The Lean to the Left Podcast

You know the old saying, Money Talks and Bullshit walks. Well, today Major League Baseball hit the state of Georgia where it hurts. In the freaking pocket book. They did it because the state’s governor just signed a new law designed specifically to make it harder for people to vote. The law targets people who are likely to vote for Democrats. I.E., African Americans. What did MLB do? They yanked t...

Former New Jersey Gov. Jim Florio will co-host on Tempo and the Times, a podcast that explores the collision of popular culture with news, politics, and business. Tempo and the Times was launched in February by Bob Gatty, Myrtle Beach, SC, editor and publisher of Not Fake News, who was Florio’s Congressional office chief of staff from 1976-78, and musician/writer Scott Ramminger, Nashville, TN. It...

Today, you’re going to hear from Chief Harold Hatcher of the Waccamaw Indian People, a small tribe of Native Americans that is indigenous to South Carolina. Better known as Buster, Chief Hatcher is fighting against what he calls “document genocide,” actions by people in power that he believes have served to deny his people many of their rights. He’s been waging a battle to convince the federal gov...

It was a beautiful spring evening March 24 when some 50 students, educators, and others gathered on the lawn at Coastal Carolina University to express solidarity with their Asian brothers and sisters who have been so tragically targeted since the Covid 19 pandemic struck America just about one year ago. Prompted by the murders of eight people at three Asian spas in Atlanta, including six Asian wom...

Ex-Reagan cabinet member John R. Block talks about his experiences serving under Ronald Reagan, how he got there from the one-room school house where it all began, and what he thinks about politics and the Republican Party post-Donald Trump. Check it out. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-lean-to-the-left-podcast--4719048/support. Learn more about your ad cho...

Today, I want to talk about guns and needless, tragic deaths. Why is it that we as a nation must continually suffer through more gun violence? Why is it that when mass shootings occur, regardless of whether it’s little school children, people praying in church, going to a concert, or even just to the spa or the grocery store that nothing ever happens? The anti-gun people clamor for action and rais...

March is Women’s History Month, a month when the achievements and contributions of women are recognized and honored. It would be a great time to do something, too, about the violence that many women face in their own personal relationships, at home, or even when a date goes bad. The same can be said for males, too, when a personal relationship with a partner evolves into violence. That’s why Congr...

Constantly over the past year, Donald Trump blamed China for sending the Covid 19 pandemic to the United States as he tried to deflect from his own responsibility for the tragic consequences of the pandemic. And on top of that, sensing that he’d struck a nerve with his already xenophobic followers, Trump began blaming China for everything he could, every chance he had – even his own defeat. We all...

When Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump last November, one of the first thoughts that went through my mind was that the battle against the environment that Trump waged for four years would be over. That the U.S. would once again join the fight against climate change, that Biden would pull back Trump’s most egregious executive orders that tried to wipe out efforts by the Obama administration to protec...

Today’s podcast will present two commentaries written by Chris Waldron of Not Fake News.biz. In the first, “Gerrymandering, Voter Suppression and the Big Lie,” Chris points out that those are the three key elements of the Republican Party’s current game plan as they seek to regain the presidency, and retake control of the House and the Senate. These three tactics, he maintains, threaten the very d...

So the Republicans have been whining about cancel culture, saying that’s why a publisher decided to stop producing some Dr. Seuss books because of racist imagery. They spent their time doing that even as Democrats were pushing through Covid-19 relief that will go a long way towards helping our nation dig recover from the devastation of the pandemic. It was just another irresponsible effort to dire...

Today we’re going to talk about how various governors across the country have gotten themselves into trouble in one form or another, the latest and most controversial, perhaps, being Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York. Not Fake News.biz writer Chris Waldron takes a close look at the various factors involving Cuomo and three other governors in today’s episode, which I’ll narrate. So take a listen to “Go...

Today we’re going to talk about how education – or the lack thereof – may have played a role in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as insurrectionists tried to stop the election certification of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Not Fake News.biz writer Chris Waldron, who is a college English professor, takes a close look at the various factors that influenced the insurrectionists in this fascina...

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Today we’re going to talk about how the QAnon prediction that their messiah, Donald Trump, would miraculously be sworn in as president yesterday, March 4, just didn’t come to pass. It was so sad, seeing all those poor, misguided people being so disappointed. But alas, I’m sure they’ll have another fake day to look forward to. All that’s from a piece called “You’ve Been Q’ed” on Not Fake News.biz b...

Today we’re going to talk about technology – all the “smart” stuff that most of us use, like our phones and our fancy watches that can tell us our heart beat, count our steps, and can even rat on our spouses or partners if they are someplace other than where they say. Our guest is Dr. Don Vaughn, a neuroscientist who works for a new company called Invisibly, which is looking to turn the internet a...

It was just reported this evening, March 3, that the U.S. House of Representatives will not be in session tomorrow March 4. Why is that big news? Why should you care? Because tomorrow is the day that the QAnon crazies believe Donald Trump will return and be inaugurated as the true president of the United States, and federal law enforcement agencies are bracing for another possible riot at the Capi...

Donald Trump made it clear at the Conservative Political Action Conference Sunday that he has no intention of going away, and that he intends to be fully engaged in the Republican Party. While decrying his defeat do to a “rigged” election, he repeated his demands for election changes – changes that go to the heart of challenging our democratic process. I took a look at that in commentary on Not Fa...

I’ve been away on a brief vacation for the last few days, so it’s been a little quiet here at NFN Radio News. But now, I’m back, so here goes with double-header commentary from Not Fake News. First up will be “The Battle for the Soul of the GOP,” with commentary on Donald Trump’s determination to hang on to the Republican Party and growing opposition from reformers who want to see him gone. Then,...

I have a special guest today and I think you’ll enjoy listening to her. When Peg Howell was 25 years old, she was the first woman to be the “company man” on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Yep, that’s what they called her. She was the person in charge, so she was the “company man.”She reveals what it was like to be one of the last two people left on the rig’s platform after all of the w...

I’ve been telling you guys all week about a new podcast that I’ve been cooking up with my old buddy Scott Ramminger, which explores the intersection of music, art, and popular culture with news and politics. Well, here it is. It’s called Tempo and the Times, and we launch today with an introductory episode that explains what you can expect from this new effort to get into trouble. We've lined up s...

I know it’s not nice to speak ill of the dead, but I have to say that I shed no tears yesterday when I learned that Rush Limbaugh had died. Yes, I feel sorry for his family and friends, but that’s the extent of it because Limbaugh was one of the most disgusting, despicable influencers of public opinion ever to be given airtime. And the fact that Donald Trump listened to him and paid homage to him...

It’s a shame what’s happening to the Republican Party, which is apparently in a quandary as to who they are and what they stand for. There’s been plenty of coverage and analysis of all of this, but it’s clear that many believe the GOP has lost its way and the recent impeachment trial of Donald Trump, charged with inciting a mob to attack our Congress, just brought new attention to all of this. Rig...

Yesterday, the Senate declined to convict former president Donald Trump on charges of inciting the deadly insurrection that occurred at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.They acquitted him, however, with seven of the 50 Republican senators joining all Democrats in voting to convict Trump, but falling 10 short of the 2/3 majority needed for conviction. After the trial was over, Republican leader Mitch...

Today, Not Fake News writer Susan Hutchinson imagines what might have happened if in 2016 Hilary Clinton had defeated Donald Trump, instead of the other way around. What would have been Trump’s reaction back then? How would events have been changed? It’s fascinating commentary, but remember, as you listen to my narration, that it’s all conjecture, based on Susan’s imagination. But it’s worth consi...