Andrew Trunsky South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill Monday requiring death row inmates to choose between the electric chair or a firing squad. Senate Bill 200 is part of a bid to resume executions in the state, according to the Associated Press, after a shortage of lethal injection drugs led to a 10-year pause. McMaster’s office…
Mary Margaret Olohan A new Tennessee bill would give fathers the ability to protect their unborn baby if the mother decided to obtain an abortion. Republican Tennessee Sen. Mark Pody and Republican Tennessee Rep. Jerry Sexton sponsored SB494/HB1079, legislation that would give the father veto power on an abortion through petitioning a court for an injunction….
Andrew Trunsky on November 12, 2020 Republicans won crucial elections where Donald Trump failed, sometimes outperforming the president by wide margins. Polls leading up to Nov. 3 consistently showed Trump losing to former Vice President Joe Biden, the ultimate victor. GOP candidates similarly faced tight races, according to polls, but unlike the president, defied expectations and…
Jason Hopkins Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was questioned about his past sympathetic comments about socialist, authoritarian regimes, such as in China and Cuba, during the South Carolina Democratic debate on Tuesday. Sanders, who is the frontrunner in the Democratic presidential contest, was asked by a debate moderator on Tuesday night about his history of “expressing…
At 6 a.m. Thursday morning suspects broke through a South Carolina mother’s home and she defended her family with the firearm she thought she’d never have to use. Thankfully only the burglar was harmed. From Fox Carolina: She looked out the window and didn’t…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Elias Atienza The police shooting of Julian Betton, a resident of Myrtle Beach, Florida, occurred last year when he allegedly tried selling $100 worth of pot to his friend who happened to be a police informer. In the incident police shot 57 bullets, 9 of which hit Benton. Radley Balko…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: BLM Leader Arrested For Trying To Steal Confederate Flag From Protester BY: AMBER RANDALL Police arrested a Charleston, South Carolina Black Lives Matter (BLM) leader after he tried to steal a Confederate flag at a protest Wednesday. Muhiyidin d’Baha, the leader, attempted to seize the flag from a demonstrator…
Lindsey Graham has experienced the full spectrum of Trump support. He has gone from emphatically opposing Trump, to tacit indifference, to full support, and is now rescinding that support. Graham seems to be having a moral conflict between what he perceives his duty to his party to be and opposing a man who espouses ignorant…
By Connor D. Wolf Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont admitted Thursday that raising the national minimum wage to $15 an hour could cause a rise in prices but added the benefits outweigh the risks. Sanders argued prices would only increase by a few cents. He made his claims while debating his main…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush awkwardly chest bumps his brother George W. in behind-the-scenes footage released by his campaign Tuesday. “Oh!” someone says in surprise as Jeb approaches his brother and goes in for the chest bump, to wide laughter. “Thanks,” Jeb says to Bush, apparently referring to his help campaigning for…