LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley President Donald Trump told Sean Hannity on Fox News Channel that he is prepared to ask Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to move for cloture, or the 60-vote threshold required to confirm a Supreme Court nominee. The 60-vote requirement for nominees to the federal bench was eliminated…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kathryn Watson James McCaffery lied about earning two Purple Heart medals for decades to rise through the federal ranks ranks and hop from federal agency to federal agency, somehow eluding termination each time. A new Department of the Interior (DOI) Office of Inspector General (IG) report lays out the jaw-dropping…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield UPDATE: White House Already Walking Back Import Tax to Fund Wall White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has told the press pool that the border wall to separate the United States from Mexico will be funded by utilizing a 20% import tax on Mexican goods. “When you look at the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Luke Rosiak Immediately after it accepted without question a black employee’s claim that hearing a single racist movie reference entitled her to $900,000 in damages, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) refused to pay a white employee who was left bankrupt and in a wheelchair after her own mistreatment…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen Pharmaceutical researchers have discovered a drug that could halt and even reverse the loss of brain function from diseases like Alzheimer’s and ALS, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine. A new drug compound stops and even reverses the buildup of something called tau protein, which…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti The Trump administration accepted a large swath of senior State Department officials resignations Wednesday, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Thursday. Toner’s statement came in response to a Washington Post story which posited that senior State Department officials resigned en-masse. The story was followed hours later by a CNN report that…
Nigel Farage, a British politician, proposed a solution that’ll fund President Donald Trump’s “impassable physical barrier” on the US/Mexico border.
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall Kellyanne Conway gave a firm “no” when asked if she could have saved Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential campaign. Conway, a counselor to the president, responded to whether Clinton would have won if she had been Clinton’s campaign manger in an interview with The Washington Post….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield It looks like Rex Tillerson’s job at the State Department, should he be confirmed, may have just become a bit more difficult. The Washington Post (WaPo) is reporting that The entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior foreign service officers who don’t…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jacob Bojesson Josef Joffe, the editor-publisher of German weekly Die Zeit, suggests the easiest way to end the “Trump catastrophe” is to murder the president in the White House. Joffe joined panel show “ARD-Presseclub” to answer questions from the public. A viewer called in to ask if it was…