In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from economist Thomas Sowell on how many people today view the success of others as a grievance instead of something to be admired and emulated.  We'll tell you which Japanese electronics giant has been delisted from Japan's Stock exchange and will most likely go out of business. If you are over 30, the chances are excellent that you have owned & used some of their products.  In the stupidest thing I've heard all week segment, we'll tell you about a proposal requiring the police officer to get permission from headquarters before removing their gun from a lock box in their cruiser and putting it in their holster.   We'll tell you why, despite their male names, all of Santa's reindeer were females.  We'll tell why the Biden administration is stalling the sale of 20,000 M-16 rifles to Israel.  We'll revisit college students repeating the Pro-Palestinian chant "From the River to the Sea" without having the faintest idea of what that chant means.  In a related story, we'll tell you about a brilliant piece of commentary by Bill Maher on the Israel/Hamas conflict. You can watch that video here: https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1735886698360586367. We'll tell you how many people were added to the no-fly list last year and the seven ways your name could get added to that list that now numbers in the millions.  We'll give you an example of how the media is using language to demonize guns instead of people misusing them.  We'll play a parody ad illustrating what electric vehicle car companies would tell you if they were completely honest about the electric vehicles they want you to buy.  a.m.Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Ft. Worth, Texas, where a young teenage burglar is shot & killed by a female homeowner at 3 o'clock and asks what a 14-year-old is doing out on the street at that hour.

In this week's episode, our quote is by Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton on the power of the customer.  We'll tell you about an incredible coincidence during the Mega-Millions drawing on December 8.  In the stupidest thing I've heard all week, we have three contenders;  The first is a woman who brings her loaded handgun with her into an MRI machine  The second is the head of a women's organization who can't define what a woman is  The third is about Pro-Palestinian College students chanting "From the River to the Sea" who have no idea what river or sea the chant is referring to or what achieving the goal of that chant would mean.  In a related story, we'll play a clip from the Congressional hearings last week where three University presidents were asked if protesters calling for the genocide of Jewish people violated their guidelines against bullying & harassment and why the answers they gave cost one of them her job.  In yet another related story, we'll tell which traditionally anti-gun ethnic group has suddenly decided that maybe owning a gun and learning how to use it might not be a bad idea after all.  We'll play a clip explaining how both NASA and the NOAA have collaborated to convert actual temperature data showing a global cooling trend into a report showing a global warming trend by making questionable adjustments to the real recorded data and fabricating data for up to 50% of the reporting stations that either no longer exist or have stopped reporting data.  We'll tell you about a squatter who moved into a vacant home, fixed it up, and then sold it for a considerable profit and why the court allowed him to keep the money over the objections of the legal owner.  Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Granada Hills, California, where three armed thugs break into a home, but only two are left alive.

In this week's episode, our quote of the week is by President Harry S. Truman on how he felt about politicians getting rich while in office.  In our first related story, we'll tell you how gold bars given to a current US Senator as a bribe were traced back to the businessman who gave them to him.  In our second related story, we'll play a clip from Congressman James Comer detailing what they discovered when they were finally able to subpoena bank records from Hunter Biden's shell companies and which politician received regular payments from one of those companies.  In the stupidest thing I've heard all week, we have three contenders:  Biden claimed that corporations should be able to start reducing consumer prices because the rate of inflation for just the most recent month has slowed to 3%  President Biden repeatedly & incorrectly claiming that he had "Cut the National Debt in half" when what he actually cut in half was the annual BUDGET DEFICIT. The new Mayor of Chicago blames the City's mounting problems on "Right-wing Republicans" when there hasn't been a Republican Mayor of Chicago in over 90 years.  You pick the winner.  We'll tell you which US Senator blocked an attempt by one of his fellow Senators to subpoena the flight logs & passenger manifests for Jeffery Epstein's private jet and ask "What possible reason could he have for doing that?"  We'll tell you how Climate change and this year's much-touted "Summer of drought" impacted the US corn crop. A story you definitely didn't hear about on the evening news.  We'll tell you how many Ford dealerships are opting out of the Company's "EV Dealer & service center" program and why.  In another study you didn't hear about on the evening news, we'll give you the data from a study that showed that during the pandemic that people who wore masks "Always or almost always" came down with Covid infections at a rate that was nearly double the group the wore masks "Never or almost never".  Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Memphis where a customer in a Dollar General store shoots & kills one of three armed thugs robbing the store.

