by Kody Fairfield Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump, supposed representative of the party for family values, has taken his war with former Miss Universe Alicia Machado of Venezuela, to a new level. On Friday, Trump on Twitter called Machado, “disgusting,” and encouraged people to “check out her sex tape.” It seems like Trump’s attacks on Machado may have been triggered…
Is Justice Best Served For Profit? Should prisons run on a profit incentive? Won’t that mean that corporations will want more people to be in jail? How do we reconcile a belief in the free market with the principles that lead to less crime? How do we administer justice in a way that provides for…
Initiated by Australia in the World Health Assembly, several nations have signed onto a resolution calling for an independent investigation into the origins, cause, and handling of the COVID-19 virus. Currently, the total number of nations backing this endeavor is 116, including Russia, every EU member state, Japan, and more. The resolution itself uses particularly…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield A professor at MIT is contradicting the White House’s official statement regarding the use of chemical agents in Syria. Theodore Postol, a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), issued a series of three reports in response to the White House’s finding that Syrian President…
Grace Carr Republican Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin signed a bill Tuesday banning abortions on the basis of race, sex or disability despite a pending lawsuit from a legal advocacy group. Bevin signed House Bill 5 “prohibit[ing] an abortion if the pregnant woman is seeking the abortion, in whole or in part, because of an unborn…
By Kitty Testa I came across a headline in Bloomberg the other day that made me wince: Sears Transformed America. It Deserves to Die with Dignity. Ouch. I hadn’t felt such a pang since the elegant script of Marshall Field’s signature logo was stripped from its stores and placed with the simplistic logo of Macy’s….
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