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LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Last night the House of Representatives voted and approved of the RESPECT Act. Earlier this year Rep. Roskam (R-IL) and Rep. Crowley (D-NY) introduced a bill to end unconstitutional civil asset forfeiture; it was approved by the Ways and Means Committee in July. H.R.1843, or, the Restraining Excessive Seizure of Property…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: DACA has been dominating political news recently. Although there may be many angles and spins used by pundits, we should first familiarize ourselves with the basics. 1. Obama didn’t actually have the authority to unilaterally institute it in the first place. Well… maybe. On the one hand, this can be…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Written by Amber Randall Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel declared Chicago public schools as “Trump free zones” in an effort to reassure illegal immigrant students Tuesday morning. Emanuel told high school freshmen that they shouldn’t worry about anything in light of the Trump administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for…
by Michael Bastasch U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Kenneth Mapp signed an emergency order allowing the seizure of private guns, ammunition, explosives and property the National Guard may need to respond to Hurricane Irma. Mapp signed the order Monday in preparation for Hurricane Irma. The order allows the Adjutant General of the Virgin Islands to seize private…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Rob Shimshock Bisexuals are at least 400 percent more prevalent in Harvard University’s incoming class of freshmen than they are in the general population. While approximately 1.8 percent of the general United States population identifies as bisexual, 7.9 percent of Harvard’s Class of 2021 says they are bisexual. This sexual orientation disparity is…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Will Ricciardella Every morning, prominent news outlets like Axios, Politico, The Washington Post, and The New York Times email their newsletters to thousands of people across D.C. and beyond. And every weekend, The Daily Caller News Foundation searches for the most outrageous examples of bias in each one. From claiming…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Brett Chandrasekhar A petition on whitehouse.gov urging the president to formally recognize Antifa as a terrorist group surpassed 300,000 signatures Sunday. “Terrorism is defined as ‘the use of violence and intimidation in pursuit of political aims,” the petition states. Justifying the designation, it goes on: “AntiFa has earned this title…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: The Great Solar Eclipse of 2017 was met with a variety of responses by schools across the country. Some announced they would close for the day for fear that the children under their care would accidentally look at the sun and encounter eye damage. Others remained open out of fear…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Amber Randall The debate over affirmative action came back to the spotlight last month when news broke over a Department of Justice memo reportedly seeking to examine an affirmative action lawsuit. With the debate once again spurred over whether affirmative action is beneficial to college students, The Daily Caller News Foundation…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Steve Birr The drug epidemic in America is increasingly fueled by synthetic opioids like fentanyl, which overtook heroin as the deadliest substance in the U.S. in 2016. The National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, released the first preliminary federal report, giving an…