Stephen Jimenez concludes that Matthew Shepard’s death had nothing to do with homophobia. It was instead the horrific result of a drug deal gone wrong. Indeed, in The Book of Matt, Jimenez offers lots of circumstantial evidence that Shepard and one of his murderers, a violent and drug-addled bit of tumbleweed called Aaron McKinney, were rival dealers in crystal meth. Several named witnesses told Jimenez that the two even had a sexual relationship.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-10 01:10:252016-04-11 11:14:39Everything You Know about Matthew Shepard is Wrong
As right-wing populists surge across Europe, rattling established political parties with their hostility toward immigration, austerity and the European Union, Mikkel Dencker of the Danish People’s Party has found yet another cause to stir public anger: pork meatballs missing from kindergartens.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-10 01:09:032016-04-11 11:14:39Right Wing’s Surge in Europe Has the Establishment Rattled
Negotiations among world powers to temporarily curb Iran’s nuclear program ended with no deal Saturday after France objected that proposals did not go far enough.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-10 01:08:462016-04-11 11:14:39Iran Nuclear Talks End with No Agreement after France Balks at Deal
The UC Berkeley student government has banned the term “illegal immigrant” from its discourse, deeming the phrase racist, offensive, unfair and derogatory.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-10 01:05:132016-04-11 11:14:39Berkeley Bans Term ‘Illegal Immigrant’
Florida ran out of its primary lethal-injection drug last month and relied on a new drug that no state had ever used for an execution.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-10 01:01:572016-04-11 11:14:40Executions Stall as States Seek Different Drugs
Three people in Virginia, including a DMV employee, pleaded guilty this week to conspiring to get state IDs or driver’s licenses for at least 300 illegal immigrants.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-10 00:59:542016-04-11 11:14:40DMV Employee Pleads Guilty to Giving At Least 300 Illegals State ID’s or Licenses
Even as President Barack Obama sold a new health care law in part by assuring Americans they would be able to keep their insurance plans, his administration knew that tens of millions of people actually could lose those their policies.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-09 02:42:352016-04-11 11:14:41Analysis: Over 40 Million May Lose Their Employer Based Health Plans
Long before a nuclear deal was in reach, the U.S. was quietly lifting some of the financial pressure on Iran, a Daily Beast investigation reveals. How the sanctions were softened.
President Obama’s old campaign operation rallied the troops today, warning of a “pretty scary” ban on abortions in the sixth month of pregnancy that voters in Albuquerque, N.M., might pass.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-09 02:34:042016-04-11 11:14:41Obama Camp Views 20-Week Abortion Ban as ‘Pretty Scary’ Pro-Life Tactic
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, served Treasury Secretary Jack Lew with another subpoena relating to the IRS scandal in which the organization targeted Tea Party organizations, the committee announced on Friday.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-09 02:32:002016-04-11 11:14:42Issa Subpoenas Lew for Tea Party Targeting Docs
It’s difficult to imagine what Sebelius was thinking. “The hub”—meaning the web portal that is HealthCare.gov —does not collect medical records to store away on government servers. But it does collect all sorts of data about you, which it keeps attached to your account.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-09 02:27:462016-04-11 11:14:42ObamaCare Website Glitch Sending Private Information to Wrong People
The Republican establishment continues to undercut the campaigns of conservative candidates. Ken Cuccinelli was just the latest. In early 2013, a Texas-based Tea Party website posted a series of articles that documented how the G.O.P. establishment, at the county, state and national levels, had worked against six candidates supported by Tea Party organizations — five […]
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-09 02:25:392016-04-11 11:14:42Cuccinelli Only the Latest Conservative Candidate Targeted by G.O.P.
