“My view is simple: Washington is a rough-and-tumble place,” Cruz said last week. “If folks want to attack me personally, they’re welcome to it. Texans elected a senator to go to Washington and speak the truth.”
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Taiwan split from China amid civil war in 1949. The Nationalists, once bitter Cold War rivals with China’s Communists, support eventual unification with mainland China but only under a still-to-be negotiated framework.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-25 02:09:362016-04-11 11:23:54China’s Xi Affirms Goal Of Unification With Taiwan In Meeting With Senior Island Politician
Newsbusters’ Mark Finkelstein said that since Gibbs has been “freed” from his role as the official spokesperson for the administration, he “has become considerably more candid.”
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-25 02:04:342016-04-11 11:23:54Robert Gibbs: I Was Ordered Not To Acknowledge Existence Of Drone Program
Hamid Karzai has ordered all US special forces to leave a beleaguered province bordering Kabul, accusing them of murders and disappearances.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-25 01:55:212016-04-11 11:23:54US Special Forces Ordered To Leave Critical Afghanistan Province
Thousands of high-risk parolees are removing GPS monitors, often with little risk of serving time, because jails are too full to hold them. Some have been charged with new crimes.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-25 01:52:342016-04-11 11:23:54Paroled Sex Offenders Disarming Tracking Devices
ProgressNow has funded numerous front groups to influence elections in disparate regions. The group’s advisers include Media Matters founder David Brock, MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser, and Center for American Progress chairman John Podesta.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-25 01:33:122016-04-11 11:23:55Liberal Astroturf Group Offering $9 To $11 Per Hour To Join Its Gun-Control Campaign
Six months and a grand-jury probe later, there still are few answers about the phantom requests, which targeted Democratic voters in a congressional district and Republican voters in two Florida House districts.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-25 01:27:322016-04-11 11:23:55The Case Of The Phantom Ballots: An Electoral Whodunit
The city Health Department last week began sending brochures to businesses that would be affected by the latest ban, including restaurants, bars and any “food service” establishment subject to letter grades.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-25 01:25:092016-04-11 11:23:55Bloomberg’s Ban Prohibits 2-Liter Soda With Your Pizza And Some Nightclub Mixers
Swimp compared the call for universal background checks for gun purchase to the time when blacks were required to register with the government.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-24 03:01:452016-04-11 11:23:55Frederick Douglass Society President: ‘Direct Correlation Between Gun Control and Black People Control’ (+video)
Democrats say that keeping records of private sales is necessary to enforce any new law.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-24 02:50:542016-04-11 11:23:56Wash. Post: Senators Near Deal on Background Checks for Most Private Gun Sales
Moody’s pointed to “continuing weakness in the UK’s medium-term growth outlook, with a period of sluggish growth which [it] now expects will extend into the second half of the decade”.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-24 02:48:072016-04-11 11:23:56Britain’s Credit Rating Downgraded by Moody’s
While Head Start students averaged better in reading/language arts by third grade, math scores were poorer for children who participated in the program. Parents of Head Start children also reported a significantly lower child promotion rate than parents of children who did not participate in the federal program.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-24 02:45:292016-04-11 11:23:56HHS Study: Head Start Kids Have More Problems with Math, Social Interactions
Apparently Joe Biden hasn’t been out of his padded cell lately, because there are plenty of law-abiding citizens who are very concerned about their constitutional rights. Either Biden lacks even a nodding acquaintance with reality, or he is just lying.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-24 02:43:492016-04-11 11:23:56Biden: ‘No Law-Abiding Citizen Has Any Fear That Their Constitutional Rights Will be Infringed’
House Republicans purportedly filed a brief Friday, arguing for the right to defend DOMA.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-24 02:40:342016-04-11 11:23:57Obama Urges Supreme Court to Strike Down Federal Defense of Marriage Act
At least 33 fans were injured Saturday during a NASCAR race when a car flew into the fence at Daytona International Speedway, hurling a tire and large pieces of debris into the stands.The accident happened on the last lap of the second-tier Nationwide Series race on the eve of Sunday’s Daytona 500, which officials said would go on as scheduled.
