LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Benjamin Hitzig According to The Hill, Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, has been given her own office in the West Wing of the White House, but will not hold an official role. Politico reports that Ivanka explained that she would give her father “candid advice and counsel, as I have for my entire…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Brett Chandrasekhar In late February, after Donald Trump’s controversial remarks on Sweden, journalist Tim Pool visited the country to learn about its immigration issues. What he found, however, was something much more frightening. Pool traveled city to city to alleged hotspots of danger, such as Malmo and Rinkeby. Along…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Paul Meekin Did you know Rob Lowe and Colin Farrell have sex tapes? Did you know Martin Luther King Jr. had one recorded by the FBI? Possibly. But these names aren’t nearly as synonymous with scandal as the names Paris Hilton, Pamela Anderson, Kim Kardashian, Emma Watson, and countless other women…
by Josh Guckert It was discovered Monday that Fox News will keep Judge Andrew Napolitano off the air indefinitely following his accusations that the British foreign surveillance agency, the Government Communications Headquarters, “most likely” provided then-President Obama with transcripts of now-President Trump’s recorded calls. Napolitano wrote at the time that “By bypassing all American intelligence…
By Paul Meekin Politics and comedy: From The Smothers Brothers to Dr. Strangelove to George Carlin to Jon Stewart, the rich, powerful, and in charge have long been a target of jokes, satire, parody, and rage. Over the years political comedy has found itself a cozy little niche on stage and on television, particularly in…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman Uber President Jeff Jones is quitting after only six months at the ride-sharing company, attributing his resignation to inconsistent views with fellow leaders. The amount of scandals and embarrassments Uber has dealt with in recent months is also a major contributing factor to Jones’ departure, according to unnamed sources…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie Walt Disney Co. has agreed to pay $3.8 million in back wages, after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found the company in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Some 16,339 hotel and time-share management employees will receive a portion of the near $4 million pay…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman Liberal activists booed Michigan Republican Rep. Dave Trott Saturday morning after the two-term congressman vocally supported increasing funding for the United States military. Speaking to a packed ballroom inside a suburban Detroit convention center, Trott hosted his first town hall meeting since the 2016 elections, where he echoed President…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Publius Gentrification is one of the most high-profile issues in America’s cities. It sits at the intersection of economic theory, culture, class, and racial identity. It’s been protested, lampooned, and protested some more. Gentrification is also a historical irony; the opposite of the white flight of the mid-twentieth century. Formerly…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck We wish it weren’t true, but as a new report explains, it all started with a theft, and snowballed from there, ultimately resulting in a Minnesota judge legally circumventing probable cause restrictions: A Minnesota bank received a call in January from who they thought was Douglas, their customer,…