Happy Sunday, Liberty Lovers! Pick up line of the day: “Thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes.” Try it! It worked for Robert Greene in 1590. Nothing is quite as American as apple pie, right? In this video, Chef Steffi meets “I Love Lucy” in a 1950s housewife, apple pie baking extravaganza. Did Johnny…
President Donald Trump is trying to advance two conflicting narratives about the US economy. A pair of tweets the president recently sent out within an hour of each other demonstrates the bizarre balancing act he’s trying to maintain. The Fake News LameStream Media is doing everything possible the “create” a U.S. recession, even though the…
Minimum wage laws are suddenly vogue. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 18 states began 2019 with a new minimum wage. Three states have since passed legislation to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour, a wage floor the House of Representatives is seeking to make the law of the land. The…
Shelby Talcott President Donald Trump called Puerto Rico “one of the most corrupt places on earth” Wednesday, adding in the tweets that the island has a broken political system. Trump has called out Puerto Rico’s government corruption in the past and was reluctant to sign a $19.1 billion disaster relief bill for the island earlier in 2019…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez loves to hate on the Electoral College. Once again, she has the nation up in arms about America’s unique presidential election system. The Electoral College, the New York Democrat said on Instagram last week, is a “scam” that “effectively weighs white voters over voters of color.” Then on Friday afternoon, she doubled…
Mary Margaret Olohan A federal judge temporarily blocked the passage of a Missouri law Tuesday banning abortions after eight weeks. Judge Howard Sachs said in his 11-page opinion that the Missouri Stands for the Unborn Act, or H.B. 126, cannot be allowed to go into effect on Aug. 28, as was previously scheduled, according to CNN. “The…
Chuck Ross Former Republican Rep. Joe Walsh said that his nationally syndicated radio show was canceled Monday, just a day after announcing that he is challenging Donald Trump for president. “I just found out that I lost my national radio show. So that’s gone, but I figure that might happen, John,” Walsh told CNN’s John…
Mary Margaret Olohan An Oklahoma judge ruled Monday that Johnson & Johnson must pay $572 million to the state of Oklahoma for the company’s part in fueling the opioid crisis. District Judge Thad Balkman called the opioid crisis an “imminent danger and menace,” ruling against Johnson & Johnson in the first trial in the United…
Peter Hasson Republican lawyer George Conway is justifying support for long-shot presidential candidate Joe Walsh as a way to “trigger” President Donald Trump. Walsh, a former GOP Illinois congressman, has earned the support of anti-Trump Republicans like Conway and Bill Kristol, despite Walsh’s long history of race-baiting. Walsh for years accused former President Barack Obama of being a secret…
In my medical training, a fellow physician tried to convince me that my liberal leanings on health care were misguided. While I firmly believed that the government had an important role in providing access to medical care—particularly to the underserved—my colleague argued that the government’s role in, well, anything, should be practically nonexistent. I remained…