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Crony Capitalist of the Month: The Fanjul Sugar Barons

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Written By Kitty Testa Fall is in the air here in the Midwest, a favorite time for many. The leaves are turning yellow, orange and red. We’re into sweater-weather evenings with bonfires and s’mores, and the store shelves are being stocked with Halloween candy… What!?! $4 a pound for Snickers?…

One Of The Largest US Health Providers Is Ripe With Cronyism

One Of The Largest US Health Providers Is Ripe With Cronyism

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie Home health care provider LHC Group has stacked its compensation committee with former congressmen turned lobbyists, and an executive who formally served as direct counsel to one of the former congressmen, according to the company’s annual filings and lobbying data on Open Secrets. Corporations have compensation committees to set the salaries…

One Of The Largest US Health Providers Is Ripe With Cronyism
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One Of The Largest US Health Providers Is Ripe With Cronyism

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie Home health care provider LHC Group has stacked its compensation committee with former congressmen turned lobbyists, and an executive who formally served as direct counsel to one of the former congressmen, according to the company’s annual filings and lobbying data on Open Secrets. Corporations have compensation committees to set the salaries…

The Market at Work: CVS Selling Generic EpiPen at 1/6 The Cost
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The Market at Work: CVS Selling Generic EpiPen at 1/6 The Cost

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck Mylan’s notoriously rising prices for its EpiPen product as of late has angered economic illiterates who assume this is a result of evil capitalism. But now, CVS Pharmacy is proving said critics wrong by utilizing capitalism itself to provide competition to the EpiPen that does the…

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114,000 People Want To Stop Paying Obama While He Stumps For Hillary

by Thomas Phippen More than 114,000 people have signed a petition to withhold President Barack Obama’s pay while he campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The author of the petition, Rick Mitchelson, says he created the petition out of frustration that a sitting president is using taxpayer funds to push a liberal agenda. The fact…

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Hillary Clinton Wants to Draft Millennials for “National Service Reserve”

by Micah J. Fleck Say it isn’t so – a new draft of sorts has been proposed by 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, where a “national service system” will basically implement Peace Corps style activities here at home – involuntarily, of course. According to a new report: Hillary Clinton wants to enlist young Americans into…

SHOCKER: Governor of the Federal Reserve Donates to Hillary Clinton
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SHOCKER: Governor of the Federal Reserve Donates to Hillary Clinton

by Micah J. Fleck There is trouble in D.C. paradise now that it has been revealed that Federal Reserve governor Lael Brainard donated to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign – and other involved parties are also being questioned now that the floodgates have finally opened. According to the latest report: Revelations that [Brainard] donated to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has…

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Hillary Wants Johnson’s Supporters? She Should Change Her Policies

Rather Than Blaming Herself, Hillary Clinton Blames Voters For Not Voting For Her By Brett Chandrasekhar The Clinton campaign recently shifted strategy to going after third party voters, and they’re pulling out all the stops. For one, the campaign has been in talks with Al Gore, the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in the year 2000. Many contribute his loss…

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Facing Heat, Florida Attorney General Bondi Cracks Down On Little Guys

by Kody Fairfield As has been previously reported by The Libertarian Republic, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has been making waves in the national media, for some not so satisfactory relationships with the likes of high powered law firms [Dickstein-Shapiro] and even with presidential candidate Donald Trump. With the story of the Attorney General of New York Eric Schneiderman inquiring into…

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Journalist Calls Out Donald Trump on Potential Mob Ties in Resurfaced Report

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, David Cay Johnston, has been covering 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump for “decades,” according to a recently resurfaced report, and now has enough evidence to pose a question to the billionaire mogul-turned-politician: How close is he to the Mob? The Federalist reported last year: Trump was building his eponymous empire of…