LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr Officials in Illinois will attempt a Philadelphia-style soda tax implemented on retailers statewide, which critics argue will only lead to higher prices and angry shoppers. The proposed legislation will place a large beverage tax on sugary products in the name of improving public health and curbing obesity. The…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti President Barack Obama pledged throughout the 2008 campaign to end the “bad war” in Iraq and win “the good war” in Afghanistan. Now, days away from the end of his tenure, it’s clear all he’s done is make both worse. Obama’s vacillating strategy — withdraw from then politically ignore…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield NBC is reporting that he motorcade carrying Vice President-elect Mike Pence struck and injured a DC reserve police officer Wednesday afternoon, according to the U.S. Secret Service. The injured officer was conducting traffic control near the intersection of 6th and F streets NW about 1:45 p.m. when a vehicle in the motorcade struck…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Last November, Matthew “Bo” Williams was elected Roane County Sheriff; a tenure that would not last very long, as controversy surrounding the accusation that he stole methamphetamine from a police evidence locker has forced him to resign. According to WSAZ3, Williams now faces up to 10 years in prison. The charges…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield On Tuesday, Fox News television host Tucker Carlson held what had to be one of the most odd and confusingly entertaining interviews of any ever done. The interview, supposedly around an organization called Demand Protest and their march to Washington D.C. to protest the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, quickly turned contentious…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky A Democratic lawmaker plans to initiate impeachment proceedings against President-elect Donald Trump as soon as possible, according to a Wednesday interview with The Young Turks. Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin won election in Maryland’s 8th Congressional District for the first time in 2016, and it appears the former…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders railed against former Texas Gov. Rick Perry because of past remarks in 2011 claiming global warming science had been politicized. “The scientists that I hear from believe that climate change is the great planetary environmental crisis that we face and that we need…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen President-elect Donald Trump has an ambitious goal of cutting $10.5 billion from the federal budget over the next decade by reducing wasteful spending and eliminating whole government agencies. Trump transition staffers are already meeting with the permanent White House budget staff to start working on the proposal,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eli Bowman Austin Petersen has not officially announced that he’s running for US Senate out of Missouri, but he has certainly indicated his interest in doing so and appears to be mobilizing resources in a discovery effort to see whether or not a Senate run would make sense. Petersen…
By Kitty Testa What is Davos? Fifty weeks out of the year Davos is a ski resort town in Switzerland with a population of just over 11,000, but for several days every year it is the center of economic globalism when it hosts the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting. When you see a…