The wheeling and dealing Johnson loved and relished is what will be needed to pass bills such as immigration regulations. That process is also how government gets expanded and cronyism thrives.
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Mcfarlane had been on track to graduate from an alternative school this spring and hoped to work in the culinary arts. Her infant son, Jayden, is now without a mother but has a supportive extended family, Blakely said.
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After doing as much background digging as possible ahead of time on members and witnesses involved, they’ll dispatch a researcher to conduct real-time fact-checking and then search for ways to discredit opponents.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-18 00:01:372016-04-11 11:24:27Lobbyists Use Campaign-Style Opposition Research to Turn Tables on Rivals
Levin argued that the federal government sees what is playing out in Europe and is preparing for that sort of scenario.
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The Intelligence Committee delayed a planned vote Feb. 14 on Brennan’s nomination, in part because committee members were seeking additional information about drone strikes.
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These thugs were in for a big surprise when the security guard opens up a can of AR-15 on them.
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The department made clear the decision was not intended to create any right or benefit for anyone other than Lynchild.
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Graham’s disclosure came after several Capitol Hill hearings in which several top administration officials, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed they were not aware of the security problems at the Libyan compound.
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“Tea party sympathizer or not, liberal or conservative, every taxpayer should be outraged that their money is used to editorialize on the politics of the day,” Rep. Tim Huelskamp, (R., Kan.), a member of the House Tea Party caucus, said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon.
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“The United States Supreme Court has made it very clear in the past that religious freedom is an individual right. Yet our current government does not seem to understand this. They only think of us as members of groups and factions. It is an extreme form of identity politics that directly threatens any understanding of individual liberty.”
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-17 01:10:112016-04-11 11:24:29Eric Holder: Homeschool Ban Doesn’t Violate Fundamental Rights
The Congressional Budget Office has concluded this tax “would be largely passed through to consumers [small and family-owned businesses] in the form of higher premiums for private coverage.”
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-17 00:28:162016-04-11 11:24:30Legislation Repealing ObamaCare Tax Paid By Small Business Reintroduced
The panel did not hear from practitioners of psychological therapy that help patients resist unwanted sexual attraction.
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The Texas Legislature is considering a bill that would begin an inventory of the State’s relationship to the federal government, and consider contingency plans should there be an economic collapse.
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For years, Brennan was knee-deep in Bush’s use of waterboarding, use of psychotropic drugs to gain confessions, a proponent of the Iraq War, a proponent of drones to carry out assassinations, and a Republican—all things Obama and his leftist base hated.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-16 02:50:362016-04-11 11:24:31Is John Brennan Blackmailing Obama? (+video)
According to a 2007 Journal of the American Medical Association report, an analysis of claims reimbursed by Emergency Medicaid over a four-year period in North Carolina revealed that 99 percent of the 48,391 individual cases went toward services for illegal immigrants.
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There is nothing that the Establishment hates more than a junior legislator who doesn’t know his place. Newsflash for the New York Times: unusual as it may be in the United States Senate – it’s called leadership.
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Senators announce that they will be introducing new energy regulations, including a carbon tax. The proposed legislation would use a tax on carbon emissions to fund “historic investments in energy efficiency and sustainable energy technologies such as wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass,”
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That would be called blowback. Actions have consequences.
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The diversity event is apparently part of what USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack described in a memo sent to all agency employees as a ‘new era of Civil Rights’ and ‘a broader effort towards cultural transformation at USDA.’
The President may have missed his calling, because he is obviously the best gun salesman ever . . .
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-16 01:29:182016-04-11 11:24:3365.4 Million Gun Purchases Since Obama Took Office, 91% More Than Bush’s First-Term Total
Rice said the attack has been politicized by people focusing more on where her talking points came from than on what could be done better in similar situations in the future.
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Casey Mulligan, an economics professor at the University of Chicago and author of a recent book on the effect that safety net programs have had on employment, argued that the government’s expansion of assistance programs in the wake of the recession actually has made it financially harmful to return to work in some cases.
The case has also drawn attention in the Senate where Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, raised the issue with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.
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Liberal censorship, gotta love it. Score one for tolerance, open-mindedness, generosity, and all that.
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GOP governors didn’t buy in to what they saw as a massive federal overreach into the health care system. When they couldn’t repeal the law or get it thrown out in court, many decided to sit on their hands and say to Obama: “You want it? You build it.”
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Jeb Bush: I Would Govern Like Lyndon Johnson As President
/9 Comments/in Featured, News /by Tony LeeThe wheeling and dealing Johnson loved and relished is what will be needed to pass bills such as immigration regulations. That process is also how government gets expanded and cronyism thrives.
Woman Killed In Chicago Hours After Her Sister Sat Behind Obama On Stage
/7 Comments/in 2 Amendment, Featured, News /by Madeleine MorgensternMcfarlane had been on track to graduate from an alternative school this spring and hoped to work in the culinary arts. Her infant son, Jayden, is now without a mother but has a supportive extended family, Blakely said.
Lobbyists Use Campaign-Style Opposition Research to Turn Tables on Rivals
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Kate AckleyAfter doing as much background digging as possible ahead of time on members and witnesses involved, they’ll dispatch a researcher to conduct real-time fact-checking and then search for ways to discredit opponents.
Levin: US Gov’t Buying Up Billions Of Rounds Of Ammo, Preparing For Societal Collapse (+audio)
/10 Comments/in 2 Amendment, Featured, News /by Jeff PoorLevin argued that the federal government sees what is playing out in Europe and is preparing for that sort of scenario.
Brennan Sidesteps Query on Drone Kills in U.S.
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Tim StarksThe Intelligence Committee delayed a planned vote Feb. 14 on Brennan’s nomination, in part because committee members were seeking additional information about drone strikes.
