Jamie Boling and her husband, Joseph, know that providing for a military family can be trying — waiting for orders, often living on a single income, and, in especially tough cases, supporting a spouse wounded in the line of duty.
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Heading into a congressional election year, Americans hold Congress in strikingly low regard, and nearly two-thirds say they would like to see their House member replaced, a new poll finds.
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As one world leader after another paid homage to Nelson Mandela at a memorial service, the man standing at arm’s length from them appeared to interpret their words in sign language. But advocates for the deaf say he was a faker.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-12-12 01:20:112013-12-12 01:20:11Deaf Interpreter at Mandela Event a Phony
Dr. Oz said there are serious public-health risks associated with processed chicken from China and said we should take action now to stop these products from coming to the United States.
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I must admit that this story hit me pretty hard this morning. It’s not often that I get upset – I mean it seems like every day we’re bombarded with stories of violence, crime and debauchery, so it takes a lot these days to upset me.
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A senior progressive strategist and former chief of staff for President Bill Clinton who specializes in the use of executive authority to bypass Congress is reportedly joining the White House.
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With the latest round of budget talks in Washington, it appears some Republicans on the Hill are in the spirit of giving once again. This time it’s the sequester cuts, more taxes, and some are even suggesting we adjust to the “new normal” of ObamaCare.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-12-11 01:38:382013-12-11 01:38:38The Solution to This Present Crisis
US President Barack Obama may have moved the masses attending Nelson Mandela’s memorial service with his stirring eulogy, but it was his grinning “selfie” with the Danish and British premiers that set social networks abuzz.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-12-11 01:37:242013-12-11 01:37:24Barack Obama Takes Selfie at Nelson Mandela Memorial, Cruz Walks Out on Castro
Congressional negotiators on Tuesday announced a tentative budget deal that would avoid a partial government shutdown, but also begin to unravel hard-fought spending cuts.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-12-11 01:36:322013-12-11 01:36:32Lawmakers Unveil Tentative Budget Deal, Call for Rolling Back Sequester
When President Obama said this week that ending income inequality was “this generation’s task,” his aides noted he was consciously echoing themes he’d raised in a speech two years earlier in Osawatomie, Kan. The trail actually goes back even farther than that.
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Thanks to new smart-drilling and production technologies (including hydraulic fracturing), the U.S. is the leading liquid fuels producer in the world and will soon be the world’s largest producer of petroleum.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-12-11 01:31:272013-12-11 01:31:27We Are Drilling, Baby! U.S. Passing Saudi Arabia in Oil Production
South Carolina lawmakers have a proposal in their legislative pipeline that would nullify the federal Obamacare law.
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NEWS FLASH: The National Security Agency, the clandestine, spying arm of the U.S. government, lied.
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A Nevada father is being credited with keeping his girlfriend and four children alive and well by using innovative methods like heating up rocks and burning tires to help them survive two days trapped in the snow.
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Four days before the legal deadline, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said she had not yet signed up for Obamacare, but was still mulling over the plans and what might work best for her family.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-12-11 01:19:102013-12-11 01:19:10Wasserman Schultz on Not Yet Enrolling in Obamacare: ‘I’m a Little Busy, So’ (+video)
Students in some Albany High School English classes were asked this week as part of a persuasive writing assignment to make an abhorrent argument: “You must argue that Jews are evil, and use solid rationale from government propaganda to convince me of your loyalty to the Third Reich!”
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Between 2008 and 2011, the U.S. government awarded roughly $6.12 million in federal farm subsidies to several groups in the Chicago area, including a charity owned by Louis Farrakhan’s The Nation of Islam, according to a report released by government watchdog group Open the Books.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-12-11 01:15:232013-12-11 01:15:23Wait Until You Hear How Many Farm Subsidies Are Going to Groups in…the City of Chicago — Including One Associated With Louis Farrakhan
Hollywood star Ben Affleck, who has played an active role in Democratic politics, says fundraising for politicians began to “feel gross.”
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-12-11 01:15:062013-12-11 01:15:06Ben Affleck: Raising Money for Democrats Made Me ‘Feel Gross’
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court’s decision dismissing a lawsuit filed by a male-to-female transsexual who claimed his firing was discriminatory.