In this week's podcast, we have two related quotes of the week (one by Albert Einstein), both dealing with the necessity of combating evil in this world.  In the stupidest thing I've heard all week, we'll tell you how the Colorado State legislature has managed to socialize tax refunds.  We'll read a highly provocative & controversial Op-Ed piece by a Spanish writer who claims that it wasn't just 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust but all of Europe as well when the unbridled immigration from Muslim countries that followed began to destroy centuries of European culture.  In a related piece, we'll tell you how many Nobel prize winners were of Jewish heritage. That figure might astound you.  We'll tell you about a New York State law that allows women to sue famous people for things they claim might have happened more than 30 years ago and ask if you think that law is reasonable.  We'll share a quick Return on Investment (ROI) calculation showing you what the payback would have been if Congress had approved Trump's 2018 request for $7 billion to finish the construction of the US/Mexico border wall.   We'll tell you how many weeks a dog in Colorado continued to guard the body of its owner after he died from a heart attack while on a hike in the wilderness and ask if your dog would have stayed by your body (and survived) for that same length of time.  Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Philadelphia, where an armed thug forces his way into an upscale high-rise apartment at 7:00 PM on Thanksgiving day and gets something other than pumpkin pie for his troubles.

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from the late Andy Rooney of 60 Minutes fame on the paradox of living to an old age.   In the stupidest thing I've heard all week, we have two entries: The first is how New York City police described the circumstances of the death of a man found with no head or arms.   The second is about the State of California suspending the concealed weapon carry permit of a man who legally used his gun to fend off an attack by two masked & armed attackers.   We'll play a brief clip from the most recent Saturday Night Live show demonstrating how even this bastion of liberalism has turned against President Biden and is signaling that they don't believe he should run for a second term. We'll tell you about a subtle change that has taken place at a White House staff meeting having to do with which way the attendees orient their name plates and why Biden no longer uses the main staircase to enter or exit Air Force One. We'll tell you about a decline in the average life expectancy for men in this country and how getting a college degree or trade school education can add years to that life expectancy.   We'll tell you which State won the dubious distinction of winning the "Least free state in the union" award and which states came in places 2 through 4.   We'll give you some commentary from scientists who argue that based on earth's past history that MORE CO2 in the earth's atmosphere would actually be beneficial to both plant & animal life (including humans) on this planet. We'll tell you why Hamas has stated that their objective behind the October 7th attack on Israeli civilians was to achieve a "Permanent state of war" and why they want to achieve that result.   Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Florida, where an intruder brings a hatchet to a gunfight with an armed homeowner.

In this week's episode, our quote of the week is from playwright George Bernard Shaw on why some knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance.  In our most ironic story of the week, we'll tell you which national labor union is the target of a strike by its rank-and-file employees who are seeking higher wages & better benefits. In a follow-up to our story about how many times homicide suspects in Washington DC had been arrested before finally being arrested for murder, we'll tell you about the shocking increase in car thefts & violent crime in that same city so far this year.  We'll let you know what happened to gun sales in Maine last month following the mass shooting at the Lewiston Maine Bowling alley and the 3-day search for the killer that followed.  We'll tell you why more than 70% of the immigrants entering the US from Mexico are not legally eligible to apply for asylum in this country.  We'll tell you which city spent more than $5 Million on electric trucks to replace some of their diesel-powered snow plows only to discover that they are not suitable for use as snow plows and how they could have determined that for just a tiny fraction of that cost.  We'll give you an actual example of how Trump Derangement Syndrome has become the focal point of some people's entire lives.  We'll play a clip by historian & political commentator Victor Davis Hanson describing President Biden as a mere "Construct" and "Avatar" being used by the people who are in control of this country.  Our Taxpayer relief shot comes to us from St. Louis, where a woman's ex-boyfriend, who is armed with a gun, breaks into her home at 1:00 AM only to encounter her new boyfriend, who is also armed.

In this week's podcast, our quote is from the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius on why the opinion of 10,000 men can be worthless and how that observation still holds today. We'll tell you how bad retail theft losses have gotten and how much those thefts cost law-abiding consumers each year. We'll tell you how fast the fastest male runner finished the New York City Marathon this past weekend and how many more male runners finished the race ahead of the fastest female runner, and ask what will happen if & when one of those also-ran male runners declares that he wants to identify as and run as a woman in the next marathon. We'll play a 90-second clip of an award-winning journalist explaining why claiming CO2 is a "Pollutant" is ludicrous. We'll play a 90-second clip of Louisiana Senator John Kennedy explaining why he thinks President Biden has (QUOTE): "Taken the bullet train to Chumptown." We'll ask why the federal government is paying half the cost of an $8 Billion subway expansion project in New York City that won't benefit anyone who doesn't live or work in New York City. We'll tell you about a new minimum wage for healthcare workers law in California that went into effect this year and is now costing that state billions of dollars and adding to that state's already staggering debt. We'll tell you which famous Seattle-based billionaire is moving to Florida and why. We'll tell you how many prior arrests the average homicide suspect in Washington, DC, has when they are arrested for killing someone and explain why thugs with so many prior arrests are out on the street committing more crimes instead of spending more time in prison. In a related story, this week's Taxpayer relief shot also comes to us from Washington DC, the carjacking capital of the United States, where two very young thugs pick the wrong car to try and carjack with tragic consequences.

