The city of Los Angeles agrees to pay $645,000 to settle a lawsuit that claimed L.A. sanitation workers stole or destroyed property of homeless people during periodic clean-up efforts in the city’s sprawling Skid Row area. Do homeless people have a Constitutional right to squat on public property, stockpile pallets, refrigerators and other scavenged items, and generally drag down property values and tourist appeal?
Democrat Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has a plan to make the Supreme Court less political by increasing the number of judges — a plan to pack the court. Meanwhile, Matt Ford at NewRepublic.com, says Mayor Pete’s plan won’t fix the Supremes, so he recommends a random drawing for new court picks, with term limits. Will either of these plans depoliticize the highest court, or simply lock in Progressive dominance of the judicial branch?
The Stratosphere Lounge, episode 220, recorded by Bill Whittle before a live, global, audience on 06/06/2019.
A group dubbed ‘Super Happy Fun America’ plans to stage a ‘straight pride’ parade in late August in Boston to recognize the accomplishments of straight Americans. Is there room in America for celebration of achievements by heterosexuals, or is a straight pride parade inherently offensive, and discriminatory against homosexuals? Should Boston grant the parade permit?
Newly-minted Lt. Parker Hammond overcame stage-3 cancer to graduate from the U.S. Air Force Academy, thanks to his fellow cadets. Lt. Hammond receives a handshake and salute from his Commander in Chief. Right Angle looks at what this story says about the human spirit, as well as about President Trump.
Why would the NRA fight against a Texas law to spend $1 million on a campaign designed to promote safe gun storage? And how is it possible that the National Rifle Association lost a battle…against Republicans? Bill Whittle analyzes the risks inherent in the proposed new law.
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tt Ott, Bill Whittle and Stephen Green kick off their weekly pre-production meeting with a haphazard review of President Trump’s remarks near Number 10 Downing Street, before getting down to the serious business of planning this week’s episodes of Right Angle for our Members.
Despite his opponents’ narrative that President Trump is anti-immigrant, he presides over huge growth in new citizens and approval of citizenship applications, including those of asylum seekers and refugees. Will Trump’s base of xenophobes and immigrant-haters abandon him because more foreigners are becoming citizens?
Major Hollywood Progressive actor Meryl Streep publicly rejects the term “toxic masculinity” as bad for all, not just for men. She notes that “women can be pretty f-ing toxic too.” Is this a watershed moment that signals more civil dialogue from Hollywood, or will Streep’s Progressive friends blackball her for engaging in free speech?
Georgia just passed a bill legalizing direct primary care agreements between doctors and patients, bypassing the insurance industry. If this spreads to even more states, could it be the death knell of Obamacare? Given the reluctance of Congressional Republicans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, could this be, as Bill Whittle says, “the best news since Donald Trump was elected President”?
Leftist biographer David J. Garrow reveals archival FBI bug-tape transcript implicating the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in illicit sexual activity beyond belief. If true, will America revise its view of the Civil Rights icon?
The entire Progressive Socialist argument seems primed for collapse as Populist revolts continue to sweep on country after another. Will Conservatives shake off the constraints of their own terminology, and reclaim the high moral ground of free markets and individual liberty in time to save the world?
Special Counsel Robert Mueller, at his final press conference, implies Donald Trump is NOT not guilty of obstruction of justice, and leaves the door open for impeachment. Will Democrats take new hope from the implication that the only reason the Mueller report didn’t recommend charges against Trump is because a sitting president can’t be charged with a crime?
Just a month after announcing his presidential candidacy, former Vice President Joe Biden makes himself scarce on the campaign trail, while Sanders, Warren, Gillibrand, Buttigieg and others take to the hustings frequently before peppy crowds. As Gropin’ Joe runs away from running, will he inevitably squander his “inevitability”?
Billionaire Mark Cuban solves the 2nd Amendment debate with a little editing. Your federal government guarantees your right to keep and bear arms, while your state regulates that gun ownership. What could be wrong with a solution that respects our federated republican form of government, and guarantees your right to own a gun?