A long-standing problem in education is the academic achievement gap. Children of lower-income families typically lag far behind their counterparts from families with greater incomes. While that gap has many causes, a significant contributor is the lack of educational options available to low-income families whose children are often consigned to the worst public schools. In…
Did Abraham Lincoln share a common economic vision with Karl Marx? That’s the thesis of a recent article in the Washington Post, which claims that the 16th president and the socialist philosopher “were friendly and influenced each other.” According to an essay by Gillian Brockell, “Lincoln was regularly reading Karl Marx” and appears to have adapted a Marxist…
Do black lives really matter? Do all lives matter? Today’s episode of the Freedom Report podcast interviews two special guests on this topic. One, Eric July, is a former Democrat turned libertarian who argues that the problems of the Black Lives Matter movement lie in their inability to understand the root problems of society and…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Paul Meekin The police have always had a presence in my life that went beyond law enforcement. Our teen community center had a police officer on duty to field questions and supervise. Officers gave out free ice cream to kids who wore bike helmets. They demonstrated how bad ass their K-9 dog…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By: Brendon Berger Recently Senators John McCain (R-Arizona) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) wrote an editorial pressing the view that more forces are needed in Afghanistan. The editorial first appeared in the Washington Post and it can be read in it’s entirety here. Let us discuss the op-ed in question. The…
Kyle Perisic President Donald Trump said Monday it’s “very dangerous” for social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to silence their users. “I won’t mention names but when they take certain people off of Twitter or Facebook and they’re making that decision, that is really a dangerous thing because that could be you tomorrow,” Trump…
