Don’t Forget The “Protect” Part of “Serve & Protect” Officers Kristin Tate over at Ben Swann is reporting on a story from Rotterdam, New York where police officers were caught on camera breaking a disabled teen’s arm while placing him under arrest. Follow TLR on Google+ Police had responded to a call by Mohonasen transportation…
What is the deal with diversity? Famed comedian Jerry Seinfeld sat down for an interview with Buzzfeed to talk about comedy and was asked a question about whether diversity in comedy. The host of the interview pointed out that much of the audience was white males, causing Seinfeld to bristle and look around saying, “Take…
Cruz says that drug laws should only be changed by Congress Republican Senator Ted Cruz has expressed an encouraging array of libertarian positions. Cruz played a prominent role in Rand Paul’s March 2013 filibuster and later said the U.S. should not serve as “Al Qaeda’s air force” by intervening in Syria. On NSA surveillance, Cruz…
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD – A one-year “veteran” of the Anne Arundel County police approached a house this weekend and was greeted by a neighbor’s Chesapeake Bay Retriever named Vern. The officer shot the dog twice. Follow TLR on Google+ According to the dog’s family, the officer was on his way to interview one…
Army of Palpable Bitchery Worse Than Annie Wilkes Descends On King Poor Stephen King used the wrong words when he criticized the unconfirmed allegations of sexual assault by filmmaker Woody Allen. King tweeted about the allegations against Allen saying: “Boy, I’m stumped on that one. I don’t like to think it’s true, and there’s an…
Did you hear about the government snow? Last week citizens across the South were freaking out because they thought that the snow wasn’t melting when they held their lighters up next to it. People were quick to claim that the government was creating chemical snow to distract us from tyranny. One commenter wrote: Some skeptics tie…
A Cautionary Tale FORT MYERS, FL – Two good Samaritans were trying to do a kid a favor when they suddenly found themselves the victims of an attempted armed robbery. But these two weren’t just about to turn the other cheek. They decided to get all biblical on his sorry a**. Follow TLR on Google+…
Conservative ire over Coke’s Super Bowl ad conflicts with their supposed love of freedom Keith Farrell A Super Bowl advertisement for Coca-Cola which depicted groups of Americans from varying cultures singing ‘America the Beautiful’ in their native languages has come under fire by conservatives. Conservatives took to social media to voice their outrage that an…
“Attempted assault” with a snowball An NYPD officer has changed key details of his story in the face of an ongoing lawsuit stemming from a 2010 snowball fight. In February 2010, Ariel Lopez and four of his friends were playing in the snow when one of the young men threw a single snowball at…
The Seattle Seahawks coasted to an easy victory over the Denver Broncos yesterday in a Super Bowl that was mostly uninteresting due to it being an absolute blowout. The most interesting part of the game actually came after when a 9/11 truther hijacked a microphone from MVP Malcolm Smith and said “Investigate 9/11, and 9/11 was…