LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock A college provost is refusing to help a conservative student in trouble for hosting a mock “Social Justice Bake Sale” the school says “violated university policy and federal law.” Regis University has prevented Alexander Beck from viewing its official Twitter account after the college stopped Beck and his…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Juliegrace Brufke Pennsylvania Rep. Charlie Dent, a chair of the moderate Tuesday Group, said conservatives in the House are largely responsible for the downfall of the Obamacare repeal bill Friday. According to Dent, too many concessions were given to the House Freedom Caucus, which led to the loss of moderate…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock A Republican college student was recently attacked on Twitter when she expressed her fear of “being stereotyped or labeled negatively” for voicing conservative opinions. https://twitter.com/michelle_sham/status/842718268280528897 Among the Bowie State University student’s fiercest critics was Patrick S. Tomlinson, a contributor to The Hill and self-described “comic,” who replied…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck According to a new report, the growing ban-happy culture of the modern left, especially among college students, is causing more and more would-be centrists and liberals to identify as conservative as a direct response to what they recognize as a form of oppression. The Telegraph, zeroing…
Pres. Trump has unknowingly revived philosophical debate for pundits, commentators, and everyday people. Let’s hope these profitable conversations continue.
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck I initially covered this story for The College Fix, and then had the story picked up by Fox News, The Blaze, etc. until the featured video went viral. My original report was as follows: What started as a meeting between progressive and conservative student groups to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Luke Rosiak A man who shot someone outside a speech at the University of Washington (UW) by conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos said his victim was a “white supremacist,” and police let the shooter go, even as the victim is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. In what appears to be a…
By Brett Chandrasekhar Over the past year, social media platforms have arguably censored libertarian and conservative opinions. Most notoriously, Facebook came under fire for allegedly suppressing conservative news. On several occasions, they banned (and after pushback, unbanned) popular libertarian pages as well. Now fake news is the latest threat to free speech on social media….
by Chris White New York Times columnist Paul Krugman claimed President-elect Donald Trump’s anti-global warming position “may doom civilization,” but leave the U.S. economy relatively unscathed. Krugman, a professor of economics at the University of New York, told his legion of followers Monday Trump will almost certainly decimate the environment, yet have almost no effect…
by Josh Guckert As reported by Bryan Caplan, a George Mason economics professor and adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, answers to one particular question in the exit survey of the annual Cato Libertarian-Conservative is of interest. As Caplan notes: Q23. Do you favor or oppose a law in your state that would allow businesses…