By Breanna Deutsch Wal-Mart has joined the growing number of large corporations declining to oppose raising the federal minimum wage. In the wake of increasing pressure from labor groups and Democrats, calling for substantial increases in hourly pay standards, Wal-Mart U.S. President Bill Simon has reiterated the company’s position on the current initiative to raise the federal…
“To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan,” – VA Motto By: The Council for Good Governance There has been a lot of talk in America over the past few years about health care, with many people arguing that we have a right to…
KILLEEN, TX – The police officer who was killed in a no-knock raid in Texas appears to have died in vain. Officers Chuck Dinwiddie and Odis Denton were shot by a resident on Friday after they broke into the home of a man to serve a warrant searching for drugs. The resident fired on the…
By Brendan Bordelon Glenn Greenwald, the journalist behind the many stories on National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance first unveiled by Edward Snowden, was interviewed this Friday for a segment to be aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” But strangely, host David Gregory did not conduct the interview — a fact that disappointed Greenwald and…
By Brendan Bordelon Photo: Reuters/Joshua Roberts Liberal commentator Bob Beckel — fresh off his admission that he once punched a woman — compared the women elected to the U.S. Senate unfavorably to your average female Fox host and claimed he “likes [Democratic Massachusetts Sen.] Elizabeth Warren, but could she sit here with you guys?” The “Outnumbered” panel — which…
SAN JOSE, CA – One unlucky burglar got his butt beat and a lesson in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu on Thursday when he broke into the wrong house. Kickboxing and MMA instructor Brian Khun came home with his five-year-old daughter behind him to pick up his uniform for work when he spied the burglar sitting down…
Photo: Paul Nicklen/National Geographic National Geographic is reporting on a remarkable find of the skull from a teenage girl in an underwater cave. The skull bolsters the theory that Native Americans arrived here as the result of crossing a land bridge from Asia. Scientists believe that the little girl fell down the hole thousands of…
Co-host of The View Whoopi Goldberg responded to her critics over the issue of whether a man can hit a woman in self defense. In a video she uploaded on Thursday, Goldberg explains her point of view on the controversy surrounding rapper Jay Z and his sister-in-law who attacked him in an elevator. Post by…
By Michael Bastasch A group of 15 scientists and meteorologists have put forward a scathing rebuttal to the Obama administration’s recent climate report which said the U.S. is already being harmed by global warming. Scientists skeptical that mankind is causing the Earth’s climate to change say that such claims are based on false theories and flawed models….
The Freedom Report podcast delves into the issue of a court in Ohio that demanded a man stop having kids because he isn’t paying child support. Asim Taylor owes $100,000 for his four children and an appeals court upheld the sentence which some are calling a violation of his right to happiness. TLR contributor Sarah…