(Editors Note: Todd Seavey and I met while both producers for Judge Andrew Napolitano’s FreedomWatch on the Fox Business Network in New York. While working together we held many ideological debates, many of them centering on foreign policy. One afternoon Todd related to me that he had some things in common with neoconservatives (he might…
Maryland so left-wing that “there is no recourse, there is no hope” for conservative counties. Follow TLR on Google+ Under Governor Martin O’Malley, Maryland is quickly becoming one of the most progressive U.S states. Maryland’s gun regulations rank among the strictest in the nation. Weeks after O’Malley signed them into law last May, Baltimore was…
Liberty & Security In The Age of Terrorism After the events of 9/11, Texas Congressman Ron Paul proposed legislation (H.R. 3216) from the floor of the House of Representative calling for the assassination of Osama Bin Laden and his cohorts using constitutional letters of marque and reprisal. He was ignored, and instead the congress decided to…
“Farm bill” actually finances food stamps and insurance companies while taxing Christmas trees President Obama signed the so-called Farm Bill on Friday in front of a John Deere tractor, but the legislation had little to do with agriculture. Nearly eighty percent of its funding will go to food stamps. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or…
Hollywood Liberals Unwittingly Make The Case For Citizens United by Luke Wachob A pair of recently announced projects from prominent Hollywood democrats further complicates the Left’s strained relationship with Citizens United, the 2010 Supreme Court decision that reaffirmed the right of corporations and unions to spend money engaging in political speech. Despite initially denouncing the…
It’s Time to End the Nonsense About Keystone XL For nearly five years the Keystone XL pipeline has sat in political limbo, awaiting approval from the Obama administration. The proposed oil pipeline from Canada requires blessings from the West Wing because, once completed, it will obviously cross the U.S./Canada border. Follow TLR on Google+ In…
“I can’t imagine this is how President Obama wanted it to happen.” California cancer patients are being systemically turned away at the offices of their regular oncologists. The Los Angeles Times reports that sanctioned insurance providers are failing to cover the oncologists and other doctors to whom they refer patients. “I’m a complete fan of…
As big government feminism is questioned, feminists plan overhaul of Wikipedia By Ian Huyett Last year, while working as an editor at my college newspaper, I learned that a Women’s Studies professor had offered her students extra credit if they submitted letters to the editor attacking a particular female columnist. That columnist, Laura Meyers, had…
Cruz says that drug laws should only be changed by Congress Republican Senator Ted Cruz has expressed an encouraging array of libertarian positions. Cruz played a prominent role in Rand Paul’s March 2013 filibuster and later said the U.S. should not serve as “Al Qaeda’s air force” by intervening in Syria. On NSA surveillance, Cruz…
The Seattle Seahawks coasted to an easy victory over the Denver Broncos yesterday in a Super Bowl that was mostly uninteresting due to it being an absolute blowout. The most interesting part of the game actually came after when a 9/11 truther hijacked a microphone from MVP Malcolm Smith and said “Investigate 9/11, and 9/11 was…