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1 More Thing focuses on those stories which may have been overlooked or gotten short shrift during the week. It is a live call-in show airing on WRKO-AM 680, Boston, and is available to live stream on your home or mobile device on the iHeartRadio platform. Sandy Shack is a talkshow host on WRKO and Executive Producer for iHeartRadio, with two National Radio Hall of Fame shows to her credit. She is also a former newsroom editor, writer and anchor for WBZ NewsRadio.
Nancy Shack is a talkshow host on WRKO-AM 680 in Boston and Executive Producer for iHeartRadio, with two National Radio Hall of Fame shows to her credit. She is also a former newsroom editor, writer and anchor for WBZ NewsRadio.
President Biden's poll numbers are cratering. Why now? The porous border, the erosion of civil liberties, inflation, the imperious attitude toward Americans in general did not affect his approval ratings. Did the lies about Afghanistan get so big they broke through the rose colored glasses of his supporters?
The newest report cards are out on the Biden Administration. They show that in the 2024 election Mr. Biden would lose to Mr. Trump. Does this surprise you? What has caused the great fall from grace?
The Pentagon says we killed two high profile terrorists in a drone attack overnight in retribution for the Kabul airport bombing. But they won't tell us who they are. Why? Is it because they are not high profile after all or is it because they were released from the prison at the Air force base when the U.S. abandon it to the Taliban?
The U.S. has struck back at the terrorists in Afghanistan with a drone strike killing two and injuring one. Is it enough to intimidate ISIS after the Kabul airport bombing? Is it enough to rehabilitate President Biden's credibility?
The once friendly mainstream media is confronting President Biden over his nonsensical responses to the mess in Afghanistan. The Pentagon is openly contradicting him. World leaders can barely hide their frustration with the situation. Has President Biden pulled the pin on a grenade that will blow up his administration and maybe even his party?
The Pentagon states Al Qaeda is till in Afghanistan an hour after the President says it's not. Videos of Americans unable to get past Taliban check points abound on social media while the President claims he knows of no such incidents. World leaders are shaking their heads in frustration over the clusterbleep that is the withdrawal while the President denies the U.S. is now suffering from a lack of creditability on the world stage. Does President Biden live in an alternate universe?
The Taliban is just days away from taking our embassy in Kabul. Our economy is inflation plagued. No one believes the CDC has a handle on the Covid variants. Our Homeland Security Secretary thinks our southern border condition is unsustainable. Just how big a disaster is the Biden Administration?
Inflation is rising, Afghanistan is being overrun by the Taliban, Americans don't trust the Covid vaccine or the CDC, the Secretary of Homeland Security is caught telling the border patrol that our southern border cant be sustained and the President's son is revealed on a video with a hooker talking about how he can be blackmailed by the Russians. This all in just one week. Will the President be able to finish his term in office?
To hear the Biden Administration and the Democrat leadership tell it, the unvaccinated are causing the pandemic - and by unvaccinated they mean Republicans. Is the vilification of the unvaccinated really about public safety or is it about the next election?
Have you noticed how the Biden Administration is ratcheting up the Covid blame game? First we gin up fear of the Coronavirus variants, then we blame the unvaccinated, and finally we make the unvaxed synonymous with Republicans. Is the demonizing of those who refuse the jab actually more about the next election than it is about public safety?
Mixed messages are all the Biden Administration seems to give regarding Covid. The biggest example is the demonization of unvaccinated Americans while illegal immigrants crossing the Southern border are not mandated to take the jab. Why is this if the virus is so deadly?
Both President Biden and House Speaker Pelosi are scapegoating Republicans for the slowing vaccination rates. Could the real reason be the conflicting statements from the President, his staff and the CDC have eroded trust in both the Administration and the vaccines?
Are you watching the Tokyo Olympics? Do they feel different to you and not just because of Covid? Is it just the pandemic or is Olympic Spirit being dampened by the woke distain for patriotism?
