LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch Environmentalists have put out a new ad campaign attacking President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for “encouraging debate” among scientists about the “degree and extent” of global warming. “He believes debate should be encouraged about the truth of climate science,” says a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell Under President Barack Obama’s leadership, the U.S. shifted from a position of containment to appeasement on Cuba, offering concessions to a dictatorship for very little in return. In a sudden break with decades of diplomatic protocol, Obama, leaving the Department of State and some members of his…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ethan Barton Comptroller General Gene Dodaro warned that the federal government is on an “unsustainable fiscal path” as a result of decades of runaway spending far exceeding revenues, he reported Tuesday. Dodaro — whose job makes him head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Less than a week ago, the whistleblower organization Wikileaks tweeted that their founder, Julian Assange, would be willing to extradite himself to the United States if President Barack Obama agreed to give clemency to former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning (formerly Bradley Manning). If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield President Barack Obama, just days before concluding his 8 years in the White House, has announced that he will commute the federal sentence of whistleblower Chelsea Manning (formerly Bradley Manning). That would mean that Manning will now be released in May 2017 instead of at the end of her…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Guerrilla journalist James O’Keefe and his investigative organization Project Veritas have released the second part of a video series highlighting potentially illegal and violent protest tactics being developed by a group called DisruptJ20. The group is looking to cause problems for the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters traveling to the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall The mayor of New York plans to hold a rally outside Trump’s hotel Thursday in protest of the inauguration. Mayor Bill de Blasio intends to join up with fellow celebrities outside Trump International Hotel in Manhattan, reports the Huffington Post. “I’m rallying at Trump Int’l Hotel at…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr The D.C. Council’s Twitter account appears to be making light of the Holocaust and fascist regimes of the past, saying things “ended very poorly” the last time governments made trains run on time. I don’t know, @maustermuhle, but the last few times a government allowed cheering and…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read The Islamic State shooter responsible for a mass shooting at a Turkish nightclub kept a veritable terrorist treasure trove in his Istanbul apartment, including massive amounts of cash, guns and cell phone SIM cards. Abdulkadir Masharipov, who reportedly used the code name “Abu Muhammad al-Horasani,” was captured in an…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kitty Testa In what only can be described as a bizarre musing, actress Ashley Judd tweeted her wonderment as to why emojis are yellow. She further tweeted that yellow “is just a code for white.” In under 25 characters, Ms. Judd dismissed the entire Asian population of the world….