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LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Grace Carr The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) requested Wednesday that the decision to let transgender recruits into the military be taken to a higher court. The DOJ asked a federal judge to stay her order that requires the military to start allowing transgender recruits on Jan. 1. The agency…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Amber Randall A group of black employees with the New York Fire Department sued their employer, alleging the department did not properly taking care of racism within its ranks. The federal civil rights lawsuit, filed Friday, accused the fire department of discriminating against black employees over the years by not…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Robert Donachie The homosexual man who Kim Davis twice denied a marriage license is going to challenge Davis for her Kentucky county clerk seat. David Ermold, who teaches English at the University of Pikeville, said Wednesday that he is throwing his name in for Rowan County Clerk in Kentucky, a position Davis…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Robert Donachie Girls hardly old enough to understand the birds and the bees rapped about President Donald Trump being a “dick” and a “racist,” a video circulating Wednesday showed. The girls — some appearing as young as eight or nine — appeared in signature “pussy hats” and rapped explicit adult lyrics while hocking t-shirts…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Gabrielle Okun Public outcry caused Lebanon’s sole airport to take down its Christmas tree Tuesday, one made out of recycled garbage that was intended to promote environmentalism but only angered patrons. The Lebanese Middle East Airlines’ project to promote environmental conservation backfired when it was forced to take down the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Amber Randall A University of Massachusetts-Amherst librarian urged her colleagues to give hugs to students, especially those of color, in order to help fight microaggressions during an October conference. Academic librarian Isabel Espinal gave a presentation along with two fellow academic librarians at a conference at Dartmouth College, Campus Reform first…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: We’ve all seen how participation trophies have overtaken the world of kid sports. No longer is there one prize; instead, there are multiple awards for everything from first to tenth place. The backlash against this phenomenon is growing, however, and participation trophies are increasingly the butt of many jokes as…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Written by Jon Miltimore The World Medical Association (WMA) General Assembly recently approved revisions to the Declaration of Geneva, the modern physician’s pledge that succeeded the Hippocratic Oath. The revisions, the most expansive makeover of the declaration in its 70-year history, followed two years of information gathering, interviews with medical…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Written by Jon Miltimore Laura M. Nicolae has a message for her fellow students at Harvard: think twice before embracing communism. Nicolae, an applied mathematics major in the ’20 class, recently shared in the Crimson the story of how her father arrived in the United States. And it’s harrowing stuff:…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Kevin Daley A majority of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared sympathetic Tuesday with a Christian baker from Colorado who declined to create a custom wedding cake for an LGBT couple. Though several justices expressed concerns about the integrity of civil rights and public accommodations law, the Court’s four conservatives and…