LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: In American politics, liberalism and conservatism are assumed to be contrary poles defining the normal political options. But it’s rightly been observed that conservatism, in its standard American form, is really just an older form of liberalism: i.e. “classical” liberalism. According to Notre Dame professor Patrick Deneen, the stock opponent…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Via the International Business Times: The Christmas tree controversy is refusing to let go of Amir Khan. After being at the centre of a debate triggered when he displayed his love for his three-year-old daughter by putting up a surprise Christmas tree, the boxer has now received scary death threats….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Steve Birr Foster care services are becoming increasingly strained by rampant drug addiction nationwide, which led to the removal of nearly 100,000 children from their homes in 2016. Officials in Indiana are speaking out after experiencing one of the largest one-year increasesof children entering the foster system last year. They warn…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Jack Croweon December 22, 2017 The police office who pointed a gun at a terrified 11 year old girl before handcuffing her will face no disciplinary measures, the Grand Rapids Police Department in Michigan announced Wednesday. The officer can be seen in body camera footage detaining Honestie Hodges, an 11-year-old…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Michael Bastasch Global warming activists have seized upon a study purporting to link temperature changes to mass migration from the third world to Europe, in an apparent attempt to attack the Trump administration. The study, published Friday in the journal Science, found that “temperatures that deviated from the moderate optimum (~20°C)…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Joshua Gill A Queens College folklorist created a politically-charged nativity scene featuring zombie President Donald Trump among other anti-Trump additions to the scene of Jesus’ birth. Dr. Joseph Sciorra, director for Academic and Cultural Programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, created the nativity display, entitled “Trump’s Amerikkka,”…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Rob Shimshockon December 22, 2017 Republish Reprint Two parents gave their child’s teachers wine with the child’s face and “our child might be the reason you drink” printed on the bottles, according to a Thursday report. Parents Mary and Paul Sommers jokingly gave the bottles to their son Jake’s teachers…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Grace Carr Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed a bill into law Friday effectively banning doctors from aborting babies testing positive for Down Syndrome. The governor signed House Bill 214 after it passed the Ohio House of Representatives in a 63-30 vote. Sponsored by state Reps. Sarah LaTourette and Derek Merrin, the law penalizes…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Robert Donachie “Thomas The Tank Engine” and “Paw Patrol” are “fascist” cartoons that are making children conform to traditional gender norms and desensitizing them to “social and gender equality,” a CNN article stated Friday. “Thomas The Tank Engine” is a long-running fictional cartoon about a young steam train named Thomas…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Grace Carr A nonprofit hosted a Philadelphia workshop in early December that showed medical students how to abort unborn babies, using papayas to mimic a woman’s uterus. Sixty medical students interested in learning how to perform abortions with minimal equipment gathered at the workshop, using only rudimental instruments on the…