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Neetu Chandak Hawaii state Rep. Bob McDermott weighed in on University of South Dakota officials who told law students it was not appropriate to have leis at a beach day event. The Student Bar Association of the USD School of Law originally named the social event “Hawaiian Day, according to the Sioux Fall Argus Leader. The…
Evie Fordham A 10-year study of more than 650,000 people was published Monday and showed no evidence that there is a link between autism and the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella. The paper was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine a day before Tuesday’s Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing on vaccines and preventable…
Henry Rodgers Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul said there will be 10 Republican Senators who vote against the resolution to terminate President Donald Trump’s national emergency for border wall funding Monday afternoon. Paul told a group of reporters on Capitol Hill that he thinks there will be 10 Senators who vote against Texas Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro’s resolution, which…
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) announced Saturday in a speech at Southern Kentucky Lincoln Day Dinner that he would vote in favor of a resolution blocking President Trump’s Emergency Declaration saying, “I can’t vote to give extra-Constitutional powers to the president.” In the speech given at an event mainly praising the actions of President Trump, Senator…
During an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday morning, Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) was asked to discuss the possibility of him running for president in 2020 as a Libertarian. “Well, I never rule anything out. That’s not on my radar right now,” said the congressman. He added, “I think that it is important that we…
The Washington Post has released an editor’s note correcting its spurious coverage of the incident between the elderly Native American Nathan Philips and the teenage students of Covington Catholic High School. Early reporting on the incident by the Post made it appear as if the MAGA hat wearing teens instigated and harassed Philips, mocking the…
The parents of Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old college student, who was imprisoned in North Korea, issued a strong statement on Friday in rebuttal to President Trump who said that Kim Jong Un was unaware of the treatment of their son while he was detained in a North Korean prison. “We have been respectful during this…
Thursday afternoon, Congressman Paul Gosar (R-AZ) spoke with The Libertarian Republic on the issue of marijuana legalization. He affirmed, “absolutely not,” when asked if he would support legalization. When asked if he believed “legislating morality” and “protecting Americans from their own choices” were roles for Congress to embrace, he remarked, “in some instances.” He would…
Following an interview with Sirius XM at CPAC 2019, The Libertarian Republic had the opportunity to briefly speak with Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway. When asked if Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) “could ever become president,” Conway told TLR, “The country will never be socialist, so, if she wants to become a capitalist…” Ocasio-Cortez is…
Whitney Tipton on February 28, 2019 Oklahoma residents will be able to carry a concealed firearm without obtaining a permit after Nov. 1, according to a new law signed Wednesday by Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt. His first legislation signed into law, Stitt discussed its importance in a ceremony held Wednesday after a Senate vote. “As I traveled…