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Los Angeles: 3rd-World $#1+hole of Rats, Typhus and Stinking Heaps Garbage

Giant stinking heaps of garbage, crawling with rats carrying typhus — this is not some simmering 3rd-World $#1+hole, but rather, the Democrat-run city of Los Angeles. What will it take to clean up the City of Angels?

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Right Angle: Backstage [05/21/2019]

Scott Ott, Bill Whittle and Stephen Green gather to plan this week’s episodes of Right Angle on BillWhittle.com. This time we open in song and it gets better from there.

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90% Certainty: A.I. Predicts Your Death by Heart Attack

If new A.I. machine learning can predict your death by heart attack, do you want to know? This isn’t Robert Heinlein science fiction. Artificial intelligence can now evaluate 85 factors and formulate a heart-attack and death prediction for the next few years that’s about 90 percent accurate.

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Laughing Goodbye to Tim Conway: Iconic Comic Passes into Legend

With the passing of Tim Conway on May 14, 2019, the men of “Right Angle” remember a comic genius who made all of America laugh — not least, his fellow cast members on The Carol Burnett Show from 1967-1978. To mourn his loss with laughter is the best tribute.

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Sidewalk Chalk Communists: UCLA Kids Rebel Against Paradise

Communist party members at UCLA rage against the capitalist machine with sidewalk chalk on the edge of sylvan academia. Bill Whittle, Stephen Green and Scott Ott have great sport with these naive revolutionaries.

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Apple Airpods Tragedy: Cursing the Future Fossils of Capitalism

Vice.com writer Caroline Haskins expels a lengthy screed damning Apple’s Airpods as a tragedy — “the future fossils of capitalism.” Stephen Green, Bill Whittle and Scott Ott schools this Leftist luddite in the miracle of free markets.

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“The Shadow War” Against the USA: Russia Active on Land, Sea, Space & Cyber

A new book by CNN national security reporter Jim Sciutto chronicles “The Shadow War” conducted by Russia against the USA. Active on land, and sea, in space and cyber, Vladimir Putin is already on a war-footing toward the United States. Will President Trump and the American public understand the roots of Russian hostility in time to save both countries?

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CNN Crisis: With Ratings Plunge and Staff Purge, Can it Survive?

As Nielsen chronicles the CNN ratings plunge, and headlines document the CNN staff purge, what options are left for the pioneer in 24-hour cable news? Will it survive by a resort to actual journalism, or will it continue to follow the mad-dog methods of MSNBC. Are we witnessing the final days of the Cable News Network?

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Jesus the Never-Trumper: Mayor Pete Declares God’s Political Preference

Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a leading Democratic candidate for president and professing Christian, usually declares: “God has no political party.” Yet recently he told NBC News that God’s political preference would NOT be the Republican Party in the Trump era. He also had harsh innuendo about Vice President Mike Pence’s Christian faith. What does this say about Mayor Pete’s character, his theology and his prospects as a 2020 presidential candidate?

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Poor Mistreated Uber Drivers Cry Out on Eve of $90 Billion IPO

As Uber stands at the doorstep of its initial public offering (IPO), Uber drivers cry out: “They treat us like crap!” If the face of your company complains to your customers that they’re poor and mistreated, why should investors pour $90 billion into an business that has vigorous competition from Lyft and others, and virtually no barrier to entry, since it’s essentially just an app? And what does this say about capitalism itself?

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Right Angle: BACKSTAGE (5/7/2019)

Eavesdrop on the weekly pitch meeting for Right Angle with Bill Whittle, Stephen Green and Scott Ott. What show ideas will rise to the top, and which ones will be tossed on the ash-heap of history…and who will have to host the latter.

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Right Angle: Lightning Round XIX

Stephen Green’s copyrighted, patented, trademarked, artisinally-selected, steel-cut questions designed to surprise and delight Scott Ott, Bill Whittle and children of all ages. Ripped from the headlines of your digital news source…and we’re very sorry about the screen damage, but you knew the risk.

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Groper Cleveland: Can Biden’s Faded Blue Collar Style Win in Fresh Socialist DNC?

Former Vice President Joe Biden jumps into the 2020 presidential race as the presumptive frontrunner, but is he? Will his historically-moderate views, old-school approach, and the physical advances of age hold up against the avowed socialism, modern media savvy and juvenile vigor of others in the field?

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$2 Trillion of ‘Goodwill’: Did Pelosi and Schumer Just Play Trump?

President Trump meets privately with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who emerge announcing “goodwill” and a common commitment to spend $2 trillion on infrastructure spending. Did Trump get played? Will Democrat insistence on environmental regulations drag out projects and jack up their price?

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Venezuelan Violence: Will American Socialists Finally Learn the Lesson?

As another socialist experiment draws to a close in bloody violence, Venezuelan collapse seems to have no impact on the American Socialists who strive to take over the Democratic party, and then the country. When will they learn the lesson that socialists schemes inevitably end in starvation, chaos and military force against the commoners politicians pretend to love?