The Celebration of David Koch’s Death: The Vindictive Left
Bill Maher once famously chided people for expressing joy over the death of Osama Bin-Laden, upon the passing of David Koch, Maher celebrated his death.
Will Amash Court Donors for a Presidential Run at FreedomFest?
Is Justin Amash running for president? That’s the question Tina Nguyen tried to answer in an excellent column for Vanity Fair. While the piece offered plenty of hints, the ultimate answer was nothing new. We have no idea. But the piece from Nguyen does contain one particularly fascinating nugget. Amash, the newly-minted Independent congressman from…
Bernie Sanders on the Koch Brothers and Libertarian Ideas
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ian Tartt Bernie Sanders is a master of language. He’s able to word things in such a way as to make his ideas appear reasonable, practical, and appealing to his supporters. Effectively, he’s used left-wing populism to build up a large grassroots support movement, a movement that’s made…
The American Health Care Act is Dead; What That Means for GOP Libertarians
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck The American Health Care Act, which was touted by establishment Republicans as the perfect Obamacare replacement but the more liberty-minded GOP members in the House and Senate argued as being merely “Obamacare lite,” has been killed. This bodes much better for the libertarians in the GOP…
Here’s Why Charles Koch Doesn’t Care for the Word “Capitalism”
Koch Believes in a Better Way to Describe Free Enterprise By Brett Linley Charles Koch doesn’t like capitalism. More specifically, he doesn’t like how the word is used to describe the free-market. In an interview with The Washington Post, Koch was asked about how fewer and fewer millennials, even conservatives, were identifying as “capitalists.” Koch…
Dem Who Tried to Kill Uber Took Bundles of Money From Taxi Industry [VIDEO]
By Eric Lieberman Democratic Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto tried to kill Uber with one hand, while taking money from Taxi Services with the other, and a Koch-funded superPAC’s latest ad is slamming her for it. In a new scathing video, titled “Driving Away Jobs,” the Freedom Partners Action Fund accuses the former Nevada attorney general of…
Sorry, Salon: The Libertarian Movement Is Not Fringe
By Elias J. Atienza Oh, Salon. Where would we be without you? You offer something good with one hand and then offer something stupid with the other. With the 2016 general election approaching, your idiocy is growing. First, the libertarian movement is not fringe. It’s true we have some crazies, such as the prancing…
Union Pulls Support For Black Students Because Koch Brothers’ Donation
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is throwing a hissy fit after the United Negro College Fund accepted a grant from the Koch brothers. AFSCME President Lee Saunder said the union will be rescinding their $50,000 to $60,000 annual donations due to UNCF accepting a $25 million grant from Koch Industries Inc. and the Charles Koch Foundation….
The New York Times’ Koch-Nazi Connection Is Very Bad History
By Blake Neff The New York Times and a host of other publications are piling onto the Koch brothers, this time using a revelation that their father worked on a project in pre-war Nazi Germany. The effort, though, is more than a little misleading. “The father of the billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch helped…
5 Things You Need To Know About Scott Walker
By R. Brownell With GOP contenders coming out one by one to announce their official candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, one dark horse candidate has grown in popularity amongst conservative caucus groups around the nation, and could possibly be the candidate that could revive interest amongst GOP voters throughout the country to get out…