LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Phillip Stucky Officials allegedly affiliated with the United States Park Police removed tents, tables, chairs, and other gear affiliated with the occupation of Farragut Square early Saturday morning in Washington, D.C. The police action that protestors on the ground described as a “raid” began around 4:00 a.m. Saturday, and ended roughly an…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Steve Birr Officials in Connecticut are on the cusp of passing a massive tax on electronic cigarettes that risks bankrupting the state’s entire vaping industry. Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy is pushing the Connecticut legislature to pass a budget compromise by the end of month that includes a proposed 75 percent wholesale tax…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Should we, through government, encourage rebuilding major population centers in the most high risk areas of the country? Especially in areas that are prone to hurricanes, which are more predictable and frequent than earthquakes near fault lines, less random than tornadoes, and not minimized rather than maximized by development itself…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Grace Carr Membership in a group that advertises a lethal powder for people who join has doubled after the organization was featured on a TV show. The “Last Will” suicide advocacy group, based in the Netherlands, had 3,323 members before the show aired, but that number has jumped to 6,800,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Joshua Gill Humanitarian aid organization Samaritan’s Purse deployed its DC-8 cargo plane loaded with relief supplies to St. Maarten Friday to help it recover from Hurricane Irma’s devastation. The evangelical relief organization sent a 14-member Disaster Assistance Response Team to St. Maarten from Greensboro, N.C. along with 30 metric tons…
Chris White Energy Reporter 9/09/2017 A professor at Rice University appeared Friday to compare climate change skeptics who oppose politicizing Tropical Storm Harvey with the terrorists responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Daniel Cohan, an associate professor of environmental engineering, tweeted that Harvey should be used as a discussion point for climate change issues, because…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Gabrielle Okun A Pennsylvania man was sentenced Thursday after assuming the identity of a deceased infant who died back in 1972. Jon Vincent, 42, from Lansdale, was sentenced to more than two years in prison Thursday for stealing the identity of an infant from Texas, Nathan Laskowski, who died in…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Kevin Daley The official position of the U.S. government is that cake is a form of speech, according to a Thursday brief. The U.S. Department of Justice filed an amicus (or “friend-of-the-court”) brief Thursday in the marquee religious freedom case of the upcoming Supreme Court term. The case concerns a Christian baker…
By Kitty Testa Equifax, one of the country’s largest credit reporting agencies, which is in possession of millions of pieces of consumers’ personal data, announced Thursday that it suffered a cyber-attack in which information on 143 million consumers was breached. 143 million. That’s social security numbers, driver’s license numbers and dates of birth for almost…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: In the early days of the Republic, Vice President John Adams suggested the title of Highness, until he thought that expressed “insufficient dignity”, and changed his suggestion to “Majesty“. Thankfully, Madison convinced our first President to settle with the honorific “Mr. President“, showing respect yet avoiding the trappings of monarchy…