LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman The co-founder of Lyft, the ride-sharing little brother to Uber, says his company is “more woke” than its primary competitor. “We’re woke. Our community is woke, and the U.S. population is woke,” Lyft President John Zimmer told TIME in an exclusive interview. “Woke” reportedly originated as a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley As an attorney in the George W. Bush administration, Judge Neil Gorsuch, savaged the Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London, a landmark property rights case, and lavished praise on Justice Clarence Thomas’s dissent. The Kelo decision is among the most famous cases of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock The professor who joked about wanting “white genocide” for Christmas, recently complained that a man on an airplane had given up his seat to a soldier. “Some guy gave up his first class seat for a uniformed soldier,” Drexel University professor George Ciccariello said on Twitter. “People are thanking…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock A professor decreased a student’s grade on a paper for using the word “mankind.” Dr. Anne Scott, an English professor at Northern Arizona University, lowered the grade of one of her students, Cailin Jeffers, for using “mankind” instead of a gender-neutral term, as reported by Campus Reform….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen F-18 fighter jets keeps depriving pilots of oxygen during flight, and the Navy says the problem is getting worse. The potentially dangerous problem is caused by loss of cabin pressure during flight, and the Navy has called it the number one safety issue with the jet. “I am…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman Uber apparently refers to Jewish employees as ‘Jewbers’ after the company released its first ever official diversity report. The ride-sharing tech giant’s diversity webpage made available Tuesday shows the gender and ethnic internal makeup of its company, including statistics for tech roles and customer support roles. There are also nine…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall A student sued Montana State University (MSU) last week after he was reportedly banned from campus for a private conversation he had with his professor about transgenders. The former student, identified as “John Doe” accused MSU of violating his free speech rights and discriminating against him because he…
Proposal 16, a pro-life organization in Alabama, is rallying to pressure Gov. Bentley to nullify to Roe v. Wade and protect unborn children in the state.
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett A prototype solar road in Idaho is broken again only a few weeks after it caught on fire. Dubbed “Solar FREAKIN’ Roadways,” the project has received $3.9 million in funding and been in development for 6.5 years, but is still plagued by major problems. A Twitter user caught…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie Private insurance claims related to opioid abuse are skyrocketing in the state of Illinois. Claims for opioid abuse and dependence diagnoses increased by 329 percent in Illinois from 2007 to 2014 alone, according to data released Wednesday by Fair Health. In fact, opioid-related claims jumped by 382…