Guy Bentley A new Gallup poll shows cigarette smoking among young adults has plummeted to a new low just one month after data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed e-cigarette use surging. The Gallup poll reported a decline in smoking among adults aged 18-29 by a 12 percentage points to 22 percent…
Josh Fatzick The D.C. government wants to eliminate all traffic deaths by 2024, and to do that officials are drastically increasing speeding fines. The District Department of Transportation is set to propose huge fines for a number of traffic violations, including speeding and hitting a cyclist. Fines for 20 different violations will rise under Mayor…
Russ Read One of the Islamic State’s biggest oil customers is the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, a senior U.S. Treasury official said Thursday. “ISIL is selling a great deal of oil to the Assad regime,” Adam Szubin, acting under secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the Treasury, said in London according to Reuters. Assad’s forces…
Russ Read North Korean leader Kim Jung-Un announced Thursday that the country now has a hydrogen bomb in its nuclear arsenal. “[We have] turned the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] into a powerful nuclear weapons state ready to detonate a self-reliant A-bomb and H-bomb to reliably defend its sovereignty and the dignity of the…
TLR contributor and YouTube sensation Julie Borowski has hit another homerun with her latest video. Check it out here and be sure to check YouTube for more great videos from Julie.
Blake Neff The U.S. Navy is taking fire for commissioning a ship as the USS Jackson, with activists claiming it wrongly commemorates the legacy of a racist slaveowner. The new USS Jackson, the third ship to bear the name, is a littoral combat ship (LCS) — a smaller vessel intended for operations in shallow water. The ship…
Jonah Bennett The Food and Drug Administration has approved an incredibly innovative syringe that can seal a deadly gunshot wound in seconds for civilian use. The military has already benefited greatly from the use of the syringe, called XStat, which works to stop bleeding in situations where tourniquets don’t, reported Tech Insider. The device works by injecting…
The Constitution is not a Chinese buffet where you pick the parts you like and disregard the rest. We all know that our rights are being eroded away. But this season, this particular election year, it seems that most candidates are making it their duty to throw away the Constitution. Add that to the fascists on campuses…
“The proper groundwork for analysis of abortion is in every man’s absolute right of self-ownership. This implies immediately that every woman has the absolute right to her own body, that she has absolute dominion over her body and everything within it. This includes the fetus. Most fetuses are in the mother’s womb because the mother…
5 Myths From Democrats You Shouldn’t Take Seriously [dropcap size=small]T[/dropcap]he Democratic Debates have been, among other things, a forum for the three remaining candidates to show how out of touch they are with every day Americans. The remaining candidates have a combined net worth of $45.7 million according to Forbes, and if they put all…