You used to be able to call them for help… Jonathan Ferrell is dead from multiple gunshot wounds after a car wreck that had him stumbling around the neighborhood frantically looking for help. After crashing his car, Ferrell ran to the nearest house trying to get assistance when a woman called 911 after he banged…
They’re doing it for their safety! A Los Angeles school district has hired a firm to scour student’s social media accounts to look for possible threats of violence, bullying, drug use, suicidal statements or truant behavior. Glendale is paying $40,500 for a private firm to monitor and report on 14,000 students’ posts on social media. In…
“Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.” -Ron Paul HOUSTON, TEXAS – A man who just wanted to rent video ended up having to shoot two thieves, killing one of them. The victim was standing outside a McDonald’s trying to rent a movie when two men appeared and pushed him…
Someone need a change of pants? Gilbert Nunez had already burglarized Paul Cavazo’s condo twice before, and was getting ready to make the third time a charm when this time his luck ran out. Follow TLR on Google+ Cavazo pulled his trusty sidekick, a 12 gauge shotgun out and pointed the business end at Nunez…
Sounds of the South The Library of Congress teamed up with the Smithsonian Museum to attempt to discover what the famous Confederate “Rebel Yell” might have sounded like. From the 1900’s to the 1940’s, Confederate veterans were asked to record the distinctive yell that sent shockwaves of fear into their Northern brothers they sought to…
What happens when bad science meets moral panic? In the 1980’s government officials warned the US about an approaching epidemic of “crack babies” that would plague us for generations. That never happened, but it didn’t stop the government from cracking down on the war on drugs and incarcerating citizens at an unbelievable rate. The New…
Officer Doug Martin was fired after tasing a senior citizen with Alzheimers in his nursing home. Police were called after a nurse reported a patient had hit his roommate, a nurse and an assistant. Officers entered the ward to find James Howard sitting in his chair totally naked except for socks. The man refused the…
Former KGB agent has nothing on America’s Community Organizer by Leslie Marshall In the past twenty-four hours, I have seen an Op Ed by a former KGB agent who now runs Russia. And ‘runs’ is exactly what I mean. Vladimir Putin, a Stalinist type of leader, was praised by some like Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh…
Mr. Gorbachev, tear off this crust! After the fall of Communism, Former leader of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev celebrated the fall of Communism and the embrace of more Western-style Capitalism by appearing in a Pizza Hut commercial in the 1980’s. Gorbachev would preside over the failed state as it transitioned from totalitarian communism, to a…
Are boys being punished for being boys? Christina Hoff Sommers is a former feminist who appeared on MSNBC to argue that school is hostile to young boys and that modern culture is slanted against them. She argues that schools are failing to make a distinction between aggression and high-spirited play. She makes the point that…