The Topeka, KS Police Department has found themselves embroiled in a Twitter backlash following a distasteful Father’s Day tweet. The police department has since deleted the tweet, shown below in a screenshot. People were upset by the tweet due to the “Deadbeat Dad” theme it espoused. They seemingly perpetuated the largely false stereotype…
Chuck Ross on January 12, 2019 A massive winter storm, stretching from the Great Plains to the East Coast, is dumping snow and causing hundreds of traffic accidents as thousands shelter under winter storm warnings. Winter Storm Gia hit Missouri hard Friday evening, stranding motorists overnight and causing five deaths from traffic accidents in the icy conditions. Roughly 500 traffic…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Joshua Gill California is restricting state government funded travel to four more states after each of them passed laws deemed harmful to the LGBT community. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the addition of Alabama, Kentucky, South Dakota, and Texas to a travel ban list Thursday at a press…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Grant M. Deltz State funded travel was banned from California to Texas, Alabama, Kentucky and South Dakota this week by California’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra. This ban is in response to what he interprets as anti-LGBT rights laws which have been enacted this year. The list already included North…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Democrat Rob Quist lost the Montana special election Thursday, but that didn’t stop Democrats nationwide from saying that the loss was actually a win. Vox Editor Matt Yglesias published an article Friday morning asserting that because Republican Greg Gianforte didn’t win by a large enough margin, the election was…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky The Kansas Secretary of State officially charged a “non-citizen” for voting illegally, according to a Thursday report from Talking Points Memo. Republican Kris Koback announced Wednesday he charged Victor David Garcia Bebek of Peru with three misdemeanor counts of voting unlawfully from 2012 through 2014. Bebek pleaded…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: The Freedom Report ________________________________________________________________________________ SARAH HURTUBISE 8:46 AM 02/23/2017 The Kansas House of Representatives took a surprise step to expand Medicaid, despite the federal government’s ongoing negotiations over repealing Obamacare and, to some degree, its enlargement of the Medicaid program. A separate bill to expand Medicaid was declared “dead” on…
By Casey Harper A Wichita, Kan., police officer couldn’t help but drop some sick dance moves with Black Lives Matter activists, and now video of the performance has gone viral. Officer Aaron Moses attended a community cookout and began dancing with Black Lives Matter activists Sunday, KSN reports. Video of the cookout shows Moses doing the “Cha…
By Casey Harper A Kansas police captain has been fatally shot in a string of attacks on police officers. Kansas City Police Capt. Robert David Melton was fatally shot Tuesday, The Kansas City Star reports. There have been recent fatal cop shootings in Dallas and Baton Rouge. Melton was a veteran who went to Afghanistan. He…
Toni Ann Booras The American Civil Liberties Union took legal action Thursday to block a Kansas voter ID law ahead of the 2016 presidential election. The ACLU wants a federal judge to suspend the state’s voter ID requirement until the lawsuit it filed over the law in February goes through trial, set to begin in 2017, reported Reuters. The…