LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield A Clemson administrator has proposed requiring student government candidates to pass an “intercultural competency” test before being permitted to run for or hold office, reports Campus Reform. The “intercultural competency” test requirement for Student Government candidates who wish to run for office was just one of the ideas Altheia…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock A letter requesting that a university’s sociology department rescind an offer to hire a professor because she was white was deleted sometime between Monday evening and the early morning hours Tuesday. Nearly 130 “Sociology students, alumni, and allies” of Pomona College in California signed the letter. They…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie The NASDAQ composite index broke the 6,000 milestone for the first time ever in its 46-year history Tuesday morning. The index traded at an intraday record Tuesday morning of 6,022, up nearly 40 percent. The NASDAQ hasn’t soared this much since the dot.com bubble of the early…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read The Turkish military launched air strikes against U.S.-backed forces fighting the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq Tuesday, killing several. Turkish forces launched as many as 39 strikes, according to some reports, killing at least five Kurdish Peshmerga forces and 18 members of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG)….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen Republican voters’ support for free trade between the U.S. and other countries rose slightly in the first months of Donald Trump’s presidency, according to a report published Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. More than 50 percent of Americans believe free trade between the U.S. and other nations is a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall A man refused to accept the results of his ancestry DNA test after it revealed he wasn’t black, according to a New York Times piece last week. Two professors from West Chester University decided to do an in-depth analysis into various people’s ancestries and backgrounds. First they…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett One medical researcher believes a soon-to-be-developed malaria vaccine will “save hundreds of thousands of lives” every year if used with improved prevention and treatment methods in poor countries. “This is a major milestone, as it is the next step on the long road toward having a malaria…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell The Japanese government released a guide this week detailing how citizens should respond if North Korea drops a nuke on the country. The citizen’s guide details how to respond in case of a ballistic missile strike, reports The Washington Post. “Japan is facing urgent new threats to peace and security and…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall Bill Nye uses a cartoon ice cream cone analogy to criticize Christians and their views on homosexuality in a new episode of his Netflix show about science. A group of ice cream cones attend a meeting for “Ice Cream Conversion Therapy” in the clip of his show published on…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti A U.S.-supplied Iraqi Security Force tank took out an Islamic State suicide-borne car bomb, according to a video that surfaced Saturday. WATCH: (GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING) https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=609&v=-hhVieUrwBs The video appears to show the Yarmouk district in western Mosul where the Iraqi Security Forces are engaged in a bitter fight…