LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Juliegrace Brufke House Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday’s leak of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy jokingly saying he thought Russian President Vladimir Putin was paying President Donald Trump and California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher in 2016 is cause for concern. Ryan told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt he thought it…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie The U.S. government pays professional debt collecting agencies, on average, nearly 40 times the value of what they collect, according to joint research released Tuesday from the Consumer Financial Protections Bureau and government filings. The federal government is annually dolling out an average of $1 billion to debt…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Juliegrace Brufke GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher was reportedly warned by the FBI that the Russian government was attempting to recruit him as a spy in 2012. Rohrabacher, who was elected to office in 1988, is one of the most vocally pro-Russia members of Congress, having long-advocated against placing sanctions on…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By: Paul Meekin Well, that was unexpected. After playing through two terms in the free iOS game “President Simulator”, I had nearly a 100 percent approval rating. I had lowered taxes for all citizens, encouraged jobs over handouts. Spoke to climate change deniers, encouraged innovation over regulation, and thought I…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell North Korea is squaring off with a superpower, and propaganda has offered insight into the targets the North might aim for in the event of a conflict. North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapons technology is advancing rapidly. The North successfully tested a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile Sunday…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Chris White Two of the tribes opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline dropped their lawsuit against the multi-billion-dollar oil project. Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and Standing Rock Sioux gave up their legal battle preventing construction on the so-called DAPL. They appealed a U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decision…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr Former FBI Director James Comey tried to use White House curtains that matched his suit to “blend in,” attempting to avoid President Donald Trump during an inauguration event. The anecdote comes from Benjamin Wittes, a fellow at the Brookings Institute, who relayed a story to The New York Times that Comey…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen A new survey of journalists, reporters and broadcasters shows that media types drink more alcohol, and may have difficulty controlling their emotions and suppressing biases. For her “Study into The Mental Resilience of Journalists,” neuroscientist and executive leadership coach Dr. Tara Swart surveyed journalists and found that, despite constant deadlines, unpredictable work schedules,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman Former FBI Director James Comey said in March that he was somewhat worried about the prospect of Rod Rosenstein becoming deputy attorney general, according to a post published Thursday by Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Wittes, who is a friend of Comey and an…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman U.S. Special Operations Command expects the first prototype of an “Iron Man” suit to be fully constructed by the end of 2018, according to a DefenseNews report published Thursday. “It’s getting very real right now,” Col. James Miller, the director of the Joint Acquisition Task Force for the…