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LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Michael Bastasch Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida on Sunday morning after making its way across the Atlantic as one of the most powerful storms on record. Irma’s sheer size and power had many asking, what allowed it to get so strong? “The dynamical set up in the atmosphere was…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Gabrielle Okun One brave woman delivered her own baby Sunday after Hurricane Irma trapped her in her home and firefighters were unable to reach her in Little Haiti, Fla. The woman gave birth to the baby based on the instructions from the Jackson Health System, which walked her through the process…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: There sure are a lot of libertarians in the military. It’s hard to say if they are drawn to service or if the military catapults folks far away from what they thought their views were right into the liberty movement. Either way, here are 9 struggles of libertarian servicemembers: 9….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: The phrases “I’m offended” and “that’s offensive” are ones we hear fairly often today. Why? I’m not sure to be perfectly honest, and I’m probably ill-suited to answer the question, since there are very few things that offend me. One theory, posited by scholar Christina Hoff Sommers, suggests that in…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Phillip Stucky Officials allegedly affiliated with the United States Park Police removed tents, tables, chairs, and other gear affiliated with the occupation of Farragut Square early Saturday morning in Washington, D.C. The police action that protestors on the ground described as a “raid” began around 4:00 a.m. Saturday, and ended roughly an…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Steve Birr Officials in Connecticut are on the cusp of passing a massive tax on electronic cigarettes that risks bankrupting the state’s entire vaping industry. Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy is pushing the Connecticut legislature to pass a budget compromise by the end of month that includes a proposed 75 percent wholesale tax…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Grace Carr Membership in a group that advertises a lethal powder for people who join has doubled after the organization was featured on a TV show. The “Last Will” suicide advocacy group, based in the Netherlands, had 3,323 members before the show aired, but that number has jumped to 6,800,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Joshua Gill Humanitarian aid organization Samaritan’s Purse deployed its DC-8 cargo plane loaded with relief supplies to St. Maarten Friday to help it recover from Hurricane Irma’s devastation. The evangelical relief organization sent a 14-member Disaster Assistance Response Team to St. Maarten from Greensboro, N.C. along with 30 metric tons…
Chris White Energy Reporter 9/09/2017 A professor at Rice University appeared Friday to compare climate change skeptics who oppose politicizing Tropical Storm Harvey with the terrorists responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Daniel Cohan, an associate professor of environmental engineering, tweeted that Harvey should be used as a discussion point for climate change issues, because…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Gabrielle Okun A Pennsylvania man was sentenced Thursday after assuming the identity of a deceased infant who died back in 1972. Jon Vincent, 42, from Lansdale, was sentenced to more than two years in prison Thursday for stealing the identity of an infant from Texas, Nathan Laskowski, who died in…