Tuesday morning, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announced that he is running for president. Sanders would be considered the frontrunner for the Democratic Party’s nomination after raising $6 million in the first 24 hours of fundraising after announcing his candidacy. The 2016 Democratic runner-up is generating a lot of buzz from pundits and social media, but…
The Vermont senator officially announced his second presidential campaign Tuesday morning during a public radio show in his home state. Sanders was the 2016 runner-up to Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. “We began the political revolution in the 2016 campaign, and now it’s time to move that revolution forward,” Sanders remarked…
Emily Larsen on February 15, 2019 The conservative student organization Turning Point USA posted a meme that claimed that the wealth of all the billionaires in the U.S. could fund the federal government for less than eight months. “If we confiscated 100% of the wealth of every billionaire in America, we’d have enough money to run…
On Friday President Trump announced that he will be declaring an emergency on the border, even with the recently passed spending bill which allocates $1.4 billion for border security. From the White House Rose Garden, Trump remarked, “I’m going to be signing a national emergency, and it’s been signed many times before, by many presidents….
The former governor of Massachusetts, who ran on the Libertarian Party ticket in 2016, has launched an exploratory committee to enter the 2020 race as the first Republican to challenge President Trump. William Weld, 73, is looking to challenge the president with a message of being socially liberal and fiscally conservative. While in New Hampshire…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that President Donald Trump will be signing the funding bill to keep the government open, but plans to declare a national emergency at the border to fund construction his long-promised wall. The Senate is expected to vote on the funding bill soon, as Friday is the deadline to…
It seems like it is impossible to log on to social media nowadays and not see people arguing over whether or not vaccines should be mandatory. Memes poking fun at anti-vaccine parents and children have flooded the internet, and the conversation on this topic has filled the web’s comment sections. So, what is the libertarian view…
Yesterday The Libertarian Republic reported that Kamala Harris, California senator and candidate for president of the United States, announced on a radio show that she smoked marijuana in college while listening to Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur. There’s just one problem with that. Harris graduated from Howard in 1986, and from the University of California’s…
Congressional negotiators announced Monday that there is an “agreement in principle” to fund the U.S. government through the fall, and to avoid another partial shutdown of the government due to start Friday. Progress has reportedly been made on disputes over immigration laws. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) remarked Monday, “We’re working in good faith. I believe…
A report from NBC News Monday night revealed that new U.S. intelligence warns that Russia and China are both investing into weapons for use in space. The purpose would be to attack U.S. satellites and assets in space, making the Final Frontier humanity’s newest battleground. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) released a report last month…