LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman The American Health Care Act (AHCA), passed 217-213 by the Republican-controlled House, repeals a series of taxes that predominately affect middle-income Americans, according to Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a nonprofit taxpayer advocacy group. “It repeals a series of about six or seven taxes that directly hit…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman The U.S. economy added 211,000 new jobs in April, according to the jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday. The labor force participation rate remained at 62.9 percent during President Donald Trump’s third full month in office, its lowest since the late 1970s. The 211,000 jobs figure…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt defended his vision of globalization in a wide-ranging speech Thursday while also advocating President Donald Trump’s America first focus. “We [the U.S.] have the most to lose through protectionism,” Immelt said during a talk at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. “If leaders think…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen Newly confirmed agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue said labeling food as organic and free of genetically modified organisms (GMO) is mainly about marketing during a press conference at the Department of Agriculture Thursday. “I knew it was all about marketing when I went to the grocery store and there…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Former president Barack Obama is sad and frustrated over President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in the White House, according to a Thursday report from Politico. People who spoke with Obama told Politico the former president’s personal feelings about Trump range from stoicism, to fear, to frustration….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen House Republicans finally passed a bill to change portions of the health care system Thursday, after years of campaigning on a platform to repeal and replace Obamacare. Congress’ first attempt at passing the bill, known as the American Health Care Act (AHCA) of 2017, failed in late…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall An Australian company is turning leftover embryos from the in-vitro fertilization process into keepsake jewelry for the parents, according to Wednesday’s reports. Baby Bee Hummingbirds takes the extra embryos and fashions them into various pieces of jewelry, reports KidsSpot.com. “I don’t believe there is any other business in…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock Screenshots from BuzzFeed’s private chat site show the website’s staff members joking about a potential assassination of President Donald Trump. “Maybe someone will assassinate him,” quipped Maycie Thornton, BuzzFeed’s Director of Social Media, according to screenshots from the website’s Slack group obtained by Big League Politics. “Lol,”…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield One of the highest-profile members of Cuba’s ruling family said Wednesday that the country could be surprised by the person who succeeds her father as president, explained the AP. Mariela Castro is a gay-rights advocate, member of Cuba’s National Assembly and head of the country’s institute of sex education….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Elias J. Atienza Tax reform has been the rallying cry of the Republican base for decades. Ronald Reagan, George H.W Bush, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump all won their elections partly based on their promise to enact tax reform. Now the grand task of reforming 70,000 pages of tax…