Conservatism And Liberalism Both Lead To Totalitarianism One of my intellectual inspirations Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek wrote an essay once titled: “Why I Am Not A Conservative.” In it, he describes the reasoning for his rejecting of the label of a conservative. Hayek saw conservatism as a necessary rejection of modern liberalism at the time…
Science & The Bible: Are They Compatible? Bill Nye the Science Guy debated creationist Ken Ham on Tuesday night over the issues of science, biology and biblical creation. The three-hour debate consisted of Nye defending evolutionary theory in the face of Ham’s belief in biblical literalism and whether or not the Genesis tale is fundamentally…
CoFounder of GOProud Jimmy LaSalvia joins the Freedom Report to discuss his recent flight from the GOP. After a hard fought battle to make the Republican Party more friendly to the gay community, LaSalvia called it quits and is now calling himself an Independent. Is it time for other members of the gay community to…
Don’t Forget The “Protect” Part of “Serve & Protect” Officers Kristin Tate over at Ben Swann is reporting on a story from Rotterdam, New York where police officers were caught on camera breaking a disabled teen’s arm while placing him under arrest. Follow TLR on Google+ Police had responded to a call by Mohonasen transportation…
What is the deal with diversity? Famed comedian Jerry Seinfeld sat down for an interview with Buzzfeed to talk about comedy and was asked a question about whether diversity in comedy. The host of the interview pointed out that much of the audience was white males, causing Seinfeld to bristle and look around saying, “Take…
Army of Palpable Bitchery Worse Than Annie Wilkes Descends On King Poor Stephen King used the wrong words when he criticized the unconfirmed allegations of sexual assault by filmmaker Woody Allen. King tweeted about the allegations against Allen saying: “Boy, I’m stumped on that one. I don’t like to think it’s true, and there’s an…
Did you hear about the government snow? Last week citizens across the South were freaking out because they thought that the snow wasn’t melting when they held their lighters up next to it. People were quick to claim that the government was creating chemical snow to distract us from tyranny. One commenter wrote: Some skeptics tie…
A Cautionary Tale FORT MYERS, FL – Two good Samaritans were trying to do a kid a favor when they suddenly found themselves the victims of an attempted armed robbery. But these two weren’t just about to turn the other cheek. They decided to get all biblical on his sorry a**. Follow TLR on Google+…
The Seattle Seahawks coasted to an easy victory over the Denver Broncos yesterday in a Super Bowl that was mostly uninteresting due to it being an absolute blowout. The most interesting part of the game actually came after when a 9/11 truther hijacked a microphone from MVP Malcolm Smith and said “Investigate 9/11, and 9/11 was…
Sad news this weekend that Philip Seymour Hoffman died from an apparent heroin overdose. Sources confirmed that Hoffman was found with a needle in his arm and bags of the drug with a street name of “Ace of Spades.” Police have reported multiple deaths in recent months from a cocktail that contains both heroin and…