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Saturday, September 10, 2016
US policies may hurt Micronesians more than they help
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:36 PM :: 6547 Views :: National News

...Micronesians arriving in Hawaii cite three reasons for leaving their home islands: access to healthcare, education, and employment. However, US taxpayers spend a great deal to fund these issues, both locally and in Micronesia, and it’s not clear whether the money is spent wisely....

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Saturday, September 3, 2016
The Average American Family Pays More Money in Regulations Than in Taxes
By Selected News Articles @ 3:25 PM :: 5553 Views :: National News, Taxes

..."the cumulative effect for the economy from having our regulatory leviathan" is $1.8 trillion per year....

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Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Why are more Micronesians coming to Hawaii?
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:28 PM :: 9103 Views :: National News, Homelessness

...why they’ve chosen to leave their home islands....

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Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Esther Kiaaina Cuts Micronesia Funding, Forcing Migrants to Come to USA
By Selected News Articles @ 12:00 PM :: 6581 Views :: National News

...OIA has simply withheld the money, or routed funds to projects outside the FAS. Predictably, this has fueled the exodus....

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Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Interior Dept. Worsening Bad Situation for COFA Migrants
By News Release @ 9:30 PM :: 6290 Views :: National News, Health Care

...OIA is now training migrants to maximize their dependency on taxpayer-funded services in Guam and Hawaii....

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Thursday, May 12, 2016
After 50 Years of Empty Promises, Democrats Finally Let a Few Filipino WW2 Vets Bring Family into USA
By News Release @ 12:01 AM :: 5016 Views :: National News

...an opportunity to receive a discretionary grant of parole on a case-by-case basis....

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Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Wikileaks: Japan refused Obama Hiroshima Apology
By Selected News Articles @ 6:43 PM :: 93630 Views :: National News, World News, Military, Obama

The Japanese government in 2009 recognized that accepting such an apology would undermine the foundations of the US-Japan alliance. Just look at how the 1993 Apology Resolution has undermined the foundations of the State of Hawaii.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Hawaii Featured in 2016 Congressional Pig Book
By News Release @ 3:13 PM :: 7168 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation, Higher Education

The East-West Center in Hawaii received a $5.9 million earmark....

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Thursday, March 31, 2016
Interior Department Funding ‘Self-Determination’ in US Virgin Islands
By News Release @ 1:15 PM :: 7402 Views :: Akaka Bill, National News

...develop educational outreach programs regarding the islands’ self-determination options....

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Monday, January 18, 2016
VIDEO: Is America Racist?
By Video @ 3:39 PM :: 7805 Views :: National News, Law Enforcement, Police

Best-selling author and radio talk-show host Larry Elder answers this controversial and even divisive question....

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Thursday, January 14, 2016
Republican Response to State of the Union
By News Release @ 10:12 AM :: 6377 Views :: National News, Republican Party

"...a vision of a brighter American future...."

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Thursday, January 14, 2016
Full Text: State of the Union Address
By News Release @ 10:09 AM :: 8142 Views :: National News, Obama

"...expectations for what we will achieve this year are low...."

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Friday, January 8, 2016
What the Constitution Really Says About Race and Slavery
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 AM :: 6660 Views :: National News

One hundred and fifty years ago the 13th Amendment officially was ratified, and with it, slavery finally was abolished....

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Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Bill to drop American Samoa flight fee reaches Senate
By Michael Hansen @ 1:13 PM :: 7427 Views :: National News, Tourism, Cost of Living

...Murkowski (R-AK) introduced a bill that would exclude intra-state air transportation within the U.S. Territory of American Samoa from federal aviation cabotage....

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Saturday, December 19, 2015
Wastebook 2015: The Farce Awakens
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:20 PM :: 6488 Views :: National News, Taxes

NASA provided $3 million for a mock trip to Mars filmed in Hawaii. Conclusion: personality conflicts arise in when people are stuck together for an extended time....

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Friday, September 18, 2015
Economic Freedom of the World: US Ranks 16th
By NCPA @ 6:28 PM :: 5077 Views :: National News

The Fraser Institutes Annual report measures the degree of economic freedom in various countries around the world....

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Thursday, July 9, 2015
US Manufacturing Costs to Fall Below China
By NCPA @ 1:39 PM :: 6683 Views :: Energy, National News

Rising wages in China and increased industrial productivity in the United States contributed to that trend, but the report cited hydraulic fracturing as the primary reason for the shift in costs....

