NBC is reporting that the deadliest ever ‘out of control’ outbreak of Ebola is spreading across West Africa and is likely to get even worse. The infection has spread and killed at least 300 people in three countries, with many cases going unreported and with some people who are fleeing the virus spreading it even…
By Greg Campbell Despite calls for boycotts from people upset about Colorado’s new laws on gun control and legal pot, the state broke almost every tourism record in 2013, with out-of-state visitors spending more than $4 billion for the first time. That’s a 12 percent increase over 2012, reported Visit Denver, the city’s tourism and convention bureau,…
By Blake Neff Schools in the United Kingdom are banned from teaching creationism following a clarification of regulations released by the UK government last week. The new documents make plain that any school receiving public funds, which includes many church-run schools, will violate the Funding Agreement with the government if it teaches creationism as a scientifically valid…
By Greg Campbell Federal agents seized 350 pounds of Canadian hemp seeds bound for a Colorado farm, despite that hemp cultivation in states that permit it is legal under the recently passed federal farm bill. Hemp farming is permitted in both Colorado, which also legalized adult use of marijuana in 2012, and in North Dakota,…
The Freedom Report podcast today asks the question of whether there has ever been a historic example of a libertarian society. In his final appearance as associate editor of TLR, Ian Huyett dissects a column that he wrote where he analyzes the multiple historic examples of decentralized societies that one might call libertarian. Have you…
By Blake Neff Popular conservative columnist George Will has been dumped by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch following the backlash over a column he wrote two weeks ago regarding sexual assault on college campuses. The move was announced by the paper’s editorial editor Tony Messenger late Wednesday. He said the move had been under consideration for months beforehand, but that…
By Jonah Bennett Social Security has long-term financial challengers but the agency that administers it faces more immediate problems, according to a bipartisan report. Sixty-four Social Security offices have closed since 2009, despite an ever-increasing backlog of applications for benefits, MarketWatch reports. The Senate Special Committee on Aging discussed these findings earlier this week. Only 1,245 offices…
By Jonah Bennett A bipartisan plan backed by Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy and Tennessee Bob Corker has been proposed to help maintain the struggling Highway Trust Fund. The Corker-Murphy plan would raise the gas tax by 12 cents over two years, indexing the tax to inflation. The last time gas taxes were raised was in 1993,…
Taxes, spiders, North Korea, it doesn’t matter. If you can name it, it’s probably more popular than the United States Congress. Only 7 percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the U.S. Congress, according to a new poll by Gallup. Even after many years of brutally unpopular Congresses, that’s…
In a bipartisan display of support for libertarian values, Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Corey Booker (D-NJ) offered a medical marijuana amendment on the floor of the senate today. The bill is similar in scope to the groundbreaking legislation which passed the House of Representatives recently. The bill would outlaw the Department of Justice and…