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Jason Isaac: Texas Power Outages Explained [20210220]
What’s behind the devastating power outages in Texas? Some say the problem was freezing natural gas pipelines; some say it’s because wind turbines froze or mismanagement by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). To find out what’s...
Parler Interim CEO Mark Meckler: Relaunch, Data Privacy & Building A New Independent Tech Stack [20210218]
The social media platform Parler is back online, a month after it was removed from the Apple and Google Play store and disconnected from Amazon’s web hosting service, following the Capitol attack. Joining us today is Parler’s new interim CEO,...
Daniel Horowitz: State Legislatures Must Push Back Against Federal & Executive Branch Overreach [20210216]
President Biden has issued a record number of executive orders in his first month in office, with far-reaching implications. The North Dakota House passed a bill to create a joint committee examining federal laws and executive orders. The bill aims to...
Miles Yu: How the Trump Administration Permanently Transformed U.S. China Policy [20210213]
“The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is probably the most ideologically intoxicated, most dogmatic political party of Leninist stripe in human history. Yet, we don't tend to think of the CCP that way.” Tonight, we sit down with Miles Yu, who served...
Rick Green: Democrats May Try 14th Amendment to Disqualify Trump With Simple Majority—Rick Green on ImpeachmentDemocrats May Try 14th Amendment to Disqualify Trump With Simple Majority [20210211]
What does the U.S. Constitution have to say about the current impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate? What does historical precedent say? In this episode, we sit down with constitutional attorney Rick Green, a former Texas state representative and...
Gordon Chang: Cooperation With Communist China Impossible—It Seeks to Overthrow America [20210210]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has stated the United States will work with allies to hold the Chinese regime accountable. But at the same time, the Biden administration seeks to cooperate with the Chinese leadership in areas like the pandemic...
Victor Davis Hanson: Impeachment and the ‘Cancer’ of Woke Ideology [20210209]
In this episode, we sit down with classicist and historian Victor Davis Hanson to discuss the rise of critical social justice and woke ideology, growing limits on freedom of speech, and his take on the second impeachment trial of former President...
Hadley Manning: The Hidden Costs of School Closures [20210206]
After 18 students committed suicide in Las Vegas, the Clark County school district decided to reopen for in-person learning. The youngest was a nine-year-old. In Chicago, home to the nation’s third-largest public school district, teacher's unions...
Lawyer Lisa Haba: Section 230 Does Not Protect Sex Trafficking [20210204]
Twitter is being sued for refusing to remove a video of alleged child sex abuse from its platform. According to the lawsuit, a child was coerced by sex traffickers to record sex acts with another minor. A video of this was later posted on Twitter....
Andy Ngo: Infiltrating CHAZ; Antifa’s Plot to Destroy America; “Unmasked” [20210202]
“In their own words, for their world to live & thrive, America has to die." Independent journalist Andy Ngo has spent the last four years studying and reporting on Antifa. Even though Andy Ngo’s been doxxed, harassed, and beaten by Antifa so...