Have you been watching the Tokyo Olympics 2020 otherwise know as the Hunger Games? With Covid infections rising in the city and the Olympic Village, was it a mistake for the games to go forward? Has it become a superspreader event much like the Texas Democrat road trip to D.C.?
The Biden Administration is openly admitting they are taking part in the censorship of social media posts they don't like' They say it is a matter of public safety. Is this a good enough reason to violate the First Amendment?
The First Amendment is under assault. First it was the banning of any hint of irregularities during the 2020 election, now its Covid vaccine disinformation. Ben Franklin said those who give up liberty for safety deserve neither. Which do you choose?
Are we heading to a caste system in the United States with the unvaccinated as the untouchables? Will vaccine passports be necessary to work, travel, get a home, or even to vote? Is this what our future looks like?
Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra says the government has the right to your personal medical information, namely whether or not you have been vaccinated, because they paid trillions to keep Americans alive during the pandemic. Is he right? Or is he a patronizing, arrogant hack who let slip what the Biden Administration really thinks of the American people?
Crime is surging - or is it? In the wake of political backlash on police defunding as violent crime statistics spike, some democrats are claiming the rise in crime is just a figment of our imagination or in the words of NY Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes, hysteria. Are those gas lighting the public over crime increases more concerned with power than public safety?
Who is to blame for the spike in crime plaguing the U.S. A new ABC/Washington Post poll says more Americans than not think President Biden's response to escalating crime is disastrous. Do you agree? Republicans say it is defunding police and failure to prosecute causing the crime spike. Democrats say its lack of gun control, white supremacy and a dearth of summer jobs. Who do you think has it right?
Vice-President Harris, representing the Biden Administration, says they are making progress on the border crisis. Yet illegal crossings are increasing every month. Was the Vice=President's trip to El Paso just a red herring to trick Americans into thinking that they care about stopping illegal immigration?
The Vice-President, the point person for the Biden Border Crisis, has finally made it to the border. She stayed a total of 4.5 hours in Texas, and touched down a mere 800 miles from where the illegal immigrant problem has become critical near the Rio Grande. Is Kamala Harris really serious about her job as border czar?
Is Juneteenth National Independence Day a divisive name setting up competing national independence days? Can we name Juneteenth Freedom Day or Emancipation Day instead? Is this name a deliberate attempt to bifurcate the country by race?
Are you happy about the newest and twelfth national holiday on the books, Juneteenth National Independence Day? Have you done anything to observe it? Did you get the day off? Is this a good idea?
Former President Obama says he does not understand why Republicans are so concerned about CRT. Is he being naïve or is he trying to down play the effect of Critical Race Theory? Is CRT actually damaging race relations in this country?
Unvaccinated students attending their prom in Exeter, NH were numbered on their hands with sharpies and told to raise their hands every few songs so their dancing partners could be recorded. Does this remind you of anything? Should the unvaccinated be segregated and publicly outed?
Dr Fauci has been outed by his own e-mails which point to the truth about about mask hysteria, the truth about the origins of covid, and the truth about who was funding the Wuhan lab where Covid was being studied. The Biden Administration say they would never fire Dr. Fauci. Would you?
Dr. Anthony Fauci, considered by the Biden Administration to be the country's savior in regard to fighting Covid-19, is under fire after the Washington Post and Buzzfeed published a batch of e-mails they received under a FOIA request which contradict public statements made by the doctor regarding masks and the origin of the virus. What did Dr. Fauci know and when did he know it?
Defunding police, DAs who don't prosecute so called low level crimes, are just some of the reasons crime has risen since the beginning of the year. What are we going to do about it?
73% of Americans think crime rates have risen under President Biden according to a new poll by Fox News. Are you one of them? What's behind the increase? Could it be the defund the police movement, the policy of not prosecuting low level crimes, the demonization of law enforcement or all of the above?
The Public School administrators in Wellesley Massachusetts held an event to help Asian students deal with the recent spate of violence against Asians. It was looked upon as a great idea until they decided to openly exclude white students from participating. Can somebody please explain the meaning of the word discrimination to these woke school officials?
