Between 2013 and 2015, the U.S. accepted just under 70,000 refugees each year. 57% of them came from Burma (Myanmar), Iraq and Somalia. Asylum seekers are an even smaller group, at only about 25,000 per year, including about 8,000 Chinese.
Why I Wear a Bitcoin Lapel Pin “What’s that?” This is how it starts. With a squint of curiosity at my jacket lapel, these two words express not only a simple inquiry but an opportunity to share some ideas I know will change the world. I, like a freshly pressed vinyl album longing to be…
Jonah Bennett So many sailors are getting kicked out of the Navy for failing to pass fitness tests that the service has decided to expand allowable body fat rules to accommodate the obese. The Navy officially changed body fat regulations in January and is now extending a hand to sailors who have flunked fitness…
Mary Margaret Olohan Attorney General William Barr emphasized in a Tuesday statement that “even in times of emergency,” federal law prohibits religious discrimination. The attorney general released a statement Tuesday on religious practices and social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. The statement comes after Barr intervened in a Mississippi church’s lawsuit against Greenville police who…
Details behind the motivations of a student who shot two classmates at Arapahoe High in Colorado have revealed the interesting politics of Karl Pierson, who ended his attacks by committing suicide. The Denver Post‘s profile of Pierson was revealed to have edited the fact that a classmate described him as “a very opinionated Socialist,” and…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Chris Massari There is a largely missed connection between the comic medium, particularly the superhero genre and stories from the two big publishers Marvel and DC, and the philosophies associated with libertarianism. Everything from the non-aggression principle (NAP), individualism, civil liberty, voluntary action and in some cases/stories to individuals…
By Blake Neff A coalition of over 60 Asian-American groups has filed a discrimination complaint against Harvard University, claiming the university illegally discriminates against Asians in its undergraduate admissions. According to the complaint, filed with the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Education, the nearly-perfect test scores, pristine GPAs and major academic awards of Asians were substantially…
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