By Casey Harper During the Miss USA 2015 contest Sunday, Miss Texas and soon to be first runner up, Ylianna Guerra, dropped some honesty on the audience — and they loved it. Guerra made it to the question answering portion and judge and former Miss Universe Michelle McClean-Bailey posed this question: “Last year, CEOs in the United States…
Amazon Says ‘No Evidence’ Cruz Books Sold In Bulk Purchases By Rachel Stoltzfoos Amazon backed Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in his fight against The New York Times Monday, saying there is “no evidence” his book sales are driven by “strategic bulk purchases.” The Cruz campaign accused TheNYT Friday of lying when it said his new book, “A Time For…
Taxpayers Funded ‘Bizarre Quasi-Communist’ San Francisco Mime Troupe By Kathryn Watson Most American taxpayers probably don’t know their hard-earned dollars funded a politically charged mime troupe in San Francisco, but that happened. The troupe is just one of the many examples cited in Rep. Steve Russell’s second issue of Waste Watch, which the freshman Republican…
By Geoffrey Ingersoll A Texas-based fast food chain is going counter to Texas culture when it comes to gun rights. Whataburger, which has nearly 800 locations in 10 states, announced that Texas customers will be denied the right to open carry their weapons, even though the state’s governor signed a bill last month to allow open carry, the…
By Connor D. Wolf In a video released early Monday morning, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker officially announced that he will be running for president. “America needs new, fresh leadership with big, bold ideas from outside of Washington to actually get things done,” Walker said in the video. “In Wisconsin, we didn’t nibble around the edges.” Want TLR…
By Blake Neff “Let’s make the Confederate flag a hate crime: It is the American swastika and we should recoil from it in horror.” So opines Nick Bromell, a professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In the wake of a purge that has seen the Confederate battle flag vanish from stores and disappear from…
By Jonah Bennett The three women still remaining in Ranger School have finally passed the Darby Phase on the third attempt. After two tries, officials gave female students the chance to embark on a Day One Recycle if they wanted to continue the one-time, gender-integration experiment, Army Times reports. (RELATED: Females At Ranger School Get Third Try…
By Blake Neff Published: July 11, 2015 Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is poised to win a huge victory on education as the state legislature passed a budget that repeals state tenure guarantees while also slashing the budget of the University of Wisconsin. The victory was enunciated by the acquiescence of the university, which recognized its defeat by passing a…
By Casey Harper A Pennsylvania town is scandalized after reports that a couple, including at least one federal employee, was having sex on the roof of the courthouse. A concerned resident in a nearby building took pictures of a sexual escapade on the roof of the Harrisburg Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse, and now the U.S. Marshals…
By Blake Neff A weekly event in Boston intended to appeal to fans of painter Claude Monet has been canceled after protesters claimed it constituted “racist appropriation” of Japanese culture. The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston hosts “La Japonaise,” a work by famous French Impressionist Claude Monet which shows his wife Camille dressed up in elaborate kimono while…