By Dries Van Thielen Even though the YouTube ban of Alex Jones took most of the limelight this week, other individuals lost access to their social media accounts as well. Radio host Scott Horton (Fool’s Errand, Libertarian Institute), whistleblower Peter Van Buuren (We Meant Well), and Liberty Report’s host Daniel McAdams were all banned from…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Minik Evanston, IL – Northwestern University has become the latest battleground in the fight for free speech and academic liberty. Sociology professor Beth Redbird invited a public relations officer of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to participate in a lecture series on “Inequality: Race, Class, and Power.” To…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Loveshe On college campuses throughout the United States, students seek employment working on campus at their fitness center, residence halls, or student unions. At the University of Arizona, employment options now extend to monitoring facebook comment sections for any ‘microaggressions’. The publicly-funded university began accepting applications this past…
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 Rob Shimshock Resident advisers at Ohio State University (OSU) must reflect on social justice workshops they attend and a social justice event they host by writing a 1,200-word essay. The requirement is part of OSU’s three-step Diversity, Intercultural, and Community Engagement (DICE) certificate guidelines. To complete the first step,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By 1776 In response to President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, Democrats, liberals, and progressives across the world have blocked roads, gummed up airports, and urged people to delete Uber, because nothing says solidarity with immigrants and refugees like haphazard acts of civil disobedience and misdirected outrage. Here are some…
By Brian Nichols Ah yes, it’s that most wonderful time of the year. You know, that time of the year where the politically correct right demand the use of the phrase “Merry Christmas” versus the clamor of the politically correct left who stipulates the use of the more inclusive phrase “Happy Holidays”. This argument has come…
by Micah J. Fleck In the name of what is perceived as fair, highly successful CEOs of companies setting up shop in Portland, Oregon will soon need to pay 10% more in taxes if they make more than 100 times more than their employees. So reports The New York Times: Moving to address income inequality…
Welcome Letter To Students Warns Them Of Disagreement, Discomfort, and a Lack of “Safe Spaces” or “Trigger Warnings” By Avens O’Brien Trigger Warning: This piece includes mention of free speech, disagreement, controversy and common sense. Forgive the snarky opening complete with a trigger warning, but this week, the University of Chicago said something that…
By: Bric Butler The politically correct have struck again, and this time at a level of such hypersensitivity that the “oppressed victim” in need of help was an inanimate object. Just when we thought the political controversy surrounding baked goods stopped at religious freedom and gay wedding cakes, we have been proved wrong. That’s because…