No one doubts that racism is a real problem that has not yet been obliterated in our country. It appears that in her zeal to call attention to the problem and the lack of diversity in the Chicago City Hall press corps, Mayor Lori Lightfoot promoted racism herself by excluding white reporters from her list of one-on-one interviews in honor of her anniversary in office. Can racism really be used to combat racism?
Three University of Massachusetts students were expelled for not wearing masks at an off campus function even though other unmasked students received either far less draconian or no consequences at all. They were evicted from campus housing on 9 hours notice despite a pandemic moratorium against such actions and left to fend for themselves far from home with no financial reimbursement from the school or way to support themselves. Are you outraged?
The big news this week from the CDC was the lifting of the mask requirement for those who have been vaccinated. The President then took that pronouncement a step further and says get vaxed or wear a mask. Does this sound like an ultimatum?
You can now go maskless outside if you are vaccinated but do you? Have masks been so politicized by the far left that people are afraid to take them off for fear it marks them as conservatives and therefore easy targets?
The outdoor mask mandate has been lifted by the CDC if you are vaccinated and approved by President Biden yet many people refuse to forsake their face coverings. Do you still wear your mask outside? Are you suffering from Lockdown withdrawal?
The un-vaccinated need not apply....Is that the sign we will soon see on job postings in the U.S.? Will you get vaccinated to keep your job? Would you get the jab if the FDA issued full approval for the Covid vaccines instead of the Emergency Use categorization currently applied?
The question of whether employers can require their staff to be vaccinated is getting bigger and bigger as the Biden Administration starts pulling out all the stops to overcome vaccination hesitancy, The Massachusetts Attorney General wants all public employees to get vaccinated. Have you been vaccinated? If not, will you to keep your job?
Our kids have lost a year of their childhood to isolation with no in class learning, no sports and limited playtime. Given that children are half as likely to become infected with Covid as adults, isn't it time to let them toss their masks and be kids again?
Is it time to trust in the Covid vaccinations and whatever herd immunity we have built up and stop wearing masks - at least outdoors? A number of states have listed mask mandates. Shouldn't the Biden Administration follow suit and stop sending mixed messages about the efficacy of the vaccinations?
Our government tells us we are racists, our schools are racist, our sports are racist, and our laws are racist. In fact we are told we are so racist that we can't even recognize that we are racists. What is the end game here?
The woke hydra is running out of victims on the right hand side of the aisle and has started to devour those once though of as allies. Are you safe from the racism police?
President Biden made a number of misstatements while revealing his gun control executive orders this week. Was it ignorance that caused these falsehoods or was he deliberately misrepresenting both laws and circumstances.
The President announced six executive orders this week tightening up our gun laws. Is unilateral gun control action, completely by-passing congress, the right way to change our firearm regulations?
A massive lie leads to the MLB boycotting an entire state. Is the marshalling of progressive forces against Georgia really about bringing water to people waiting to vote, or is it about trying to justify the abrogation of state's rights and the federalization of elections?
Major League Baseball has pulled it's all star game out of Atlanta, Georgia because of a giant fib told by President Biden and repeated by the mainstream media and the mocking jays on Facebook, Twitter and the like.
Was President Biden's first press conference a rousing success or did it set off alarm bells that something is not quite right? The President sees himself as a two term office holder. Do you see the same thing?
How would you describe President Biden's first press conference? Scary? Alarming? Great? Passable? Does the fact he used a briefing book and seemed to lose focus a number of times cause you any concern?
The Biden Administration, for all it's hype about national unity and returning America's dignity on the world stage seems to be stumbling. Is it ineptness or deliberate? Is the country better off than it was a year ago or worse?
President Biden stumbled on his way up the stairs of Air Force One. The President was unhurt but was his misstep a metaphor for what his administration is doing on both the foreign and domestic stages?
During his national Covid address, President Biden warned that Americans could not have a 4th of July barbecue unless the government says so, we better get vaccinated or there will be another lockdown, and even after vaccination his administration will give us a list of what we can and cannot do. Did President Biden's speech fill you with hope or foreboding?
