Today's Great Guests
Wow do we have a lineup for you today!
Diana Furchtgott-Roth is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation. She has served in the White House under Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush including as Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor and Chief of Staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, In this conversation, we'll discuss the complex issue of the claimed risk to certain airplanes' navigation systems posed by the rollout of 5G cellular service by AT&T and Verizon. 5G and Aviation Safety | Federal Aviation Administration (faa.gov)
Airlines warn of "catastrophic" flight disruption in 5g deployment - Axios
Douglas County parent Will Johnson has been on the show a few times before. He's paying close attention to education policy and joins us to talk about state plans for a new woke Social Studies curriculum which include making kids focus on minority groups, LGBTQ, etc. This article has good information including info on where to make your own public comment (prior to Feb 1.) Johnson: Proposed social studies standards wrong for Colorado – Complete Colorado – Page Two Here's the legislation that's partly creating this mess: Inclusion Of American Minorities In Teaching Civil Government | Colorado General Assembly
I'm so excited to have Kennedy on the show. She's probably the single most prominent libertarian in media and one of the funniest people on TV as well. She'll be one of the speakers at this year's Leadership Program of the Rockies Annual Retreat and I hope you'll come join me and Kennedy (and Bret Baier, Jonathan Turley, Lawrence Jones, and Brian Wesbury, among others at the Broadmoor on February 11-12.) Here's Kennedy's Fox Business page: https://www.foxbusiness.com/shows/kennedy
It's an extremely dynamic and tenuous situation causing many folks to try to be a Vladimir Putin mind-reader: Will Putin order the Russian army to invade Ukraine? We'll discuss the many complex aspects of the situation with the man himself, Admiral James Stavridis, the former NATO Supreme Allied Commander. The admiral has a new non-fiction book out as well: The Sailor’s Bookshelf – Admiral James Stavridis (admiralstav.com) And if you haven't read "2034: A Novel of the Next World War", I highly recommend it though I warn you that it doesn't have a happy ending.
Other Stuff
One wonders whether higher education can be saved if even Jordan Peterson is giving up
Jordan Peterson: Why I am no longer a tenured professor at the University of Toronto | National Post
Glenn Youngkin knows that words matter...and he's doing something about it one word at a time
https://www.governor.virginia.gov/news-releases/2022/january/name-922694-en.html
This is a fascinating Supreme Court case about art looted by the Nazis
Check the video at the end of this blog note for more about this particular great artist.
Pissarro painting stolen by Nazis at center of Supreme Court arguments - CNNPolitics
A quest to reclaim a Pissarro masterpiece hinges on the Erie doctrine - SCOTUSblog
From the "Why should taxpayers subsidize this?" files
BTW, wouldn't you think that most people who would take advantage of this would already be relatively well-off? It's like a tiny version of subsidizing Tesla buyers.
She replaced half her tongue...with part of her thigh!
Woman's tongue replaced with thigh to fight cancer (nypost.com)
Today's Videos
OK, this is super nerdy, but you know who you're dealing with here. I shared the story above about the Supreme Court case regarding a Pissarro painting stolen from German Jews during World War II. Pissarro is one of the truly great Impressionist painters but one of the least-known of the people whom you could describe that way.
And Bill Murray is very pretty as he sings in a NYC park