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Bars Become Restaurants to Dodge Texas COVID-19 Closure Rules

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tries to slow the spread of COVID-19 (again) by closing bars, defined as a businesses that generates at least 51 percent of revenue from alcohol sales. Clever business people, in an effort to keep their employees working and families fed, find ways to dodge the alcohol ratio rules and keep the doors open.

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Radical Chic Spread: See the Hot Street Styles on Portland’s Cosplay Justice Warriors

A Washington Post (WaPo) photo spread features Portland’s justice warriors in their mild mannered ordinary lives, contrasted with the radical chic of their “peaceful protest” costumes. It looks like Comic-Con’s cosplay battalion takin’ it to the streets, but these passionate fighters for racial justice and civil liberties expect to be taken seriously.

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Tyranny: 200 Cops Crash Newspaper Office, Arrest Publisher in Once-Free Hong Kong

Jimmy Lai, the publisher of Apple Daily, gets arrested along with his two sons at the behest of Chinese Communist leader Xi Jinping for “violating” a new “law” that forbids embarrassing Hong Kong’s mainland authoritarian Commie overlords. Will Lai be whisked away to the mainland under the new extradition law that led to mass protests for months?

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Right Angle: Backstage (08-11-2020)

In a marathon session — exceeded in length and vapidity only by the Zoom meeting you’ve had three times this week with your boss — the men of Right Angle hatch their diabolical schemes for this week’s shows.

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Beetle Eaten by Frog Survives: Is There a Way Out of 2020 for You Too?

Take a wild ride through the weirder news stories of the week with Stephen Green’s Right Angle Lightning Round (patent pending 2020), featuring Bill Whittle and Scott Ott.

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Minneapolis Police to Locals: Do What the Thugs Tell You, Prepare to Be Robbed

Minneapolis police tell locals you should do what criminals tell you, and prepare to be robbed of your iPhone or cash. Is this new guidance from a demoralized, soon-to-be defunded force, a rhetorical tool in negotiations with local politicians who seem eager to slash budgets and take cops off the beat?

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Biden Juggernaut? Rasmussen Shows Trump Up Among Likely Voters, Besting Obama

While most presidential poll stories have shown Joe Biden mounting a growing lead over Donald Trump — some say insurmountable. But Rasmussen’s latest poll of likely voters — not mere registered voters — shows Trump beating Biden, and besting Barack Obama’s numbers at the same stage of his reelection campaign.

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Savage Inequality: Unhappy with Zoom Public Schooling, Parents Pay for Learning Pods

The rolling COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns leave some parents unhappy with their public schooling options — Zoom classrooms or sending your kid into a crowd — so they’ve decided to pay for a small-group education supplement sessions dubbed learning pods.

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Right Angle: Backstage (08-04-2020)

When these three titans come together in one room, the intellectual firepower is a thing to behold. This is why they’re sequestered in undisclosed locations in three states to plan this week’s episodes of Right Angle.

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Resurrecting War Plan Blue: We Need New Pentagon Strategy for Major Conflict…Now!

Does the Pentagon need a new ‘War Plan Blue’ — a preparedness strategy for major conflict. marshal industry, people, and infrastructure to meet the unpredictable needs of a nation at war with China, or any other opponent. A retired Navy captain says, ‘Yes’, and so do the men of Right Angle.

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Least Bad Option: Mentally Faltering Biden Should Beg Off Debating Trump

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden should find a reason to beg off debating Donald Trump as the least bad option, given his mentally faltering state. Which would be more embarrassing, to skip the debate, or to have Trump look at the camera and say “Does anyone know what the hell that guy just said?”

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Swear You Don’t Have COVID-19: Are Employers Right to Require Daily Affidavit?

Is it ethical for your employer to require you to sign an affidavit daily that you don’t have any of the symptoms of COVID-19? Is it smart business leadership? Scott Ott, Bill Whittle and Stephen Green challenge this new concept brought on by this incessant Coronavirus pandemic.

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To Stand Up for Racial Justice and Police Reform, Stand Up for the National Anthem

Athletes demanding racial justice and police reform are “making an enormous mistake” when they protest by kneeling or leaving the arena during the National Anthem. To win friends to the cause, and avoid offending people who might otherwise support you, stand up for the National Anthem.

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Right Angle: Backstage (07-28-2020)

Exploring the origins and potential of the “goat rodeo”, the men of Right Angle plan this week’s episodes with one eye on the breaking news of the day, and the other on the monkey.

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Progressive Racism: ‘White Fragility’ Disciples Slam Success Formula as ‘White Values’

Robin DiAngelo, author of ‘White Fragility’ has made millions telling White people they’re racists, especially if they don’t think they’re racists. Her disciples now slam the time-tested, cross-cultural success formula as “White values.”