Fear of anti-Semitic attacks or insults is at a higher level in France than other European countries, including Hungary, a poll of European Jews has found.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-09 02:20:372016-04-11 11:14:42Anti-Semitism is on the Rise, Finds Survey of European Jewish People
Ben Sasse is doing what few Republicans have been able to accomplish: He’s uniting the GOP establishment with anti-establishment conservatives in his bid to become the next U.S. senator from Nebraska.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-09 02:19:092016-04-11 11:14:42Anti-Obamacare Candidate Bridges Tea Party and Establishment Divide
We live in oxymoronic times. Everyone recognizes the need for a streamlined, more efficient Pentagon. Yet Congress won’t let the Department of Defense close another base or increase the copayments military families make for their very generous health insurance plans.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-09 02:10:472016-04-11 11:14:43Military Must Do More with Less
Something tells me the president is not a regular reader of the New Criterion. But perhaps, in between his regular servings of Jonathan Chait, Ezra Klein, and Josh Barro, he snuck a peek at the October issue of the conservative arts magazine. He might have scanned an essay by Harvey Mansfield, “Machiavelli’s Enterprise,” on the legacy of the first modern philosopher. It’s a legacy that very much includes the president.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-09 02:01:032016-04-11 11:14:43Barack Obama’s Machiavellian Side
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s reputation as a moderate has convinced U.S. leaders to begin nuclear negotiations by easing sanctions on the rogue regime, even as Rouhani has permitted the increasing abuse of American pastor Saeed Abedini.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-09 01:51:482016-04-11 11:14:43President Obama, John Kerry Negotiate with Iran as Abuse of Jailed American Pastor Increases
On his first day on the set of “Killing Kennedy,” Rob Lowe saw Ginnifer Goodwin donning a replica of the pink suit worn by first lady Jacqueline Kennedy when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00kathleenhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngkathleen2013-11-09 01:49:512016-04-11 11:14:43‘Killing Kennedy’: Co-Star Ginnifer Goodwin Says Rob Lowe was Channeling JFK
Reports of sexual assaults in the military increased by an unprecedented 46 percent in the past fiscal year, the Pentagon said Thursday.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-09 01:48:002016-04-11 11:14:43Pentagon: Reports of Sexual Assaults Up 46 Percent
Forget Google Glass, smartwatches and even the biohacker who inserted a microchip under his skin, Motorola is hoping to trump them all with its microphone tattoo.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-09 01:46:312016-04-11 11:14:43Motorola Wants to Patent a Microphone Tattoo for Neck to Make Calls Clearer in Noisy Places
An infant who weighed just 11 ounces and was smaller than a soda can at birth is expected to head home from the hospital after six months of intensive care in San Diego.
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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: The president now is toxic. The thing is called Obamacare. There’s no running away from it. It’s got his name on it. You see the president, you think about the policy and you know it’s a disaster.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-08 01:59:402016-04-11 11:14:44Video: Krauthammer On Obama’s Apology- “The President Now Is Toxic”
President Barack Obama offered an apology Thursday to those Americans who have been told they’re losing their health insurance plans, contrary to his promise that no one would be forced off a plan they wanted to keep.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-11-08 01:55:512016-04-11 11:14:44Apologetic Obama: ‘I Am Sorry That They Are Finding Themselves In This Situation’ (+video)
As 2014 approaches, the desperation of the establishment becomes more and more pronounced.The Washington pundits, and the crony capitalists who prop them up, know the jig is up.
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Everything You Know about Matthew Shepard is Wrong
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Andrew FergusonStephen Jimenez concludes that Matthew Shepard’s death had nothing to do with homophobia. It was instead the horrific result of a drug deal gone wrong. Indeed, in The Book of Matt, Jimenez offers lots of circumstantial evidence that Shepard and one of his murderers, a violent and drug-addled bit of tumbleweed called Aaron McKinney, were rival dealers in crystal meth. Several named witnesses told Jimenez that the two even had a sexual relationship.
Right Wing’s Surge in Europe Has the Establishment Rattled
/2 Comments/in Featured, International /by Andrew HigginsAs right-wing populists surge across Europe, rattling established political parties with their hostility toward immigration, austerity and the European Union, Mikkel Dencker of the Danish People’s Party has found yet another cause to stir public anger: pork meatballs missing from kindergartens.
Iran Nuclear Talks End with No Agreement after France Balks at Deal
/0 Comments/in Featured, International /by Fox NewsNegotiations among world powers to temporarily curb Iran’s nuclear program ended with no deal Saturday after France objected that proposals did not go far enough.
Berkeley Bans Term ‘Illegal Immigrant’
/9 Comments/in Featured, News /by Jennifer KabbanyThe UC Berkeley student government has banned the term “illegal immigrant” from its discourse, deeming the phrase racist, offensive, unfair and derogatory.
Executions Stall as States Seek Different Drugs
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Manny FernandezFlorida ran out of its primary lethal-injection drug last month and relied on a new drug that no state had ever used for an execution.
DMV Employee Pleads Guilty to Giving At Least 300 Illegals State ID’s or Licenses
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Tony LeeThree people in Virginia, including a DMV employee, pleaded guilty this week to conspiring to get state IDs or driver’s licenses for at least 300 illegal immigrants.
Analysis: Over 40 Million May Lose Their Employer Based Health Plans
/10 Comments/in Featured, News /by Kevin G. Hall and Anita KumarEven as President Barack Obama sold a new health care law in part by assuring Americans they would be able to keep their insurance plans, his administration knew that tens of millions of people actually could lose those their policies.
CNN Blames Christians for Obamacare Problems
/10 Comments/in Featured, News /by Joel B PollakCNN has blamed Christians for the problem of Americans without health insurance, calling it “The Obamacare ‘scandal’ you haven’t heard about.”
Obama’s Secret Iran Détente
/4 Comments/in Featured, International /by Eli LakeLong before a nuclear deal was in reach, the U.S. was quietly lifting some of the financial pressure on Iran, a Daily Beast investigation reveals. How the sanctions were softened.
