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Jobs No American Can Do, And What to Do About It
In the battle over immigration reform, some believe we need to grant amnesty to “undocumented workers” because they do the jobs “Americans won’t do,” as George W. Bush once said. But there’s a new class of vacant jobs in U.S. manufacturing — call them “the jobs Americans can’t do.”
Thousands of jobs go unfilled because [...]
Imagine There’s No Nanny State: Should Government Pay Babysitters While Single Mom Works at Target?
State legislators ponder cutting government child care subsidies to single, low-income working women, but the specter of ending this feature of the Nanny State has journalists and other leftists alarmed. Scott Ott leads Bill Whittle and Steve Green on an adventure to imagine these programs didn’t exist. What would happen?
Watch Trifecta episode #3636 [8 min.] [...]
NY Times, Seizing on Fear, Pushes Civil Rights Restrictions
Does the New York Times really crave a society in which the federal government can restrict the Constitutional rights of citizens who have committed no crimes?
In the wake of the attempted Times Square bombing, the New York Times editorial board this week (5/6) lambasted the National Rifle Association and Congress for opposing further restrictions [...]
I Steal Your Pain: Lecturing Tea Party, Bubba Plays Politics with 1995 OKC Bombing
On the 15th anniversary of the bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, Bill Clinton again claims that Timothy McVeigh was driven to murder by irresponsible criticism of our government — the same claim he made days after the bombing. The Trifecta crew — Scott Ott, Steve Green & Bill Whittle — takes a [...]
Defense Official Goes Rogue, Uses Budget To Fight Terror
Michael Furlong stands accused of redirecting millions of cultural understanding dollars to track down terrorists in Afghanistan. Nobody wants to see any laws broken, but isn’t the whole point of spending money fighting – and winning – the war? Scott Ott leaders Bill Whittle and Steve Green to ask, what’s wrong with hunting down terrorists? [...]
Unfit To Print: Al Gore’s Epic NY Times Op-Ed Fail
With his climate change empire about to fold like a house of cards, Al Gore runs to the New York Times with an op-ed called “We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change.” Unable to wish Gore away, Scott Ott leads Trifecta crewmates Steve Green and Bill Whittle in deconstructing this 1,920-word desperate screed.
Watch Trifecta episode #3182 [...]
