By Brian Nichols With eight days remaining until President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, things have gotten a tad hairy in the world of the media, press, and intelligence. On Tuesday, Buzzfeed News publish a controversial article, in which a dossier, supposedly compiled by a former British intelligence official, alleged that Russia has…
Jacob Bojesson The German Green Party wants to grant people with severe health issues taxpayer-funded access to prostitutes. Green Party Spokeswoman Elisabeth Scharfenberg imagines a system where doctors can issue prescriptions to sick people who can’t afford prostitutes on their own account. “Funding for sexual assistance is conceivable for me,” Scharfenberg told newspaper Welt am Sonntag….
by Micah J. Fleck TLR previously reported that Donald Trump might in fact switch to a fence rather than a wall after meeting with some lobby groups upon his election late last year. But apparently, he has decided to go through with building his “big wall” after all. But there is a bit of a…
by Micah J. Fleck The Young Turks is a well-known YouTube and Televised political news show with an historically liberal bent. And during Obama’s presidency, not much complaining came from their desks (aside from TYT show runner and creator Cenk Uyger at times) regarding how much executive power Obama was being allowed to obtain. This…
Blue Lives Matter, But Not More Than Everyone Else By 1776 The emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement has resulted in some uncomfortable discussions concerning the appropriate use of force within America’s law enforcement agencies. These discussions have often centered around the historical relationship between said agencies and the ethnic minority neighborhoods they’re charged…
By Kody Fairfield The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is reporting that their staff reporter, Dion Nissenbaum, was detained by Turkish authorities for 2 1/2 days this past week for allegedly violating a government ban on publication of images from an Islamic State video. Nissenbaum, who is a United States citizen and returned to the US on Saturday, was taken…
by Micah J. Fleck Yes, you read that right. Across 19 different states, mandatory minimum wage hikes are to be forced upon business owners, which may threaten the employment security of current workers. According to one report: It will be a happy New Year indeed for millions of the lowest-paid U.S. workers. Nineteen states, including…
by Micah J. Fleck In July of this past year, a Texas cop paralyzed a man by shooting him in the spine. According to the officer at the time, the victim was posing a “threat” despite the curious location at which he was shot. Now, in the wake of newly revealed dashcam footage from the…
by Micah J. Fleck Sarah Palin has a message for our new president-elect: leave the “shackles” of the United Nations behind, and never look back. According to The Daily Caller: Sarah Palin called on President-elect Donald Trump Thursday to send a message to the world by leaving the United Nations after the Israel settlement vote….
By Kathryn Watson U.S. taxpayers spent $95 million so 434 devices across the country could secretly transform their cell phones into real-time tracking devices, according to a new House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (HOGR) report. The Department of Justice (DOJ) spent more than $71 million on 310 cell-site simulators, also known as Stingrays,…