By Eric Brakey Eight years in exile, Edward Snowden dreams of returning home. Only twenty-nine when he saw his country for the last time, Snowden set out—like Paul Revere ten generations before him—on an uncertain journey to warn his countrymen of an unseen threat. Guilty of obeying his oath to the Constitution, he is pursued…
Kaylee Greenlee on July 27, 2021 Hundreds of anti-communists and Cuban Americans demonstrated in Washington, D.C. Monday to urge the Biden administration to intervene on behalf of citizens against the regime in Cuba. “The only reason that people survive in Cuba is because Americans here are sending them money,” Laura Celdran, 29, told the Daily…
By Eric Brakey “No amendment to the Constitution is absolute!” President Joe Biden declared during an April address to Congress–and he means it. If you ask the President, the Constitution contains no hard limits on the power of Washington, D.C. and no absolute guarantees for the freedoms of the people. Biden’s vision for America is…
Texas announced on Friday that they would become the first in the nation to open their economy back up in incremental steps beginning Monday, April 20th. On Thursday, April 16th, the Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) team were at the Austin, Texas capitol for one of the first in the nation protests to stop the economic shutdown…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman The NSA and the FBI under the Obama administration infringed upon foundational civil liberties many times over several years, according to recently declassified documents reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The memos — which were originally obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) through Freedom of Information…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Paul Meekin Several years and half an ideology ago, I gave the ACLU $35 dollars. In return I received their e-mails and a fancy title I can’t remember. ‘Champion of Justice’, ‘Freedom Knight’ or some other name that was fun to say but really meant nothing. The last five e-mails…
2016 Libertarian Party ticket mates Gary Johnson and William Weld both made exceptionally favorable appearances in some of the most popular liberal media spots recently. First, Weld did a spot for NowThis which outlined his pro-liberty and pro-LGBT policies during his time as governor for Massachusetts – putting specific emphasis on the fact that he…
Kevin Daley ChristianMingle.com, an online platform for single Christians seeking relationships, must accommodate gay users, a California judge ruled. Two gay men in California brought a lawsuit against ChristianMingle’s parent company Spark Network, which also administers CatholicMingle.com, AdventistSinglesConnection.com, BlackSingles.com, and a mobile application CROSSPATHS. They alleged the site’s failure to accommodate gay users violated the Unruh…
by Micah J. Fleck Now comes the time to truly examine the merits and precedents set by making it once again legal to subcategorize minority groups in the eyes of the law. A new bill has just cleared the Kentucky senate that not only would force gay couples to file a completely different type of…
Former Congressman Pete Hoekstra was one of the loudest advocates of NSA spying as the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee. He has advocated making the Patriot Act permanent, calling it an “effective tool” in the fight against terrorism. He criticized Senator Rand Paul during his nearly 11 hour speech against extending the law, saying “it clearly…