“Pothole vigilante” takes matters into his own hands Follow TLR on Google+ Frustrated by all the potholes in his neighborhood, a Long Island man has started filling them up himself. “I had a huge pothole right here in front of my house and they told me that I could’ve found another way of going around…
Government Loves Poor People So Much, It Makes More Of Them FLORIDA–I think most libertarians can agree that traffic laws are usually arbitrary and a means for the thugs in uniform to extort money from citizens for minor infractions. Tampa Bay Times columnist Steve Bousquet wrote an article addressing how devastating the consequences for violating…
One More Step On The Road To Serfdom? President Barack Obama is floating a plan with the FCC that would put government researchers in newsrooms. The stated purpose is to “identify and understand the critical information needs of the American public, with special emphasis on vulnerable-disadvantaged populations.” Follow TLR on Google+ Dissenting FCC commissioner Ajit…
I’ll Take A Luddite Burrito With A Side of Superstition Co-CEO of popular burrito chain Chipotle Steve Ells is saying “No” to GMO foods for ingredients at his restaurants. Ells says that “genetically modified foods hold out promises that are at best untested, and at worst unrealistic.” This is despite 20-year-long scientific research studies that…
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” -H.L. Mencken Late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel pulled a President’s Day prank on Monday telling people that Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in order to get their reactions. “There are a lot of presidents who we…
NSA sided with Australian intelligence over a U.S. business Under the administration of President Obama, the National Security Agency has brazenly trampled upon the Fourth Amendment on a massive scale. Its national director has lied to Congress with impunity, it has broken its own privacy rules thousands of times, and its employees have used its…
Remington Follows Beretta Firearms In Evacuating States Hostile To Their Business HUNTSVILLE, AL – It appears that Remington Arms took New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s hint after he said that “extreme conservatives” who are “pro-assault-weapon” have “no place in the state of New York,” and are expanding their facilities to Huntsville, Alabama. Follow TLR on…
Tens of thousands of peaceful gun owners commit class D felony. Follow TLR on Google+ Tens of thousands of Connecticut of gun owners – perhaps as many as 100,000 – have committed class D felonies by failing to register their semi-automatic weapons by December 31st. Last April, Connecticut hurriedly passed a draconian new gun law…
Scumbags Gonna Scum LANCASTER COUNTY, PA – Police are announcing charges against a man who opened fire on a horse-driven Amish buggy carrying a five-member family, killing the animal. Follow TLR on Google+ Timothy Antonio Diggs is now facing seven misdemeanor counts that include firing into an occupied vehicle, reckless endangerment and cruelty to animals….
Black Activists Be Trippin’ PORTLAND, OR–Stories that focus on the polarizing issue of racism are pounced upon immediately by the mainstream media and dragged out for weeks. Yet a recent situation in Portland has gone largely unnoticed since its occurrence last week. The reason? African-Americans are the ones resisting an increased white presence in their…