Practically every child has turned up their nose and refused to eat a vegetable at some point in their life. For me, that detestable vegetable was a stuffed green pepper, and only my mother’s firm insistence that I couldn’t have dessert until I finished it made me soldier through and swallow. Last week, a leafy…
Thomas Phippen A new Senate report says the Medicaid program is riddled with fraud and the government isn’t doing enough to stop it The rate of fraud skyrocketed after Obamacare, with nearly half a million potentially ineligible persons getting benefits in California alone Some unions have taken to skimming dues of Medicaid payments The agency…
Ryan Pickrell The Obama administration secretly allowed Iran to access the U.S. financial system to convert assets to U.S. dollars, despite repeated assurances that it would not permit such transactions, a new Senate subcommittee report alleges. “The Obama administration misled the American people and Congress because they were desperate to get a deal with Iran,”…
Eric Lieberman The National Security Agency (NSA) tripled its collection of Americans’ phone call and text message records in 2017, according to U.S. intelligence agency report published Friday. The federal surveillance agency gathered 534 million records in 2017, a 151 million increase from 2016. The government “has not altered the manner in which it uses its authority…
Via Reason: “Siwatu-Salama Ra is a 26-year-old black mother who watched in horror as an angry assailant—a neighbor with whom Ra had a dispute—deliberately crashed her vehicle into Ra’s car while Ra’s two-year-old daughter was playing inside. Ra removed her unloaded, legally purchased handgun from the glove box and brandished it, scaring the neighbor off….
Follow on Facebook or Twitter A man from Washington State is being sent to prison for 41 months for involvement in a collision he was not at fault for. John Coleman posted the following status to his Facebook page under the name Mattathias Paul-Ben Israel. Since the original sentencing John Coleman legally changed his name…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Amber Randall California officials started the lengthy process of removing an enclave of homeless people from their Orange County encampment Monday. The two-mile long area, home to between 500 to 1,000 homeless Californians, will slowly be cleaned out as the local government prepares for a rehabilitation project for the Santa Ana river….
Last night, 19 Democrat Senators voted to give Trump vast surveillance powers, by voting to shut down debate on the FISA, the 4th Amendment, and due process. Surely, this can only be wise if they trust Trump not to abuse such powers. Senator Tom Carper lamented that “the President-elect still cannot guarantee that protecting the…
by Robert Donachie While Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona likened President Donald Trump’s language to former Russian dictator Joseph Stalin, the senator also voted to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Tuesday evening. “It is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to…
By: Steve Birr Another state is mulling a hike to the minimum tobacco purchasing age, relying primarily on the debunked claim that e-cigarettes are a “gateway” to smoking for teens. Officials are using alarmist tactics, pushing misinformation on the effects of vaping, in order to secure a tobacco purchasing age hike in Idaho, that will…