After swiftly dismissing a top official in his administration, Chris Christie was characteristically caustic when pressed by the press for the lesson to be drawn from the scandal: “Don’t lie to the governor.”
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More than a year before Maryland launched its health insurance exchange, senior state officials failed to heed warnings that no one was ultimately accountable for the $170 million project and that the state lacked a plausible plan for how it would be ready by Oct. 1.
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A controversy has erupted in Texas after a judge ordered children removed from the home of their Christian homeschooling parents – over the homeschooling itself – even though the Texas Home School Coalition notes the state doesn’t allow that.
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Gov. Sean Parnell on Friday announced a new way forward on a long-hoped-for natural gas pipeline that includes scrapping the terms of a 2007 law he says no longer works well for the situation.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-01-12 02:10:002014-01-12 02:10:00Alaska Governor Unveils New Plan for Gas Pipeline
On March 24, 1971, I became the first reporter to inform readers that the FBI wanted the American people to think there was an “FBI agent behind every mailbox.” That rather alarming alert came from stolen FBI files I had found in my own mailbox at The Washington Post when I arrived at work the previous morning.
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A short, award-winning film, produced by Hollywood legend Jason Jones along with executive producer Pattie Mallette, the mother of Justin Bieber, is changing hearts and minds on the issue of life.
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In the near future, you won’t even need to know how to fire a rifle to be a crack shot.
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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, which represents a population greater than a number of states, has voted 3-2 to restore the cross to the San Gabriel Mission church on the L.A. County seal to accurately depict the Mission, which now appears on the county seal without its cross.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-01-12 02:01:512014-01-12 02:01:51LA County Votes to Restore Cross to Seal; ACLU Has Dracula-like Response
The death threats, Mary Willingham expected. More shocking is that the University of North Carolina is now disavowing her research as a whistle-blower — research that showed between 8% and 10% of the school’s football and basketball players are reading below a third-grade level.
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A woman wants answers after discovering the wrong body in a casket that should have contained her mother, who died unexpectedly while on vacation in St. Maarten.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-01-12 01:50:232014-01-12 01:50:23Woman Finds Wrong Body in Her Mother’s Casket
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has told a conservative conference that President Barack Obama is lawless, providing the right wing rhetoric that makes him so popular in his home state.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-01-11 01:22:212014-01-11 01:22:21Cruz: President Has Engaged in Pattern of ‘Lawlessness on a breathtaking scale’
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is headed to New Hampshire, the destination for top presidential contenders and long shots alike leading up to 2016′s presidential season.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-01-11 01:03:132014-01-11 01:03:13Add Another Name to the List of 2016 Hopefuls…
Documents released Friday reveal Port Authority officials were warned a plan to reduce lanes on the GW Bridge, which was apparently executed by members of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s staff as an act of political revenge, could be a “potential disaster” for commuters.
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Bitcoin will change the landscape of monetary transactions across the world for those seeking increased privacy. It may even threaten elements of the existing monetary system so much in the next few years that it fuels its own demise.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-01-11 00:55:592014-01-11 00:55:59Bitcoin: The Currency of the Internet
A nationwide minimum wage of $12 per hour would shrink government, aid families, curb illegal immigration, spur high-tech investment, and boost GOP support among working-class voters, says Ron Unz, the California libertarian entrepreneur who wiped out his state’s Spanish-only K-12 classes.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-01-11 00:53:322014-01-11 00:53:32Ron Unz: $12 an Hour is Conservative Rocket Fuel
A CNN/Opinion Research poll earlier this week was the latest to show a spike in support for legal weed. CNN, Gallup and the Pew Research Center all now show a clear-to-sizeable majority of Americans support Americans’ right to toke as they please — as high as 58 percent in Gallup’s polling.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-01-11 00:47:312014-01-11 00:47:31Why Legal Marijuana is Popular, but Lawmakers Still Pass On Grass
Giant US retailer Target said Friday that up to 110 million customers have had their personal data stolen in a data breach, sharply raising its initial estimate.
