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Alabama Skirts Around Gay Marriage, Proposes Ending All Legalized Marriage Instead

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck According to a new report: Last week, the Yellowhammer State’s Senate passed a measure that would abolish marriage licenses altogether while removing ceremonial requirements for obtaining marriage. Instead of the state issuing documents and requiring that agents of the state take part in the marriage process,…

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Capitalism Saves a Life: Four-Year-Old Uses iPhone’s Siri to Call Help For His Fallen Mother (AUDIO)

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck Well, the wonders of capitalistic industry-created technological gadgets never cease. And in this story, we find out that the evil corporation Apple built Siri, the iPhone’s AI, to dial the proper emergency numbers in all regions when something wrong is relayed to it. In this case,…

Open World Video Games Appeal to Everyone’s Inner Libertarian
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Open World Video Games Appeal to Everyone’s Inner Libertarian

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck With the latest release (and subsequent craze) of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild–which came out at the top of this month and is already becoming one of the highest reviewed games of all time–the video gaming scene is abuzz with practically nothing but…

New Human Rights Initiative Smuggling Flash Drives Full of Liberty to North Korea
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New Human Rights Initiative Smuggling Flash Drives Full of Liberty to North Korea

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck The Human Rights Foundation and Forum 280 have joined forces to do something pretty extraordinary: cram inconspicuous flash drives full of pro-freedom, unfiltered information from the outside world and then smuggle said drives into North Korea for mass consumption. Reports the New York Post: That old…

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Ex-CIA director: Millennials Are Pro-Leak Because They Are “Culturally Different”

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck According to a new report by The Washington Post: The latest massive leak of government secrets — a trove of apparent CIA documents posted online this week by WikiLeaks, an anti-secrecy organization — is still so new that federal officials say they are only in the early stages…

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Trump’s New FCC Chief Wants to Unlock Every Smartphone’s Built-In FM Radio for Us to Utilize for Free

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck Well, we never said every appointed cabinet member had to be as seemingly tyrannical as Trump himself. According to a new report, the president’s FCC chief wants to end the regulations that force most U.S. phone’s built-in FM receiver to be turned off: Your smartphone has an…

AFTERWARD: The Top Five Silver Linings of 2016
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AFTERWARD: The Top Five Silver Linings of 2016

by Kitty Testa So you think 2016 was the worst year ever? In a global sense, I would nominate almost any year in the 20th century as being far worse than 2016. Over that 100-year span, approximately 200 million people were killed from war, deliberate famines and pogroms, and over 800 million perished in epidemics….