What's Bugging Me Ricochet

This week Dennis is casting a very wide net and reeling in stuff that... well, stinks like dead fish. From jury selection in the Trump criminal trial in NY to the new CEO of National Public Radio to the SCOTUS arguments on the J6 convictions to the foreign policy of the Biden Administration... it all smells to high heaven. 

And we're taking a deep dive into the mess Biden is making of the Middle East with Richard Goldberg, who served as the Director for Countering Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction for the White House National Security Council under President Donald Trump.

All that and the Parting Shot.

Elon Musk makes the battle for free speech international to the halls of Brazil's Supreme Court (Ordem e Progresso!) while an editor at National Public Radio in Washington laments the fall of the free press at home.

And former U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker returns to put a 2040 deadline on the ticking time bomb that is the National Debt of the United States.

Gag orders and conflicts of interest abound in the latest round of Donald Trump's legal saga, and boy, is Dennis bugged abou that.

This week's interview segment highlights the perniciousness of the DEI agenda: Former Werner Enterprises board member Vikram Mansharamani talks about his exit from the company and its "unquestioned dedication to ESG considerations as a primary strategy, and the refusal to adequately consider different perspectives.”

And in the parting shot Dennis takes on the division at the heart of "diversity."

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Horror of horrors! NBC News hires and fires a Republican after on-air talent throws a fit. Who's running the asylum?

Then we talk to Karen England of the Capitol Resource Institute about the battle for parental rights in America's schools.

All that and the Parting Shot.

It's a classic case of good news and bad news. First the bad: If oral arguments are any indication of where the cause of free speech stands at the Supreme Court, we could be in deep, deep trouble.

On the good news front, if you're one of the 1.3 million men who take Viagra, a Cleveland Clinic study says you may be lowering your risk of Alzheimer's. Alyssia Finley of the Wall Street Journal stops by and shares the details.

All that and the Parting Shot.

In 2020 the city of New York broke 75.7 to 22.6% for Joe Biden. It's safe to say that at least some of those Trump votes came from the city's first responders. We'll take a look at the reaction to NYAG Letitia James' appearance at the FDNY promotion ceremony.

And speaking of broke, Special Counsel Robert Hur's testimony before a House committee seems to have broken a lot of people. All that and the Parting Shot.