LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: From Associated Press, KSDK: A Missouri lawmaker says in a Facebook post that he hopes whoever placed paint on a Confederate monument in Springfield is found and hanged. Osceola Republican Rep. Warren Love said in a Facebook post Wednesday that he hopes whoever vandalized the monument is “hung from a…
Amber Randall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZhaiA237e8 California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger compared the Nazis he encountered growing up in Austria to the white supremacists who participated in the Charlottesville riots in a video message Thursday. “Your heroes are losers,” Schwarzenegger said in the video. “You are supporting a lost cause. And believe me, I knew the original Nazis, because you…
Michael Bastasch The Interior Department won’t be removing monuments to Confederate soldiers at national battlefields that are “an important part of our country’s history,” according to a spokesman. “The National Park Service is committed to safeguarding these memorials while simultaneously educating visitors holistically and objectively about the actions, motivations and causes of the soldiers and…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation Wednesday that protects Confederate memorials from removal or modification. Specifically, the law bans the removal or modification of monuments that have been in place for more than 40 years, according to the Associated Press. Schools that have born an individual’s name…