by Kitty Testa Scientific American posted an alarming headline yesterday, Big Pharma’s Manufactured Epidemic: The Misdiagnosis of ADHD. The article’s author, Alan Schwarz, notes that the American Psychiatric Association puts the rate of ADHD at 5% of American children, yet the diagnosis is given to about 15% of children. The overdiagnosis of ADHD has been…
SWAT Team Breaks into Wrong Home Where Family with Small Children Reside by Aya Katz It could have been worse. Someone could have gotten killed, maybe even a child. But the most recent episode of the War on Drugs, in which a SWAT team broke into the wrong home, in Clifton, Mesa County, Colorado, this…
By Blake Neff A group of California parents have launched a lawsuit against the state, saying it’s illegal for the state to force them to vaccinate their children to attend public school. After a major outbreak of measles at Disneyland in 2014, California lawmakers responded by passing one of the country’s strictest vaccination laws.Previously, parents…
Connor D. Wolf A Pennsylvania teacher has had her pension benefits revoked following years of doing nothing but union work instead of her job, a lawyer involved said. Allentown Education Association President Debra Tretter has done nothing but union work since getting elected in 2009. In that time, she continued to accumulate pension benefits reserved…
The spot on the map Bernie Sanders and his supporters once cited as a shining example of socialist policy gone grand has in recent months swiftly fallen into financial ruin as one of the most unmitigated disasters of government incompetence in history. TLR has reported in the past on many of the unfortunate details, but…
By Jonah Bennett The Obama administration admitted Tuesday that illegals are kidnapping children in order to pass themselves off as family units and take advantage of incredibly soft immigration rules. “When people now know that when I come as a family unit, I won’t be apprehended and detained — we now have people being abducted so that…
Chris White A man is suing the University of Nebraska, claiming latex and strings from thousands of balloons the university releases during football games harm wildlife and the environment and kill children who choke on the deflated balloons. Randall Krause claims in his lawsuit the university is contributing to the destruction of wildlife and likely violating federal…
Blake Neff Oregon’s state government released a set of guidelines for schools Thursday informing educators that students must be allowed to use whatever locker rooms they want and play on opposite-sex sports teams as long as they say it reflects their chosen gender identity. Not only that, but if the student doesn’t want his or her parents to…
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by Lina Bryce Hilde Kate Lysiak is not your average 9-year-old — she’s also the reporter, editor, and publisher of Orange Street News who ruffled some feathers by breaking a story about a murder that occurred in her hometown of Selinsgrove, PA. Apparently following in the footsteps of her father Matthew Lysiak, an author and former New York Daily News reporter,…
Chris White Former Vibe editor and current author Dave Bry wondered publicly in a Saturday editorial for The Guardian whether or not it is moral to birth a child in a world that could supposedly become uninhabitable within the next few decades. “For while the world is a wonderful place, one we humans have made nicer for…