“Those who trade liberty for security, deserve neither…”
With a hippie headband, a black t-shirt and petition in hand, a “liberal hippie” goes around a college campus asking people to sign a ban on pressure cookers in response to the Boston bombings. Hilarity ensues when people happily hand over the private property rights of themselves to others for a false illusion of security. LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield A high school art teacher has landed herself in extremely hot water after she posted an Instagram video depicting her “shooting” an image of Donald Trump with a squirt gun and screaming “die” during Friday’s inauguration. The video went viral on Twitter before the original source could be found. Mentally…
Gabrielle Okun A Florida town blasted an alert for residents to look out for zombies due to a power outage, The Associated Press reported Monday. People in Lake Worth, Fla., got a surprising message urging them to keep their eyes open for undead corpses as the culprits of a power outage Sunday, according to AP. A 1:45…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Anders Hagstrom Californians voted seven months ago to keep the death penalty and speed the appeals process for executions, but a lawsuit being considered by the California Supreme Court is holding up the entire process. California’s November referendums approved both the death penalty and Proposition 66, which put a…
Over 40 million Americans are struggling with mental health concerns, according to Mental Health America (MHA). Since MHA released its first State of Mental Health in America report in 2015, there have already been “alarming increases” in adult suicidal ideation and major depressive episodes in young people, demonstrating how serious this problem has become. As…
by Michael Bastasch A top confidant to Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta suggested the person who told the former secretary of state she could use a private email should be “drawn and quartered,” according to a leaked email chain. “Do we actually know who told Hillary she could use a private email?” Neera Tanden, president…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: To many Americans, high school seems like a normal part of life. To not attend is unheard of; to fail to graduate is a death sentence for one’s future. But what we often forget is that the modern high school is a relatively new concept. As Paul Beston notes in…
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