LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Tim Pearce Jack Roundtree was forced to stop selling BBQ to victims in Green Cove Springs, Fla., shortly after Hurricane Irma passed over the town Sept. 10 because he was operating without a permit. Two Green Cove Springs police officers delivered the message from the city manager shortly after Roundtree set up…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: I consider myself politically homeless, and have for a while now. I started out as a ‘campus leftist’ or ‘social justice warrior’, knee-deep in the works of Marx and Marcuse, Horkheimer and Habermas. But life as an expat in China changed my outlook somewhat. Witnessing the marriage between a communist…
THOMAS PHIPPEN Reporter The Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack on Kabul International Airport Wednesday morning targeting Defense Secretary Jim Mattis who was making an unscheduled visit to Afghanistan. Mattis had left the airport by the time the attack started, NBC News reports, and no casualties have been reported. The airport said two missiles were fired…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Even if you live under a rock, this past Sunday’s National Anthem Protest (a different kind of NAP) probably found you because football is politics now and everything is awful. Regardless of your stance, the protest is for some reason important to you and you’re not really sure why when…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Rob Shimshock The percentage of homeschooled students in America leveled off for the first time since the turn of the century, according to a study released Tuesday. Homeschooled students grew by at least half a percentage point every four or five years from 1999 to 2012, according to a study conducted by…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Eric Lieberman Twitter announced Tuesday that it is testing the expansion of its unique threshold from 140 characters to 280 characters. The change is momentous given the limit is what makes Twitter fairly different from other social media platforms. “Trying to cram your thoughts into a Tweet – we’ve all…
WILL RICCIARDELLA Media Reporter The New York Times published an opinion piece Tuesday outlining the advancements women made under the Communist leadership of Mao Zedong, the world’s most prolific mass murderer of the 20th century. “[T]he Communists rescued peasant daughters from urban brothels and ushered cloistered wives into factories,” writes Helen Gao…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Amber Randall on September 26, 2017 Fox News host Sean Hannity beat out well-established CNN and MSNBC late night talk shows in his first night Monday at the 9 p.m. slot. Hannity garnered a higher number of overall viewers and outperformed Rachel Maddow and Anderson Cooper in his demo during…
Gabrielle Okun on September 26, 2017 Actress Lena Dunham compared President Donald Trump to Dylann Roof, the white supremacist and mass murderer responsible for the Charleston shootings in June 2015. Dunham, an outspoken critic of the president, tweeted her disdain for Trump Monday, following the president’s denouncement of football players that kneeled during the national…
Eric Lieberman on September 25, 2017 A Buzzfeed story arguing Facebook is run by monstrous, inhuman algorithms ignores the simple truth that humans are the ones who came up with the algorithms in the first place As news of Facebook selling a relatively small amount of ads to a Russian firm unearthed in recent weeks, clamoring…