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?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…