LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kathryn Watson More than 99 percent of the thousands of IRS employees investigated for violating federal tax laws in the last five years avoided termination and continued enforcing other Americans’ tax collections, according to an analysis by The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group. The IRS fired only 74…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Juliegrace Brufke House Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady said he would like to see IRS Commissioner John Koskinen removed from his post Monday. Koskinen has long been taking heat from Republicans, who have slammed the commissioner for allegedly defying congressional subpoenas and preservation orders by allowing the IRS…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By 1776 When people ask me if I vote, I explain to them that voting is basically pointless, so why waste my time? The political system, while giving the appearance of democratic participation, is really an oligarchic regime masquerading as a representative of the people. Upon hearing my explanation, people…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Political action committees that fundraised for President Barack Obama during the 2012 presidential election, bused protesters to Republican town hall events nationwide earlier in February, according to a Sunday report from The Washington Post. Democrats nationwide continue to search for ways to oppose President Donald Trump after…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie Home health care provider LHC Group has stacked its compensation committee with former congressmen turned lobbyists, and an executive who formally served as direct counsel to one of the former congressmen, according to the company’s annual filings and lobbying data on Open Secrets. Corporations have compensation committees to set the salaries…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck It seems that President Trump is already done with this whole being president thing. Things aren’t as easy as he thought they would be, and his power is getting checked by various courts and members of congress. And according to some reports, that has led to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Brian Nichols The 2016 election and the aftermath of said election has honestly felt like that of a script pulled right from the world of Star Wars. With the rise of President Trump (“So this is how liberty dies… with thunderous applause”) to, (*SPOILER ALERT*), Anakin Skywalker turning to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Richard Pollock Laureate Education, Inc., which has close ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton, tanked on its first day in the stock market. The for-profit firm’s Initial Public Offering (IPO) of stock to potential investors was put on the market on Wednesday by KKR and other leveraged buyout owners…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen A former FBI employee pleaded guilty to a four-year scheme where he stole nearly $21,000 of government funds by fabricating and paying fake automotive maintenance invoices, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday. Timothy Johnson, who formerly managed the FBI’s fleet of cars in Washington, D.C., admitted to paying…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kathryn Watson California elected officials are leading a courtroom charge to bulldoze the 1958 NAACP v. Alabama Supreme Court decision that guarantees anonymity for non-profit donors who might otherwise be subjected to death threats and other forms of intimidation. The California attorney general’s (CAG) requirement that nonprofit groups disclose donor identities…