Views on the News from the Couch

Send us Fan Mail Quickhitters and thoughts from Scott Atlas on what we got wrong.   https://www.newsweek.com/america-covid-response-was-based-lies-opinion-1785177

Send us Fan Mail SHOWNOTES Today was a catchup after time off for Covid.

Send us Fan Mail After a week break I offer a few QUICKHITTERS and my thoughts on Ukraine and teenage depression. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/artificial-maturity/201610/three-reasons-teen-unhappiness-and-what-do-about-it https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/06/why-so-few-teenagers-have-jobs-anymore.html https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/17/trained-to-hate-their-sex-and-selves-1-in-3-teen-girls...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS, and then thoughts on free speech and a partially government funded site that ranks sites for level of misinformation.  Unsurprisingly, the partially government funded site found misinformation on the right but not on the left.  https://news.yahoo.com/antarctica-glacier-sensitive-sea-warmth-163727012.html https://nypost.com/2023/02/15/i-lost-my-job-for-opposing-covid-...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS and then I share factoids that attempts to put slavery into perspective, offer thoughts on the balloon issue and review a peer reviewed paper saying masks do not seem to work.   https://www.newsweek.com/nearly-40-percent-us-gen-zs-30-percent-christians-identify-lgbtq-poll-shows-1641085 https://news.osu.edu/when-europeans-were-slaves--research-suggests-white-slavery-wa...

Send us Fan Mail Finally, my thoughts on Biden’s State of the Union speech.  Please share your thoughts. https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/read-full-transcript-of-bidens-2023-state-of-the-union-address/ar-AA17erPJ https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-income-by-country https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/10/joe-biden-previously-introduced-legislation-to-sunset-all-fe...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS, thoughts on the war in Ukraine, the contest for the Republican nomination and how to block Trump, and way too much commentary on woke including thoughts on Why companies go woke.      https://jonathanturley.org/2023/02/10/a-response-to-lawrence-odonnell-on-the-weaponization-hearing/#more-200513   https://nypost.com/2023/02/08/saudis-increase-saad-almadi-sentence-to-1...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS and then I spend the rest of the time on the alleged Chinese Civilian Meteorological balloon.  Yeah, right. https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-mad-us-blasting-suspected-192024810.html

Send us Fan Mail My views on the Twitter Files. In summary, I think we have a problem with our betters abusing their position in the government and the media to Speak Power to Truth. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10324873/Emails-reveal-Fauci-head-NIH-colluded-try-smear-experts-called-end-lockdowns.html https://www.aupress.ca/books/120248-speaking-power-to-truth/

Send us Fan Mail No QUICKHITTERS, no MOVING ON, just The Twitter Files.  Last week I spent quite a bit of time reviewing the Twitter Files.  I made voluminous notes and have tried, and failed, to shrink them into something smaller for the podcast.   My intent is to do this in 2 sections.  Section 1 today will concentrate on the IT.  What is the IT that the Twitter files revealed.   Tomorrow I will...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS then thoughts on Ilhar Omar not being seated on the Foreign Affairs Committee, a bit of a screed on how Georgia voters said the election was fine despite predictions that the new voting law was Jim Crow on steroids.  And I try to get funny on football. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/02/03/revealing_the_new_york_times_deceitful_russiagate_coverage_1488...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS then comments on the Chinese government inadvertently encouraging increased military preparations by its neighbors and some musings on why the police shot 999 Americans in 2019 and if it was race related. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/data-dont-support-lefts-narrative-of-racist-brutal-cops/ https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/08/10/african-american-homicide-rate-ne...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS and then thoughts on a list that claimed Twitter accounts were Russian bots when they were not, and quite a bit on why voters may move towards the public funding of private schools.  https://reason.com/2023/01/27/twitter-files-matt-taibbi-hamilton-68-russian-bots-fake/ https://jonathanturley.org/2023/01/31/captives-or-consumers-public-education-could-be-facing-a-major...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS, preliminary comments on The Twitter Files, and criticism of Jim Jordan overstating claims of weaponization of the government against conservatives and my rejection of criticism of what was described as radical critical race theory training. https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/30/your-taxes-paid-thousands-of-government-staff-covid-unemployment-while-they-worked-from-hom...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS, then an odd collection of thoughts including reviewing Group think and the Abilene Paradox.  That probably sounds weak.  It is not and is worth a listen. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/flashback-john-kennedy-2017-grilled-trump-judicial-nominee-lack-legal-experience-dems-applauded https://www.glamour.com/story/a-complete-breakdown-of-the-jk-rowling-transgender-comme...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS then more thoughts on the classified document goat roping, some impeachment thoughts, and comments on an article that says the move to electric vehicles can lead to environmental issues due to the increased lithium demand. https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/china-tells-us-fix-its-own-debt-problems-after-yellen-africa-remarks-2023-01-24/ https://www.nationalreview.co...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS then brief and somewhat uninformed thoughts on the tasing of a black person in California who later died and on the riot in Atlanta and finally more informed thoughts on a stupid taxing proposal in California. https://www.foxnews.com/us/keenan-anderson-death-lapd-releases-extended-body-cam-video-showing-arrest-blm-founders-cousin https://jonathanturley.org/2023/01/24/...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS then I suggest Japanese citizens have more sex, and good sex, to have more babies and correct a declining population and finally a lengthy take on Biden’s classified document problem.  Note, I said this was the January 25 edition but it was January 23.  I messed up. https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/russias-lavrov-visits-ally-south-africa-amid-western-rivalry-2023-...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS then thoughts on how to solve the social security problem and maybe help on climate change at the same time  and a thought on when we should ease interest rates in our fight against inflation.  I basically say don’t know.   https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/19/virginia-teen-sex-trafficked-twice-after-school-hides-gender-identity-from-her-parents/ https://jonathanturle...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS  then information on our intelligence officials likely misleading us on the Hunter Biden laptop story and  a discussion on how style points affect our impression of lying .  Finally, a halfhearted view of the San Francisco proposal for reparations.

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS and then I apologize for making comments about the Chinese when I should have been more specific and said Chinese government.  That led to a more comments on the relationship between the two countries.

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS then thoughts on the Ukraine war, Biden’s classified documents problem, and quite a lot on maybe masks just don’t matter when it comes to Covid or other “circulating seasonal viruses”.  Particularly on the last one, give me feedback if you think I'm wrong.  With data meaning links to studies.  You can find me on Twitter. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/time-...

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS then comments on Russia threatening that Belarus will join the Ukraine war and quite a bit on Congress including Speaker McCarthy booting 3 Democratic Congressman from their minority designated committee assignments.

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS then a defense of Pete Buttigieg for the recent FAA snafu and an lengthy discussion on Car seats for children over 2 years of age.  Do car seats actually work for kids over 2 or is the car seat requirement for them just an example of government overreach with insufficient evidence?  https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_levitt_surprising_stats_about_child_carseats

Send us Fan Mail QUICKHITTERS, then thoughts on too many choices in our lives, and a meandering review of the discovery of classified documents in a former Biden office and the comparison to Trump.   https://www.dw.com/en/ozone-layer-recovers-limiting-global-warming-by-05-celsius/a-64308435 https://youtu.be/VO6XEQIsCoM