LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rachel Stoltzfoos Republican Sen. Marco Rubio opted not to host a town hall when he returned to his Florida district last week, because he said paid activists would “heckle and scream” at him. “They are not town halls anymore,” Rubio told a local CBS outlet Sunday. “What these groups really…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Paul Meekin The police have always had a presence in my life that went beyond law enforcement. Our teen community center had a police officer on duty to field questions and supervise. Officers gave out free ice cream to kids who wore bike helmets. They demonstrated how bad ass their K-9 dog…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Fear and Loathing the New Federal Marijuana Policy By Sean McCaffrey When President Obama’s Justice Department signed a memo in 2013 that told U.S. Attorneys to relax their prosecution of recreational and medical marijuana crimes, two things happened. Conservatives, afraid of pot-smoking hippies and drug trafficking cartels taking to the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal this weekend, criticizing his former colleague Ruth Bader Ginsburg for inappropriate interventions in political questions. Ginsburg and Silberman served together on the D.C. Circuit, widely…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet is under increasingly intense pressure to back the nomination of fellow Coloradan Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. A slew of newspaper editorials, endorsements from prominent in-state legal groups, and a new ad-campaign have pinned the Colorado Democrat between Gorsuch-enthusiasts in the state’s…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen More people died last in Spain than were born, so the government has appointed a ‘sex tsar’ to encourage citizens to make babies. The new sex tsar will draft a national strategy for the country to deal with the rapidly declining birthrate, UK newspaper The Independent reports. Spain’s…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall A Huffington Post contributor claimed to feel “shame” and “disorientation” after learning that she has European in her heritage. Christine Michael Carter, a black contributor, decided to go through an ancestry report as part of Black History Month. She wrote that the results of the report shocked…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett The father of a U.S. Navy Seal killed in the Yemen raid in late January refused to meet President Donald Trump during the transfer of his coffin to the U.S., the Miami Herald reports. Chief Special Warfare Operator William “Ryan” Owens’s coffin arrived at Dover Air Force base Feb…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez called President Donald Trump a liar and suggested he “rigged” the election during a Sunday appearance on “Meet The Press.” “How do you unite this party without making it an anti-Trump party as way to unite it?” Chuck Todd asked the new…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett Members of the Conservative Political Action Conference panel “Energy Rationing: The Tragic, Unintended Consequences” argued energy subsidies tend to make products only slightly cheaper and redistribute cash from poor taxpayers to the rich. “There’s rampant fraud in net metering,” Steve Pociask, president of the American Consumer Institute’s…