Obama Camp Views 20-Week Abortion Ban as ‘Pretty Scary’ Pro-Life Tactic
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Joel GehrkePresident Obama’s old campaign operation rallied the troops today, warning of a “pretty scary” ban on abortions in the sixth month of pregnancy that voters in Albuquerque, N.M., might pass.
Issa Subpoenas Lew for Tea Party Targeting Docs
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Matthew BoyleRep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, served Treasury Secretary Jack Lew with another subpoena relating to the IRS scandal in which the organization targeted Tea Party organizations, the committee announced on Friday.
ObamaCare Website Glitch Sending Private Information to Wrong People
/1 Comment/in Featured, Opinion /by Jonathan V. LastIt’s difficult to imagine what Sebelius was thinking. “The hub”—meaning the web portal that is HealthCare.gov —does not collect medical records to store away on government servers. But it does collect all sorts of data about you, which it keeps attached to your account.
Cuccinelli Only the Latest Conservative Candidate Targeted by G.O.P.
/3 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Lee CaryThe Republican establishment continues to undercut the campaigns of conservative candidates. Ken Cuccinelli was just the latest. In early 2013, a Texas-based Tea Party website posted a series of articles that documented how the G.O.P. establishment, at the county, state and national levels, had worked against six candidates supported by Tea Party organizations — five […]
Anti-Semitism is on the Rise, Finds Survey of European Jewish People
/2 Comments/in Featured, International /by Bruno WaterfieldFear of anti-Semitic attacks or insults is at a higher level in France than other European countries, including Hungary, a poll of European Jews has found.
Anti-Obamacare Candidate Bridges Tea Party and Establishment Divide
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Daniel HalperBen Sasse is doing what few Republicans have been able to accomplish: He’s uniting the GOP establishment with anti-establishment conservatives in his bid to become the next U.S. senator from Nebraska.
Military Must Do More with Less
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Michael O'HanlonWe live in oxymoronic times. Everyone recognizes the need for a streamlined, more efficient Pentagon. Yet Congress won’t let the Department of Defense close another base or increase the copayments military families make for their very generous health insurance plans.
Barack Obama’s Machiavellian Side
/3 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Matthew ContinettiSomething tells me the president is not a regular reader of the New Criterion. But perhaps, in between his regular servings of Jonathan Chait, Ezra Klein, and Josh Barro, he snuck a peek at the October issue of the conservative arts magazine. He might have scanned an essay by Harvey Mansfield, “Machiavelli’s Enterprise,” on the legacy of the first modern philosopher. It’s a legacy that very much includes the president.
President Obama, John Kerry Negotiate with Iran as Abuse of Jailed American Pastor Increases
/1 Comment/in Featured, International /by Joel GehrkeIranian President Hassan Rouhani’s reputation as a moderate has convinced U.S. leaders to begin nuclear negotiations by easing sanctions on the rogue regime, even as Rouhani has permitted the increasing abuse of American pastor Saeed Abedini.
‘Killing Kennedy’: Co-Star Ginnifer Goodwin Says Rob Lowe was Channeling JFK
/0 Comments/in Featured, Kathleen's Korner /by Associated PressOn his first day on the set of “Killing Kennedy,” Rob Lowe saw Ginnifer Goodwin donning a replica of the pink suit worn by first lady Jacqueline Kennedy when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Pentagon: Reports of Sexual Assaults Up 46 Percent
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Pauline JelinekReports of sexual assaults in the military increased by an unprecedented 46 percent in the past fiscal year, the Pentagon said Thursday.
Motorola Wants to Patent a Microphone Tattoo for Neck to Make Calls Clearer in Noisy Places
/0 Comments/in Featured, The Offbeat /by Victoria WoollastonForget Google Glass, smartwatches and even the biohacker who inserted a microchip under his skin, Motorola is hoping to trump them all with its microphone tattoo.
San Diego Baby Born at 11 Ounces Prepares to Head Home
/2 Comments/in Featured, Kathleen's Korner /by Greg Bledsoe and Monica GarskeAn infant who weighed just 11 ounces and was smaller than a soda can at birth is expected to head home from the hospital after six months of intensive care in San Diego.
Video: Krauthammer On Obama’s Apology- “The President Now Is Toxic”
/12 Comments/in Featured, Video /by Real Clear PoliticsCHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: The president now is toxic. The thing is called Obamacare. There’s no running away from it. It’s got his name on it. You see the president, you think about the policy and you know it’s a disaster.
Apologetic Obama: ‘I Am Sorry That They Are Finding Themselves In This Situation’ (+video)
/16 Comments/in Featured, Video /by Jennifer EpsteinPresident Barack Obama offered an apology Thursday to those Americans who have been told they’re losing their health insurance plans, contrary to his promise that no one would be forced off a plan they wanted to keep.
Send DC a Message
/7 Comments/in Featured, From Joe's Desk /by Joe MillerAs 2014 approaches, the desperation of the establishment becomes more and more pronounced.The Washington pundits, and the crony capitalists who prop them up, know the jig is up.