Video: Surveillance Camera Captures The Dramatic Moment When A Security Guard Used An AR-15 To Fend Off Armed Hold Up
/6 Comments/in 2 Amendment, Featured, News /by Madeleine MorgensternThese thugs were in for a big surprise when the security guard opens up a can of AR-15 on them.
Feds OK First Burial Of A Veteran’s Same-Sex Spouse In A National Cemetery
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Associated PressThe department made clear the decision was not intended to create any right or benefit for anyone other than Lynchild.
Graham: Obama Knew of Benghazi Threat, Acted ‘After Everybody Was Dead’
/7 Comments/in Featured, News /by Sandy FitzgeraldGraham’s disclosure came after several Capitol Hill hearings in which several top administration officials, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed they were not aware of the security problems at the Libyan compound.
Critics Slam Taxpayer-Funded Political Attack: National Cancer Institute Funds Study Calling Tea Party Tobacco-funded AstroTurf
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Lachlan Markay“Tea party sympathizer or not, liberal or conservative, every taxpayer should be outraged that their money is used to editorialize on the politics of the day,” Rep. Tim Huelskamp, (R., Kan.), a member of the House Tea Party caucus, said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon.
Eric Holder: Homeschool Ban Doesn’t Violate Fundamental Rights
/8 Comments/in Featured, News /by Shane Vander Hart“The United States Supreme Court has made it very clear in the past that religious freedom is an individual right. Yet our current government does not seem to understand this. They only think of us as members of groups and factions. It is an extreme form of identity politics that directly threatens any understanding of individual liberty.”
Legislation Repealing ObamaCare Tax Paid By Small Business Reintroduced
/2 Comments/in Featured, Health Care, News /by Betsi ForesThe Congressional Budget Office has concluded this tax “would be largely passed through to consumers [small and family-owned businesses] in the form of higher premiums for private coverage.”
Panel Calls Reparative Therapy For Homosexuals A Human Rights Violation
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by Rebacca Oas, Ph.D.The panel did not hear from practitioners of psychological therapy that help patients resist unwanted sexual attraction.
Texas Preps For Going It Alone
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Bob UnruhThe Texas Legislature is considering a bill that would begin an inventory of the State’s relationship to the federal government, and consider contingency plans should there be an economic collapse.
Is John Brennan Blackmailing Obama? (+video)
/10 Comments/in Featured, News /by Kris ZaneFor years, Brennan was knee-deep in Bush’s use of waterboarding, use of psychotropic drugs to gain confessions, a proponent of the Iraq War, a proponent of drones to carry out assassinations, and a Republican—all things Obama and his leftist base hated.
Report: $2 Billion Spent Annually For Medicaid Emergencies, Largely For Illegal Immigrant Baby Deliveries
/1 Comment/in Featured, Health Care, News /by Caroline MayAccording to a 2007 Journal of the American Medical Association report, an analysis of claims reimbursed by Emergency Medicaid over a four-year period in North Carolina revealed that 99 percent of the 48,391 individual cases went toward services for illegal immigrants.
Ted Cruz Has the Establishment in Panic Mode
/14 Comments/in Featured, News /by Jonathan WeismanThere is nothing that the Establishment hates more than a junior legislator who doesn’t know his place. Newsflash for the New York Times: unusual as it may be in the United States Senate – it’s called leadership.
Taxing the Planet Clean: Boxer, Sanders call for $1.2 Trillion Carbon Tax
/6 Comments/in Energy, Featured, News /by CJ CiaramellaSenators announce that they will be introducing new energy regulations, including a carbon tax. The proposed legislation would use a tax on carbon emissions to fund “historic investments in energy efficiency and sustainable energy technologies such as wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass,”
Gun Makers Refusing To Sell Arms To Government
/17 Comments/in 2 Amendment, Featured, News /by Mike OpelkaThat would be called blowback. Actions have consequences.
$200,000 USDA Training: ‘Pilgrims Were Illegal Aliens’ (+video)
/10 Comments/in Featured, News /by Paul BedardThe diversity event is apparently part of what USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack described in a memo sent to all agency employees as a ‘new era of Civil Rights’ and ‘a broader effort towards cultural transformation at USDA.’
65.4 Million Gun Purchases Since Obama Took Office, 91% More Than Bush’s First-Term Total
/2 Comments/in 2 Amendment, Featured, News /by Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr.The President may have missed his calling, because he is obviously the best gun salesman ever . . .
Susan Rice: Clinton ‘Didn’t Want To’ Talk on Sunday Shows After Benghazi (+video)
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Michal CongerRice said the attack has been politicized by people focusing more on where her talking points came from than on what could be done better in similar situations in the future.
The Anti-Stimulus Economists Agree: Unemployment Benefits Hurt Employment Rates
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by Andrew EvansCasey Mulligan, an economics professor at the University of Chicago and author of a recent book on the effect that safety net programs have had on employment, argued that the government’s expansion of assistance programs in the wake of the recession actually has made it financially harmful to return to work in some cases.
House Leaders Demand Investigation of Claims NASA Leaked U.S. Space Defense Secrets, Justice Department Quashed Prosecutions
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Richard PollockThe case has also drawn attention in the Senate where Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, raised the issue with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.
Professor Bans Fox News, Claiming It Makes Her Cringe
/5 Comments/in Featured, News /by Eric OwensLiberal censorship, gotta love it. Score one for tolerance, open-mindedness, generosity, and all that.
Health Care Exchanges And The Two Americas
/0 Comments/in Featured, Health Care, News /by Kyle Cheney and Jason MillmanGOP governors didn’t buy in to what they saw as a massive federal overreach into the health care system. When they couldn’t repeal the law or get it thrown out in court, many decided to sit on their hands and say to Obama: “You want it? You build it.”