A Colorado teen gets suspended from school and investigated for posting a pic of his gun on social media, and expressing his joy about a trip to the range with Mom. Is there anyway to escape from the media’s gun panic? Do we have two Americas — one where impressive firearms are admired, and the other where every trigger triggers hysteria?
President Trump Tweet-Trolls the Iranian regime using a satellite photo of a “catastrophic accident” involving its Safir SLV missile at Semnan Launch Site One. The American Left goes ballistic, accusing Trump of leaking the classified image.
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Breaking with tradition, the men of Right Angle start the backstage meeting with a question from a viewer. From an off-topic question, the production meeting veers even further off topic.
Democratic-Socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says he’ll stop greedy fat cats from buying, merging, and closing news outlets. The Columbia Journalism Review gives spaces to this “Bernie saves journalism” plan. Would the truth get out more under President Bernie Sanders, or is he merely disturbed that the Democratic party’s PR firm shrinks as the Internet continues killing newspapers?
A metal asteroid worth $10,000 quadrillion, hurtling through space, makes construction of a massive orbital space station substantially cheaper. At least one company is already pitching a plan for a Von Braun Gateway Station housing some 1,500 people in orbit. The resources on the single asteroid, 16 Psyche, is not only enough to build the station, but to wipe out the U.S. national debt thousands of times over.
China expands its system of tracking a citizen’s behavior with a social credit score, and limiting his freedoms if it goes negative. Your neighbor reports you smoking a cigarette at your house, and when you try to fly to Hong Kong the flight attendant says, your score is too low, get off the plane. Is this just a dystopian nightmare spawned by communism, or could measures taken by American companies to nudge consumer behavior lead to such a scenario in the land of the free?
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Behold, the show that demonstrates why Bill Whittle, Stephen Green and Scott Ott are blatantly unemployable in any commonly-accepted sense of the word. During this episode, they set up a multi-level marketing organization to cash in on the asteroid-mining craze.
As the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates call for Medicare for all, decriminalizing illegal immigration, open borders and free healthcare for illegal aliens, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says they’re too extreme, and will suffer for it at the polls. Will anyone listen?
Barack and Michelle Obama debut their first Higher Ground Production for Netflix, a documentary about the underbelly of the alleged Trump prosperity — American Factory. The new doc looks at a former GM plant, taken over by a Chinese auto glass firm, where workers make less money, and struggle to adapt to the regime of their new masters.
How long can the Communist Chinese government stand against the relentless onslaught of a people who’ve tasted freedom, and want more. Hundreds of thousands daily form the Hong Kong throng, waving the American flag and singing the U.S. national anthem. After more than four months it seems even tear gas can’t choke the voice of liberty rising.
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A mild mishap involving Bill Whittle and an errant production slate kicks off the convening, conferring and conversing that constitutes the weekly pre-production meeting of the vast staff of Right Angle. Members at BillWhittle.com say this is their favorite show of the week, and who are we to question their judgment?
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Italian deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini says that if Richard Gere doesn’t like Italy’s immigration policy, he’s free to load up his private jet with illegal immigrants and take them back to his mansion for shelter. The men of Right Angle — Bill Whittle, Stephen Green and Scott Ott — handle this, and even more ridiculous stories of the week on the XXIIIrd episode of Lightning Round…a feature so precious, we can only bear to do it about once a month.
Greater federal government power is Elizabeth Warren’s disarming new plan to cut gun deaths. Higher taxes on guns and ammo, federal licensing with training courses, a national gun owner database, expanded background checks, renewed ban on assault-style weapons…and the Democrat presidential candidate is just getting started. Is this a serious legislative proposal to save lives, or a disingenuous bit of stagecraft designed to make America meek again (MAMA).
Is the debauched and disturbing world we see playing out on the news networks and social media just “the world we live in,” or is there another, quiet and dignified America that doesn’t make it to the screen?
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Lots of laughter and time-wasting banter in this backstage meeting of the cast of Right Angle as Bill Whittle, Stephen Green and Scott Ott prove incontrovertibly that they have no other friends in the world but each other. The Members at BillWhittle.com are wholly responsible for the production of this show, although not for its content or quality. Thank you.