President Biden gave his first prime time address this week. Mainstream Media describes him as empathizer in chief and he was extolled for being able to communicate with the American people and make them feel better. Do you agree with that description or did you hear something more sinister in the speech?
In their first bill other than Covid relief, HR-1, the House wants election reform that forces states to mandate vote-by-mail, lengthens the voting window, lowers the voting age and does not require citizenship to vote. Democrats say these provisions will remove obstacles for legitimate voters. Republicans say it just removes voter fraud safeguards from elections. Which side are you on?
Capitol Hill is hopping with weekend sessions to pass Covid relief as well as HR-1 the election reform act which would federalize state election rules including mandated vote by mail and the extension of the voting period to name just two of it's provisions. Are you impressed with the job this Congress is doing so far?
Teacher's unions are holding our children's futures hostage by scaring their memberships and making them believe that schools are unsafe without vaccinations and new ventilation systems to name but two demands. The CDC says that's not true. Isn't the unions reluctance to go back to in person learning actually about fewer hours, less supervision at pre-Covid pay rates? Is it time to bust the unions?
Teacher's unions are refusing to let their membership go back to in class situations unless all are first vaccinated even though the CDC says it's not necessary and schools are not superspreaders. One California school board member actually compared making educators return to class to slavery. The unions are holding our kids hostage. What are we going to do about it?
The Covid-19 vaccine roll out has been bumpy in many places. The Biden administration says the problem is that there was no vaccine stockpile when they got into the White House. Is that a legitimate excuse or just passing the buck?
Have you gotten your Covid-19 vaccination yet? Do you intend to get it? The roll out in Massachusetts has been a bleep show. How is it where you are?
President Trump was acquitted of incitement charges by the senate. The main reason he was being impeached was to forestall another run at the White House. Since the democrats lost their impeachment bid, President Trump is free to run again for public office. Should he? Will he?
The U.S. Senate acquitted former President Donald Trump on incitement charges. Sixty-seven votes were needed to convict and the Majority Leader fell 10 short. Was justice done?
The unconstitutional impeachment trial of former President Trump is revving up it's engine. President Trump's attorneys will be there, but he won't. Was this the right decision for the Trump Team?
The second senate impeachment trial of President Trump is about to begin. Like the first trial, the former President has decided to not testify. Is this a good decision?
Conservatives en masse are being blamed for what happened at the Capitol on January 6th even though not all the attackers were Trump supporters and some MAGA hat wearing protesters tried to get the police to stop the riot. Is this blame game a power grab and a naked attempt to silence all opposition to a progressive agenda?
There may be a new group that needs a protected classification under federal law to guard against discrimination. Should a new category labeled political affiliation be added to the already existing ones of race, religion, sex, age disability and gender orientation? Are conservatives a new American underclass?
Should we be spending our time, energy, money and focus on an impeachment trial for a former president? Don't we have more important things to focus on such as a pandemic, job loss, China, our southern border or riots in the Northwest to name just a few? Is this vengeance driven floor show going to cripple the new Biden Administration's ability to actually deal with the multiple crisis currently facing the country?
While President Biden is signing a host of Executive Orders that will require a full cabinet to implement, and millions of Americans are waiting for both vaccinations and a 3rd stimulus check, the U.S. Senate is getting ready to hold an impeachment trial for a private citizen who no longer holds office. Is this trial both unconstitutional and a waste of badly needed resources?
The double standard applied by the media and the left to any and all conservatives is killing our country. Two suggestions have been made to help our country to move forward. One is a tit for tat impeachment of a President Biden and the other is a pre-emptive pardon for President Trump from President Biden which would end all federal witch hunts against him. Which idea do you think is in the best interests of the country?
President-elect Joe Biden will take his oath of office in a Capitol festooned with armored vehicles and national guard. Americans now face a big question. Will the country move forward or wallow in a hostile divided union? Does the demonization of the right by the left and the progressive media help the United States move forward from the trauma of this past year or will it inflict a fatal wound?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is threatening imminent impeachment if the President does not resign or is not removed from office by Vice-President Pence and the cabinet using the 25th Amendment for inciting violence against the Capitol. Is this a realistic reaction to the attack against congress or is the Speaker just sabre rattling as President Trump's Administration gets ready to turn the lights out on January 20th?
