LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Aidan Mattis On Friday, GOP leadership pulled the American Health Care Act from a vote, realizing that they would not have the required votes to make sure it passed. Speaker Paul Ryan surely knew he could not count on support from the Democrats, what he didn’t prepare for was stalwart…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman An $11 minimum wage in St. Louis, Missouri may cost the city 1,000 jobs, mostly belonging to the area’s most vulnerable populations, according to a report from the Employment Policies Institute. Using Census Bureau data, Dr. David Macpherson of Trinity University and Dr. William Even of Miami…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Aidan Mattis I’ll come right out and say it – I’m biased. I have nothing but disdain for Planned Parenthood, those who run it, and those who founded it. The organization championed as the most available and affordable women’s health clinic in the country is nothing but a scam,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Paul Meekin According to a recent Reason.com article, Steve Bannon thinks libertarians are shallow and don’t live in the real world: “(With) Republicans, it’s all this theoretical Cato Institute, Austrian economics, limited government — which just doesn’t have any depth to it. They’re not living in the real world.”…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti Civilians casualties may be endemic to any U.S. effort to defeat the Islamic State, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles Dunlap warns. Dunlap’s warning comes after reports that a March 17 airstrike may have inadvertently killed nearly 200 civilians in Mosul, when supporting the Iraqi Security Forces…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock The father of the 18-year-old illegal immigrant accused of raping a 14-year-old has been arrested by ICE. ICE arrested Guatemalan Adolfo Sanchez-Reyes, 43, following the allegation that his son and 17-year old “freshman” Jose Montano raped a 14-year-old female student at Rockville High School, as reported by WTOP….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall A white man who expressed a desire to kill black people received terrorism charges for his murder of a black man, prosecutors announced Monday. Prosecutors charged James Harris Jackson, an Army veteran, with murder in the first and second degrees as an act of terrorism and as a hate…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has high hopes about future fights with Republican leadership, according to a Tuesday report from Politico. Republicans were unable to get a comprehensive health care bill passed last Friday, and Democrats think that means they can keep the pressure going by refusing…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall A 19-year-old man in Oklahoma gunned down three potential robbers Monday afternoon when they tried to break into his family’s home. Wagoner County sheriff’s deputies went to the house and found one person dead in the driveway and two other people dead in the kitchen, reports the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti U.S. Central Command will no longer give out the number of troops headed to Iraq or Syria in the fight against the Islamic State, the Pentagon declared Monday. Washington will instead provide rough unit sizes of troops headed to the region. “It’s about capabilities not numbers,” CENTCOM spokesman Army…