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Hey Seattle: Later, Losers!

The Mayor of Seattle, Washington has publicly stated that everyone in the city should boycott Seattle’s signature brand — STARBUCKS — until the company takes a knee to Seattle’s Progressive politics and allows unionization of its workers.

Starbucks’ reaction? LATER, LOSERS! We are OUT OF HERE! Starbucks is now moving its corporate headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee. Here’s a new edition of The Right Angle. Scott Ott leads the discussion, joined by Steve green and Bill Whittle.

Nicotine Pouch Panic

Zyns are SAFER than smoking.

But now, some states tax them the SAME as cigarettes. Some as high as 95%!

That’s just dumb.

“If you make the safer alternative more expensive,” Guy Bentley of the Reason Foundation explains, “more cigarettes will be sold.” Here’s more from John Stossel.

Any Hope Left For Academia?

After four generations of falling standards of education and increasing levels of political indoctrination, a report from Yale University suggests that this might pose a problem at some point in the future. Do the dinosaurs not understand that the asteroid has already struck?

Here’s a new edition of The Right Angle led by Scott Ott, joined by Steve Green and Bill Whittle.

It’s Not Too Late, Britannia

In the last several years, the fighting strength of Britain’s Royal Navy has not just eroded — it has collapsed.

What was once a thousand-ship fleet and the envy of the world can now barely put a handful of vessels to sea. And one will never understand the soul of Great Britain without fully grasping the mythological power of the Royal Navy in that island nation’s national consciousness.

Here’s a new edition of The Right Angle, with Bill Whittle moderating Steve Gren and Scott Ott in a discussion of Britain’s now rusty legacy.

Government To The “RESCUE”

From FDR to Obama to Mamdani… politicians trash capitalism.

Their words aren’t harmless, says Economist Don Boudreaux.

“Negative words… kept investors on the sidelines, kept unemployment higher.”

Myths about Great Depression and Great Recession are busted here as John Stossel interviews Boudreaux.

Democratic Scams Backfiring

The Trump administration is moving aggressively to shut down widespread fraud that flourished during the Joe Biden years. Funding has been cut off to 450 hospices in California alone. The millions of dollars in fraud paid to these hospices meant children legitimately suffering from autism couldn’t get treatment elsewhere. All told, the fraud totaled more than $750 million.

Similarly, the Trump administration has found 7,600 nursing diplomas went to overseas applicants, allowing them to obtain work in the United States. The lion’s share of these applicants came from Haiti and India, who purchased the diplomas so they could come to the United States to work.

Other areas where fraud has been curtailed:

  • Some 12,000 drivers with poor English-speaking skills have been forced to surrender their CDLs (commercial driver’s licenses), and many CDL “license mills” have been stripped of their accreditation.
  •  Non-governmental organizations in California were using money earmarked for the homeless to actually buy vacation homes in Greece!

Here’s more from Matt Morse TV.

Lock Ables

Grocery stores are now locking away “Lunchables” as teen youths start raiding the pantries. Here’s more from The Salty Cracker.

Little Kids, Big Government

Many parents can’t afford day care centers.

They want a cheaper option: small, in-home day care.

What stops them?

Government rules.

“They are layering on regulations that make it impossible,” says Carrie Lukas of the Independent Women’s Forum. Here’s more from John Stossel, exploring how big government and over-regulation make daycare less available and more expensive.

 

What Can We Expect Soon

President Donald Trump aide Stephen Miller says we can expect to see more federal arrests and raids as the government concludes investigations looking into massive fraud. Besides the daycare fraud, we’ve seen stealing and cheating involving Medicaid as well as SNAP, the food stamps program.

Investigative journalist Jerome Corsi says these operations have been focused in urban environments, largely in Democrats strongholds, like New York and California. Here’s more from David “Nino” Rodriguez.

What Now, NATO?

After 77 years, the greatest alliance in human history is definitely showing its age.

Can a rudderless and increasingly anti-Western Europe be counted on any longer to provide the money and effort needed to save itself? Do we need to have a “tough-love moment” with our old friends from NATO?

Here’s a new version of The Right Angle, moderated by Steve Green and joined by Scott Ott and Bill Whittle.

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