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Yesterday in an interview with Bloomberg, economist Joseph Steglitz called for literally outlawing Bitcoin, on the basis that it doesn’t serve any “socially useful function“. In the same interview, he unintentionally did a good job highlighting several of Bitcoin’s socially useful functions. Let’s leave aside whether or not governments should outlaw things that they deem…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Kevin Daley Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to making false statements to the FBI at a federal court in Washington, D.C. According to the two-page charging document, Flynn lied to FBI investigators about his communications with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the transition. The conversations concerned…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Eric Lieberman Five women have accused a top Silicon Valley venture capitalist of sexual harassment, according to a lengthy Bloomberg report published Thursday. They specifically allege that Shervin Pishevar exploited his own power to pursue relationships with woman that weren’t interested in his sexual advances. Some accusations include forceful kissing…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Amber Randall Walmart removed t-shirts from its website that called for lynching reporters after a radio association pointed out the shirts to the corporation Wednesday. The Radio Television Digital News Association sent a letter to Walmart calling for the shirts to be removed from the site because they “openly encouraged…
WILL RACKE Immigration and Foreign Policy Reporter A San Francisco jury found the illegal immigrant accused of killing Kate Steinle not guilty of murder Thursday, a stunning result in a case that ignited a nationwide debate over illegal immigration and sanctuary cities. After five days of jury deliberation, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, 54, was found…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Gabrielle Okun A woman faces federal charges after starting a drunken brawl on a plane and biting at least three flight attendants. Ires Alves Pereira, 40, was arrested and subsequently charged Wednesday after launching into a drunken rage when drinking alcohol on a flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil to John…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Gallup released a poll this week showing that Americans are, on average, getting heavier. Oddly, at the same time, the percentage of people who say they believe they are overweight is declining, as are the percentage of people who say they are trying to lose weight or want to lose…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Thomas Phippen An Army veteran claims Democratic Sen. Al Franken assaulted her during his tour with the USO in 2003, when he was a comedian, by groping her while posing for a photo. Stephanie Kemplin, who was stationed in the Middle East during Franken’s now infamous tour to entertain the…
by Ian Tartt Despite constant political activism from liberty-minded people since the ratification of the Constitution, we still have to deal with unending wars, millions of nonviolent people in prison, ever-increasing debt, money that’s almost worthless, government involvement in nearly every area of our lives, no privacy from federal agencies, a chunk of each…
What Happened? Let me fill you in if you do not know what happened to Alissa Violet the night she got battered by a female and male patron and sexually touched by a bouncer who works for Barley House. For this unlucky couple, an innocent night out turned into a nightmare. On November 25, 2017,…