By Jonah Bennett Meet the Marine Corps veteran who is lucky to be alive after fighting off a bear with his bare hands. Larry Yepez, a 66-year-old veteran who served during the Vietnam War and received a Purple Heart for his service, was attacked Thursday by a 250-pound bear near his home in Mariposa, Calif., CNN reports. Yepez says he stepped outside…
Yesterday in an interview with Bloomberg, economist Joseph Steglitz called for literally outlawing Bitcoin, on the basis that it doesn’t serve any “socially useful function“. In the same interview, he unintentionally did a good job highlighting several of Bitcoin’s socially useful functions. Let’s leave aside whether or not governments should outlaw things that they deem…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Kevin Daley Supreme Court Reporter Ty Cobb, the hard-hitting litigator President Donald Trump retained to coordinate his personal team of lawyers inside the White House, doesn’t mince words. In his first public remarks since joining the administration, Cobb told The National Law Journal’s Katelyn Polantz that his courage and deep-seated sense…
Did you know that porcupines sometimes form a rare stone inside of them that is very valuable? It’s called a bezoar stone, and when Jared Buzzell saw a car hit and kill a porcupine on the road, he decided to try and cut it open to see if he could find one inside. But what…
Mary Margaret Olohan 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren appealed to young women with a plethora of life advice in a new video, saying, “Dump the guy who ghosted you.” The Massachusetts senator discussed “on everything from student debt to reproductive rights” in an exclusive video with Elle released Wednesday titled “I Have A Plan For That.” The…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By: Elias J. Atienza Yesterday, the U.S Court of Appeals 4th Circuit ruled that there is no right to “assault weapons”, weapons such as the AR-15, which reserved an earlier decision by a district court. Gun rights groups are predictably furious and gun control groups are predictably ecstatic. Maryland passed…
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