Opening night of the Democratic National Convention included a music video featuring a Stephen Stills and Billy Porter rehash of the Buffalo Springfield classic, “For What It’s Worth” (“Stop, Hey What’s What Sound?”).
Royal Caribbean stock surges as a wave of new cruise customer bookings pump up the volume of 2021 ticket sales. Despite a $250 million per month cash burn rate, the cruise line says it has plenty of liquidity to survive until the ships sail again. What does this business news say about the American spirit in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic?
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tries to slow the spread of COVID-19 (again) by closing bars, defined as a businesses that generates at least 51 percent of revenue from alcohol sales. Clever business people, in an effort to keep their employees working and families fed, find ways to dodge the alcohol ratio rules and keep the doors open.
A Washington Post (WaPo) photo spread features Portland’s justice warriors in their mild mannered ordinary lives, contrasted with the radical chic of their “peaceful protest” costumes. It looks like Comic-Con’s cosplay battalion takin’ it to the streets, but these passionate fighters for racial justice and civil liberties expect to be taken seriously.
Jimmy Lai, the publisher of Apple Daily, gets arrested along with his two sons at the behest of Chinese Communist leader Xi Jinping for “violating” a new “law” that forbids embarrassing Hong Kong’s mainland authoritarian Commie overlords. Will Lai be whisked away to the mainland under the new extradition law that led to mass protests for months?
Take a wild ride through the weirder news stories of the week with Stephen Green’s Right Angle Lightning Round (patent pending 2020), featuring Bill Whittle and Scott Ott.
Minneapolis police tell locals you should do what criminals tell you, and prepare to be robbed of your iPhone or cash. Is this new guidance from a demoralized, soon-to-be defunded force, a rhetorical tool in negotiations with local politicians who seem eager to slash budgets and take cops off the beat?
While most presidential poll stories have shown Joe Biden mounting a growing lead over Donald Trump — some say insurmountable. But Rasmussen’s latest poll of likely voters — not mere registered voters — shows Trump beating Biden, and besting Barack Obama’s numbers at the same stage of his reelection campaign.
The rolling COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns leave some parents unhappy with their public schooling options — Zoom classrooms or sending your kid into a crowd — so they’ve decided to pay for a small-group education supplement sessions dubbed learning pods.
Does the Pentagon need a new ‘War Plan Blue’ — a preparedness strategy for major conflict. marshal industry, people, and infrastructure to meet the unpredictable needs of a nation at war with China, or any other opponent. A retired Navy captain says, ‘Yes’, and so do the men of Right Angle.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden should find a reason to beg off debating Donald Trump as the least bad option, given his mentally faltering state. Which would be more embarrassing, to skip the debate, or to have Trump look at the camera and say “Does anyone know what the hell that guy just said?”
Is it ethical for your employer to require you to sign an affidavit daily that you don’t have any of the symptoms of COVID-19? Is it smart business leadership? Scott Ott, Bill Whittle and Stephen Green challenge this new concept brought on by this incessant Coronavirus pandemic.