LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen Self-defense instructors in New York City are experiencing a big Trump bump of their own, the Wall Street Journal reports. One self-defense training organization has seen a 400 percent increase in sign-ups compared to last year. The Krav Maga Institute in New York City, which teaches Israeli martial arts,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Chris White New York Times columnist Bret Stephens said Sunday that climate scientists risk sounding incompetent when making predictions about the future effects of global warming. Stephens, who formerly worked with the Wall Street Journal, told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that climatologists should dial back their dire predictions about the effects…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read Marine Le Pen’s National Front party will engage in a rebranding effort after suffering a crushing loss Sunday to centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron. Le Pen told supporters that the party must reevaluate itself, and that she will continue to fight for its policies in the upcoming parliamentary…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Macron defeated far-right candidate Marine Le Pen by about 65.5% to 34.5% to become, at 39, the country’s youngest president since Napoleon Bonaparte, the results show, reports BBC. Emmanuel Macron will also become the first president from outside the two traditional main parties since the modern republic’s foundation in…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Geoffrey Ingersoll North Korea has arrested another U.S. citizen for alleged anti-state crimes. Kim Hak-song, a professor working at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, was detained Saturday, according to reports from North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency. Kim was reportedly detained for “hostile acts” against the reclusive regime….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said Saturday that President Donald Trump’s characterization of Australia’s health care as better than the American system is absolutely true. The self-proclaimed socialist senator believes the U.S. should use Australia’s universal health care system as a model for repealing and replacing Obamacare….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman Ohio Republican Governor John Kasich blasted the House GOP’s health care replacement bill, asserting that Republicans shouldn’t cut Medicaid expansion “overnight.” “I don’t have a problem with trying to move the Medicaid expansion,” Kasich told Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday morning, “but you can’t do that…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman Authorities in Germany have been in the process of evacuating approximately 50,000 people from their residences Saturday and Sunday after they discovered five suspected WWII-era bombs. The explosives were found at or near a construction site, according to the Associated Press. City officials inspected eight other suspicious objects and concluded they…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Kurt Eichenwald, a senior writer for Newsweek, lost his mind on Twitter on Friday, following the passage of the Republican led American Health Care Act, said the Blaze. Eichenwald even went as far as to suggest that he hopes that every Republican congressman who voted for “Trumpcare” has a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield A political columnist who voted for then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in last year’s presidential election has some blunt advice for the twice failed presidential candidate after she announced her intentions this week to remain involved in politics, reports the Blaze. “Hey, Hillary Clinton, shut the f— up…