A coalition of Republican congressmen have introduced the Stop Pay for Violent Offenders Act, which would suspend pay for military service members if charged with a violent offense, including rape, sexual assault, or murder.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-09 01:12:002016-04-11 11:17:29Congressmen Move to Strip Military Paycheck From Fort Hood Shooter, Other Violent Offenders
Some government officials seem to live in a time warp as they pursue a murky deal to “solve” the dissipating housing crisis by marrying government power with private enrichment.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-09 01:09:092016-04-11 11:17:29Foreclosure ‘Solution’ Smacks of Crony Capitalism
Perhaps you’ve heard the radio or TV commercials sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services urging seniors to report instances of Medicare fraud. One might even be tempted to praise it, were it not for what the Obama administration is doing with the other hand.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-09 01:05:272016-04-11 11:17:29Obamacare’s Dishonor System
Two Democratic lawmakers from Illinois worked to help lift economic sanctions against Zimbabwe after being targeted by an illegal $3.4 million lobbying scheme, according to FBI testimony unsealed in federal court.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-09 01:02:402016-04-11 11:17:29FBI Ties Chicago Representatives to Zimbabwe Lobbying
Derek Medina’s life was open to the world. On Thursday, Medina shocked many by making one last announcement on Facebook — he had killed his wife, Jennifer Alfonso, 26, before posting a photo of her twisted, bloodied body lying on a linoleum floor.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-09 01:00:242016-04-11 11:17:30Miami man Confesses to Killing Wife on Facebook, Posts Picture of her Body (+video)
Federal regulators are having a busy summer as they go after the nation’s two biggest banks for mortgage securities they issued before the financial crisis.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-09 00:58:292016-04-11 11:17:30BofA Not Alone, JPMorgan Chase May Face Criminal Charges Over Mortgages
In a move some claim is tantamount to social engineering, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is imposing a new rule that would allow the feds to track diversity in America’s neighborhoods and then push policies to change those it deems discriminatory.
House Republicans suspect election officials joined with the Internal Revenue Service in a strategy that curbed the effectiveness of conservative organizations in the 2012 election.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 01:43:282016-04-11 11:17:30IRS and FEC Colluding to Attack Conservatives?
Tuesday night, President Obama made headlines during his appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” one of his numerous appearances over the years (back in 2009, he was the first sitting president to appear on the show). The President talked with Jay about a myriad of topics such as the NSA (he says that we don’t have a domestic spying program), the threat from Al Qaeda, and Trayvon Martin. However, it was when the discussion turned to infrastructure that the president failed on some fairly basic American geography — and it’s not getting much attention.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 01:41:332016-04-11 11:17:30Video: Obama’s Epic U.S. Geography Fail
As Congress faces a fast-approaching deadline on passing a federal spending bill, Republican lawmakers are reviving a Tea Party-backed plan with a catchy title that they claim could balance the budget.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 01:34:002016-04-11 11:17:31Republicans Revive ‘Penny Plan’ as Sequester Alternative to Balance Budget
In spite of the ongoing terror threat emanating from Yemen, the White House says it does not plan to rethink President Obama’s decision last May to lift a moratorium on releasing Guantanamo Bay prisoners back to that country.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 01:06:012016-04-11 11:17:31Obama Standing by Decision to Lift Moratorium on Releasing Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Back to Yemen
It’s “total nonsense” to say Congress was told about the NSA collecting communications data on Americans, and as a matter of fact, efforts are made to keep members of Congress in the dark, says Rep. Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 00:59:302016-04-11 11:17:31Rep. Amash: Congress Purposely Kept in Dark on Surveillance Efforts
Saudi Arabia has offered Russia economic incentives including a major arms deal and a pledge not to challenge Russian gas sales if Moscow scales back support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Middle East sources and Western diplomats said on Wednesday.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 00:55:202016-04-11 11:17:31Saudi Offers Russia Deal to Scale Back Assad Support
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said there is “no question” that al-Qaeda is on the run, even though U.S. outposts remain closed due to terror threats throughout the world.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 00:43:152016-04-11 11:17:31Carney: ‘No Question’ Al-Qaeda On the Run (+audio)
The Pentagon is poised to extend healthcare, housing and other benefits to the same-sex spouses of military members by the end of August, but may reverse earlier plans to provide benefits to gay partners who are not married.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 00:41:382016-04-11 11:17:32Gay US Troops in Line for Marriage Benefits
As the country lurches from scandal to scandal, an unending budget impasse, a new norm of part time jobs and unemployment of over 7% …Many of us ask how did we get here?
