The Senate rolled over on someone that John McCain said was unqualified to be Defense Secretary, without one word of debate. Deceiving the nation were 15 Senators who voted to move things along with their cloture vote, yet they now hide under the cover of a “Nay” vote, giving Obama another victory in a fight that was worth fighting for.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-27 00:41:242016-04-11 11:23:46The Senate’s Shameful Behavior: Not One Word of Debate on Hagel’s Defense Nomination
ABC News commented on its editing choice: “The edits made to Robin’s interview with the First Lady were made solely for time.” Sure enough, they just flat ran out of time. But, of course!
This brief brings the stark divide within the Republican Party over gay marriage out into the open. With House of Representatives leadership continuing the tout the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as existing only between one man and one woman, it’s evident that the split is only growing.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-27 00:14:212016-04-11 11:23:46Which 80 Prominent Republicans Just Signed A Legal Brief Proclaiming Gay Marriage Is A Constitutional Right?
This President has buried billions in one ‘green energy’ boondoggle after another, and dawdled while our dependence on Middle Eastern oil grew. Apparently all the high-sounding rhetoric about ending our dependence on foreign oil was just that . . . just words . . . just phrases . . .
Giving or raising $500,000 or more puts donors on a national advisory board for Mr. Obama’s group and the privilege of attending quarterly meetings with the president, along with other meetings at the White House.
The Iranian state-controlled media has welcomed Hagel’s nomination saying, “Hagel’s selection is a message of peace from the Obama administration to Islamic Republic of Iran.”
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-26 02:10:262016-04-11 11:23:47‘Hagel Has Promoted Agenda Of The Enemy’
“Was it blunt? Yes. Would I apologize? No,” Hunt told the Star-Tribune. He said later: “If I had to do it again, would I sit and think about how to phrase my words more carefully? Probably.”
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-26 01:59:592016-04-11 11:23:47Wyoming State House Rep. to Concealed Carry Critic: If You Don’t Like It, ‘By All Means, Leave’
Justice Department and White House officials declined to provide much information about the memo or answer questions about it on the record.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-26 01:51:062016-04-11 11:23:47Busted: NRA Uses Justice Department Memo to Expose Obama on Guns
According to the IG’s office, this included the costs for staffers to perform “volunteer activities, play games and watch movies during regular work hours.”
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-26 01:41:362016-04-11 11:23:48Report: Chevy Volt Battery Supplier Wasted Millions In Stimulus Funds
Their letter to the GAO asks for a study on how much money Planned Parenthood, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and several other groups receive from the government. It also asks the GAO to identify the various federal sources of this money, how it was distributed, etc.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-26 01:35:482016-04-11 11:23:48GOP Seeks Planned Parenthood Study With Hope To Strip Funding
Obama and his fellow community organizers were furious. So furious, in fact, that they have replied by filing complaints with the authority that governs website domain addresses, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-26 01:32:572016-04-11 11:23:48Obama Fails To Register ‘Organizingforaction.net’; Site Points To NRA Home Page
Once again, the Obama Administration is playing politics with National Security. Napolitano’s attendance at the White House briefing was the latest part of a White House effort to pressure Congress into passing a deal that would prevent the sequester.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-26 01:23:022016-04-11 11:23:48Napolitano: Sequester Cuts Will Make US More Vulnerable To Terrorist Attack
This interview won’t endear Senator Cruz to his critics in the Republican Party, but he’s spot on. We need a few more just like him.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-26 01:17:062016-04-11 11:23:49Video: Ted Cruz On America’s Economic Problems – ‘An Awful Lot of Republicans Failed To Stand For Principle And Contributed To Getting Us In This Mess’
The Patriots have several key free agents this year, including wide receiver Wes Welker, tackle Sebastian Vollmer and cornerback Aqib Talib. Brady’s new deal makes it easier for New England to retain those players.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00kathleenhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngkathleen2013-02-26 01:09:382016-04-11 11:23:49Taking One for the Team: Tom Brady Signs Cap-Friendly, Three-Year Extension With Pats
After leaving Britain Thompson consistently maintained that he had “never heard any allegations,” while at the BBC, relating to the abuses. But on Sunday the London Sunday Times reported on claims that Helen Boaden, the outgoing director of BBC News, alleges that she told Thompson about the Savile abuse allegations in a December 2011 conversation.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-26 00:05:542016-04-11 11:23:49BBC Scandal: Transcripts Show Mark Thompson, Now NYT CEO, Said He ‘Never Heard’ Rumors About Molester
LaPierre reminds us that we are witnessing the single-most devastating attack on the second amendment our country has ever seen.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-25 03:47:312016-04-11 11:23:49LaPierre: ‘Registry Will Be Used to Confiscate Your Guns’
In the two elections since Mr. Bush left office, conservative and tea party-affiliated candidates have pushed back against his allies in Congress, unseating some longtime Republican incumbents and helping choose their own brands of nominees.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-25 03:05:592016-04-11 11:23:51Tea Partyers Fight For Soul of GOP
Pew’s review of personal assets–savings, retirement accounts, cars and houses–shows how devastating the long economic downturn in the country has hit Americans. Older Americans, age 35 and higher, have taken a 22 percent hit.
