On the 2nd night of the Republican National Convention, First Lady of the United States Melania Trump was a featured speaker. Watch a short clip from her presentation below: pic.twitter.com/9V7ZdU9gdB — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 26, 2020 Bette Midler apparently doesn’t care for Melania’s accent much. Midler took to Twitter to disparage Melania’s English…
The hysterical Americana-phobia demonstrated by many in the United States and around the world is reaching a fevered pitch. What began modestly enough in the summer of 2015 with a kind of bemused indifference, has finally mutated into psychopathic bloodlust. While the return of a classically American ethos helped thrust Donald Trump into the White…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock An institute at the University of California Los Angeles argues that “Trumpism consolidates power through white supremacy, misogyny, nationalism, xenophobia, corporatism, and militarism” and performs research and activism to advance “radical democracy.” UCLA’s Institute on Inequality and Democracy operates out of the university’s school of public affairs….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Dries Van Thielen On his latest Freakonomics podcast episode, journalist and a personal hero of mine Stephen Dubner interviewed the philosopher/economist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. The author of the recently published “Everybody Lies” tackled the issue of post-terrorist attack speeches and how effective they were to convince an audience. His method…
by Kody Fairfield On Tuesday, a group of United Nations (UN) experts told the United States that the nation owed black citizens reparations for not yet having confronted its “racial terrorism.” The UN working group on people of African descent warned that the black people in the US were facing a “human rights crisis.” Their…
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all” By Casey Bennett [dropcap size=small]I[/dropcap]t was the year 1776 when American colonists declared independence from Britain and set the stage for war with one…