LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Henry Rodgers The Library of Congress announced that it will no longer archive every tweet, according to a statement released Tuesday. Since 2010, the Library of Congress has kept an archive of all public tweets, beginning with the first tweet in 2006. The archive was created to preserve the records, but due to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Jack Crowe Home prices have risen sharply during President Donald Trump’s first year in office as strong demand from house hunters narrows the number of available properties. Home prices rose 6.2 percent over the past year, marking a 6 percent increase over the market’s previous 2006 peak, according to a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Grace Carr In an usual display of violence on Christmas Day, an Arizona man shot and killed a woman and two children before the police were able to take him into custody. While the victims have not yet been publicly identified, the woman and two youngsters were likely the wife…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Grace Carr A baby diagnosed with a congenital heart defect will receive surgery to save his life after the surrogate carrying him refused to have an abortion like the biological parents wished. After the doctor discovered 16 weeks into pregnancy that the baby had hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Jack Crowe Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin received a box of horse manure at his Los Angeles home Saturday evening along with a Christmas card criticizing the recently signed comprehensive tax reform bill. The package, which was initially discovered in Mnuchin’s neighbor’s driveway in Bel Air, was x-rayed and opened by…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Will Rackeon December 25, 2017 Republish Reprint A member of a radical feminist group attempted to steal a statue of the baby Jesus from the Vatican’s nativity scene on Christmas day but was intercepted by police as she grabbed it. A Reuters photographer happened to witness the incident as the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: David Sivak Republican Sen. Rand Paul claimed Saturday that the U.S. has spent around $300,000 to fund a clown school in Argentina. They spent $324,015 to pay for a clown school in Argentina. Rumors to the contrary, this was not a CODEL — Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2017 “They…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: In this new article for Aeon, Ronnie de Sousa, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Toronto, argues that the facts of evolution entail that “there is no such thing as human nature.” Instead, what we are is what we make of ourselves by our individual and collective choices….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: In American politics, liberalism and conservatism are assumed to be contrary poles defining the normal political options. But it’s rightly been observed that conservatism, in its standard American form, is really just an older form of liberalism: i.e. “classical” liberalism. According to Notre Dame professor Patrick Deneen, the stock opponent…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Via the International Business Times: The Christmas tree controversy is refusing to let go of Amir Khan. After being at the centre of a debate triggered when he displayed his love for his three-year-old daughter by putting up a surprise Christmas tree, the boxer has now received scary death threats….