LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Michael Bastasch GOP Texas Rep. Lamar Smith is demanding the Energy Department (DOE) turn over documents related to the agency paying for a government engineer’s law degree that was completely unrelated to his job. Smith wants to make sure more DOE employees aren’t having taxpayers foot the bill for college…
Over the weekend, two members of the Florida Air National Guard, deployed to Orlando, chose not to postpone their wedding, but rather to move it from the beach to a warehouse. The couple, Senior Airmen Lauren Durham and Michael Davis, had intended on an idyllic beach wedding in their home state. Hurricane Irma had other…
Wants to remove “sidekick status” from Congress by Darrell England Rand Paul is once again trying to restore checks and balances in government, this time by wanting to sunset the 2001 and 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force. He states, “Congress has no greater responsibility than defending our country, and the Founders entrusted…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Eric Lieberman The Spanish government reportedly fined Facebook $1.4 million for collecting data on people’s religious beliefs and ideology. The Spanish Data Protection Agency (DPA) says Facebook has been violating the country’s privacy rules, which forbids the stockpiling of certain personal information without explicit consent, according to TechCrunch. The social media company…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Michael Bastasch Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida on Sunday morning after making its way across the Atlantic as one of the most powerful storms on record. Irma’s sheer size and power had many asking, what allowed it to get so strong? “The dynamical set up in the atmosphere was…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: The phrases “I’m offended” and “that’s offensive” are ones we hear fairly often today. Why? I’m not sure to be perfectly honest, and I’m probably ill-suited to answer the question, since there are very few things that offend me. One theory, posited by scholar Christina Hoff Sommers, suggests that in…
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: 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…