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Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS and then a bit more on the Durham report.  Finally, I take head on the Democratic argument that section 4 of the 14th amendment could be used to violate the debt limit.  My take is it does not say that.  It says if the debt limit is not raised that interests on the national debt HAS to be paid from the revenue and other things will go unpaid.  This puts a lie to Admin...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS then thoughts on Ukraine, on the Canadian province of Alberta considering seceding and lots and lots on Special Counsel Durham’s report. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/15/politics/durham-report-takeaways/index.html https://jonathanturley.org/2023/05/16/raw-unanalyzed-and-uncorroborated-durham-releases-report-on-the-russian-collusion-investigation/

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS and then brief comments on the Trump verdict and lengthy comments on the debt ceiling impasse including strong opinions that we need to cut spending. 

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS, views on Title 42 and a lot of thoughts on recent presidential candidates and which ones would pass the have a beer with you test or the watch my puppy for the weekend test.  Recent candidates do not fare well.

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS, then views on Senator Joe Manchin running for Senator or President and I even posit that maybe neither Biden Nor Trump will be on the ticket.  And then lots of views on raising the debt ceiling and how words are bandied about untethered to underlying facts.   https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/gop-wants-keep-pretending-debt-ceiling-real-rcna81798 https://rol...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS then a scary bill that might get Minnesotans on a bias registry for normal speech and a lengthy screed on the gobbledygook media relentlessly and mercilessly pushing false narratives. https://nypost.com/2023/04/26/arguing-covid-came-from-china-could-land-you-on-minnesotas-government-bias-registry/ https://www.racket.news/p/eleven-minutes-of-media-falsehoods   https://...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS then comments on: ·       suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story that affected the 2020 election and an article by Jonathan Turley saying the media was compliant. ·       a compact to move us closer to a national popular vote for President ·       comments on woke.  Lots of comments on woke.  It wanders and gets into trans surgeries for children, gun control, an...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS then thoughts on Chile nationalizing Lithium production, framing in headlines, bad management of remote workers and a lot on should the United States defend Taiwan. https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/chiles-boric-announces-plan-nationalize-lithium-industry-2023-04-21/ https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/ceo-says-many-remote-workers-182557422.html

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS, views on press reported problems with Clarence Thomas disclosure forms, teachers who opposed DEI required training, the unintended consequences of Norway’s wealth tax, and on the arrest of the alleged leaker of classified information.  https://www.foxnews.com/media/teachers-ordered-obama-appointed-judge-pay-300k-opposing-dei-training-unprecedented-ruling https://www....

Send us Fan Mail Today’s podcast includes snarky pro choice abortion comments, bad fact checking, and a review of an article that says raising the retirement age is my morally suspect and then solving the social security deficit.  Yep, I took a stab at it. https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/11/opinions/social-security-medicare-retirement-age-howard/index.html

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS then views on ChatGPT, the war on Ukraine and a broader comment on the dangerous world in which we live. 

Send us Fan Mail Thoughts on my 1 year anniversary of this podcast and then QUICKHITTERS, the Trump indictment, and the Chinese weather balloon.  https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/03/19/manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-is-known-for-reducing-felonies-to-misdemeanors-flips-script-on-trump-1342240/

Send us Fan Mail A review of the Trump indictment and I do so with comments about Maine lobster rolls.   https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/04/indictment-donald-trump-new-york-bragg/ https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/04/politics/takeaways-donald-trump-indictment/index.html https://rumble.com/v2g7ktq-my-legal-analysis-of-the-indictment.html https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/05/yielding-to-temptat...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS, thought on a job offer being withdrawn because he used the term ladies when referring to ladies and a rambling thought that framing or context is key to understanding situations. https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/02/indict-one-and-all/ https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/04/microaggression-goes-macro-in-massachusetts-superintendent-loses-job-after-referring-to-two-indiv...

Send us Fan Mail A special Sunday edition of my podcast.  Pretty much all on the Trump indictment.  I’m pissed.  And I don’t care about Trump.  I don’t want him to run for President.  I want a campaign between two good people neither named Trump, Biden or Clinton. https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/02/comeys-good-day-how-political-prosecutions-became-ethical-leadership-in-the-pursuit-of-trump/ htt...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS then I make fun of Homeland Secretary Mayorkas over his knowledge of guns and share my a proposal for a constitutional amendment for gun control and abortion, share thoughts on fact checking relative to a story that Fox news leadership did not want Trump fact checked, and on a drug used to trans children that may not be backed up by studies. https://www.foxnews.com/po...

Send us Fan Mail Lots of QUICKHITTERS and then a bit on Nikki Haley and her views that we have a bipartisan problem of wasting money. https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/29/twitter-bans-federalist-ceo-sean-davis-for-reporting-on-trans-day-of-vengeance-following-nashville-shooting/ https://www.nationalreview.com/news/nikki-haley-our-republicans-added-to-our-debt-crisis/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS then thoughts on the New England Patriots, the Trump Manhattan possible indictment, some in the education field saying that parents should have not involvement in what is taught, and the idiocy of teaching that 2 +2 =4 is a form of white supremacy. https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/24/new-mexico-school-boards-association-administrator-parents-have-no-rights-in-public-...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS and then thoughts on the decline in IQs, and thoughts on a possible wealth tax and finally I suggest the earlier claims that the Jackson Mississippi water system problems were not based on systemic racism as our betters told us but rather was due to stupidity like allowing a 5 million gallon per day leak to continue for years. https://www.sciencealert.com/iq-scores-fa...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS, a brief thought on a possible Ukrainian counteroffensive at Bakhmut and then lengthy comments on the Federal Government abusing their authority on shaky data over the citing of manufacturing plants. https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/03/23/bidens_epa_is_lowering_the_environmental_justice_boom_on_louisianas_disputed_cancer_alley_888605.html

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS then thoughts on the Iraq war and on a bit of a tussle between DeSantis and Trump. https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/22/for-five-straight-years-the-pulitzer-prizes-have-rewarded-misinformation/ https://nypost.com/2023/03/21/ron-desantis-opens-fire-on-trumps-character-chaotic-style/

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS, thoughts on President Macron increasing the French retirement age, on the Manhattan DA possibly indicting Trump, and Chinese Premier Xi’s plan to solve the Russian/Ukraine issue. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-24/here-s-china-s-12-point-proposal-on-how-to-end-russia-s-war-in-ukraine

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS then thoughts on too many expensive bureaucrats at colleges and universities and sharing of quite a few perspective numbers on our federal budget and deficit.  https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/14/opinions/saddam-hussein-iraq-war-interrogations-george-piro-bergen/index.html   https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/15/the-stanford-free-speech-debacle-is-another-reason-universitie...

Send us Fan Mail First QUICKHITTERS  and then thoughts on recent issues with regional banks, thoughts on a presidential historian comments on Governor DeSantis being like Mussolini, and thoughts on the Governor of California ordering the state not to do business with Walgreens because Walgreen’s follows the law in other states relative to abortion pills. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/svb-failure-...

Send us Fan Mail SHOWNOTES QUICKHITTERS, thoughts on a biased MSNBC article and a quick review of a piece that says most predictions will be wrong. https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/03/making-sense-of-the-capitol-riot-tapes/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/why-did-the-scientists-deceive-everyone-about-covid-19 https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2023/0...