Posts dedicated to philosophy of society, civic governance and general ideas.
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Written By Gavin Hanson For two weeks now, President Donald Trump‘s personal Facebook page has released a weekly segment entitled “Real News” that honestly bears more resemblance to a World War II propaganda reel than any actual cable or broadcast news, even that emanating from Fox. Despite the tense situation…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Written by Ian Tartt Are the terms “liberal” and “conservative” useful for accurately describing someone’s political views or are they too simplistic/ dated? This article will make the case as to why the use of these terms often causes more problems than it solves. If someone says they’re conservative,…
David Sivak After white nationalists protested the City of Charlottesville’s plan to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza claimed Sunday that Lee opposed slavery. Verdict: False While Lee disagreed with slavery in an abstract sense, he held views similar to his pro-slavery contemporaries and criticized abolitionists of his day. Fact Check: D’Souza claimed…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Yesterday was Milton Friedman’s birthday. He was the 1976 Nobel-prize winning economist who promoted free-market ideals and limited government. The Economist called him “the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century…possibly of all of it.” He died in 2006, but one of his lasting legacies is…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke A new front in Washington’s immigration wars opened to relatively little fanfare last week when reports surfaced that two Republican senators are working with the White House to craft a bill that would fundamentally change the U.S. immigration system. The RAISE Act, introduced by GOP Sens. Tom…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Ian Tartt “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of…
In 2011, in Tucson, Gabrielle Giffords and a whole passel of others were shot; several died. The perpetrator was a liberal, “progressive” [ironic term] nutjob who had been dutifully listening to the idiotic rhetoric and conspiracy theories of his political partisanship. His political partisanship consisted of marginalized notions held by almost no one outside of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Joshua Philipp, Epoch Times The French Revolution from 1789 to 1799 had a large influence on Karl Marx, and on the origins of communism. We’ve written previously about Gracchus Babeuf, regarded as the first revolutionary communist, and his direct influence on Marx; and we’ve also written about Maximilien Robespierre,…
By now most of us have read the articles and laughed, and some of us have watched the videos and guffawed. A drunken strumpet having a bad hair day gets booted from a comedy club, then arrested, and then lays into the cops in slurring, vitriolic invective. She [it was a woman] attempts to parlay…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Joshua Philipp, Epoch Times The Reign of Terror in the French Revolution laid the foundations from which communism grew. It pushed for an idea of “liberation” that gradually destroyed free will, and was based on a top-down system that sought to establish social good by regulating the beliefs and…