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The Government continues to expend billions in alternative energy research as prices at the gas push $4 a gallon, with projections of $5 this summer, according to AAA. Meanwhile, the CEO of the taxpayer-funded National Renewable Energy Laboratory pulls in close to a million dollars a year, with his top two lieutenants raking in more than $500,000 a year. All in the district of one its most ardent supporters, Dem. Rep. Ed Perlmutter.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-24 02:36:432016-04-11 11:23:57Secret Colorado Energy Lab Spawns Million Dollar Government Employee
An Army veteran in New York is facing up to seven years in prison for possessing five empty 30-round ammunition magazines. Nate Haddad, who retired from 12 years of active duty in 2010 after sustaining a shoulder injury — now faces five counts of criminal weapons possession, punishable by up to seven years in prison.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-24 02:34:592016-04-11 11:23:57New York Army Vet Facing 7 Years In Prison Over Empty Ammo Magazines
Apparently Rand Paul’s surviving – and thriving – after two plus years in the Senate has caused the Left to turn all guns on Sen. Ted Cruz. He must be doing something right – even the elderly Republican members of the Senate Club have chastised him for his impudent remarks directed at Defense nominee Chuck Hagel. Woe to any Senator – or Senate candidate – who threatens the Ruling Class or the Left.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-24 02:32:122016-04-11 11:23:58Scary Ted Cruz Labeled the New McCarthy in Leftist Freakout
There is one growth industry amidst the desultory economic recovery we are in – synthetic hysteria. Rather than accusing the HIC (Hysteric in Chief) of crying “Wolf”, we should accurately label his histrionics as crying “Hamster!”. The (threat of) massive enonomic upheaval due to sequestration is based on a paltry 2.3% cut in the budget!
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-24 02:29:572016-04-11 11:23:58George Will: The Manufactured Crisis of Sequester
On the heels of Governor Rick Scott’s surprise decision to implement the first step of the controversial health-care law, a lobby group says Florida doesn’t have enough doctors to support this expansion. If you live in Florida, brace yourself for longer lines at the doctors office
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-24 02:28:052016-04-11 11:23:58Florida Doesn’t Have Enough Doctors For Medicaid Expansion, Lobby Group Says
Evan Todd is a Columbine survivor. And he wasn’t just AT Columbine on the fateful day where students lost their lives. He was shot and was wounded himself. And he’s got something to say to Obama. BEHOLD: Mr. President, As a student who was shot and wounded during the Columbine massacre, I have a few […]
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Many pundits seem to think that a successful Republican party would be one that closely resembles the Democrats. But lot of the talk about the divided nature of today’s GOP is an artifact of its failure to win the White House.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-24 02:18:272016-04-11 11:23:59How to Win in 2014: Stop Obama’s Legislative Agenda, Promote the Farm Team
Hypocrisy abounds as Hollywood movie producers receive $1.5 billion in government handouts. This is the story you likely won’t hear at the Oscars later today. When (successful) Eva Longoria waxed eloquently at the Democratic National Convention last year about her lack of need of a tax break, she didn’t include the producers who get massive handouts.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-02-24 02:14:062016-04-11 11:23:59Rich Hollywood Movie Producers Love Subsidies (That Would Pay For Teachers, Firefighters, And Police Officers)
A national uproar apparently caused the executive board of the Boy Scouts of America to postpone until May a vote on whether to allow homosexual Scouts and Scoutmasters among their ranks.
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Texas ‘Cruz Missile’ — Senator Standing By His Principles, Ready To Take The Heat
/7 Comments/in Featured, News /by FoxNews.com“My view is simple: Washington is a rough-and-tumble place,” Cruz said last week. “If folks want to attack me personally, they’re welcome to it. Texans elected a senator to go to Washington and speak the truth.”
