Let Them Eat Meat And Cheese! A new study from the Medical University of Graz found that vegetarian diets are tied to generally poorer health and quality of life than their carnivorous counterparts. The study also found that people who didn’t drink regularly are more prone to heart disease than regular alcohol imbibers. Follow…
Up to 120 Children Cross the Border Every Day Last year the LA Times reported that up to 120 children try to cross the border every day. The numbers of Mexican children fleeing has held steady, while there has been a dramatic surge in the number of children leaving Central American countries Guatemala, Honduras, and…
A federal judge in Denver ruled that a political group opposed to same-sex marriage was within its First Amendment rights to use a photo of a gay couple kissing on political mailers circulated in 2012. Judge Wiley Daniel partially granted a motion to dismiss a lawsuit by Brian Edwards and Thomas Privitere, a New Jersey couple whose…
Families who were affected by the defect in General Motors vehicles spoke out at a press conference ahead of a congressional hearing today. Statistics reported at FoxNews.com claim that 31 crashes and 13 fatalities have been linked to the problem with the power steering in certain vehicles. Follow TLR on Google+ GM announced yesterday the…
Satirical cartoonists from Taiwan produced a hilarious parody making fun of hashtag activist Suey Park. Park generated a hashtag on twitter called #CancelColbert in an attempt to paint the TV show host as racist, despite the fact that Colbert doesn’t actually run the account that first tweeted the satirical message. Park generated copious amount of…
LOUISVILLE, KY – Police in Kentucky are investigating a violent mob of hundreds of teens who attacked random motorists near a gas station last weekend. Follow TLR on Google+ “This is like something out of a movie. I’ve never seen something like this before.” said Viola Loeffler. “Right before we got to the stoplight, we noticed about…
Did you know that porcupines sometimes form a rare stone inside of them that is very valuable? It’s called a bezoar stone, and when Jared Buzzell saw a car hit and kill a porcupine on the road, he decided to try and cut it open to see if he could find one inside. But what…
Former Obama supporter Carey Wedler says that her love affair with Barack Obama is over, and to commemorate her newly minted anarchist pride, she’s burning her vintage Obama shirt. “Mr. Obama, you are the biggest fraud that has ever been perpetrated on the American people,” Wedler says after she recounts her story of being duped…
Author Natalie Johnson is a political science student at James Madison university currently studying abroad. This post originally appeared on her blog here and has been reprinted with permission. I feel the need to begin this post with a disclaimer: This is not a fun, here’s-what-I’ve-been-up-to post. This is a candid account of various…
A Chinese woman named Li Jinbang posted a photo of her boiling a dead cat into soup on a social network. The Internet hate campaign that ensued has sparked a debate over whether it should be legal to eat cats and dogs. Follow TLR on Google+ The post sounded like a joke, but Li…