LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) wants President Donald Trump to keep his word in uniting the country by working to confirm both Neil Gorsuch and Merrick Garland at the same time, reports Politico. “You had President Trump saying, ‘I want to unite the country, I’m a deal-maker, I’m going to bring people together,’” Udall told…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman Congregants of a North Carolina church were systematically punched, choked, throttled, and slammed through walls, all in the name of religion, according to 43 former members who spoke to the Associated Press. Leaders at the Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale, N.C., would allegedly shake and smack toddlers and crying babies in order…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jacob Bojesson A Russian intelligence official will reportedly face indictment for plotting a coup to stop Montenegro from joining NATO by assassinating its prime minister. Eduard Sismakov, an officer with the GRU military service, allegedly ran a network of Serbian and Russian nationalists and paramilitaries who tried to disrupt the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield During a rare interview on NBC’s “Today Show,” former President George W. Bush called the media “indispensable to democracy,” and that “we need an independent media to hold people like me to account.” Bush, speaking to NBC’s Matt Lauer, explained that “power can be ” very addictive and it can…
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 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: 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…