LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman President Donald Trump has issued 12 executive orders in his first three weeks as president, immediately fulfilling a series of campaign promises made throughout the year and a half presidential campaign. Former President Barack Obama had issued 14 executive orders by the end of his third week, two more than Trump….
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 Rob Shimshock Geraldo Rivera of Fox News has resigned as an associate fellow from Yale following the university’s Saturday decision to rename Calhoun College over its slave connections. “Resigned yeterday as Associate Fellow of #CalhounCollege at #Yale,” tweeted Rivera Sunday, as reported by The Daily Mail. “Been an honor…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley Though law rarely makes for literature, the late Justice Antonin Scalia — dead one year ago today — made the peppery dissent a drama of its own right. Eliot Milco, writing at First Things, described Scalia as the “mighty rearguard in our long and slow defeat,” an apt…
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 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 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 Jacob Bojesson German tennis players are furious after the U.S. Tennis Association (USTA) played the Nazi-era version of Germany’s national anthem before a Fed Cup match Saturday in Hawaii. The famous first verse of Germany’s national anthem — “Deutschland, Deutschland, uber alles” — was cut after World War II…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, ranking Democrat on the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, told “Fox News Sunday” she believes the president’s Supreme Court nominee should get “a full and fair hearing” before her panel. President Donald Trump nominated Gorsuch to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia on…