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50-50 Chance You’re Living in a Simulation: Should ‘Base Reality’ Give You a 2020 Do Over?

Scientific American writer Anil Ananthaswamy analyzes current thinking on the odds you’re living in a vast computer simulation. (If so, should ‘base reality’ give you a 2020 do-over?)

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Partisan Experts: Cuomo Calls Probe of Nursing Home COVID-19 Deaths Politically Impossible

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says it’s politically impossible to do an independent probe for nursing home COVID-19 deaths after his controversial order requiring the homes to admit elderly Coronavirus carriers.

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Civil Rights Vet Shelby Steele Questions Motives, Goals of George Floyd Protests

Best-selling author Shelby Steele, a veteran of the Civil Rights movement, says the current protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death have no clear objective, and an exclusive focus on police brutality, when the Black community could take more personal responsibility to improve their lot in life. His nearly-nine-minute remarks on Mark Levin’s show […]

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Defund the Police: What’s a Better Way to Do Public Safety and Racial Justice?

A veto-proof super-majority of Minneapolis city council members say they support a move to defund the police — in the wake of the death of George Floyd — and to find a new way to do public safety with racial justice? Could this radical idea actually help reinvent an age-old approach to law enforcement that, […]

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This Elon Musk Quote Will Take Us to Mars…And Utterly Change Your Life

Engineering, physics, astronomy, and the hard sciences are essential for manned space flight, but this quote from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is the power that will actually take us to Mars. If you can harness it, it’s the force that will utterly change your life for the better. Bill Whittle Now with Scott Ott is […]

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Rage Revoked: A Conservative’s 2nd Take on George Floyd Protests, Kneeling Cops

Bill Whittle’s first reaction to videos of violent protests across the nation in the wake of George Floyd’s death under the knee of a police officer was rage at the lawlessness. But this conservative’s second take was shaped by new information about about the instigating incident, and a new insight about police who take a […]

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Re-Open for Business as Un-Usual: How Tell If It’s Going Well…or Not

As Governors like Greg Abbott of Texas begin to lift stay-at-home orders and we start to re-open business and go back to work, how can we tell if it’s going well…or not. Since many don’t trust the media, or politicians, and assume they’ll continue to focus on catastrophe, how can you make a prudent decision […]

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Christmas Hiatus

Due to Christmas travel and work schedules for Bill Whittle, Scott Ott and Stephen Green, this is a good week for you to dip into the archives and watch shows you missed, or you want to see again.

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From 9/11 to Tea Party to Trump: Bill Whittle Now Marks 300th Show with Look Back

Bill Whittle Now with Scott Ott now has 300 episodes in the can, and we pause to consider how Bill got into this political realm, how it has changed since the blogs of 2002 in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, through the Tea Party movement, and where his hope lies for the future in the age of Trump.

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Pop President: What Donald Trump Gets That Ronald Reagan Could Not

President Trump puts on a spectacular display of message dominance while drowning out the mainstream media. Does this consummate entertainer — this pop president — get something that even Ronald Reagan could not? Have Americans changed in the intervening years so that Reagan couldn’t cut it today?

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#OKBoomer: Gen Z Millennial Snowflakes Mock Elders Who Created This Mess

Memes and hashtags multiply with “OK Boomer” (or #OKBoomer), a sarcastic slap from Gen Z to mock their elders who created this mess — whether that’s climate change, wars, political division, economic hardship, lack of health care, and more. Bill Whittle thinks it’s funny…at first. #EpicRant warning. #OKSnowflake

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Infinite You and Quantum God: Multiverse Theory Grows, Challenges…Everything

Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll at California Institute of Technology is among the growing cadre of scientists embracing a kind of multiverse theory that builds on Schrodinger’s insight about the power of observation to fix location of an object in the quantum realm.

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Big Win for ISIS: What Trump Can Do After U.S. Pull-Out from Northeast Syria

Now it looks like a big win for ISIS, but what can President Trump do after the U.S. pull-out from Northeast Syria? The loss of intel on the ground from our abandoned Kurdish allies, the release/escape of terrorist prisoners, and the perception of U.S. apathy, creates conditions for an Islamic State revival. Is there a U.S. position somewhere between warmongering and isolationism?