The media’s crusade against Cruz proves that in Obama’s America, it is considered far worse to accuse someone of being a Marxist than to be one. The same journalists who demand full disclosure of every penny that conservative financiers might have put into lobbying or politics now mock Cruz’s attempt to probe Hagel’s financial disclosures.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-25 02:59:132016-04-11 11:23:52Dictatorship Of Hypocrites: The Media’s Crusade Against Cruz
Muslim garb taught as alternative dress – not oppressive to women. One student quoted the teacher as saying, “We are going to work to change your perception of Islam.”
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-25 02:55:002016-04-11 11:23:52Students Made To Wear Burqas In U.S. Schools
Williams was fired from National Public Radio in 2010 after saying he sometimes gets “nervous” when seated on an airplane with Muslims, while making a broader point about the importance of religious tolerance.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-25 02:51:392016-04-11 11:23:52Video: Juan Williams Says Liberal Media Will ‘Shut You Down, Stab You, Kill You, Fire You’ If You Disagree
The industry’s power brokers continue to stick their collective tongues out at roughly half the country, the half that prefers to see Hollywood’s biggest night devoted to the stars, not the White House’s latest media outreach effort.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-25 02:30:402016-04-11 11:23:53FLOTUS Interruptus: Obamas Hijack The Oscars
After hearing reports of the Obama Administration’s attempts to force the Canadian government to impose a carbon tax regime in exchange for allowing the Keystone project to go forward, one has to wonder if the latest proposal is a capitulation to the president’s heavy-handed tactics.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-25 02:26:592016-04-11 11:23:53Canadian Officials Make Climate Case In DC Ahead Of Keystone Pipeline Decision
Parker said her organization held the event to allow black leaders “to express our deep concern of efforts currently under way to limit our God-given and constitutional right of self-defense.”
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-25 02:20:262016-04-11 11:23:53Blacks Who Back Gun Control Need to Study History of Slavery and Jim Crow
The Senate’s Shameful Behavior: Not One Word of Debate on Hagel’s Defense Nomination
/5 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by William PeckThe Senate rolled over on someone that John McCain said was unqualified to be Defense Secretary, without one word of debate. Deceiving the nation were 15 Senators who voted to move things along with their cloture vote, yet they now hide under the cover of a “Nay” vote, giving Obama another victory in a fight that was worth fighting for.
ABC Justifies Editing Out Michelle Obama’s False ‘Automatic Weapon’ Claim
/4 Comments/in Featured, News /by Michal CongerABC News commented on its editing choice: “The edits made to Robin’s interview with the First Lady were made solely for time.” Sure enough, they just flat ran out of time. But, of course!
Which 80 Prominent Republicans Just Signed A Legal Brief Proclaiming Gay Marriage Is A Constitutional Right?
/12 Comments/in Featured, News /by Billy HallowellThis brief brings the stark divide within the Republican Party over gay marriage out into the open. With House of Representatives leadership continuing the tout the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as existing only between one man and one woman, it’s evident that the split is only growing.
US Dependence on Middle Eastern Oil Grows
/9 Comments/in Featured, International /by Ajay MakanThis President has buried billions in one ‘green energy’ boondoggle after another, and dawdled while our dependence on Middle Eastern oil grew. Apparently all the high-sounding rhetoric about ending our dependence on foreign oil was just that . . . just words . . . just phrases . . .
Video: Obama Selling Access to OFA Donors
/4 Comments/in Featured, Video /by Washington Free Beacon StaffGiving or raising $500,000 or more puts donors on a national advisory board for Mr. Obama’s group and the privilege of attending quarterly meetings with the president, along with other meetings at the White House.
‘Hagel Has Promoted Agenda Of The Enemy’
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Jerome R. CorsiThe Iranian state-controlled media has welcomed Hagel’s nomination saying, “Hagel’s selection is a message of peace from the Obama administration to Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Wyoming State House Rep. to Concealed Carry Critic: If You Don’t Like It, ‘By All Means, Leave’
/13 Comments/in 2 Amendment, Featured, News /by Madeleine Morgenstern“Was it blunt? Yes. Would I apologize? No,” Hunt told the Star-Tribune. He said later: “If I had to do it again, would I sit and think about how to phrase my words more carefully? Probably.”
Busted: NRA Uses Justice Department Memo to Expose Obama on Guns
/10 Comments/in Featured, News /by ABC OTUS NewsJustice Department and White House officials declined to provide much information about the memo or answer questions about it on the record.
Report: Chevy Volt Battery Supplier Wasted Millions In Stimulus Funds
/4 Comments/in Energy, Featured, News /by Kerry PicketAccording to the IG’s office, this included the costs for staffers to perform “volunteer activities, play games and watch movies during regular work hours.”