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 00:34:432016-04-11 11:17:32Political System Offers Choice Between Lesser of Two Evils, Results In Evil of Two Lessers
It was nighttime and 10,000 Islamists were marching down the most heavily Christian street in this ancient Egyptian city, chanting “Islamic, Islamic, despite the Christians.” A half-dozen kids were spray-painting “Boycott the Christians” on walls, supervised by an adult.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 00:34:192016-04-11 11:17:32Egypt’s Coup Puts Fearful Christians in a Corner
The standby attorney for the soldier charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage accused Maj. Nidal Hasan on Wednesday of deliberately charting a course toward a conviction and death sentence, abruptly halting the trial after only one day.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 00:27:482016-04-11 11:17:32Lawyer: Fort Hood Shooting Suspect Trying to Get Death Penalty (+video)
President Obama has launched a series of speeches seen as a pivot back to the economy, but voters aren’t impressed. A just-released Fox News poll finds they think the president isn’t offering any new economic ideas, and he would help the country more by staying in the nation’s capital and working with Republicans.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 00:19:082016-04-11 11:17:3271 Percent Say Obama’s Offering Nothing New on Economy
An out-of-control wildfire growing with great speed in the Southern California mountains Wednesday night burned homes, forced the evacuation of several mountain communities and left three people injured, two of them firefighters.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 00:13:412016-04-11 11:17:33Residents Ordered to Evacuate as Southern California Wildfire Rages
Congress has won some partial relief for lawmakers and their staffs from the “Obamacare” health reforms that it passed and subjected itself to three years ago. What’s wrong with this picture?
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 00:10:062016-04-11 11:17:33Congress Wins Relief on Obamacare Health Plan Subsidies
Relations between the United States and Russia deteriorated further on Wednesday when Barack Obama abandoned a presidential summit with Vladimir Putin that was due to be held next month, amid fury in Washington over Moscow’s decision to grant asylum to the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 00:05:292016-04-11 11:17:33Obama Cancels Meeting with Putin Over Snowden Asylum Tensions
Did Hillary Clinton tell the truth? She appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January and testified that she had no knowledge of a CIA gun-running operation in Benghazi. Yet The New York Times reported in March that the CIA has been involved with secret shipments of weapons to Syria for over a year.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-08 00:00:052016-04-11 11:17:33Rand Paul: Hold Obama Accountable for Benghazi Cover-up
Over 2,000 years ago, gold and silversmiths developed a variety of techniques, including using mercury like a glue, to apply thin films of metals to statues and other objects. They developed thin-film coating technology that is unrivalled by today’s process for producing DVDs, solar cells, electronic devices and other products and used it on jewels, statues, amulets and more common objects.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-07 23:57:092016-04-11 11:17:332,000-Year-Old Electronics Tech Still Can’t be Matched
Since taking over as head of the Roman Catholic Church in March, Pope Francis has made several stark comments on world economic issues: He’s cited the pitfalls of capitalism, decried global income inequality and equated low-wage labor to a form of “slavery.”
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-08-07 23:53:272016-04-11 11:17:33A Blunt Pope Francis Targets Free Market Economics
Congressmen Move to Strip Military Paycheck From Fort Hood Shooter, Other Violent Offenders
/4 Comments/in Featured, News /by Kate AndrewsA coalition of Republican congressmen have introduced the Stop Pay for Violent Offenders Act, which would suspend pay for military service members if charged with a violent offense, including rape, sexual assault, or murder.
Foreclosure ‘Solution’ Smacks of Crony Capitalism
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Steven GreenhutSome government officials seem to live in a time warp as they pursue a murky deal to “solve” the dissipating housing crisis by marrying government power with private enrichment.
Obamacare’s Dishonor System
/0 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Mona CharenPerhaps you’ve heard the radio or TV commercials sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services urging seniors to report instances of Medicare fraud. One might even be tempted to praise it, were it not for what the Obama administration is doing with the other hand.
FBI Ties Chicago Representatives to Zimbabwe Lobbying
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Emma DumainTwo Democratic lawmakers from Illinois worked to help lift economic sanctions against Zimbabwe after being targeted by an illegal $3.4 million lobbying scheme, according to FBI testimony unsealed in federal court.
Miami man Confesses to Killing Wife on Facebook, Posts Picture of her Body (+video)
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by David Ovalle and Daniel DucassiDerek Medina’s life was open to the world. On Thursday, Medina shocked many by making one last announcement on Facebook — he had killed his wife, Jennifer Alfonso, 26, before posting a photo of her twisted, bloodied body lying on a linoleum floor.
BofA Not Alone, JPMorgan Chase May Face Criminal Charges Over Mortgages
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Halah TouryalaiFederal regulators are having a busy summer as they go after the nation’s two biggest banks for mortgage securities they issued before the financial crisis.
Obama Administration Imposing Diversity (+video)
/17 Comments/in Featured, Video /by Doug McKelwayIn a move some claim is tantamount to social engineering, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is imposing a new rule that would allow the feds to track diversity in America’s neighborhoods and then push policies to change those it deems discriminatory.
IRS and FEC Colluding to Attack Conservatives?
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by News EditorHouse Republicans suspect election officials joined with the Internal Revenue Service in a strategy that curbed the effectiveness of conservative organizations in the 2012 election.
Video: Obama’s Epic U.S. Geography Fail
/12 Comments/in Featured, Video /by Mike OpelkaTuesday night, President Obama made headlines during his appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” one of his numerous appearances over the years (back in 2009, he was the first sitting president to appear on the show). The President talked with Jay about a myriad of topics such as the NSA (he says that we don’t have a domestic spying program), the threat from Al Qaeda, and Trayvon Martin. However, it was when the discussion turned to infrastructure that the president failed on some fairly basic American geography — and it’s not getting much attention.