There are calls for the President to resign or be removed from office by use of the 25th Amendment or impeached as Democrats, Republicans and Independents place the blame for the siege on the Capitol squarely at his feet. Is that where it belongs? Should the President be allowed to finish his term?
Even more concerning than the slow roll out of Vaccinations is the Vaccination Card you receive when you get your shot. Is this the first portent of a Vaccination Passport that you will need to go to school, got to work, get on a plane or cross a state line?
Twenty million Americans were supposed to be vaccinated by now. Only three million have gotten the shot. Who is to blame for the slow roll out? Is it the Trump Administration? Or is it more likely because of overwhelmed state services and politicians afraid to give President Trump a win?
Are lockdown restrictions keeping us in check to help bring about fundamental change in the U.S. economy shifting it from capitalism to global socialism?
Instead of easing, lockdowns are revving back up again. Are they doing any good in slowing the spread of Covid-19, or are they just a placebo designed to make officials - and us - feel like we have some power over the Coronavirus to the detriment of our economy?
Congress lined up today to get the Corona virus vaccination even before some front line health care workers. If they don't have any underlying health issues, should they be big footing the more vulnerable members of our society? Also cutting line in front of at-risk law abiding citizens, prison inmates. Is this right?
Covid vaccinations have started and there is a very set pecking order as to when you can get the shot. Who drew up this schedule? Is it fair? Will you get the vaccine? Are you worried it isn't safe?
Nancy Pelosi calls the President's challenge to the 2020 election results illegal and undemocratic. The Boston Globe wants President Trump's legal team punished. A New Jersey congressman wants every Republican representative who agreed with the Texas lawsuit to be kept from taking their seat in the new congress because they are traitors. Is this all revenge for losing the 2016 election and failing to get a blue wave in 2020?
The Supreme Court has ruled on the Texas challenge to changes in voting procedures in the swing states - sort of...No decision was made on the merits but the court did hold in a 9 to 0 ruling that the Lone Star state did not have standing to bring the suit. President Trump say he has standing and will fight on. Should he?
Vengeful Democrats who are still holding a grudge from the 2016 election say Republicans, including President Trump, have to be knocked down so hard they never get back up again. Word is they are the reason President Trump is contemplating pardons for himself and his family. Is this the right thing to do?
To Pardon, or not to pardon, that is the question. Democrats say that if President Trump pardons family members, associates or himself then he is admitting guilt. They say the notion that President Trump must protect himself and his family from a vengeful Biden administration is utter nonsense. Is it?
Rudy Giuliani presented evidence in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania regarding voter fraud. The mainstream media refused to cover it even going so far as refusing to report on what the President of the United States said at the hearing when called as a witness. Doesn't that make you just a little curious?
The President tweets that Joe Biden cant enter the White House unless he proves he got there without fraudulent votes. Does he mean that or is he just drawing attention to a subject the mainstream media won't cover, aka election integrity?
The Covid vaccine is on our doorstep. President Trump says you are welcome, Does he deserve thanks for operation Warp Speed which got the vaccine here in record time? Will you take it voluntarily? Should there be a vaccination mandate?
President Trump says the vaccine is just days away and his Warp Speed Program is the reason why. He also says Big Pharma wanted to delay the process so no good news would come out before the election in case it helped him against Joe Biden Is he right? Does the President deserve credit for helping the vaccine hit the shelves in record time?
Are you taking the advice from the CDC and having Thanksgiving outside or are you bending to local official pressure to cancel the holiday? Can't we use common sense safety precautions and still have Thanksgiving?
Will we have another lockdown? President Trump says if it is up to him no. Presumptive president-elect Joe Biden said he will follow the science but when his scientific advisers advocate a lockdown he says not so fast. Can't we skip another lockdown and just be careful until the vaccine is
distributed? Also do you trust that your co workers are being honest about Covid exposure?