This week's podcast will tell you when Daylight Savings Time started in the US and why. This week's quote is from the Mash character Dr. Hawkeye Pierce (played by Alan Alda) on the difference between war and hell.  In the stupidest thing I've heard all week, we have two contenders: The first is a decision by the Oregon State Department of Education to award high school diplomas to all seniors, even if they can't read, write, or do basic math. The second is a 90-second clip of a young girl who recently graduated from college on the horrors she is dealing with having to work a 9-5 job. We'll revisit the mass shooting that took place at a Maine bowling alley last week and tell you some things that you probably didn't hear on the news. We also tell you about an OODA loop and how breaking a shooter's OODA loop can save lives. We'll ask the question of why TV news reports frequently tell you that the victims of fatal traffic accidents weren't wearing seat belts but never tell you that murder victims were unarmed & defenseless. Aren't both of those things contributing factors to their deaths, and if so, why report one and not the other? We'll revisit the concept of "The Invisible hand of Capitalism," a term first used by economist Adam Smith in his 1776 book "The Wealth of Nations," and use the selection of ice cream in your local grocery store to describe how it works in real life. We'll give you an update on two recent Federal court decisions out of California dealing with guns that might impact what you can buy & legally own in all 50 states. We'll tell you about the most recent northern state claiming that they no longer can provide shelter to illegal immigrants despite a self-imposed state law requiring them to do so. Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Ohio, where four thugs broke into a closed smoke shop at 1:30 in the morning only to encounter an armed store employee who had been working in the back room.

In this week's episode, our quote of the week is from Napoleon Bonaparte on whether or not stupidity is a handicap  We'll revisit a topic from 4 months ago and give you an update on how the rise in interest rates is blowing a massive hole in the Federal budget.  We'll tell you how a 25-year-old Israel woman single-handedly killed 5 Hamas terrorists and helped civilians in a Kibbutz defeat a terrorist attack  We bring you two "You didn't hear this on the news stories": The first is about the US Envoy to Iran being suspended without pay and why he is being investigated by the FBI and ask why the news media isn't reporting this story. The second concerns the astonishing number of E-mail exchanges between then Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter during Biden's 8 years as Vice President. For someone who has repeatedly claimed that he never discussed his son's business dealing with him, the thousands of e-mail exchanges that to placed between them strain credulity   We'll tell you how many illegal aliens from the Middle East (that we know of) have illegally entered this country in just the past 24 months and are still here and what we don't know about them.  In a related story, we'll tell you in what US city a twice deported illegal alien murdered two people last week and ask how was he able to keep getting back into this country.  We'll review the recently released FBI National Crime Report for 2022 and tell you how many people are getting murdered in this country, which demographic group accounts for more than half the victims & more than half the offenders, and what kinds of weapons are being used to murder them.  Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Washington State where an 80-year-old woman shoots and kills a 25-year-old thug who had attacked & stabbed her 75-year-old husband.

In this week's podcast, our quote of the week is from Judge Jeanine Pirro on whether or not the genitals you were born with define your gender.  In our "Stupidest thing I've heard all week segment," we'll tell you what the government sold for pennies on the dollar less than 60 days ago that they are now spending tens of millions of your tax dollars to replace this month.  We'll give you some perspective on the size & populations of both Israel & the Gaza Strip by comparing them to a U.S. state and city.  We'll update you on more than a dozen new E.V. battery plants in the U.S. and tell you where they are being built and how many people they will employ.  We'll tell you in what city Starbucks is closing seven stores this month, adding their name to a long list of other businesses abandoning this major U.S. City.  We'll tell you about an Air BnB horror story that involves a property owner who can't evict a woman from a guest house on his property that she has been living in rent-free since April of 2022.  We'll tell you the deadliest creature on earth (besides man) and how many worldwide deaths it causes yearly.  We'll play a couple of minutes of outrageous claims, threats & proposals made during the height of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic by political figures, talk show hosts & various celebrities.  Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Phoenix, where a husband and father of two children shoots and kills an intruder who broke into his home at 11:00 at night.