China’s Xi Affirms Goal Of Unification With Taiwan In Meeting With Senior Island Politician
/0 Comments/in Featured, International /by Associated PressTaiwan split from China amid civil war in 1949. The Nationalists, once bitter Cold War rivals with China’s Communists, support eventual unification with mainland China but only under a still-to-be negotiated framework.
Robert Gibbs: I Was Ordered Not To Acknowledge Existence Of Drone Program
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by Joe NewbyNewsbusters’ Mark Finkelstein said that since Gibbs has been “freed” from his role as the official spokesperson for the administration, he “has become considerably more candid.”
Parks and Recreation, Obama Style
/1 Comment/in Featured, News /by Andrew EvansCoburn to White House: Stop visiting cities promoting federal-local partnerships as sequestration looms.
US Special Forces Ordered To Leave Critical Afghanistan Province
/0 Comments/in Featured, International /by Ben FarmerHamid Karzai has ordered all US special forces to leave a beleaguered province bordering Kabul, accusing them of murders and disappearances.
Paroled Sex Offenders Disarming Tracking Devices
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Paige St. JohnThousands of high-risk parolees are removing GPS monitors, often with little risk of serving time, because jails are too full to hold them. Some have been charged with new crimes.
Liberal Astroturf Group Offering $9 To $11 Per Hour To Join Its Gun-Control Campaign
/2 Comments/in 2 Amendment, Featured, News /by Patrick HowleyProgressNow has funded numerous front groups to influence elections in disparate regions. The group’s advisers include Media Matters founder David Brock, MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser, and Center for American Progress chairman John Podesta.
The Case Of The Phantom Ballots: An Electoral Whodunit
/1 Comment/in Featured, Opinion, Vote Integrity /by Patricia MazzeiSix months and a grand-jury probe later, there still are few answers about the phantom requests, which targeted Democratic voters in a congressional district and Republican voters in two Florida House districts.
Bloomberg’s Ban Prohibits 2-Liter Soda With Your Pizza And Some Nightclub Mixers
/2 Comments/in Featured, News /by Brad Hamilton and Susan EdelmanThe city Health Department last week began sending brochures to businesses that would be affected by the latest ban, including restaurants, bars and any “food service” establishment subject to letter grades.
Frederick Douglass Society President: ‘Direct Correlation Between Gun Control and Black People Control’ (+video)
/20 Comments/in Featured, News /by Penny StarrSwimp compared the call for universal background checks for gun purchase to the time when blacks were required to register with the government.
Wash. Post: Senators Near Deal on Background Checks for Most Private Gun Sales
/19 Comments/in Featured, News /by Ed O'KeefeDemocrats say that keeping records of private sales is necessary to enforce any new law.
Britain’s Credit Rating Downgraded by Moody’s
/0 Comments/in Featured, International /by James HurleyMoody’s pointed to “continuing weakness in the UK’s medium-term growth outlook, with a period of sluggish growth which [it] now expects will extend into the second half of the decade”.
HHS Study: Head Start Kids Have More Problems with Math, Social Interactions
/4 Comments/in Featured, News /by Dr. Susan BerryWhile Head Start students averaged better in reading/language arts by third grade, math scores were poorer for children who participated in the program. Parents of Head Start children also reported a significantly lower child promotion rate than parents of children who did not participate in the federal program.
Biden: ‘No Law-Abiding Citizen Has Any Fear That Their Constitutional Rights Will be Infringed’
/21 Comments/in Featured, Video /by News EditorApparently Joe Biden hasn’t been out of his padded cell lately, because there are plenty of law-abiding citizens who are very concerned about their constitutional rights. Either Biden lacks even a nodding acquaintance with reality, or he is just lying.
Obama Urges Supreme Court to Strike Down Federal Defense of Marriage Act
/3 Comments/in Featured, News /by FoxNews.comHouse Republicans purportedly filed a brief Friday, arguing for the right to defend DOMA.
