LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Eric Lieberman Amazon founder Jeff Bezos briefly eclipsed the $100 billion net worth mark due to an uptick in the tech conglomerate’s stock price, likely stemming from confidence in Black Friday sales. Bezos net worth has since taken a slight dip from $100.3 billion to $97.9 billion as of the early afternoon…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Amber Randall A Seattle, Wash., black liberation group planned a Black Friday march to urge people to only shop at black owned businesses this Friday. Black Liberation Front-Seattle, an “assertive” group aimed at fighting racism, also launched a four-hour demonstration called “BlackLivesMatterFriday 4.0 -Racism. It Stops With Me” to show the…
The city of St Louis has an insanely high sales tax. They also have a 1% earnings tax. And they wonder why businesses are moving out of the city and into the surrounding suburbs − including to the east-side in Illinois which has its own idiotic high cost-of-government impositions. On the first Tuesday of November…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Michael Bastasch While United Nations delegates wrap this year’s climate summit, observers and experts have been coming to terms with an extremely inconvenient implication of meeting the goal of the Paris climate accord. To meet the accord’s goal of keeping global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius by 2100 requires…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Gabrielle Okun Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP activist known for posing as a black woman despite being white, now sells homemade lollipops online and is open for business as of Tuesday. Dolezal now works as a lollipop artisan, according to her website. The lollipops from her “Gimme Some Sugar” line come in a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Steve Birr The mayor of a Minnesota city rejected an attempt by officials to raise the legal purchasing age for tobacco and vapor products from 18 to 21. The St. Cloud City Council passed the Tobacco 21 ordinance Tuesday in a tight 4-3 vote, however St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis swiftly vetoed…
Written by Your Third Choice Twitter @YourThirdChoice No, they don’t hate the flag or the troops. It’s not some anti-imperialist mumbo jumbo. It’s not because they agree or disagree with the point, the now unemployed Colin Kaeppernick was trying to make. It’s probably because they are aware of two little words: Paid Patriotism. In a time when…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Eric Lieberman Libertarian nonprofit The Atlas Society (TAS) says its Instagram page, which it used to post political content and promote its work, was taken down roughly a month ago with little to no explanation in an apparent act of censorship. Now, it’s ready to sue, if need be. In…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: JOSHUA GILL Religion Reporter World governments can end world hunger and the migrant crisis by halting climate change and military conflicts, Pope Francis urged Monday. “It is clear that wars and climatic change are a cause of hunger, so let’s not present it as if hunger is an incurable disease,” the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Anders Hagstrom Whataburger quickly retaliated by firing a Texas employee after she hurled curses at two police officers and refused to serve them at a location just north of Dallas on Saturday. Whataburger CEO Preston Atkinson personally called Denison Police Chief Jay Burch to apologize after two of Burch’s officers…