by Micah J. Fleck Well. This is awkward. In his annual New Year’s statement to the fellow world leaders, president of Russia Vladimir Putin congratulated President-Elect Donald J. Trump on his win, and completely omitted still-current U.S. President Barack Obama altogether, even though Obama is still technically the leader of the U.S. and not Trump,…
by Micah J. Fleck USA Today is reporting that what is being suspected as a terrorist attack in Baghdad from the “Islamic State” group or another such entity has killed at least 19 people, maybe more, with 45 others being severely wounded. Details from the report are as follows: A pair of bomb blasts targeting…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield In Canada, there is a political swirl over a man named Maxime Bernier. So who is he? Bernier is a Conservative Canadian Member of Parliament (MP) for Beauce in Quebec first elected in 2006 and re-elected in 2008 with the largest margin of victory of any Conservative who ran….
By Kody Fairfield According to a report out of CampusReform (CR), students at Georgetown University taking a course on the AIDs epidemic were awarded class credit for attending what CR referred to as a “radical teach-in” focused on ways to “resist hatred and violence” following the election of Donald Trump. CR reports that according to the syllabus listed for…
By Thomas Phippen An 18-year-old man in Oklahoma was arrested Wednesday for allegedly impersonating an FBI agent online to blackmail a prostitute into giving him free sex. The problem is, he was talking to an undercover cop pretending to be a prostitute. High school student Anthony Maurice Harris thought he was contacting a hooker online, but…
By Kody Fairfield Shortly after President Barack Obama levied sanctions on Russian entities and expelled 35 Russian diplomats by naming them “persona non grata” for Russia’s alleged involvement in affecting the outcome of the 2016 Presidential election, the Twitter account for the Russian Embassy laughed off the administration, calling it a “lame duck.” Following the…
By Thomas Phippen The Colorado health care marketplace improperly spent nearly $9.7 million setting up the Obamacare health insurance exchange system, according to a report by the inspector general (IG) released Thursday. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) gave the state of Colorado $183.7 million in federal establishment grant funding to set up Connect For Health Colorado,…
By Amber Randall A Black Lives Matter chapter publicly praised a Starbucks barista for spiting in an officer’s coffee at a local California coffee shop Wednesday night. The Facebook page “Stockton Police Department, Corruption Reporting Page” posted a photo of the officer and his family, reports Fox 40. “We are happy to report that today this…
By Ryan Pickrell While vowing to continue his bloody war on drugs, the president of the Philippines issued a rare apology Thursday for the deaths of innocent victims. “I would admit there were killings that were really unintended, like the children who were caught in the crossfire,” President Rodrigo Duterte said in an interview with…
By Katie Frates “America’s Got Talent” host Nick Cannon reminded everyone that he does not think highly of Planned Parenthood, saying it was founded to “exterminate the negro race.” “I’m pro-Nick because my mother did go to an abortion clinic to abort me,” he said. “I don’t feel like the government should have the right….