government Could Use Metadata to Map Your Every Move
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by Lindsay Wise and Jonathan S. LandayThe GPS location information embedded in a digital photo is an example of so-called metadata, a once-obscure technical term that’s become one of Washington’s hottest new buzzwords.
Liberals Can’t Stand Him, Either
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Alexandra LadasPresident Obama has gotten his fair share of verbal abuse from conservatives since his re-election. But now, even his own party is turning on him as reflected by the reaction at the annual progressive conference Netroots Nation.
Farm Bill Comes to Stunning Defeat in House
/2 Comments/in Featured, News, Updates /by Dr. Susan BerryWhile Americans have been understandably focused on important issues such as the Immigration Bill and the Obama administration scandals, on Thursday, by a vote of 195-234, the House defeated the nearly $1 trillion farm subsidy and food stamp bill–known collectively as “The Farm Bill,” in a searing rebuke to House leadership.