“He’s making gun motions, send him to juvie.” Follow TLR on Google+ In the latest demonstration of our culture’s deranged and unthinking gun hysteria, a 7th grader has been suspended from a Vernon, New Jersey middle school for holding a pencil. Ethan Chaplin was fidgeting with his pencil in math class when a classmate…
BUNKERSVILLE, NV–We previously reported at The Libertarian Republic on how rancher Cliven Bundy in Nevada is at war with the federal government for not abiding by their laws. Now, people are flocking to the 600,000-acre spot called Gold Butte, where federal agents are currently seizing Bundy’s cows for grazing “illegally”. Follow TLR on Google+ There’s…
TREMONTON, UT– Former officer Jeremy Rose has been accused of tricking an underage girl into believing she would be a model for the pornographic website Brazzers. Rose was an officer with the Tremonton Police Department and worked on sexual abuse cases in Box Elder County. According to court documents obtained by Fox 13, the investigation…
Follow TLR on Google+ Nineteen students and a security guard have been injured in a mass stabbing at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Action News 4 reports. A student armed with two knives reportedly walked through the building stabbing people as school was about to begin. At least one 17-year-old student is…
BUNKERSVILLE, NV – Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy threatened a “range war” against Bureau of Land Management officials after federal agents arrested his son and impounded his cattle grazing on federal land after the government claimed that Bundy’s cows were “trespassing.” Bundy’s dispute with federal land management authorities goes back over two decades. Follow TLR…
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli spent decades advocating for a tax financed campaign finance law, even going so far as suggesting that the legislature use the State Comptroller race as a test case for the system. But now that the legislature enacted a “public financing” system with the Comptroller’s race as a test…
A study conducted by Ivy League political scientists has yielded some intriguing results. Kyle Dropp, Joshua D. Kertzer, and Thomas Zeitzoff surveyed 2,066 Americans to decide what role the U.S. should play in Ukraine’s current crisis. Additionally, they were asked to locate Ukraine on a map. The survey was designed to test the correlation…
Keith Farrell Congressman Jim Moran (D, NH) has earned scorn for telling CQ Roll Call that “the American people should know that the members of Congress are underpaid.” At first one may be tempted to scoff, to point to Congressional deadlock, to lament the overall condition of the economy that burdens many Americans and tell…
Yagan made a $500 donation to a congressman who supported a national ban on same-sex marriage. Follow TLR on Google+ OkCupid recently spearheaded the campaign against Brendan Eich’s hiring as Mozilla’s CEO. OkCupid’s online protest, sparked by a $1000 donation that Eich had made to Proposition 8 several years ago, devolved into a cultural…
A Family that Shoots Together, Stays Together Follow TLR on Google+ WINTER HAVEN, Florida – When a stranger tried to break into the Pena family home, the Penas were ready for him. “If this guy would’ve stayed home, he’d have been alive right now,” a neighbor told Fox 13 Orlando. Early Monday morning, the…