The mainstream media says Joe Biden is the president-elect and it is time for President Trump to concede like Al Gore did in 2000. Since when does the media decide who wins an election? Al Gore did not concede until 37 days and a Supreme Court decision later. Shouldn't President Trump be afforded the same opportunity to press his case?
Former Vice-President Joe Biden has been named the president-elect by the mainstream media after Pennsylvania and Nevada declared for him putting him over the magic 270 electoral college votes needed to win. The Trump campaign says it is going to contest the results in a number of swing states where they say voter fraud has negated the results. Should President Trump take the election results to court or should he concede?
Mayor Rudy Giuliani checks in regarding the laptop from hell and the most recent October surprise detailing the Biden family's dealings with China and the siphoning of money into Joe Biden's pocket. Also on tap, what would life be like under a progressive Biden/Harris administration with the repeal of the Trump tax cuts and a full speed ahead attitude toward financially ruinous programs such as the Green New Deal and Medicare for all.
John Paul Moran, an openly gay conservative, is fighting for the Massachusetts 6th district congressional seat against incumbent democrat Rep. Seth Moulton. So far Moulton has refused to debate his opponent and Moran is doing his best to get his pro small business, bi partisan approach to government out to voters just 10 days before the election. Is it time to start working together instead of drawing party lines and creating obstacles instead of solutions?
Censorship - is there anything more un-American than that? Social media has run amok with censorship to the point that members of the US senate are calling their actions election tampering and are sending out a raft of subpoenas to the heads of Twitter, Facebook and Google after they block accounts that referenced a New York Post story unflattering to democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden. Should the social media giants lose their liability shield? Should they be regulated?
Both former Vice-President Biden and Michigan Governor Whitmer are blaming President Trump for inciting the kidnapping plot against the Governor saying the accused took their cues from the President's refusal to denounce White Supremacists. These statements are being promoted by the media despite the fact the President has denounced right wing fanatical groups multiple times and the kidnap conspirators are actually not supremacists but have been proven to be ANTIFA like anarchists. Is this fair? Is Joe Biden being hypocritical when he says the President was wrong to say there were fine people on both sides in Charlotte when he himself distinguishes between fine peaceful protesters and bad rioters?
After the announcement that both the President and the 1st Lady tested positive for Covid-19, a few political and media opponents offered their prayers and best wishes. Unfortunately a larger number decided to politicize the news and gin up fear in their audience. Can you say despicable?
An Ohio mom was tased and arrested after she refused to wear a mask at her 7th grade sons football game. She explained she had a medical condition, asthma, was social distanced from anyone else, and was outside. Yet she was man handled by a gloveless officer, tased and dragged from the bleachers for not following the Ohio State Athletic Association guidelines for sitting in the stands. Since when is the Athletic Association charged with writing criminal laws in Ohio? Can you say police over-reaction?
Movie Theatres are struggling to come back as feature films start up production again. Hub on Hollywood's Jamie Blanco and James Rojas have the skinny on new feature films and series as well as what casting calls are in your area if you are interested in making money as a movie or television extra!
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is being called a hypocrite for rushing to confirm a Supreme Court nomination to fill Justice Ginsberg's seat when he waited 10 months to fill a seat in 2016 when President Obama was in office. Is it McConnell who is a hypocrite or Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Chick Schumer who all argued for a quick confirmation in 2016? Also does hypocrisy really count when we are facing a constitutional crisis if no clear winner emerges from the General Election in November and the Supreme Court decides who the next president will be?
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has shed her mortal coil leaving an immense vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. Within 15 minutes of her death, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was tweeting we need to wait until after the election to fill her seat. Neither President Trump nor Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appear to be hesitating in getting the nomination and confirmation process rolling. Should they wait?
We have a number of private and charter schools in Massachusetts who have been able to bring their kids safely back into the class room. Why can't the public schools do the same thing? Is it because the Teacher's Union wants to slow down the return to normalcy in order to assist democrat nominee Joe Biden?
