Bright Girding For Battle Against Big Government Graham South Carolina state Senator Lee Bright joins the Freedom Report podcast to discuss his challenge to Lindsey Graham. Bright believes that his influence amongst social conservatives and libertarians can help give him the edge in the fight to unseat the most disliked Republican amongst those who consider themselves…
Reporter Liz Wahl appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources to discuss her resignation from Russia Today television network. After publishing a piece in Politico titled ” I Was Putin’s Pawn, Wahl has been setting the record straight about her reasons for leaving the station. Apologists for the Putin regime have been taking shots at Wahl, claiming…
Making Inroads To The Minority Community Head of the Republican National Committee black voter outreach Orlando Watson appeared on MSNBC with host T.J. Holmes to discuss the Republican Party’s efforts. Trying to counter the idea of the GOP as the party of scary, stuffy, old, white men, Watson argues that Republican senators such as Tim…
Treaty With Ukraine Is Not An Excuse For Intervention The Council for Good Governance is not staffed by pacifists or isolationists, by any means. Most of us have served our nation’s defense in the intelligence and Special Operations communities. We have, collectively, well over two decades in war zones. Watching the Liberty movement…
Only Race Hustlers Can Talk About Race & Civil Rights In an op-ed criticizing President Barack Obama‘s spying programs at the NSA, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) blasted the president by invoking race to criticize his civil rights record. Reverend Al Sharpton took extreme offense, defending Obama’s unconstitutional spy programs. Follow TLR on Google+ “The first…
Should USA help Ukraine? Iurii Kozik Ron Paul, one of the honorary leaders of the American libertarian movement, recently reacted to the crisis in Crimea. Typically, Paul accused US foreign policy in intervention in affairs of a foreign state, but, surprisingly, he made a step further justifying Vladimir Putin. He thinks that the U.S. should…
Pro-Life Humanists Speak Out Secular humanist Kristine Kruszelnicki wrote a very controversial article recently titled “Yes, there are pro-life atheists out there. Here’s why.” In it, she argues that human rights belong to all human beings, including those who have yet to be born. She believes that being pro-life isn’t just the territory of the…
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished VIRGINIA BEACH, VA – A student was suspended and recommended for expulsion after she took her friend’s razor away because she knew he was using it to harm himself. Follow TLR on Google+ Adrionna Harris took the razor from her friend and threw it away to try to convince him…
Science Denial Is Not Exclusive To Right Wing Fundamentalists by David Jerale In a column for Scientific American January of last year, Michael Shermer, the founder of The Skeptics Society, exposed what he calls “The Liberals’ War on Science.” Shermer observes that, while it is true that Republicans are more overwhelmingly opposed to well-established scientific…
Libertarian Foreign Policy Problems On Full Display Over Crimea Conflict The Freedom Report podcast today takes on the difficult issue of the Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea in Ukraine, specifically the differing responses from Senator Rand Paul and former congressman Ron Paul. Whose response was technically more libertarian? Follow TLR on Google+ Congressman Ron…