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Ann sits down with Peter Thiel, Chairman of Palantir, the co-founder of PayPal and the first major outside investor in Facebook.
In May of 2016, Theil admitted to the New York Times that he financed Terry Bollea’s (aka, Hulk Hogan) lawsuit against Gawker Media. Here, in part one of Ann’s two-part interview, Thiel goes into great detail on the background story of bringing down one of the internet’s biggest sleaze merchants.
Show links:
- Twitter: @RyanGirdusky
- 1776 Project PAC
- Sec of State Blinken statement: Appointment of Zakiya Carr Johnson as the Department’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
- Zakiya Carr Johnson’s other work: Hauling more Latin Americans into our country at your expense
- Abortion in Florida: Democratic candidates just got a boost for 2024
- Immigration Surges to Top of Most Important Problem List
- Rep. Bob Good (VA-Dist 5) is being primaried for no good reason by selfish douchebags at a time when the GOP has a ONE-VOTE majority in the House.
Republicans: Please remember when the “Tea Party” gave us Dem majorities and ObamaCare with candidates like Christine O’Donnell, Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock.
Show Links:
- What Is Antisemitism? A Columbia Task Force Would Rather Not Say.
- Is New York Better Off Than It Was 7 Years Ago? New Yorkers Say No.
- The Psychedelic Evangelist (Druggie may have been a fraud!)
- One Twin Was Hurt, the Other Was Not. Their Adult Mental Health Diverged.
- I’m a Sociopath, Like Millions of Others
- We pay our gym to let us work out naked — it’s helped us get fitter
Modified Limited Hangout -The phrase was coined in the following exchange:
PRESIDENT NIXON: You think, you think we want to, want to go this route now? And the – let it hang out, so to speak?
DEAN: Well, it’s, it isn’t really that –
HALDEMAN: It’s a limited hang out.
DEAN: It’s a limited hang out.
EHRLICHMAN: It’s a modified limited hang out.
John Lott knows!
Only one group commits fewer mass shootings than whites – and it’s not Asians.
- Lott’s latest study: Updated information on Mass Public Shootings from 1998 through October 2023
- But you must also go here – Crime Prevention Research Center. It has the studies on everything – guns, the death penalty, assault weapons, waiting periods, red flag laws, international comparisons, etc. etc.
- And here’s the book by Lott that’s already saved tens of thousands of lives – ‘More Guns Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws.’
- And Ann’s column that maybe saved half a life: Ruger is a Girl’s Best Friend
Andrew Gutmann’s outstanding letter to Brearley parents is here.
It cannot be stated strongly enough that Brearley’s obsession with race must stop. It should be abundantly clear to any thinking parent that Brearley has completely lost its way. The administration and the Board of Trustees have displayed a cowardly and appalling lack of leadership by appeasing an anti-intellectual, illiberal mob, and then allowing the school to be captured by that same mob.
A Hawkeye Caucai special!
Henry Olsen, RENOWNED for the accuracy of his election predictions, is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. A true non-partisan politico, he writes a regular column for The Washington Post, and has also written for National Review, American Greatness, City Journal, and World Magazine. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and, of course, he has a podcast on Ricochet.com.
Nadine Strossen, legal scholar and civil liberties activist who served as the president of the American Civil Liberties Union (1991 to 2008) returns to the podcast to talk free speech and the rise of anti-Semitism on University campuses.
(Note: This episode was taped prior to Claudine Gay’s resignation at Harvard)
Articles mentioned:
- The unbearable allure of cringe. Why can’t you stop watching TV shows, movies or viral videos that make you cringe?.
- Mediaite: ‘Sean Hannity Does Stand-Up Set At Fox ‘Patriot Awards’ Show
- Bill Schulz, The Daily Beast, Happy Evacuation Day! Why It’s Time To Bring Back This Britain-Bashing Holiday
- Bill Schulz, The New York Times, Oktoberfest, All the Time
- Bill Schulz, The New York Times, From the Vault of the Museum at Fraunces Tavern: A Drinks Kit
- Bill Schulz, The New York Times, Hamilton, Burr and the Great Waterworks Ruse
- Book that describes William Dawes’s contribution to the Revolution: Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America
This week Ann talks to actor amd podcaster Clifton Duncan.
- Clifton Duncan’s IMDb page here.
- Follow Clifton on Twitter here: @cliftonaduncan
- Clifton’s substack, The State of the Arts
- New York Times, 2018: Review: An Anthology of B-List Broadway in ‘Hey, Look Me Over!’“
“There are remarkable performances along the way, especially from Clifton Duncan singing the rangy arias of “Greenwillow” and Bebe Neuwirth snarling Elaine Stritch’s songs from “Sail Away.”
This week Ann interviews New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters on his new book, Insurgency: How the Republicans Lost their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted.
Specifically, we zero in on the Fox News Channel – Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit and the discovery process that showed that what FNC stars were saying on-air hardly matched what they were saying to each other in private.
Show links:
Show Links:
- Ryan Girdusky’s 1776 Project PAC
- Bloomberg: In 2021 94% of jobs with the S&P 100 went to people of color, only 6% to whites.
- Smart liberal pollster, David Shor: “People yell at me on Twitter about this. So working-class white people have an enormous amount of political power and they’re trending towards the Republican Party. In 2016, we didn’t lose because our get-out-the-vote lists were not sorted well enough. And it wasn’t that we had the wrong kind of digital targeting. We lost because, big picture, we ran a campaign that increased the salience of immigration at a time when marginal voters in swing states in the Midwest disagreed with us on immigration. That’s why we lost.”
- My interview with Gov. Ron DeSantis before the first debate.The 6-week abortion ban may be unpopular, but DeSantis is right: That’s not why the GOP lost so many seats in 2022. It was Trump.