The women’s suffrage movement met their ultimate goal in 1920 when the US passed the 19th Amendment that constitutionally guaranteed voting for women across the country. Voting is just part of the story, though. As in most cases, the government is an oppressive force that is manipulated by popular sentiment of the time. In fact,…
The French Revolution produced a parade of fascinating characters, many of them deranged by power and vampire-like in their quest for blood. One of the period’s lesser-known figures was Gracchus Babeuf, whose ideas were shelved with his death in 1797 only to reappear decades later in the writings of Karl Marx. Babeuf was, as the…
Social justice is one of those squishy terms that is not easy to define. One thing we know for certain: social justice is not the same thing as justice, an age-old idea that was the focus of such thinkers as Aristotle, Plato, Augustine of Hippo, Aquinas, and Hume. (After all, if social justice meant the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Former CNN host Piers Morgan criticized the Women’s March on Washington in a Daily Mail op-ed published Monday morning. Morgan didn’t have a problem with the crowds, and he didn’t have a problem with the signs; the problem with the anti-President Donald Trump march started with Madonna’s…
by Jonah Bennett The first female ever to try out for the Army’s elite 75th Ranger Regiment has flunked out, but will get the opportunity to try again later this year. As part of the Army’s effort to integrate women into combat roles, it allowed this unnamed female staff sergeant to try out via the 75th Ranger Regiment’s Ranger…
By Jonah Bennett House Committee on Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry called the Pentagon’s decision to repeal the ban on transgenders serving openly in the military an example of “prioritizing politics over policy.” Thornberry emphasized in a statement that military readiness depends on troops being fully medically ready, adding the Obama administration has done nothing…
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…
By Blake Neff The Obama administration released a warning Monday telling the nation’s landlords that it may be discriminatory for them to refuse to rent to those with criminal records. The Fair Housing Act doesn’t include criminals as a protected class, but the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) says refusing to rent based…
Jonah Bennett A new Rasmussen Reports poll indicates 52 percent of women don’t believe they should be subjected to the draft, but 61 percent of male voters are definitely interested in seeing women sign up for Selective Service. Rasmussen found 49 percent of likely voters in the U.S. believe women should have to sign…
By: Laura Meyers This week, a video surfaced of a 19-year-old star quarterback from Florida State University returning a punch to a girl at bar who instigated the fight and started it by throwing the first punch to his face. When discussing the video, Fox News’ Dr. Keith Ablow suggests that if woman want to be respected…