LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield On Sunday, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation” where he explained that he believes everyone is missing the real story regarding President Donald Trump’s comments on wiretapping, reports the Washington Examiner. Paul told John Dickerson, the host of “Face the Nation,” that Trump and those in his…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr The federal prohibition of marijuana is blocking medical experts from studying weed’s uses in treating Alzheimer’s Disease, a problem facing a growing body of medical research. Scientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California are finding early success in looking at marijuana extracts as a treatment…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman As liberal activists and the “Fight for Fifteen” movement continues to press for an increased minimum wage, the restaurant industry is passing the cost on to consumers in some states. Instead of increasing the price of menu items, many independent and regional chain restaurants are including a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock Students from one Iowan high school recently apologized to the administrators of another Iowan high school when people found their choice of red, white and blue attire offensive. Supporters of the Des Moines North High School basketball team, many of whose players are from refugee families, were offended…
by Micah J. Fleck According to the Washington Examiner: President Trump has told Republican leaders that he’s prepared to play hardball with congressional conservatives to pass the GOP healthcare bill, including by supporting the 2018 primary challengers of any Republican who votes against the bill. Sources told the Washington Examiner that Trump made that threat…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Betsy Pearson By now everyone has heard of Jason Chaffetz’s claim about people needing to not buy a new iPhone when they should be saving for healthcare instead. This is a part of what is being called ‘Obamacare-light’, and has left the writers of this bill on defense. The…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck Yesterday, TLR reported on a controversial bill proposal in West Virginia that if passed would have reclassified homeschooling as “abuse.” Many other outlets jumped on this story, as well, and we are now learning that the very same day all the controversy came to a head, the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck Curtis Reeves, the retired police captain who shot and killed a man for texting in a movie theater back in 2014, will stand trial for second degree murder, according to a recent Florida judge ruling. The anticipation was that the “Stand Your Ground” law, which was at…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: UPDATE: Bharara has now been officially fired after refusing to turn in his resignation as requested: Story Here. Original story text below: by Micah J. Fleck According to The New York Times: Preet Bharara, the Manhattan federal prosecutor who was told to submit his resignation along with 45 others on…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck The existence of fake accounts and/or bots isn’t surprising to those who have become public figures on social media, as there are many fake fans and retweets and follows that tend to piggyback on growing supporter bases for the purposes of advertising. But a new study…