GOP Seeks Planned Parenthood Study With Hope To Strip Funding
/4 Comments/in Featured, Health Care, News /by Pete KasperowiczTheir letter to the GAO asks for a study on how much money Planned Parenthood, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and several other groups receive from the government. It also asks the GAO to identify the various federal sources of this money, how it was distributed, etc.
Obama Fails To Register ‘Organizingforaction.net’; Site Points To NRA Home Page
/7 Comments/in 2 Amendment, Featured, News /by Warner Todd HustonObama and his fellow community organizers were furious. So furious, in fact, that they have replied by filing complaints with the authority that governs website domain addresses, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Napolitano: Sequester Cuts Will Make US More Vulnerable To Terrorist Attack
/7 Comments/in Featured, News /by Justin SinkOnce again, the Obama Administration is playing politics with National Security. Napolitano’s attendance at the White House briefing was the latest part of a White House effort to pressure Congress into passing a deal that would prevent the sequester.
Video: Ted Cruz On America’s Economic Problems – ‘An Awful Lot of Republicans Failed To Stand For Principle And Contributed To Getting Us In This Mess’
/6 Comments/in Featured, Video /by David BrodyThis interview won’t endear Senator Cruz to his critics in the Republican Party, but he’s spot on. We need a few more just like him.
Taking One for the Team: Tom Brady Signs Cap-Friendly, Three-Year Extension With Pats
/0 Comments/in Featured, Kathleen's Korner /by Mike GarafoloThe Patriots have several key free agents this year, including wide receiver Wes Welker, tackle Sebastian Vollmer and cornerback Aqib Talib. Brady’s new deal makes it easier for New England to retain those players.
BBC Scandal: Transcripts Show Mark Thompson, Now NYT CEO, Said He ‘Never Heard’ Rumors About Molester
/1 Comment/in Featured, International /by Patrick GoodenoughAfter leaving Britain Thompson consistently maintained that he had “never heard any allegations,” while at the BBC, relating to the abuses. But on Sunday the London Sunday Times reported on claims that Helen Boaden, the outgoing director of BBC News, alleges that she told Thompson about the Savile abuse allegations in a December 2011 conversation.
Video: Biden- Americans ‘No Longer Worried’ About Economy
/6 Comments/in Featured, Video /by Daniel HalperGood ‘ole Joe, the gift that keeps on giving. What planet does he live on anyway?
LaPierre: ‘Registry Will Be Used to Confiscate Your Guns’
/12 Comments/in Featured, News /by Erica RitzLaPierre reminds us that we are witnessing the single-most devastating attack on the second amendment our country has ever seen.
Tea Partyers Fight For Soul of GOP
/4 Comments/in Featured, News /by Seth McLaughlinIn the two elections since Mr. Bush left office, conservative and tea party-affiliated candidates have pushed back against his allies in Congress, unseating some longtime Republican incumbents and helping choose their own brands of nominees.
Personal Assets Crash 22% Under Obama, Recession
/4 Comments/in Featured, News /by Paul BedardPew’s review of personal assets–savings, retirement accounts, cars and houses–shows how devastating the long economic downturn in the country has hit Americans. Older Americans, age 35 and higher, have taken a 22 percent hit.
Dictatorship Of Hypocrites: The Media’s Crusade Against Cruz
/2 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Joel B. PollakThe media’s crusade against Cruz proves that in Obama’s America, it is considered far worse to accuse someone of being a Marxist than to be one. The same journalists who demand full disclosure of every penny that conservative financiers might have put into lobbying or politics now mock Cruz’s attempt to probe Hagel’s financial disclosures.
Students Made To Wear Burqas In U.S. Schools
/11 Comments/in Education, Featured, News /by John GriffingMuslim garb taught as alternative dress – not oppressive to women. One student quoted the teacher as saying, “We are going to work to change your perception of Islam.”
Video: Juan Williams Says Liberal Media Will ‘Shut You Down, Stab You, Kill You, Fire You’ If You Disagree
/10 Comments/in Featured, Video /by Grae StaffordWilliams was fired from National Public Radio in 2010 after saying he sometimes gets “nervous” when seated on an airplane with Muslims, while making a broader point about the importance of religious tolerance.
FLOTUS Interruptus: Obamas Hijack The Oscars
/7 Comments/in Featured, News /by Christian TotoThe industry’s power brokers continue to stick their collective tongues out at roughly half the country, the half that prefers to see Hollywood’s biggest night devoted to the stars, not the White House’s latest media outreach effort.
Canadian Officials Make Climate Case In DC Ahead Of Keystone Pipeline Decision
/1 Comment/in Featured, International /by Ben GemanAfter hearing reports of the Obama Administration’s attempts to force the Canadian government to impose a carbon tax regime in exchange for allowing the Keystone project to go forward, one has to wonder if the latest proposal is a capitulation to the president’s heavy-handed tactics.
Blacks Who Back Gun Control Need to Study History of Slavery and Jim Crow
/1 Comment/in 2 Amendment, Featured, News /by Penny StarrParker said her organization held the event to allow black leaders “to express our deep concern of efforts currently under way to limit our God-given and constitutional right of self-defense.”