LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Steve Birr The drug epidemic in America is increasingly fueled by synthetic opioids like fentanyl, which overtook heroin as the deadliest substance in the U.S. in 2016. The National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, released the first preliminary federal report, giving an…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Tim Pearce The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) offered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is insolvent and on track for bankruptcy at $24.6 billion in debt to the U.S. Treasury, The Advocate reports. Insurance claims from the Category 4 hurricane that flooded the Gulf Coast of Texas last…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Juliegrace Brufke GOP Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska slammed President Donald Trump’s views on trade policy Saturday, following reports the administration is planning to withdraw the United States from its free trade agreement with South Korea. Sasse said he and the president have a “basic disagreement about trade,” arguing on Twitter…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Grace Carr A teacher was caught on video telling students to remove their pro-Trump shirts because they’re basically swastikas and Neo-nazi slogans, according to Turning Point USA Saturday. The video, exclusively obtained by TPUSA, shows a high school teacher at River Ridge High School in Woodstock, Ga., telling her students, “You cannot wear…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Ryan Pickrell Seismic activity in North Korea suggests the country just conducted its sixth nuclear test. A 6.3 magnitude earthquake, according to both the U.S. Geological Survey and the China Earthquake Administration, was detected in North Korea Sunday, just hours after the North revealed what it claimed is a thermonuclear device, specifically a hydrogen…
The Huffington Post has a curious relationship with integrity. Allegations of journalistic malpractice made against the Huffington Post are wide ranging, and include claims of biased journalism, revisionist historical reporting, and fake polling. A better way of describing Huff Post’s relationship with integrity might be to say that it is nonexistent. Perhaps the only truly…
The hysterical Americana-phobia demonstrated by many in the United States and around the world is reaching a fevered pitch. What began modestly enough in the summer of 2015 with a kind of bemused indifference, has finally mutated into psychopathic bloodlust. While the return of a classically American ethos helped thrust Donald Trump into the White…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Sir Roger Vernon Scruton, an English philosopher and writer who specializes in political philosophy and aesthetics, said social justice is changing the very nature of scholarship—and not for the better. “The academy has been invaded by a new form of study,” says Scruton, a senior research fellow at Oxford University,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Increasingly, it looks like the political fight isn’t between Republicans and Democrats, but rather the American people against the Deep State. More and more often we are seeing bureaucrats, lobbyists, and elected officials of both parties circle the wagons so to say in an effort to prevent any true reforms…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Will Racke The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday the contractors that will build prototypes for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall, jump-starting a process that has run into numerous delays over the last four months. Ron Vitiello, the acting deputy commissioner of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), said construction…