Author: Justin Lane

Air Force Res. Major Says He Was Fired from Benghazi Invest. for Refusing to Target Hillary

Air Force Res. Major Says He Was Fired from Benghazi Invest. for Refusing to Target Hillary

Posted by | Oct 11, 2015 | |

Bradley Podliska, and Air Force Reserve Major and former investigator on the special committee on Benghazi, intends to file a complaint in federal court regarding what he considers his wrongful termination. Podliska says that he was fired because he refused to target Hillary Clinton politically in the Benghazi investigation. Additionally, Podliska charges that he was fired after leaving to complete his military service, according to the New York Times. If true, that would be a violation of federal law. According to CBS News: Podliska worked nearly 10 months for the Republican majority staff starting in September 2014. He took a break...

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KY Republican Believes Medicare Recipients are Freeloaders Who Should Be Drug Tested

KY Republican Believes Medicare Recipients are Freeloaders Who Should Be Drug Tested

Posted by | Oct 11, 2015 | |

Republicans refuse to accept that drug testing welfare recipients is a fool’s errand. They continue to press the issue because it resonates with their hateful constituents, not because it works. Now, a Republican Kentucky lawmaker is even going to far as to say that Medicare recipients should get drug tested to receive benefits. Gubernatorial Matt Bevin suggested during a recent debate that Medicare recipients should be subjected to drug screenings. According to the Lexington Herald Leader: Conway asked Bevin about his statement from April that recipients of Medicaid and Medicare should be drug-tested. In April, Bevin said during a Louisville...

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CA Passes Legislation to Automatically Register Millions of People to Vote for 2016 Elections

CA Passes Legislation to Automatically Register Millions of People to Vote for 2016 Elections

Posted by | Oct 11, 2015 | , |

California Governor Jerry Brown enacted legislation to automatically register millions of residents to vote utilizing records kept with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). According to the new law, each person that goes to the DMV to either obtain a driver’s license or to renew one will be registered to vote by default. A resident would be required to opt-out of registering to vote, should they wish. “Citizens are currently forced to opt-in to their fundamental right to vote through registration,” said California’s Secretary of State Alex Padilla. “We do not have to opt-in to other rights. We do...

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New Orleans Does the Impossible: Finds Housing for Every Homeless Veteran

New Orleans Does the Impossible: Finds Housing for Every Homeless Veteran

Posted by | Oct 11, 2015 | |

New Orleans is making history by housing ever homeless veteran in the city. From the Christian Science Monitor: At 6 p.m. on Jan. 2, social workers in New Orleans moved the city’s last known homeless veteran into his new aprtment – becoming the first U.S. city to effectively elimate veteran homelessness. New Orleans has received praise for its efforts to battle homelessness. Advocates claim that the strategies used by the city of New Orleans for taking care of its homeless veterans would work for all people suffering from homelessness – not just veterans. “The solutions that work for veterans are...

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Former Republican Congressman Regrets Blocking Gun Violence Research

Former Republican Congressman Regrets Blocking Gun Violence Research

Posted by | Oct 10, 2015 | |

Jay Dickey is a former Republican Congressman and responsible for the 1996 legislation that prevented the Centers for Disease Control and prevention (CDC) from researching the relationship between gun ownership and public health. “I wish we had started the proper research and kept it going all this time,” Dickey told Huffington Post in an interview. “I have regrets.” “If we had somehow gotten the research going, we could have somehow found a solution to the gun violence without there being any restrictions on the Second Amendment,” said Dick to HuffPo. “We could have used that all these years to develop the...

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