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The recent nationwide cold snap isn’t just making Americans uncomfortable. It’s turning some into lawbreakers.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-01-11 00:40:332014-01-11 00:40:33Cold Snap Or Not: Warming Up Your Is Car Illegal (+video)
“For many people, abortion care costs more than their monthly rent,” a professor testified Thursday in opposition to the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 7).
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2014-01-11 00:39:332014-01-11 00:39:33‘Abortion Care Costs More than Their Monthly Rent,’ Professor Testifies (+video)
Bosses are more likely than workers to identify as Republican and conservative, according to analysis released by Pew Research Thursday.
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The federal government said Friday it will open an investigation into a West Virginia chemical spill that shut down much of the state’s capital and put 300,000 residents at risk.
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A family-run business filed papers with the Supreme Court today telling the high court that it must stop the “unjust” Obamcare mandate that requires companies to pay for birth control and abortion-causing drugs for their employees.
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Suppose you’re President Obama. Who would be your ideal candidate to head up the Justice Department’s investigation into IRS targeting of conservative groups?
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New Scandal, Same Old Christie
/2 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Andrew C. McCarthyAfter swiftly dismissing a top official in his administration, Chris Christie was characteristically caustic when pressed by the press for the lesson to be drawn from the scandal: “Don’t lie to the governor.”
Maryland Officials Were Warned for a Year of Problems with Online Health-Insurance Exchange
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by Aaron C. Davis and Mary Pat FlahertyMore than a year before Maryland launched its health insurance exchange, senior state officials failed to heed warnings that no one was ultimately accountable for the $170 million project and that the state lacked a plausible plan for how it would be ready by Oct. 1.
Google’s Military Robotics: Humanoid Robots Future of Ground Warfare?
/5 Comments/in Featured, News /by Scott ClelandGoogle CEO Larry Page has rapidly positioned Google to become an indispensable U.S. military contractor.
Texas Judge Orders Home Schooled Children Removed from Christian Parents Home
/6 Comments/in Featured, Kathleen's Korner /by WNDA controversy has erupted in Texas after a judge ordered children removed from the home of their Christian homeschooling parents – over the homeschooling itself – even though the Texas Home School Coalition notes the state doesn’t allow that.
Alaska Governor Unveils New Plan for Gas Pipeline
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by Associated PressGov. Sean Parnell on Friday announced a new way forward on a long-hoped-for natural gas pipeline that includes scrapping the terms of a 2007 law he says no longer works well for the situation.
Remembering An Earlier Time When a Theft Unmasked Government Surveillance
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Betty MedsgerOn March 24, 1971, I became the first reporter to inform readers that the FBI wanted the American people to think there was an “FBI agent behind every mailbox.” That rather alarming alert came from stolen FBI files I had found in my own mailbox at The Washington Post when I arrived at work the previous morning.
Watch: What if Beethoven’s Mother Aborted?
/3 Comments/in Featured, Kathleen's Korner /by WNDA short, award-winning film, produced by Hollywood legend Jason Jones along with executive producer Pattie Mallette, the mother of Justin Bieber, is changing hearts and minds on the issue of life.
Smart Rifle Never Misses, Now Comes in Semi-Automatic Form
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Cadie ThompsonIn the near future, you won’t even need to know how to fire a rifle to be a crack shot.
Data Shows More Young Veterans Committing Suicide
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Alan ZaremboThe rate among 18- to 29-year-old men climbed 44% over 3 years, a new analysis shows, although it declined among older male veterans.
LA County Votes to Restore Cross to Seal; ACLU Has Dracula-like Response
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Rees LloydThe Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, which represents a population greater than a number of states, has voted 3-2 to restore the cross to the San Gabriel Mission church on the L.A. County seal to accurately depict the Mission, which now appears on the county seal without its cross.
