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LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie President Donald Trump insisted that tax reform is not an option until the White House and Congress can push through a plan to “repeal and replace” Obamacare. Obamacare reform has to come first because it has such drastic effects on the tax code, the president said at…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock A university has suspended a lecturer who was caught on tape assaulting conservative students. Eric Canin, a cultural anthropology lecturer at California State University, Fullerton has been suspended after calling CSUF College Republicans “uneducated,” pushing one of them and a student government member who attempted to intervene,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall A Texas girl in the middle of testosterone treatment won the state championship wrestling title in the girls division, after spending an entire season mopping the floor with the competition. Mack Beggs, 17-year-old student transitioning into a boy, ended the girls’ wrestling season undefeated, reports Yahoo News. Beggs…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rachel Stoltzfoos Republican Sen. Marco Rubio opted not to host a town hall when he returned to his Florida district last week, because he said paid activists would “heckle and scream” at him. “They are not town halls anymore,” Rubio told a local CBS outlet Sunday. “What these groups really…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Paul Meekin The police have always had a presence in my life that went beyond law enforcement. Our teen community center had a police officer on duty to field questions and supervise. Officers gave out free ice cream to kids who wore bike helmets. They demonstrated how bad ass their K-9 dog…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Fear and Loathing the New Federal Marijuana Policy By Sean McCaffrey When President Obama’s Justice Department signed a memo in 2013 that told U.S. Attorneys to relax their prosecution of recreational and medical marijuana crimes, two things happened. Conservatives, afraid of pot-smoking hippies and drug trafficking cartels taking to the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal this weekend, criticizing his former colleague Ruth Bader Ginsburg for inappropriate interventions in political questions. Ginsburg and Silberman served together on the D.C. Circuit, widely…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet is under increasingly intense pressure to back the nomination of fellow Coloradan Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. A slew of newspaper editorials, endorsements from prominent in-state legal groups, and a new ad-campaign have pinned the Colorado Democrat between Gorsuch-enthusiasts in the state’s…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett The father of a U.S. Navy Seal killed in the Yemen raid in late January refused to meet President Donald Trump during the transfer of his coffin to the U.S., the Miami Herald reports. Chief Special Warfare Operator William “Ryan” Owens’s coffin arrived at Dover Air Force base Feb…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez called President Donald Trump a liar and suggested he “rigged” the election during a Sunday appearance on “Meet The Press.” “How do you unite this party without making it an anti-Trump party as way to unite it?” Chuck Todd asked the new…