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Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Internal Report: Gay Human Rights Campaign a Judgmental White Men’s Club
By Selected News Articles @ 4:39 PM :: 7462 Views :: National News, Family

Staff at the Human Rights Campaign last fall described the working environment at the nation’s largest LGBT rights group as “judgmental,” “exclusionary,” “sexist,” and “homogenous” ...

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Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Secret text of Trade Agreement ‘forms a new Pacific Union’
By News Release @ 10:40 PM :: 6258 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation

This is far more than a trade agreement, but creates a self-governing and self-perpetuating Commission with extraordinary implications for American workers and American sovereignty....

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Monday, June 8, 2015
Full Text: Court Dismisses American Samoa Suit for US Citizenship
By Selected News Articles @ 11:21 AM :: 5500 Views :: National News

...the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship to unincorporated territories....

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Sunday, May 17, 2015
We Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Us
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 6305 Views :: National News, Taxes

...three big issues that are holding us back in international competitiveness....

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Friday, May 15, 2015
Enviros Challenge Deep-Sea Mining Licenses
By Selected News Articles @ 10:29 AM :: 6298 Views :: Environment, National News

The Center for Biological Diversity brought the May 13 lawsuit in Washington, D.C., over five-year extensions that regulators granted Lockheed Martin for two exploration licenses it holds for a metal-rich zone of the Pacific Ocean....

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Sunday, May 10, 2015
Court Challenge to Guam’s race-based plebiscite will go Forward
By News Release @ 11:50 AM :: 5229 Views :: National News

The Guam legislature passed a law that allowed only “native inhabitants of Guam” to vote in an upcoming plebiscite concerning Guam’s political relationship with the United States....

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Saturday, March 14, 2015
American Samoa: Faleomavaega Trying for Comeback?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:00 PM :: 8816 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation, Politicians

Even in his latest pet project: the election of the new prime minister of India, he has been eclipsed by the other Samoan in the House, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) ....

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Thursday, February 5, 2015
Obama's Budget: One Trillion Dollars of New Taxes
By NCPA @ 3:43 PM :: 5905 Views :: National News, Taxes

Here are five Obama tax proposals that make no sense....

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Thursday, January 22, 2015
New Illinois Governor Appoints Linda Lingle as COO
By News Release @ 8:02 PM :: 8163 Views :: National News, Politicians

...Illinois Gov. Rauner names Hawaii's former 'superstar governor' Linda Lingle as Illinois COO....

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Full Text of Joni Ernst’s Republican Response to 2015 State of the Union
By News Release @ 11:43 PM :: 6009 Views :: National News, Republican Party

...history has shown there’s nothing our nation, and our people, can’t accomplish....

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Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Another Homosexual Leader Busted for Homosexual Child Molestation
By Selected News Articles @ 4:03 AM :: 10684 Views :: National News, Family, Law Enforcement

A prominent gay rights activist charged last week with sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy ... has visited the White House more than a half-dozen times in the past two years....

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Thursday, November 20, 2014
U.S. not prepared for a major volcanic eruption, panel says
By Selected News Articles @ 2:29 PM :: 8226 Views :: Hawaii County , National News, Congressional Delegation
The U.S. is falling short in its ability to track and respond to a major volcanic eruption at this time, a panel of experts told a congressional hearing Wednesday.…
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Saturday, November 15, 2014
Obama Administration, Kiribati Cut off More Ocean Fisheries
By News Release @ 2:55 AM :: 6250 Views :: Environment, National News

489,000 Square Nautical Miles of Ocean....

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Sunday, November 9, 2014
“If you’re answering to Omidyar you’re really not independent.”
By Selected News Articles @ 6:02 PM :: 13025 Views :: National News, Ethics, First Amendment, Pierre Omidyar

“But they all kissed the ring because they wanted his money.”

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Saturday, November 8, 2014
Hawaii Clinton Operative Tied to $500M Emerald Fraud
By Selected News Articles @ 2:46 PM :: 8088 Views :: Democratic Party, National News

Paul Sullivan, a Hawaii resident and former deputy campaign manager for President Bill Clinton, could owe  millions of dollars in attorney fees ....

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Wednesday, November 5, 2014
It’s a Wave: Republicans Take US Senate, Build Majority in House, Grab Governorships
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:02 PM :: 8047 Views :: National News, Republican Party

Republicans shifted the balance of power in the U.S. Senate, gaining at least seven seats, widened their majority in the House by at least 11 seats and defeated Democrats in 24 governor’s races....

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Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Am Samoa, Guam, NMI, and Alaska -- Republicans Win Big Across Pacific
By Selected News Articles @ 3:12 PM :: 8331 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation

Congressional candidate Aumua Amata was yesterday elected to serve as American Samoa’s non-voting Delegate to the U.S. House, unseating longtime incumbent, Congressman Faleomavaega Eni....

