LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Mark Tapscott Saudi Arabian officials announced Tuesday that beginning in the summer of 2018, women will be allowed to drive on public roads, marking the end of the world’s only remaining such ban. Women’s rights in the ultra orthodox Islamic country, however, are still heavily restricted. Most of the code…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Gabrielle Okun The federal government is currently spending $400,000 to track Latinos’ eye movements at supermarkets in order to better fight obesity, the Washington Free Beacon reports. Researchers from San Diego State University received more than $400,000 in taxpayer funds to use “eye-tracking technology” to follow the eye movements of Latino families when buying produce, The Washington…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Tim Pearce Jack Roundtree was forced to stop selling BBQ to victims in Green Cove Springs, Fla., shortly after Hurricane Irma passed over the town Sept. 10 because he was operating without a permit. Two Green Cove Springs police officers delivered the message from the city manager shortly after Roundtree set up…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: The disconnect between the city and the country is a theme English teachers love to use in order to show the difference in lifestyles our own country has. But there is a real disconnect. As cities are havens of technology and becoming even more interconnected with one another, rural America…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: We have come a long way since Ron Paul’s 2008 presidential campaign that ushered libertarianism onto the national stage. 2018 is promising to see many liberty candidates, but here are just some who have made impacts in their own races, earlier races, and on the national stage as well. Larry…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: I consider myself politically homeless, and have for a while now. I started out as a ‘campus leftist’ or ‘social justice warrior’, knee-deep in the works of Marx and Marcuse, Horkheimer and Habermas. But life as an expat in China changed my outlook somewhat. Witnessing the marriage between a communist…
THOMAS PHIPPEN Reporter The Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack on Kabul International Airport Wednesday morning targeting Defense Secretary Jim Mattis who was making an unscheduled visit to Afghanistan. Mattis had left the airport by the time the attack started, NBC News reports, and no casualties have been reported. The airport said two missiles were fired…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Even if you live under a rock, this past Sunday’s National Anthem Protest (a different kind of NAP) probably found you because football is politics now and everything is awful. Regardless of your stance, the protest is for some reason important to you and you’re not really sure why when…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Rob Shimshock The percentage of homeschooled students in America leveled off for the first time since the turn of the century, according to a study released Tuesday. Homeschooled students grew by at least half a percentage point every four or five years from 1999 to 2012, according to a study conducted by…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Eric Lieberman Twitter announced Tuesday that it is testing the expansion of its unique threshold from 140 characters to 280 characters. The change is momentous given the limit is what makes Twitter fairly different from other social media platforms. “Trying to cram your thoughts into a Tweet – we’ve all…