Alex Dan, Superintendent of the Mystic Valley Charter School has been able to bring back more than half of his student body into 5 day a week classroom participation. That number grows every week. Alex gives his blueprint for success.
An editor at the Atlantic Monthly claims he has unnamed sources that say the President blew off a memorial service for fallen Americans in France because his hair would get mussed. Even Trump critic and former NSA John Bolton says this is a fairy tale. Do you suspect this has more to do with the tightening general election polls then President Trump's support for the military?
An article in the Atlantic Monthly based upon anonymous sources claims that President Trump called Americans who lost their lives in the service of their country losers and suckers. Is this a believable story or do you suspect it is a political hit piece?
The Democrats are calling the Republican Convention's use of national monuments and the White House repugnant. Is that because it was effective in stirring up patriotic feelings among potential voters? Are they just mad they did not think to do it?
Both Democrat politicians and the Main Stream Media are claiming that the President giving his nomination acceptance speech from the south lawn of the White House is unprecedented and perhaps illegal. They seem to not realize that the Ethics Office says it is perfectly legal and President Trump is not the first president to use the White House as a political back drop...
If a national Covid vaccination is mandated, how will it be enforced? Will you have to show proof of vaccination to have a job? Will you need a vaccination certificate to go to a restaurant, a ballpark, get on a bus? Will you have to get vaccinated in order to get a passport or a driver's license?
Massachusetts has become the first state in the union to mandate a flu vaccine for all students under 30 years old. Is this the first step toward a nationally mandated Covid vaccination for everyone? What will be mandated next?
If elected, former Vice-President Joe Biden has all the earmarks of a one term or less president meaning his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris would have to fill the void. GovTrack says last year she was the most liberal senator sitting, including Vermont's arch progressive Bernie Sanders. Is this who you want in the White House?
Progressives are criticizing former Vice-President Joe Biden's choice of California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate saying she is too moderate. Is the claim that Harris is a centrist a lie designed to trick moderate democrats and independents into voting for a far left wing ticket?
President Trump is being hammered by the media for doing a bad job with the federal government's response to the Corona virus. Is this an accurate depiction or is this media bias trying to swing voters for the general election in November?
A new Gallup Poll says 86% of Americans hold the media responsible for the political divide in the U.S.. Are you in the majority? Do you think your favorite news source is bias?
More on the Appeals Court decision ordering another sentencing hearing for the Boston Marathon Bomber. Was this case more about a liberal bench trying to quash a death sentence then it was about an overwrought jury looking for retribution?
The federal Appeals Court says the Boston Marathon Bomber did not get a fair penalty hearing because the jury who gave him the death penalty may have been unduly influenced by media in the city 2 years after the attack that murdered 4 people and maimed hundreds. Is it worth putting the survivors through another nightmarish trial in order to give the domestic terrorist the death penalty again?
Travel bans are not helping already pandemic decimated airlines. But neither is the fear of the dreaded middle seat and fully booked flights. Airlines can't break even if they keep a third of their cabin seats empty and they say a mask and washing your hands should be enough on planes where social distancing is just not possible. Are you ready to fly again?
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has placed a new travel ban on anyone coming into or back to the Bay State. He says the move is to keep our already very low covid infection rate down. Are the good virus numbers in the Commonwealth due to lockdowns and travel bans or are they due to increasing herd immunity?
If our national anthem is to be changed, just what are we supposed to change it to? Suggestions made include "God Bless America," "This Land is Your Land," "Lift Every Voice and Sing," "America the Beautiful," and the favorite of the Los Angeles Times, "Lean on Me." While a number of these songs are easier to sing than "The Star-Spangled Banner," none are hitting the right note...
A move is afoot to retire "The Star-Spangled Banner" as our national anthem because of a line in the poem in which the lyrics of the song are based. Francis Scott Key's poem "The Defence of Fort McHenry" contains the phrase "No refuge could save the hireling and slave, from the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave." Even though that stanza is not included in the anthem, a group of virtue signaling protesters say the song must go. Is dumping "The Star-Spangled Banner" one woke movement too far?