NASCAR: Final Lap Crash At Daytona Injures 33, 2 Seriously
/6 Comments/in Featured, Kathleen's Korner /by CBS/APAt least 33 fans were injured Saturday during a NASCAR race when a car flew into the fence at Daytona International Speedway, hurling a tire and large pieces of debris into the stands.The accident happened on the last lap of the second-tier Nationwide Series race on the eve of Sunday’s Daytona 500, which officials said would go on as scheduled.
Secret Colorado Energy Lab Spawns Million Dollar Government Employee
/5 Comments/in Energy, Featured, News /by Tori Richards and Earl GlynnThe Government continues to expend billions in alternative energy research as prices at the gas push $4 a gallon, with projections of $5 this summer, according to AAA. Meanwhile, the CEO of the taxpayer-funded National Renewable Energy Laboratory pulls in close to a million dollars a year, with his top two lieutenants raking in more than $500,000 a year. All in the district of one its most ardent supporters, Dem. Rep. Ed Perlmutter.
New York Army Vet Facing 7 Years In Prison Over Empty Ammo Magazines
/6 Comments/in 2 Amendment, Featured, News /by Madeleine MorgensternAn Army veteran in New York is facing up to seven years in prison for possessing five empty 30-round ammunition magazines. Nate Haddad, who retired from 12 years of active duty in 2010 after sustaining a shoulder injury — now faces five counts of criminal weapons possession, punishable by up to seven years in prison.
Scary Ted Cruz Labeled the New McCarthy in Leftist Freakout
/14 Comments/in Featured, News /by Jane MayerApparently Rand Paul’s surviving – and thriving – after two plus years in the Senate has caused the Left to turn all guns on Sen. Ted Cruz. He must be doing something right – even the elderly Republican members of the Senate Club have chastised him for his impudent remarks directed at Defense nominee Chuck Hagel. Woe to any Senator – or Senate candidate – who threatens the Ruling Class or the Left.
George Will: The Manufactured Crisis of Sequester
/2 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by George F. WillThere is one growth industry amidst the desultory economic recovery we are in – synthetic hysteria. Rather than accusing the HIC (Hysteric in Chief) of crying “Wolf”, we should accurately label his histrionics as crying “Hamster!”. The (threat of) massive enonomic upheaval due to sequestration is based on a paltry 2.3% cut in the budget!
Florida Doesn’t Have Enough Doctors For Medicaid Expansion, Lobby Group Says
/4 Comments/in Featured, Health Care, News /by Kathleen HaughneyOn the heels of Governor Rick Scott’s surprise decision to implement the first step of the controversial health-care law, a lobby group says Florida doesn’t have enough doctors to support this expansion. If you live in Florida, brace yourself for longer lines at the doctors office
Have You Read Evan Todd’s Letter To Obama Yet?
/4 Comments/in Featured, Kathleen's Korner /by MockarenaEvan Todd is a Columbine survivor. And he wasn’t just AT Columbine on the fateful day where students lost their lives. He was shot and was wounded himself. And he’s got something to say to Obama. BEHOLD: Mr. President, As a student who was shot and wounded during the Columbine massacre, I have a few […]
How to Win in 2014: Stop Obama’s Legislative Agenda, Promote the Farm Team
/2 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Jay CostMany pundits seem to think that a successful Republican party would be one that closely resembles the Democrats. But lot of the talk about the divided nature of today’s GOP is an artifact of its failure to win the White House.
Rich Hollywood Movie Producers Love Subsidies (That Would Pay For Teachers, Firefighters, And Police Officers)
/5 Comments/in Featured, News /by Glenn Harlan ReynoldsHypocrisy abounds as Hollywood movie producers receive $1.5 billion in government handouts. This is the story you likely won’t hear at the Oscars later today. When (successful) Eva Longoria waxed eloquently at the Democratic National Convention last year about her lack of need of a tax break, she didn’t include the producers who get massive handouts.
Boy Scouts Should Not Backtrack On Values
/4 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Mathew StaverA national uproar apparently caused the executive board of the Boy Scouts of America to postpone until May a vote on whether to allow homosexual Scouts and Scoutmasters among their ranks.