LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman Disney has cut ties with Felix Kjellberg, a YouTube superstar from Sweden, after he posted a series of videos with anti-Semitic references. The 27-year-old viral sensation who goes by the name “PewDiePie” posted nine videos since August that feature anti-Semitic jokes or Nazi imagery, according to The Wall…
By Kitty Testa It’s Valentine’s Day, and you don’t have a particular lady friend to share the romance of the occasion, so you head out to the bar, or the gym, or the coffee shop—anything to avoid being alone tonight. You hope you’ll run into your single friends. You’ll make snide remarks about Hallmark Holidays…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Richard Pollock In the final hours before his resignation, now-former White House National Security Adviser Michael T. Flynn said he “crossed no lines” in his discussion with Russia’s ambassador, but ultimately he was most concerned about the steady stream of leaks to reporters based on classified information. “In some of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield The federal government watchdog on ethics has explained in a letter, released on Tuesday, that Trump senior advisor KellyAnne Conway’s comments on Ivanka Trump’s clothing line were a “clear violation” of ethics rules. #BREAKING: U.S. Office of Government Ethics Calls on White House to Discipline #KellyanneConway pic.twitter.com/nixmDhMc6Q — House…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Ian Tartt Ross Perot, a wealthy Texas businessman, was an independent candidate for president in the 1992 election. He is often considered to have had a spoiler effect by taking support away from incumbent president George H.W. Bush and thus handing the victory to Bill Clinton. Is that…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read Russia’s secret deployment of a new cruise missile may constitute a violation of a crucial arms control agreement dating back to the Cold War, Trump administration officials told the New York Times Tuesday. The weapon in question is known as the SSC-8, an intermediate-range, ground-based cruise missile which…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman A dozen airport and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees were arrested in February for allegedly operating a massive cocaine smuggling ring. “During the course of the conspiracy, the defendants smuggled suitcases, each containing at least 8 to 15 kilograms of cocaine, through the TSA security system at the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kathryn Watson More than 99 percent of the thousands of IRS employees investigated for violating federal tax laws in the last five years avoided termination and continued enforcing other Americans’ tax collections, according to an analysis by The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group. The IRS fired only 74…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman A popular mobile dating app will start to ask political questions as part of its matchmaking criteria in March. OKCupid, a social networking website, is expected to rollout a new redesign in March that will include 50 potentially provocative questions, like how a user feels about Trump’s immigration ban….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read President Donald Trump’s national security adviser shocked the country Monday when he handed in his resignation after less than a month on the job. Flynn found himself at the center of controversy after he allegedly misled Vice President Mike Pence over whether he discussed U.S. sanctions against…