Mary Rose Corkery on April 22, 2021 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi showed a photo of her father with former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt while explaining that supporting D.C. “statehood is in my DNA” on Thursday. “I said this District of Columbia statehood is in my DNA,” Pelosi said while bringing out the framed photo. The…
Do not forget what we were meant to be. We were meant to be the United States of America—a conglomeration of states, representing their people and interests. All too often we find ourselves in a situation where people do not even consider the states, and even see them as an obstacle to progress. “Progress” no…
You read that correctly – there is actually reason to bring up the Third Amendment of the United States Constitution in modern society, as Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington D.C. calls for the departure of all out-of-state National Guard troops in the nation’s capital. Across America, protests have erupted in the wake of George Floyd’s…
Chuck Ross on January 3, 2019 Just hours after being sworn into Congress on Thursday, Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib promised to go after President Donald Trump, telling a group of left-wing supporters she would help Democrats “impeach the motherf****r.” Tlaib, who was one of two Muslim women sworn into Congress, made the remarks at a…
Molly Prince on December 25, 2018 Democratic Rep. Bill Foster of Illinois introduced legislation that would prevent Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and other lawmakers from having access to the congressional fitness center during the government shutdown. “I introduced a bill to close the Congressional gym during a government shutdown,” Foster tweeted Sunday. “[Speaker…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit entered an injunction Tuesday against a Washington D.C. law limiting the right to carry firearms outside the home, concluding that it may violate the Second Amendment. The ruling is at odds with other federal courts that have generally limited the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jack Crowe A North Carolina man who fired an AR-15 in a Washington, D.C. pizzeria in December in an attempt to rescue children who he believed were being held captive in the eatery was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday. Edgar Maddison Welch drove to the Comet Ping Pong Restaurant from North Carolina…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck There has been an apparent spike in missing teens and children, all fitting a set description (young, female, black or latino), in the Washington D.C. area as of late, and the lack of law enforcement response to this crisis is causing locals to get up in…
Craig Boudreau California’s Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to know why more of his colleagues don’t support efforts to legalize marijuana. Newsom said that many of his colleagues say the so-called “war on drugs” as a failure, so he wonders openly why they don’t see the benefits of legalizing the drug, The Huffington Post reported Thursday. “What we’re doing to criminalize the…
By Steve Birr An officer with the Metro Transit Police is facing assault charges after he allegedly pulled his gun on a driver during a road rage incident. Steven Lee Smith, 39, a 15-year veteran of the Metro Transit Police, resigned Wednesday, forfeiting his pension, after identifying himself as “the police” and drawing his weapon…