Headlines

Poll shows Trump’s coronavirus approval at all-time low

Wearing masks is now the most important thing for the economy, Fed’s Kaplan says

New Christopher Steele evidence strengthens Durham prosecution

25,000 academics say U.S. citizenship is an ‘artificial distinction’

California investigating Google for possible antitrust violations

Already in economic meltdown, Lebanon endures blackouts 20 hours a day

Poll: Overwhelming majority want to keep police funding at current levels or increase it

Supreme Court, 7-2: House cannot force Trump to provide tax returns

Hannity gives Trump another chance to lay out his second-term agenda

Coronavirus live updates: Italy to extend state of emergency, Nevada rolls back reopen for bars

Report: U.S. Attorney Durham under  pressure to conclude investigation by end of summer

Ethiopia’s week of unrest shows 239 dead, 3,500 arrested

Pressure Cooker

Pelosi, Limbaugh, Schiff, Hannity and, yes, Trump ... all have put woke Americans into a pressure-cooker over their diametrically opposed views of reality. Who is right? How will this impeachment melodrama end? Everybody has crafted their own last scene that would suit their sense of justice. Are both sides right? Can’t be!

If one steps outside this superheated pressure cooker, it seems that the endgame of all this turmoil will be that the side that prevails in this battle of the Titans will prevail for a long time. My money is on the Right ... if only because it’s their turn. (Maybe that is why the Left is fighting with such seeming desperation and ferocity.)

When will this steam escape-valve let go? It certainly will be before the presidential election of 2020 is in the can ... maybe sooner? It might even be with the release of the IG report on the FISA applications to spy on the Trump campaign ... combined with news of criminal indictments both from there and from the Barr investigation into the origins of the Russian collusion probe. But since AG Barr is not as media savvy as Pelosi and Schiff, I kinda doubt it. It also might await a not-guilty decision in the Senate if (when) Trump is impeached.

So, assuming Trump beats Deval Patrick next November, this might be the beginning of a long Conservative dynasty ... just like the one that the Left has had for the last ninety years.

Headlines

Congress averts shutdown, postpones fight over Trump's wall

Mortgage rates hit a 2 month low -- an unexpected holiday gift to housing

[Golden Globes:] Hanniity, Zucker, Drudge named most influential ...

California: More than 7-in-10 non-citizen households use welfare

Pelosi casts doubt on passage of Trump's new NAFTA without changes

New Democrat law would block lawmakers from buying and selling individual stocks while in office

Former U.S. attorney general Barr may return to job ...

Obama granted Soros-tied group $310M to help migrants avoid deportation

Assange can leave embassy, says Ecuador's president

Trump could be first president since Carter to face recession while running for reelection

Pro athletes say they will lose fortune under Trump tax 'cuts' ...

Italy cuts illegal migrants sea landings by 80 percent

Headlines

Final polls point to narrow House majority for Democrats

Democrats hold 7 point advantage are ad of midrem election as Trump's base 'comes home': NBC-WSJ poll

Hannity and Limbaugh at rally with Trump!

Senate report reveals Christine Blasey Ford had an encounter similar to her Kavanaugh claim

Democrats aren't moving left. They're returning to their roots

A Wall Street veteran who's bullish on stocks sees one more major leg down, and China's the reason

5 million already voted in TX ...

Maxine Waters: 'Trump is putting a target on my back' -- 'He's promoting violence'

Pompeo not worried about North Korean 'rhetoric' ahead of New York talks

David Stockman believes the 40% market correction he's long predicted has finally arrived

Voter enthusiasm surges among Hispanics ...

Stacey Abrams: Georgians could have to 'turn their guns in '

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Hannity endorses Jim Jordan for House speaker

CBS CEO Les Moonves accused of sexual misconduct in New Yorker investigation

Monster wildfire in California rages on after killing two firefighters ...

Brooks: 'Cloids of confusion' make collusion seem 'more plausible'

Trump policy shop filters facts to fit his message

Facebook says it is close to yanking several InfoWars pages

Ecuador president says Assage must leave [London] embassy

Schiff: If Cohen's claim is true, itt brings the issue of collusion or conspiracy to Trump's feet'

Why Congress should invest: Aging public transit costs )50BN annually

Musk, Trump and the age-old mass psychology effect that both are successfully exploiting

[Alexandria] Cortez risky road show ... Raise taxes, slash military  ...

