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by Nick Givas Reporter for The Las Vegas Review-Journal, Wade Millward, said there are still lingering questions following the one year anniversary of the mass shooting at Mandalay Bay in Nevada. The shooting killed 58 people and left over 850 injured or wounded last October, but the shooter’s motives still remain unclear. (RELATED: Would Stricter Gun Control Have…
On the morning of September 11th, 2001, I woke up in our new home in Northern Virginia. We had just moved. The house was filled with unpacked boxes and taking care of them was my task for the 11th. This also meant that we were without radio, cable TV, and internet. I had taken the…
Hanna Bogorowski A lot of Americans lack knowledge about the Supreme Court, according to a C-SPAN and PSB poll released Tuesday. The survey targeted U.S. voters and asked their opinions on the Supreme Court as well as their knowledge of the court. Half of the respondents could not name any cases decided by the Supreme Court, and 65 percent…
Follow on Facebook or Twitter The Missouri GOP has taken a page from the losing Clinton Playbook from the 2016 Presidential Election, in a head scratching maneuver to prematurely anoint Josh Hawley for the United States Senate in the midst of a Primary. Incumbent Claire McCaskill is perceived to be the most vulnerable Democrat incumbent…
Chris White Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, now part of President Donald Trump’s legal team, said Sunday that the U.S. Constitution does not forbid the president from pardoning himself. “He’s not, but he probably does,” Giuliani told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in response to a question about Trump’s ability to pardon himself. “He has no intention…
Steve Birr Advocates of harm reduction technologies for smokers attempting to quit combustible cigarettes are criticizing the World Health Organization (WHO) for misleading users about safer alternatives. Vaping advocates argue the WHO is missing an opportunity on World No Smoking Day to raise awareness on the difference in risk between combustible tobacco and alternatives like vaping and…
Follow on Facebook and Twitter The Facebook pages for Tesla and SpaceX have been removed from Facebook. This isn’t a referendum on Elon Musk‘s space and automotive companies, but a referendum on Facebook. The removal came following following Twitter user Brian Action calling on people to delete Facebook. Elon Musk replied, asking what Facebook was…
Follow on Facebook or Twitter Last week Missouri U.S. Senate Candidate Austin Petersen received yet another 30 day Facebook ban for posting a link to Facebook for a gun giveaway on his campaign website. The first ban occurred in September of 2017, and Facebook afterwards conceded that Petersen’s post did not violate the terms and…
I really shouldn’t do this, because the gun debate changes about as many minds as the abortion debate at this point, with both sides choosing to ignore statistics that don’t confirm their previously held beliefs, substituting emotion for reason. It is, in general, a big ole’ waste of time. This is especially true of articles,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Nick Givas Another drug epidemic is set to hit the United States, but has been overshadowed by the opioid crisis. Anti-anxiety medications, or benzodiazepines, have been increasingly prescribed by physicians for decades and the damage is finally starting to show. “Opioids tend to grab the front page headlines, but all…