Republicans Revive ‘Penny Plan’ as Sequester Alternative to Balance Budget
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Joseph WeberAs Congress faces a fast-approaching deadline on passing a federal spending bill, Republican lawmakers are reviving a Tea Party-backed plan with a catchy title that they claim could balance the budget.
Obama Standing by Decision to Lift Moratorium on Releasing Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Back to Yemen
/3 Comments/in Featured, International /by Jennifer GriffinIn spite of the ongoing terror threat emanating from Yemen, the White House says it does not plan to rethink President Obama’s decision last May to lift a moratorium on releasing Guantanamo Bay prisoners back to that country.
Rep. Amash: Congress Purposely Kept in Dark on Surveillance Efforts
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Greg RichterIt’s “total nonsense” to say Congress was told about the NSA collecting communications data on Americans, and as a matter of fact, efforts are made to keep members of Congress in the dark, says Rep. Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan.
Saudi Offers Russia Deal to Scale Back Assad Support
/2 Comments/in Featured, International /by Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Amena BakrSaudi Arabia has offered Russia economic incentives including a major arms deal and a pledge not to challenge Russian gas sales if Moscow scales back support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Middle East sources and Western diplomats said on Wednesday.
Carney: ‘No Question’ Al-Qaeda On the Run (+audio)
/4 Comments/in Featured, International /by News EditorWhite House Press Secretary Jay Carney said there is “no question” that al-Qaeda is on the run, even though U.S. outposts remain closed due to terror threats throughout the world.
Gay US Troops in Line for Marriage Benefits
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by News EditorThe Pentagon is poised to extend healthcare, housing and other benefits to the same-sex spouses of military members by the end of August, but may reverse earlier plans to provide benefits to gay partners who are not married.
Political System Offers Choice Between Lesser of Two Evils, Results In Evil of Two Lessers
/2 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Ed FarnanAs the country lurches from scandal to scandal, an unending budget impasse, a new norm of part time jobs and unemployment of over 7% …Many of us ask how did we get here?
Egypt’s Coup Puts Fearful Christians in a Corner
/0 Comments/in Featured, International /by Hamza HendawiIt was nighttime and 10,000 Islamists were marching down the most heavily Christian street in this ancient Egyptian city, chanting “Islamic, Islamic, despite the Christians.” A half-dozen kids were spray-painting “Boycott the Christians” on walls, supervised by an adult.
Lawyer: Fort Hood Shooting Suspect Trying to Get Death Penalty (+video)
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by News EditorThe standby attorney for the soldier charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage accused Maj. Nidal Hasan on Wednesday of deliberately charting a course toward a conviction and death sentence, abruptly halting the trial after only one day.
71 Percent Say Obama’s Offering Nothing New on Economy
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by Dana BlantonPresident Obama has launched a series of speeches seen as a pivot back to the economy, but voters aren’t impressed. A just-released Fox News poll finds they think the president isn’t offering any new economic ideas, and he would help the country more by staying in the nation’s capital and working with Republicans.
Residents Ordered to Evacuate as Southern California Wildfire Rages
/0 Comments/in Featured, News /by Associated PressAn out-of-control wildfire growing with great speed in the Southern California mountains Wednesday night burned homes, forced the evacuation of several mountain communities and left three people injured, two of them firefighters.
Congress Wins Relief on Obamacare Health Plan Subsidies
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by David LawderCongress has won some partial relief for lawmakers and their staffs from the “Obamacare” health reforms that it passed and subjected itself to three years ago. What’s wrong with this picture?
Obama Cancels Meeting with Putin Over Snowden Asylum Tensions
/1 Comment/in Featured, International /by News EditorRelations between the United States and Russia deteriorated further on Wednesday when Barack Obama abandoned a presidential summit with Vladimir Putin that was due to be held next month, amid fury in Washington over Moscow’s decision to grant asylum to the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Rand Paul: Hold Obama Accountable for Benghazi Cover-up
/1 Comment/in Featured, Opinion /by Sen. Rand PaulDid Hillary Clinton tell the truth? She appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January and testified that she had no knowledge of a CIA gun-running operation in Benghazi. Yet The New York Times reported in March that the CIA has been involved with secret shipments of weapons to Syria for over a year.
2,000-Year-Old Electronics Tech Still Can’t be Matched
/0 Comments/in Featured, The Offbeat /by news.com.auOver 2,000 years ago, gold and silversmiths developed a variety of techniques, including using mercury like a glue, to apply thin films of metals to statues and other objects. They developed thin-film coating technology that is unrivalled by today’s process for producing DVDs, solar cells, electronic devices and other products and used it on jewels, statues, amulets and more common objects.
A Blunt Pope Francis Targets Free Market Economics
/7 Comments/in Featured, International /by Mark KobaSince taking over as head of the Roman Catholic Church in March, Pope Francis has made several stark comments on world economic issues: He’s cited the pitfalls of capitalism, decried global income inequality and equated low-wage labor to a form of “slavery.”