By Micah J. Fleck Following our previous list of Five Reasons Why Conservatives Should Vote Libertarian, TLR is now looking at the top five reasons that those other guys, liberals, should also consider voting for the Libertarian Party – in 2016, locally, and beyond. As the resident lefty libertarian on staff, I have explained my…
By Juliegrace Brufke Despite major tax increases, 2016 Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders’ healthcare plan would fall roughly $16.6 trillion short over the course of a decade, according to studies released by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center and the Urban Institute. While Sanders claimed all of his proposals would be fully paid for, his…
Governor Jerry Brown Signs Bill Raising Smoking Age to 21 After years of spouting the “my body, my choice” rhetoric, California Democrats have now turned on the concept of self ownership. Starting June 9th, it will be illegal to sell tobacco to anyone under the magical, state-approved age of 21. While critics of this law have…
By Casey Harper Liberal activist and former White House adviser Van Jones admitted one big way Republicans have embarrassed Democrats at a press briefing Thursday. Jones, a criminal justice activist and political correspondent for CNN, served as special adviser for green jobs for the White House until he resigned in 2009. He pointed to former Ohio Gov….
By Blake Neff Hundreds of workers on Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign will be looking for work tomorrow, after Sanders announced Wednesday that his campaign is laying off hundreds. The announcement comes one day after Sanders lost four out of five primaries in northeastern states, further shrinking his already long-shot odds of overtaking Hillary Clinton in…
By Juliegrace Brufke Democratic 2016 hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders has recently gained momentum in the polls, but an interview with New York Daily News published Monday may have been just disastrous enough to give front-runner Hillary Clinton the ammunition she needs to take him down. Despite being asked questions pertaining to the major issues he’s been running on,…
Vermont’s Democratic socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has sought to separate his views from those of tyrannical socialist regimes throughout history. The problem is that back in the 1980’s Sanders was outspoken in his support of communist dictator Fidel Castro as well as the Soviet-aligned Sandinista government in Nicaragua. In fact, recently discovered video shows Sanders…
For a number of years now, there’s been a growing trend on the left of playing victim politics. This is when a group of individuals attempts to derail civil, sensible political debate by pulling out the victim card, claiming racism, sexism, homophobia, or general bigotry when confronted with an opinion or argument to which they have…
Face Fact, Libertarians: Austin Petersen is the Only Hope For a Mainstream Third Party There can be no great changes made to any system, for better or worse, without a general consensus first. People must agree that there is a problem in dire need of solving and that the proposed solution would result in a…
For starters, not ALL white liberals annoy me or participate in this continuous guilt tripping. It is also very important to mention that I am not referring to liberals in the classical sense, but rather those that have just highjacked the term to describe their fraud humanitarian efforts to expand government. I will also admit that the term…