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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 Kody Fairfield Right now, in the state of California, a bill is circling the halls of Sacramento which aims to turn the entire state into a border to border sanctuary for illegal immigrants. One Republican State Senator however, is vociferously speaking out against it, saying that the bill “shields…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Chris White Nearly 20 the largest U.S. auto-companies want President Donald Trump to ax a series of fuel efficiency mandates passed by the Obama administration. Chief executives at General Motors, Ford Motor, Fiat, along with the top North American executives at Toyota Motor, Volkswagen, Honda Motor, Hyundai, Nissan, and…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch President Donald Trump has embarked on the largest regulatory rollback effort since the Reagan-era, delaying or withdrawing hundreds of rules and working with Congress to repeal dozens more. The Trump administration withdrew 24 economically significant rules –those costing more than $100 million — in his first week,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall Newly signed presidential executive orders on law enforcement don’t offer the best means to protect public safety, a group of police chiefs said. The Trump administration released three executive orders Thursday, Feb. 9, aimed at protecting law enforcement officers, as well as cracking down on crime. One…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett A former Department of State official confessed Monday that the reason no one in the Obama administration referred to certain acts of terror as “radical Islam” is because they were scared of alienating Muslim allies. In an op-ed written for The New York Times, Richard Stengel, who…
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 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 Sarah Hurtubise An Oregon insurer got a leg up in a court ruling in an ongoing battle over whether the federal government owes billions to insurers who volunteered to participate in Obamacare exchanges and lost money. A U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled Thursday evening that the federal government…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley Conservatives reached for the easy cudgel when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an order temporarily barring enforcement of key provisions in President Donald Trump’s executive order on refugees — the “nutty 9th,” critics say, is the “most overturned court in the country.” The argument stems…