President Trump has never been in short supply of offensive comments against the world at large. Leening on the racist side, he launched hate-fueled speeches and displayed ridiculously intolerant attitudes against women, Muslims, Mexicans, journalists, the disabled, black, and Native Americans. The latter group embodied, in his view, a state sanctioned monopoly over US land-based…
WATCH AERIAL FOOTAGE OF WHERE THE SHOOTING TOOK PLACE: A top legal executive at CBS, Hayley Geftman-Gold, said she “is not even sympathetic” for the victims of the shooting at a country music festival at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas Sunday night. “If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope…
By Jordan LaPorta This morning, I, like every other American, awoke to the news of terror in Las Vegas. Those healing and the families of the victims should be our first and foremost concern, and I know they will be in many American’s prayers. However, I also awoke to the all-too-familiar cacophony of contradiction…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: After the horrific shooting last evening in Las Vegas Hillary Clinton took to Facebook to offer condolences with the first sentence. Then in the the second sentence of her post claims Stephen Paddock’s terrorism would’ve been even more gruesome had he had a “silencer” on his weapons. Never mind that ‘silencers’…
The last time I stood for the National Anathema was − as near as I can recall − somewhere back in the early Eighties. It was against my will; I was in the Air Force, and many things I did then were against my will. Haircuts, corframs … corfams? Whatever they were. Those artificially shiny…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Jonah Bennett A 38-year-old military veteran from New Jersey has been arrested after threatening to kill GOP Rep. Frank LoBiondo and his staff in a “blood bath.” New Jersey state troopers arrested veteran Joseph Brodie, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, on Sept. 20 for weapons charges after police were informed…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: A gunman identified as Stephen Paddock, 62, killed 50 people and injured at least 200 others at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas. Authorities say Paddock was found on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay where he was found dead. This passes the 2016 Orlando…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Ryan Pickrell President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday morning that trying to negotiate with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is a waste of time. Trump doubled down on an earlier tweet claiming that talking is not the answer. The president said that there is no point having Secretary of State Rex Tillerson…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Jack Crowe Groups that help enroll people on the Obamacare exchanges are struggling to encourage enrollment because, at least in part, to a lack of awareness about the program’s continued existence, the Daily Beast reports. The Trump administration has drastically cut the funding used to market Obamacare and to assist…
STEVE BIRR Vice Reporter Officials in Washington state are suing the pharmaceutical giant behind OxyContin for allegedly deceiving the public on the addiction risks of opioid painkillers. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed the lawsuit Thursday, which accuses Purdue Pharma of knowingly spreading addiction throughout the state in the name of profit. The lawsuit seeks to force…