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Development of Alaska may undergo a revolution of sorts if the prototypes currently being built by this California-based company live up to their expectations.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-12-11 01:09:002013-12-11 01:09:00Will Airships Revolutionize Development of Alaska?
A new poll from Public Policy Polling (PPP) finds the Michigan GOP Senate candidate, Terri Land, taking the lead over Democrat Rep. Gary Peters in the race to replace retiring Sen. Carl Levin.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-12-11 01:08:502013-12-11 01:08:50PPP: GOP Leads Michigan Senate Race to Replace Democrat, ObamaCare to Blame
A new study shows that growing up without a father not only affects behavior – it transforms children’s brain structure.
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In a Dec. 5 audit report on the U.S. Army Contracting Command (ACC), the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General said it found that the ACC “potentially overpaid up to $3.3 million for communications equipment purchased for the Afghan National Security Forces.”
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One of Washington’s most reliably conservative lawmakers is breaking the news that he will challenge a mainstay of the Republican establishment – all because the incumbent GOP senator “undermined Sen. Ted Cruz’s fight to stop Obamacare.”
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During Friday’s White House briefing, Jonathan Karl of ABC News and Peter Alexander of NBC News both pressed White House spokesman Jay Carney on a Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report that found President Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had met only once during the three and half years after the passage of ObamaCare.
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Under Obama, Troops Forced to Rely on Welfare, Holiday Charity to Make Ends Meet (+video)
/3 Comments/in Featured, Video /by Joe MillerJamie Boling and her husband, Joseph, know that providing for a military family can be trying — waiting for orders, often living on a single income, and, in especially tough cases, supporting a spouse wounded in the line of duty.
Poll: 2/3rd’s Would Like to See Their Member of Congress Replaced
/4 Comments/in Featured, News /by Joe MillerHeading into a congressional election year, Americans hold Congress in strikingly low regard, and nearly two-thirds say they would like to see their House member replaced, a new poll finds.
Deaf Interpreter at Mandela Event a Phony
/2 Comments/in Featured, The Offbeat /by Joe MillerAs one world leader after another paid homage to Nelson Mandela at a memorial service, the man standing at arm’s length from them appeared to interpret their words in sign language. But advocates for the deaf say he was a faker.
Dr. Oz Sounds Alarm on Dangers of Processed Chicken from China
/5 Comments/in Featured, Kathleen's Korner /by kathleenDr. Oz said there are serious public-health risks associated with processed chicken from China and said we should take action now to stop these products from coming to the United States.
Vet Brutally Murdered Trying to Buy a Christmas Present on Craigslist
/2 Comments/in Featured, Kathleen's Korner /by kathleenI must admit that this story hit me pretty hard this morning. It’s not often that I get upset – I mean it seems like every day we’re bombarded with stories of violence, crime and debauchery, so it takes a lot these days to upset me.
Obama Plans to Bypass Congress Even More? Adds ‘Executive Power’ Czar To Staff
/7 Comments/in Featured, International /by Joe MillerA senior progressive strategist and former chief of staff for President Bill Clinton who specializes in the use of executive authority to bypass Congress is reportedly joining the White House.
The Solution to This Present Crisis
/4 Comments/in Featured, From Joe's Desk /by Joe MillerWith the latest round of budget talks in Washington, it appears some Republicans on the Hill are in the spirit of giving once again. This time it’s the sequester cuts, more taxes, and some are even suggesting we adjust to the “new normal” of ObamaCare.
Barack Obama Takes Selfie at Nelson Mandela Memorial, Cruz Walks Out on Castro
/5 Comments/in Featured, The Offbeat /by Joe MillerUS President Barack Obama may have moved the masses attending Nelson Mandela’s memorial service with his stirring eulogy, but it was his grinning “selfie” with the Danish and British premiers that set social networks abuzz.
Lawmakers Unveil Tentative Budget Deal, Call for Rolling Back Sequester
/4 Comments/in Featured, News /by Joe MillerCongressional negotiators on Tuesday announced a tentative budget deal that would avoid a partial government shutdown, but also begin to unravel hard-fought spending cuts.
As Obama Turns: How the President’s Political Fortunes Predict his Economic Message
/1 Comment/in Featured, Opinion /by Joe MillerWhen President Obama said this week that ending income inequality was “this generation’s task,” his aides noted he was consciously echoing themes he’d raised in a speech two years earlier in Osawatomie, Kan. The trail actually goes back even farther than that.
