An Australian vegan activist has a solution to avoid the overpopulation problem: force men to get a license to procreate or be sterilized. Freelee the Banana Girl, as she calls herself, is a vegan activist who advocates that 97% of your calories a day come from fruit. That’s funny, because listening to her, she seems…
Political prankster Mark Dice recently set out to see whether Americans remember the meaning of Memorial Day – and videotaped the gloomy results. Speaking with random passersby, Dice found that most of the people he spoke with have no clue what the holiday commemorates. The ignorance that Dice encountered apparently prompted him to push the…
By Kevin Daley Sen. Lindsey Graham accused NAACP President Cornell Brooks of playing politics with the NAACP’s lawmakers scorecard, which evaluates the strength of members of Congress on civil rights issues. Brooks was giving testimony in connection with the Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s consideration of Sen. Jeff Sessions’ nomination to serve as attorney general. The…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Joe Klare On election night last November, voters in four states approved the legalization of marijuana for use by all adults. They were added to a list of 4 states that already allow retail sales of recreational marijuana: Alaska, Washington, Oregon and Colorado. One of the big selling points…
Blake Neff A faculty member and two graduate students at the University of Denver (DU) have written a letter castigating the school for showing an “implicit bias towards white life” because it sent out emails concerning the terrorist attack in Paris last November. Professor Armond Towns and graduate students Raisa Alvarado and Jamie Guzmán, all…
On October 19, 1972, about two dozen people crammed into a poorly lit room at Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to watch a handful of students play video games. Some came for the free beer. Others came to catch a glimpse of history—the first-ever “Intergalactic Spacewar Olympics”—which was being recorded by Rolling Stone reporter Stewart…
