The Bill Walton Show

Have you noticed more people using the phrase "Merry Christmas"?   This wonderful holiday greeting has come back in style in recent years, and in this special holiday episode, we take a very personal - and spiritual - look into the meaning of Christmas . My friend, Larry Green, owner of the Spirit Wind Trucking Company, joins me in a brief discussion about how it goes far beyond gift giving and fa...

In the era of mandated mask wearing and social distancing, we are fighting two battles: One against COVID-19, the other over preserving personal freedoms. In a piece about the virus, New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman blamed President Trump and Ayn Rand for Americans who have stood up against wearing a face covering. Calling it "libertarianism gone bad, a misunderstanding of what freedom is all...

As states are expected to start receiving their first vaccine doses as soon as next week, the new battle over whether you'll be required to get the COVID shot is about to begin. In the debut of the Bill Walton Show Roundtable, I'm joined by Rich McFadden of Radio America, Greg Corombos host of the Three Martini Lunch and Journalist Brian McNicoll in a lively exchange about how having the vaccine a...

The Hon. Ken Blackwell is back with the latest in the fraud investigation related to the 2020 Presidential election. With less than a month to go until Congress is scheduled to count the electoral votes, we discuss what needs to happen and why fraud isn't the only obstacle the Trump campaign needs to overcome.

Weeks after our interview with Dr. Jay Richards, co-author of "The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe", he contracted COVID-19. Now recovered, Jay tells me about his personal experience with the virus, discussions he had with front line healthcare workers and why they don't wear the masks that the rest of us wear. We also look at how vaccines will start...

As the investigation into the 2020 Presidential Election continues, questions about the legitimacy of some voting machines and mail-in ballots are only part of the issue. Jim Agresti, Founder and CEO of "Just Facts" joins me to talk about how non-citizens were able to cast ballots to help tip the scales in favor of Joe Biden.

People are working from home and traveling less these days due to COVID-19. That's resulted in a lot of companies re-evaluating whether they need a brick and mortar space, and the hospitality industry struggling to fill rooms. Commercial real estate expert John Scheurer and I discuss the current state of the market and where it's likely to head once the Coronavirus is behind us.

While Trump voters knew who they were supporting, a new study shows many of those in swing states who voted for Joe Biden didn't really know him at all.  Brent Bozell, President & Founder of the Media Research Center details the poll, the realities of our mainstream media, where we as a nation go from here in regard to the White House, and how to get the social media companies to give all American...

If you've ever had a post flagged on or removed from social media, you need to know about the arcane sounding Section 230 of the Communications and Decency Act.   Klon Kitchen, the Director of the Heritage Foundation's Center for Technology Policy joins me to take an in-depth look into Section 230 - called "the 26 words that created the Internet." And how the Big Tech/Social Media companies have s...

As we celebrate the 157th anniversary of the Gettysburg address, I try my hand at reciting and analyzing the historic speech with Voice and Acting Coach Leigh Wilson Smiley. We also discuss how the address relates to the current state of affairs in our country.

On this special edition, we continue our in-depth look at what's happening with the Trump campaign's battle over the counting of legal votes.    The Hon. Ken Blackwell, advisory board member of the Trump/Pence 2020 Campaign and J. Christian Adams, President and General Counsel of the Public Interest Legal Foundation discuss the latest on the recount process and the strategy moving forward.

For our 100th episode, we continue to take an in-depth look into the 2020 Presidential election.    As the lawsuits by the Trump campaign continue, we chat with Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. He is the author of "A Republic Under Assault: The Left's Ongoing Attack on American Freedom" about why voters on BOTH sides of the aisle should be concerned about the voting process.  

On this special edition of the Bill Walton Show, we talk about the fight for the White House as the legal battle continues by the Trump campaign.  But is there enough time to get it through the courts? John Fund with the National Review is skeptical.

Last month Atlantic ran a hit piece on President Trump that was notable, even by today's low standards of journalistic practice, for its invisible sourcing.  It remains news because it typifies the realities of our increasingly fact-free media environment. "It's based on four anonymous sources and has in addition the strange sideshow of other media outlets 'confirming' the anonymous sources" says...

"If you wanted to aim at the heart of the matter to bring about a more virtuous Washington DC where would you start?  For Mark Tapscott, the award winning investigative journalist, editorial page editor and founder of HillFaith, the answer is clear: share the Good News of His Gospel with congressional staffers on Capitol Hill.  "If you were asked, who's the most influential but least well-known gr...

"The human costs of the emergency response to Covid-19 have vastly outweighed its benefits." So argue, backed by a vast amount of research, scholars Jay Richards, William Briggs, and Douglas Axe, authors of "The Price of Panic." For the first time in history, the world has shut itself down - by choice - for fear of a virus whose dangers have been dramatically exaggerated. Governments, with the sup...

Talking with John Tamny about his upcoming book "When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason." His premise, and I agree, is that experts aren't the answer to crisis, they are the crisis.  What was needed at the onset of the virus was leadership wise enough to let sensible Americans figure out how to protect themselves. Information coming from China...

Confused about what's going on with the Post Office?   I am. So I asked my friend Brian McNicoll, who has written about the post office for many years and has a real feel for its economics and the politics, to clarify what's going on. In our conversation he tells me, "the Post Office has a monopoly on two things. Only the post office can put something in your mailbox and only the post office can h...

It's Saturday in September and there's no Big Ten football being played today.   But in a not-so-surprising reversal, just weeks after Kevin Warren, the Big Ten commissioner, pointedly said the decision not to play this year would "not be revisited", they revisited.   They just announced that it will start up its fall football season October 24. Why the change? Of course it faced pressure from coa...

Jean Shepard ("Shep"), the legendary 60's and 70's WOR NYC late nightradio show humorist and storyteller, romantically described the differences between what he considered to be "day people" and "night people." Day people were conformists, night people were non-conformists, and he was proud to be one of them. Well had he lived to see the streets around the White House last week he would be hard pr...

"From early March 2020 on, the best-known authorities on epidemics—the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control— have presented the COVID-19 respiratory disease to the Western world as a danger equivalent to the plague.   But China's experience, which its government obfuscated, had already shown that the COVID-19 virus is much less like the plague and more like the flu.  ...

There is no historian like Howard Zinn. Certainly no other history book has taken the place of the Bible at the swearing-in of an elected official . But in 2019, Howard Zinn's "A People's History" was the sacred object on which newly elected Oklahoma City council member JoBeth Hamon chose to place her hand for her oath of office . "For one of the great enemies of the American idea, Howard Zinn, ou...

There is no historian like Howard Zinn. Certainly no other history book has taken the place of the Bible at the swearing-in of an elected official . But in 2019, Howard Zinn's "A People's History" was the sacred object on which newly elected Oklahoma City council member JoBeth Hamon chose to place her hand for her oath of office . "For one of the great enemies of the American idea, Howard Zinn, ou...

It's time to wake up to an existential risk that looms infinitely larger than anything posed by the Covid 19 virus. Electromagnetic pulse (EMP). EMP can be caused by either a naturally occurring solar storm or a manmade suitcase sized device and would collapse electric grids and electrical critical infrastructures all over the world   A nationwide blackout lasting one year could kill up to 90 perc...

Many of us have read Ayn Rand's novels especially, "Atlas Shrugged" and the "Fountainhead." But I have been surprised to learn how her ideas and philosophy have continued to resonate throughout the world many years after her novels were first published.   To learn more about this I asked Tal Tsfany, President and CEO of the Ayn Rand Institute to come on the show to talk about the Ayn Rand phenomen...