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Cruel and Usual: Supreme Court Lets Homeless People Sleep on Sidewalk

The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to review a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that Boise, Idaho, violated the 8th Amendment rights of homeless people by levying a small fine for sleeping on the sidewalk. Is keeping public spaces clear of vagrants “cruel and unusual punishment” if no suitable homeless shelters exist?

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Right Angle

Trump Impeached: Instead of a Speedy Trial, the Senate Should Dismiss the Charges

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans a speedy impeachment trial that rapidly acquits President Donald Trump of the two charges brought by the House. But why even have the trial? If the Republican-controlled Senate took a vote to dismiss the articles of impeachment, the country could move on.

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Bill Whittle Now

Wrong, Weak and Divisive: Obama Wants Women to Rule the World

Former President Barack Obama tells an audience in Singapore that the world would improve if women ruled in every nation. Bill Whittle says Obama is wrong, weak and divisive.

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Backstage Right Angle

Right Angle: Backstage (12-17-2019)

As news breaks that Bill Whittle, Stephen Green and Scott Ott will take to the high seas with fans and Members in May 2020 for the maiden voyage of the USS StratoCruise, the boys gather for the weekly planning session for Right Angle.

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Bill Whittle Now

Now Trump Won’t Eliminate Inefficient Agency That Employs 5,500 Bureaucrats

There’s bipartisan agreement that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is inefficient, using antiquated and vulnerable computer systems. But after 18 months of trying to eliminate an agency that employs 5,500 bureaucrats, President Trump now says he won’t.

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Right Angle

Seize Guns from Young Male Minorities: Bloomberg’s Secret Aspen Speech

Now that he’s running for president, will someone finally leak Michael Bloomberg’s secret Aspen Institute speech recording when he called for cops to seize guns from young male minorities?

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Bill Whittle Now

Success Shaming: Mayor Pete Outed for Private-Sector Work, Forced to Explain

His Democrat presidential rivals have outed Mayor Pete Buttigieg for his private-sector work as a McKinsey consultant, and forced him to explain it away. Will success shaming catapult Democrats to victory in 2020, or are there still enough Democratic voters who don’t work for government to steer the party away from bashing business — the engine that enables government to give away free college, free health care and more?

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Hillary Clinton Tops Biden in New Poll: In Frozen Field Democrats Can’t Let It Go

A new Harvard Harris poll shows Hillary Clinton tops Joe Biden in a theoretical race — a theory which the former FLOTUS is doing everything she can to nudge toward reality.

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The Stratosphere Lounge

The Stratosphere Lounge Episode 239

Recorded before a live global audience on 12/12/19

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Bill Whittle Now

2019 Person of the Year: Humanitarian Environmentalist Donald Trump

Time magazine dubs Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg as the 2019 person of the year, but Bill Whittle has his own nominee — a humanitarian and environmentalist who actually did something. Here’s why the editors of Time should have picked President Donald Trump, and why they never can.

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Right Angle

Culture Clash: Pensacola Shooter Felt Bullied by “Pornstache” Nickname

The Saudi aviation student who opened fire at Pensacola Naval Air Station, murdering three U.S. sailors and wounding eight, had posted a short manifesto on Twitter decrying the actions of the “crusaders” — the United States and Israel — and encouraging jihad. But this episode of Right Angle focuses an a smaller aspect of the story — the shooter’s reaction to being dubbed “pornstache” by an instructor.

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Bill Whittle Now

Unwinnable: Do Afghanistan Papers Prove Officials Lied to Keep War Going?

The Washington Post publishes documents released through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request about the U.S. war in Afghanistan, claiming they show that U.S. officials promoted a rosy view of progress, when behind the scenes they knew the war was unwinnable.

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Right Angle

Impeach Trump: The Democrat Party’s 2020 Election Concession Speech

Bill Whittle thinks he now understands why Democrats continue to pursue their Quixotic impeachment dream. It’s the Democrat Party’s 2020 election concession speech. They know they can’t convict or remove him from office, and they know they can’t beat him in November. Why do you think they continue down this path?

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Backstage Right Angle

Right Angle: Backstage (12/10/2019)

Right Angle: Backstage (12/10/2019)

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IG Report: FBI Authorized to Spy on Trump Campaign, Plagued by “Serious Failures”

Justice Department Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz releases his report essentially clearing former FBI officials James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok and others of launching an investigation into the Trump campaign’s connections with Russia for political reasons.