Russian initiative helps hundreds of refugees return to Syria

Headlines

Patrick Kennedy profits from opioid-addiction firms

Weapons system that has North Korea spooked just got $200 million from the Pentagon

Ruthless Miguel to rule Cuba

Lawmakers send criminal referrals for Clinton, Comey, Lynch, McCabe

Trump confirms Pompeo met with Kim Jong Un

Jeff Bezos reveals Amazon has 100 million Prime users, in letter to shareholders

Investigation opened into Tesla's workplace operations ...

Shootings in Sweden 'so common they don't make headlines'

McConnell dismisses GOP  efforts to protect Mueller

Forget the Hannity-Cohen scandal -- the Clinton's personal lawyer has made journalists MILLIONS of dollars

Half Californians support travel ban, increasing deportations ...

Lawsuit: Google reserves jobs for 'diversity individuals' only

Headlines

Trump's lawyer did secret legal work for Sean Hannity, attorney says

Deep State circular firing squad: Lynch, McCabe, Rosenstein vs. Lynch

Japan lifts ban on growing human organs in animals ...

Calif. rejects border duties for troops

Graham says Syrian strikes 'major step backwards' for Trump

China bought most Treasurys in six months, in February

Syrian air defenses fire at suspected Israeli warplanes

Reports: Russia ships more military hardware to Syria

Scalise to back McCarthy for Speaker

Russian stocks, ruble jump after report Trump halted further sanctions

900 Boston Marathon runners receive medical treatment along route ...

DHS: Cities hid 142 suspected gang members from deportation

Headlines

White House blames Russia for massive Ukraine cyberattack

Another Trump campaign official[Rick Gates] is about to make a plea deal with Mueller

Senate defeats president's immigration plan ...

Taliban pens letter to American people urging peace talks after sit strikes

De Blasio details terror plot that started in a Harlem charter school

General Flynn should withdraw his guilty plea. His new judge is a government misconduct expert.

OPRAH: God hasn't told me to run ...

Limbaugh mocks FBI: Too busy with Trump, #MeToo investigations to stop FL shooter

Priebus on White House chaos: 'Take everything you've heard and multiply it by 50'

Hannity: If we can secure the Oscars, we can secure our schools

SEC blocks Chinese takeover of Chicago Stock Exchange ...

Report: 52% of non-disabled parents on food stamps do not work

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It's now likely Mueller thinks Trump obstructed justice

Evergreen State College lecture: Free speech helps White Supremency

Dow sets another record ... stocks +44% since election ...

Sean Hannity's Twitter account disappears

An affair with Trump? Nikki Haley rebuts 'disgusting' rumors

SHOCKER: Hillary doesn't deny she shielded top aid against sexual harassment claims

Dozens recall sex misconduct by [casino] mogul Steve Wynn ...

... Schumer: I agreed to fund the wall because it's next to impossible to build

Schumer rejects Trump's immigration proposal

Wall Stret could be facing a #MeToo tsunami

FEDEX announces wage increases, bonuses amid tax reform ...

Pelosi slams compromise amnesty plan ... 'A campaign to make America white again'

Headlines

All from Internet news sites. Guess which from CNBC?

GOP leaders bullish tax bill will pass the House this week

Media Matters using Roy Moore allegations to go after Hannity's advertisers

Hundreds of millionaires are banding together to tell Congress: Raise our taxes

Bears Packers game half empty at Soldier Field ...

Alabama polls show close race after Moore accusations

Remember [acting AG] Sally Yates? She says Trump is 'shamelessly unpatriotic'

Humans traveling to Mars may soon be possible. Whether they can survive the trip is another story.

Bill Gates buys big chunk of land to build 'smart city' ...

Middle class biggest winner in Senate tax plan, study says

Top Dems STILL won't say what should happen to Menendez if he is convicted

Trump bailed on a trade deal, and now a bunch of US businesses may suffer

Politics killing mood at Barcelona's storied sex club ...

Headlines

All from Internet news sites. Guess which from Politico?

Russian-funded Facebook ads backed Stein, Sanders and Trump

Kellyanne Conway: Public expects Trump to be part of culture wars

GOP proposal calls for surcharge on 'wealthiest' Americans ...

Violent crime up 2X national average in part of California

Moore's win spells trouble for GOP establishment in 2018

Bill O'Reilly shocks on Hannity: Liberals don't want Whites 'calling the shots'

NFL ratings: -11

Border wall prototype construction begins ...

After Luther Strange loses in Alabama, Trump's supportive tweets disappear

Attorney General promises more action against campus speech suppression

Chicago historic heatwave ...