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Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Faleomavaega Sued by Former Congressional Staff Attorney
By Selected News Articles @ 3:01 AM :: 6908 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation

...a former member of Faleomavaega's staff is suing the delegate....

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Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Supreme Court Upholds State's Right to Cut COFA Benefits
By News Release @ 1:16 AM :: 6172 Views :: National News, Health Care

...a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court validates the state’s authority to determine the level of health care coverage provided to noncitizens who are ineligible for federal Medicaid....

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Politically Modified Organism Makes Money Grow on Trees for Hawaii Anti-GMO Activist
By Andrew Walden @ 10:10 PM :: 7501 Views :: National News, Ethics, GMOs

...Coburn's newly released “2014 Wastebook” has only one sad and lonely reference to federal spending on “silly, unnecessary, and low priority projects” in Hawaii....

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014
American Samoa--Mistaken About Faleomavaega?
By Selected News Articles @ 2:26 PM :: 8129 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation, Politicians

...Faleomavaega neither resigned nor retired and finally has returned home just a few days short of a year after his medical evacuation last October....

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Saturday, August 30, 2014
Tuna Monument: Faleomavaega Slow on the Draw
By Selected News Articles @ 8:20 PM :: 9292 Views :: Energy, National News, Politicians, Small Business

...it took nearly a month for the ailing delegate to file a formal letter with Obama pleading with him not to take any action that would harm American Samoa....

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Sunday, August 24, 2014
Faleomavaega Coming Back to American Samoa for Election Season?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:59 AM :: 7685 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation, Politicians

...the United Nations third decennial conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS)  will run from September 1-4 in Samoa....

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Saturday, August 23, 2014
Redskins 1, American Samoa 0
By Selected News Articles @ 10:00 PM :: 6664 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation

...These are the kinds of issues that have dominated Faleomavaega’s agenda over the years when he hasn’t been traveling....

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Saipan Gets better Representation than American Samoa
By Selected News Articles @ 8:04 PM :: 7087 Views :: Environment, National News, Small Business

...“this is certainly the most important congressional group to visit the Northern Marianas at one time.”....

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Friday, August 15, 2014
"The Giver" -- Opens Today Oahu, Maui, Kona, Hilo
By Video @ 3:08 PM :: 5359 Views :: National News

A young man living in a future where complacency is valued above all else discovers the sinister secrets that hold his fragile society together....

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Friday, August 15, 2014
Faleomavaega Skips Visit of Key House Committee to American Samoa
By Selected News Articles @ 11:08 AM :: 6169 Views :: National News, Politicians
The group flew in and out without ever having seen the place or having had to entertain the question “Where’s Eni?”
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Am Samoa: Democrat Nod Goes to Faleomavaega in a Slick Maneuver
By Selected News Articles @ 5:54 PM :: 7847 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians

...The party chairman then called for a vote and the dozen party attendees present (out of 600 people said to be members) unanimously endorsed Faleomavaega for re-election....

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Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Q&A: Ten Things You Need to Know About Boehner Suing Obama
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:52 PM :: 7012 Views :: National News, Health Care, Judiciary

...Last week, the House of Representatives voted to authorize Speaker John Boehner to file a lawsuit challenging President Obama’s failure to fully implement Obamacare....

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Thursday, July 31, 2014
Feds fly immigrant minors to Hawaii on taxpayer dime
By Malia Zimmerman @ 5:20 AM :: 5624 Views :: National News
“between January 1 and July 7, a total of eight minors were discharged from the unaccompanied alien children program to sponsors in Hawaii.”
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Friday, July 25, 2014
Obamacare, Tuna Zone: Humiliation for American Samoa Delegate
By News Release @ 7:57 PM :: 6322 Views :: Environment, National News

...imagine the humiliation when, without any prior consultation with him, Obama announced a move that could have enormous ramifications for the fishing industry that is the foundation of the territory’s private sector....

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Friday, July 25, 2014
US Territories Suddenly Exempted from Obamacare
By Selected News Articles @ 5:41 AM :: 6490 Views :: National News, Health Care

The decision covers residents in Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands...the law was "undermining the stability" of the territories' insurance markets....

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Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Proposed EPA Rule Gives Feds Control of Hawaii Water Ditches
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:31 PM :: 9121 Views :: Honolulu County, National News, Agriculture

...the new proposed rule would regulate all ditches, except in narrow circumstances. This even includes man-made ditches....

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