Death Threats and Denial for Woman Who Showed College Athletes Struggle to Read (+video)
/3 Comments/in Featured, Video /by Sara GanimThe death threats, Mary Willingham expected. More shocking is that the University of North Carolina is now disavowing her research as a whistle-blower — research that showed between 8% and 10% of the school’s football and basketball players are reading below a third-grade level.
Woman Finds Wrong Body in Her Mother’s Casket
/1 Comment/in Featured, The Offbeat /by Erika NiewdowskiA woman wants answers after discovering the wrong body in a casket that should have contained her mother, who died unexpectedly while on vacation in St. Maarten.
Cruz: President Has Engaged in Pattern of ‘Lawlessness on a breathtaking scale’
/17 Comments/in Featured, News /by CBS Houston/APU.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has told a conservative conference that President Barack Obama is lawless, providing the right wing rhetoric that makes him so popular in his home state.
Add Another Name to the List of 2016 Hopefuls…
/4 Comments/in Featured, News /by Alexis LevinsonHouse Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is headed to New Hampshire, the destination for top presidential contenders and long shots alike leading up to 2016′s presidential season.
Documents Reveal Anger, Confusion Over Bridge Closings Linked to Christie Staff
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Fox NewsDocuments released Friday reveal Port Authority officials were warned a plan to reduce lanes on the GW Bridge, which was apparently executed by members of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s staff as an act of political revenge, could be a “potential disaster” for commuters.
Bitcoin: The Currency of the Internet
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by JASON SCHEURERBitcoin will change the landscape of monetary transactions across the world for those seeking increased privacy. It may even threaten elements of the existing monetary system so much in the next few years that it fuels its own demise.
Ron Unz: $12 an Hour is Conservative Rocket Fuel
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Neil MunroA nationwide minimum wage of $12 per hour would shrink government, aid families, curb illegal immigration, spur high-tech investment, and boost GOP support among working-class voters, says Ron Unz, the California libertarian entrepreneur who wiped out his state’s Spanish-only K-12 classes.
Why Legal Marijuana is Popular, but Lawmakers Still Pass On Grass
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Aaron Blake and Sean SullivanA CNN/Opinion Research poll earlier this week was the latest to show a spike in support for legal weed. CNN, Gallup and the Pew Research Center all now show a clear-to-sizeable majority of Americans support Americans’ right to toke as they please — as high as 58 percent in Gallup’s polling.
Target Sharply Raises Initial Estimate: Data Breach Up To 110 Million Customers
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by AFPGiant US retailer Target said Friday that up to 110 million customers have had their personal data stolen in a data breach, sharply raising its initial estimate.
Cold Snap Or Not: Warming Up Your Is Car Illegal (+video)
/0 Comments/in Featured, Video /by WNDThe recent nationwide cold snap isn’t just making Americans uncomfortable. It’s turning some into lawbreakers.
‘Abortion Care Costs More than Their Monthly Rent,’ Professor Testifies (+video)
/2 Comments/in Featured, Video /by Craig Bannister“For many people, abortion care costs more than their monthly rent,” a professor testified Thursday in opposition to the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 7).
Bosses More Likely to Be Republican and Conservative
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Barbara BolandBosses are more likely than workers to identify as Republican and conservative, according to analysis released by Pew Research Thursday.
‘Chaos’ as West Virginia Customers Pack Stores to Buy Water After Chemical Spill, Federal Gov’t Opens Investigation (+video)
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by News EditorThe federal government said Friday it will open an investigation into a West Virginia chemical spill that shut down much of the state’s capital and put 300,000 residents at risk.
Family-Run Business Files With Supreme Court: Stop ‘Unjust’ ObamaCare HHS Mandate
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Steven ErteltA family-run business filed papers with the Supreme Court today telling the high court that it must stop the “unjust” Obamcare mandate that requires companies to pay for birth control and abortion-causing drugs for their employees.
DoJ IRS Investigation in the Very Best of Hands
/1 Comment/in Featured, Opinion /by Rick MoranSuppose you’re President Obama. Who would be your ideal candidate to head up the Justice Department’s investigation into IRS targeting of conservative groups?