From our friends at Hypeline.org Justin Gould America has evolved. We are no longer the country of strong, patriotic young adults who actively seek to better themselves in life. Rather, America has turned into a society of overly sensitive infants who can’t even walk outside without getting offended. Our culture as we know it is being…
Ethan Barton More journalists were killed in peaceful territories in 2015 than in war zones – a result of reporters being deliberately targeted, according to a recent report. “A total of 110 journalists were killed in connection with their work for unclear reasons in 2015,” Reporters Without Borders said in announcing its annual round up of…
Guy Bentley The year 2015 played host to the most intense campaign of misinformation and lobbying against e-cigarettes yet, perhaps due to exploding popularity over the last year. Public health activists, prohibitionists, and journalists have jumped on the bandwagon of the war against vapers, reporting headline-grabbing excerpts of dubious studies and advocating regulatory clampdowns and…
Chris White A super-intelligent hybrid human-computer — i.e. artificial intelligence — might be the ticket to solving “wicked” problems like global warming and war, researchers at the Human Computation Institution (HCI) and at Cornell University suggest. If only scientists could find a way to combine the creative abilities of humans with the immense data analyzing…
A woman confronts the Starbucks employee who copied her credit card info and spent over $200 shopping. The employee confesses and apologizes profusely, but the woman maintains she will be filing a police report. Watch the confrontation below and be sure to watch your credit card statements! [facebook https://www.facebook.com/mediatakeout/videos/1182639758434636/?fref=nf/width=100%]
The Ride-Share Market Serves The Labor Force & People Are Mad by Avens O’Brien The internet outrage machine is at it again, with Twitter & Facebook angry yet again at the surge pricing of Uber. In case you’ve been living under a rock, Uber is an app for your phone that enables people to request rides from…
What happened when TLR’s founder and current Libertarian Party presidential candidate Austin Petersen visited a Bernie Sanders rally in Iowa? Some interesting discussion! Petersen may be the first Libertarian candidate to walk into such a socialist den of economic ignorance. But what he found is there may be some common ground with Sanders supporters. Perhaps…
Andrew Follett The EPA has made a lot of power grabs of dubious legality over the last year, from forcing unpopular regulations through over the objections of Congress to illegally using social media to promote Obama’s policies. So without further ado, here are the top 5 EPA attempts to grab power through quasi-legal means. 1: The Clean Power Plan The Clean Power…
Russ Read Major world events have made headlines throughout 2015, but not all of them were expected. ISIS, unsurprisingly, continued to wreak havoc in the Middle East. China continued to assert dominance in the South China Sea, literally creating islands where once there was nothing but water. Vladimir Putin continued to run roughshod over Ukraine,…
Connor D. Wolf Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced Thursday that he plans to reinstate work requirements putting 11,000 food stamp recipients at risk of losing their benefits. The federal government has required work or job training to qualify for benefits since 1996. After the recession, many states were granted waivers that allowed them to ignore…