We Are Drilling, Baby! U.S. Passing Saudi Arabia in Oil Production
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Joe MillerThanks to new smart-drilling and production technologies (including hydraulic fracturing), the U.S. is the leading liquid fuels producer in the world and will soon be the world’s largest producer of petroleum.
Proposed State Law Aims to Nullify Obamacare
/4 Comments/in Featured, News /by Joe MillerSouth Carolina lawmakers have a proposal in their legislative pipeline that would nullify the federal Obamacare law.
Video: Jon Stewart Skewers NSA Doublespeak
/0 Comments/in Featured, Video /by Joe MillerNEWS FLASH: The National Security Agency, the clandestine, spying arm of the U.S. government, lied.
Nevada Dad Praised for Using Innovative Ways To Keep Family Safe for 2 Days in -16 Degrees
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Joe MillerA Nevada father is being credited with keeping his girlfriend and four children alive and well by using innovative methods like heating up rocks and burning tires to help them survive two days trapped in the snow.
Wasserman Schultz on Not Yet Enrolling in Obamacare: ‘I’m a Little Busy, So’ (+video)
/2 Comments/in Featured, Video /by Joe MillerFour days before the legal deadline, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said she had not yet signed up for Obamacare, but was still mulling over the plans and what might work best for her family.
Common Core Assignment: Think Like a Nazi and Explain Why Jews Are Evil (+video)
/14 Comments/in Featured, Kathleen's Korner /by kathleenStudents in some Albany High School English classes were asked this week as part of a persuasive writing assignment to make an abhorrent argument: “You must argue that Jews are evil, and use solid rationale from government propaganda to convince me of your loyalty to the Third Reich!”
Wait Until You Hear How Many Farm Subsidies Are Going to Groups in…the City of Chicago — Including One Associated With Louis Farrakhan
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Joe MillerBetween 2008 and 2011, the U.S. government awarded roughly $6.12 million in federal farm subsidies to several groups in the Chicago area, including a charity owned by Louis Farrakhan’s The Nation of Islam, according to a report released by government watchdog group Open the Books.
Ben Affleck: Raising Money for Democrats Made Me ‘Feel Gross’
/2 Comments/in Featured, The Offbeat /by Joe MillerHollywood star Ben Affleck, who has played an active role in Democratic politics, says fundraising for politicians began to “feel gross.”
Federal Appeals Court Rules Transsexual’s Firing was Not Discrimination
/2 Comments/in Featured, Kathleen's Korner /by kathleenA federal appeals court has upheld a lower court’s decision dismissing a lawsuit filed by a male-to-female transsexual who claimed his firing was discriminatory.
Will Airships Revolutionize Development of Alaska?
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured /by Joe MillerDevelopment of Alaska may undergo a revolution of sorts if the prototypes currently being built by this California-based company live up to their expectations.
PPP: GOP Leads Michigan Senate Race to Replace Democrat, ObamaCare to Blame
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by Joe MillerA new poll from Public Policy Polling (PPP) finds the Michigan GOP Senate candidate, Terri Land, taking the lead over Democrat Rep. Gary Peters in the race to replace retiring Sen. Carl Levin.
Study: Growing Up Without a Father Transforms Children’s Brains
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Joe MillerA new study shows that growing up without a father not only affects behavior – it transforms children’s brain structure.
Army May Have Overpaid $3.3M for Communications Devices for Afghan Military, DOD IG Reports
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Joe MillerIn a Dec. 5 audit report on the U.S. Army Contracting Command (ACC), the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General said it found that the ACC “potentially overpaid up to $3.3 million for communications equipment purchased for the Afghan National Security Forces.”
Tea Party Favorite Taking on Cornyn in Texas-Sized Showdown
/21 Comments/in Featured, News /by Joe MillerOne of Washington’s most reliably conservative lawmakers is breaking the news that he will challenge a mainstay of the Republican establishment – all because the incumbent GOP senator “undermined Sen. Ted Cruz’s fight to stop Obamacare.”
NBC, ABC News Press White House on Secret Sebelius Meetings (+video)
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Joe MillerDuring Friday’s White House briefing, Jonathan Karl of ABC News and Peter Alexander of NBC News both pressed White House spokesman Jay Carney on a Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report that found President Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had met only once during the three and half years after the passage of ObamaCare.