LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Eric Lieberman AOL’s highly memorable and long-running instant messaging service AIM is shutting down after 20 years. The former company, which is now simply a web portal, announced the decision Friday in a notice cleverly titled, “One Last Away Message,” an emotional reference to one of the most oft-used features of the…
by Ian Tartt On September 30th, 2017, I attended the recording of episode 1,000 of the Tom Woods Show. The event took place at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando, Florida. I’ll give a brief run-through of my experiences and talk about some of the amazing memories I made that night. I got to…
Written by Eric Lough Ben Shapiro, a former editor at Breitbart, current host of the Daily Wire, and heavily demanded speaker, has been permitted to exercise his first amendment rights on college campuses across the country, often to harsh liberal protest. Most recently and notably at University of California Berkley, where I was on scene,…
From May to July this year, Equifax was breached by hackers, exposing information on 143 million Americans, or the majority of American adults. The first thing their senior executives did upon finding the breach, was sell $1.8 million of stock in what seems to be a case of insider trading. A month ago, Equifax finally let…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Kush Desai on October 6, 2017 The Daily Beast claimed that the Las Vegas mass shooter “had better rifles than the U.S. military” in a Tuesday article. “Paddock’s [the Las Vegas shooter] weapons are more accurate by design than some of the weapons the U.S. military issues out to their…
ROBERT DONACHIE Capitol Hill and Health Care Reporter President Donald Trump’s administration announced Friday that it will provide employers with religious or moral objections to providing birth control in their employee health insurance plans an exemption. The administration’s exemption includes “any non-profit organization that have a religious or moral objection to providing contraception,” a senior Health and…
By Kitty Testa Just a little over a year ago, in the heat of the 2016 election, which focused heavily on immigration, Donald Trump Junior used a strange analogy to hype the danger Syrian immigrants might pose to the US population. In a tweet he shared a meme which was later removed for copyright violation….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) was one of the preeminent historians of his day. His magnum opus, From Dawn to Decadence, traces the history of Western culture from 1500 to 2000. The book is required reading for anyone serious about understanding Western history, thought, and culture. It’s been more than a decade…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Ask most Americans if the Bible should be read in schools and a majority will likely say no. After all, the Supreme Court ruled in 1963 that states and school boards may not require the Bible to be read in schools… so doesn’t that mean that its presence should be…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Chris White West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin proposed legislation Thursday reworking the country’s bankruptcy code to prevent companies from not paying down an employee’s retirement benefits. Manchin introduced the Prioritizing Our Workers Act, revising the state’s bankruptcy code to place unpaid benefits before the company’s other costs. He believes…