Saudi Arabia announces end to ban on women drivers

Headlines

The following headlines all come from Internet news sites. Guess which ones were found on Politico?

Senate GOP seethes at Trump impulsiveness

Sarah Palin suing New York Times for defamation

Opioids could kill 650,000 in USA over next decade ...

Mark Zuckerberg compares Facebook to going to church

Gingrich: Congress should call upon Obama to testify

Ransomware virus hits computer servers across globe ...

Rand Paul says he believes Senate can pass Obamacare repeal bill before August recess

Rep. [Chris] Collins loses $17 million in biotech stock

Chinese foreign minister: Refugees should return to their homelands

Cable news wars: Hannity dominate[s] ...

Bernie Sanders says FBI investigation of his wife is politically motivated

Supreme Court takes case on what qualifies as obstruction

Headlines

The following ads have all been found on Internet new sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

Trump loses patience with his White House counsel

Baltimore police union blasts city leaders among crime surge

Johnny Depp jokes about Trump assassination ...

Study: Nearly 6 million noncitizens may have voted illegally in elections

The anti-innovation presidency

MSNBC analyst compares Trump to suicide bomber

Freighter was on autopilot when it hit U.S. destroyer ...

California attacks Texas with travel ban over LGBT discrimination

Trump calls Mueller-Comey relationship 'very troubling'

Senate bill says so long to Planned Parenthood funding

AMAZON drone beehive in every city ...

Hannity offers to pay for Joe, Mika therapy

Headlines

These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

Deep-pocketed health-care lobbies line up against Trump

Puerto Rico declares bankruptcy ...

Comey: Russia favored Trump because Putin 'hated' Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump: 'Not good' Susan Rice refuses to testify

Poll: Trump approval hits 49% ...

Hannity on Comey testimony: 'How stupid do they think we are?'

MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' hosts engaged

Colbert walks back 'crude' Trump-Putin joke

Trump to visit Israel, Vatican, Saudi Arabia on first foreign tripZ

Another man says Seattle mayor paid him for sex ...

Tillerson defends outreach to foreign leaders who deviate from American 'values'

Coulter: Swamp People: 47; Trump: 0

Silence!

Has anyone but myself noticed the recent decline of talk radio?  Last week in Boston, the FM talk station, WTKK, went to an (atrocious) all-music format.  It had been almost exclusively talk and mostly right-leaning talk ... except for Margery Eagan and Jim Braude in the morning hours.  They had had a conservative Michael Graham filling up the drive-time slot and that occasional righty, Mike Smerconish in between … see: Gaulitics.com.  Even that power-mouth Rush Limbaugh, after a little over a twelve month move to AM’s WXKS Talk 1200 from the feeble-AM-signaled WRKO 680, recently was forced to move back … just a little humbled (see: Boston Radio Watch ).  WXKS then went to a silly all-comedy format.

Over the last year here in Boston we have seen quite a parcel of other silenced right-wing voices … Lara Ingraham disappeared (and, in her last months, pleading for more advertisers) as well as Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Jeff Katz, Jay Severin, and Michael Savage. And, as of now, the only oral oasis for us crypto-Nazis here in Boston is WRKO (whose signal fades fast after sundown … very annoying in the winter time) which carries just the few voices of right-reason remaining -- Jeff Kuhner, Howie Carr, Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin.  (Of course there is still FM-radio’s NPR here in Boston (WGBH 89.7) … on which one can hear how to make Nina Tottenberg’s cranberry sauce, listen to Terry Gross castigate conservatives and learn about All [Liberal] Things Considered.)

But the real reason for this blog entry is that I sense that this shrinkage is not happening by accident.  I strongly suspect that there is an invisible hand at work behind the scenes that is somehow convincing advertisers (and station managers) that it would be better if they were not abetting this brand of right-wing political talk radio.  And when Rush Limbaugh offered up a derogatory name for Sandra Fluke after she “testified” to Congress about her need for free contraceptives, even this ratings giant lost significant advertisers.  President Obama has not minced words about his disgust over conservative talk radio and the messages that it conveys (see: American Thinker).  And as Joe Biden says, President Obama carries a big stick and, as we have seen, he is not afraid to use it.

And so, at least in Boston, the pond for conservative talk radio is rapidly drying up.  This was one of the few alternatives to the mostly-liberal Main Stream Media ... but has drawn the ire of both it and the party currently in power. As long as they are going after the Second Amendment to the Constitution, why not scuttle the First Amendment also?