LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Washington Post reporter James Hohmann slammed Ivanka Trump’s new book due to her “life of privilege” Monday, but privilege didn’t come up when the paper featured Chelsea Clinton’s book in February. The president’s daughter isn’t able to effectively talk about women in the workplace, Hohmann writes in WaPo’s Daily…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rachel Stoltzfoos The Washington Post quietly rewrote a story about a Congressman using the Bible to bash poor people Friday, after a writer at the Federalist published a systematic breakdown of the piece that exposed major holes and mistakes in the story. Caitlin Dewey’s initial write-up in the paper (which recently adopted the slogan…
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: By Phillip Stucky An overwhelming majority of Baltimore residents report their government is corrupt, according to a Washington Post poll published Friday. Fifty-nine percent of the residents of Baltimore, Maryland, say they feel their local government officials are corrupt. Twenty-four percent of respondents report they feel that all of the government in…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos Liberal journalist Glenn Greenwald brutally criticized The Washington Post’s coverage of Russian meddling Tuesday, declaring the mainstream outlet’s reporting on the subject a “much greater menace” than fake news. “Both stories were fundamentally false,” Greenwald wrote in The Intercept, referring to two recent stories from WaPo regarding the threat Russia poses to…
by Chris White The Washington Post blamed the Electoral College for making so-called man-made global warming nearly impossible to “thwart.” The last two U.S. presidents who lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College have actively worked against efforts to end global warming, Todd Cort, the co-director of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment,…
by Kody Fairfield During his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly talked with a more dovish tone about the United States’ seemingly constant involvement in world affairs, and more specifically intervention in foreign nation’s governments, such as in Iraq in 2004 or Libya in 2011. This is a stance which has been one of his strongest…
By Kody Fairfield According to emails obtained by Politico, and one day after vulgar audio from 2005, of Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, was released by The Washington Post, the Republican National Committee (RNC) appears to have temporarily stopped the “Victory” program to help their candidate get elected. In the email’s subject line, the RNC has asked their…
by Kody Fairfield Republican Candidate for President, Donald Trump, has had a documented and very colorful relationship with women, both privately but publicly. Now, The Washington Post (WaPo) has obtained a video and audio recording from 2005 of Trump, and then host of Access Hollywood Billy Bush unknowingly discussing women on a hot microphone. The conversation between the two took…
By Kody Fairfield The New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office notified the Donald J. Trump Foundation that they were violating state law and that they must stop fundraising immediately. As previously reported by The Libertarian Republic, the Trump foundation never filed proper paperwork to appropriately abide by New York State law to solicit donations from outside entities, over…