LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck This is astounding news. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the oil man from ExxonMobile that Trump hired to be part of his climate change “skeptic” cabinet, now acknowledges climate change is real and is causing damage to the Arctic. According to The Hill: Secretary of State…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield The former Chief Official White House Photographer from the Obama administration has taken up a new hobby, and a new way to cast shade on the Trump administration, without ever saying the new President’s name. Pete Souza, for the past few months, has utilized social media, specifically…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie President Donald Trump’s administration announced Thursday it’s floating the idea of a 20 percent tax on imports from Mexico in order to pay for the promised wall along the southern border of the U.S. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer first revealed the plan to reporters aboard Air Force…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch Department of Energy employees have been scrubbing any reference to “climate change” from internal documents to keep the Trump administration from putting projects on the chopping block. One DOE employee told the podcast “This American Life” she and others have been “going through all their internal documents…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST By Andrew Follett Only days before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in, outgoing Obama administration Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz announced a new “scientific integrity” policy intended to “protect” workers from the incoming president. The Department of Energy’s (DOE) new policy aims to enhance whistleblower protection laws and even create a…
by Daniel Stephens A recent report from the Government Accountability Office uncovered that the ATF (Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms) has not been abiding by the law when it comes to handling data related to gun ownership in the US. Prominent libertarian and Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano was on Fox and…
By Russ Read The White House aide responsible for fabricating the narrative on the Iran deal also had a hand in spinning the events following the attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, an email reveals. Deputy National Security Adviser for Communication Ben Rhodes appears to have outlined the administration’s strategy to handling the attacks…
Kathryn Watson President Barack Obama’s top transparency official in the “most transparent administration in history” is leaving after only nine months on the job. Office of Government Information Services Director James Holzer, appointed to the post in August 2015, is stepping down to go back to his old job with the Department of Homeland Security…
Blake Neff The University at Albany (SUNY-Albany) has expelled two black students and suspended a third after they were hit with charges related to a fake hate crime they reported earlier this year. Ariel Agudio, Asha Burwell and Alexis Briggs grabbed national headlines in January after they claimed they were assaulted by a mob of white…
By Michael Bastasch Republican lawmakers and ranchers relying on access to federal lands are gearing up to push back against the Obama administration’s use of a century-old law to lock up millions of acres of public lands from development. The White House has used the Antiquities Act of 1906 designate more than 260 million acres of federally-controlled lands…