Our own Scott Ott came away from a science fiction movie mightily impressed! Was it extensive use of practical effects and lack of dead-eyed CGI? Or is there a deeper magic that Hollywood has not only abandoned, but learned to despise?

Scott Ott brings us some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that more young people than ever are in favor of socialism over capitalism. The good news is, it’s not the economic theory; it’s the NAME that’s the problem.

Criticism of Operation Epic Fury continues to come in from the usual suspects… and some of the unusual ones as well. In this episode of Right Angle, Scott, Steve and Bill wrestle not with strategy and objectives but rather morality and historical wisdom. Many times life is not about good and bad options; many times it’s about bad and worse ones.

What if government cutbacks meant getting rid of the poor performers rather than the poorly connected? Isn’t the idea of a MERITOCRACY built into the fundamental assumption about how a free people’s government works?

There’s no charity like American charity: voluntary, local and deeply PERSONAL. Bill Whittle brings us a look at an organization that gives as much to its donors as it does to its recipients.

‘They seek him here, they seek him there

Those Yankees seek him everywhere!

Is he in Heaven? Is he in Hell?

That damned, elusive Pimpernel!’

It may be painful to admit, but Iran’s Shahed-136 drone is likely the state-of-the-art weapon for the mid 2020’s: simple, effective and CHEAP. There was a time when the Pentagon would not have stooped to produce something so basic. But Pete Hegseth’s War Department isn’t too proud to learn one of history’s most important lessons: when the enemy has a better weapon than you do, don’t deny it. COPY IT.

Meet the SpektreWorks (!) LUCAS clone!

As we watch history being made on the other side of the world, it can all seem very clinical, very cut-and-dried. This time, however, Bill Whittle has skin in the game: his wife and stepdaughter were in Dubai when the attacks started, and are unable to leave until… well, nobody knows. Does having your closest loved ones in harm’s way affect the way you look at things? And what about all of our servicemen and women whose families have to deal with this every time someone ‘rolls the Iron Dice?’

Just the kind of itty bitty little thing that has already scrubbed several launch attempts and which NASA has only had THREE YEARS to fix.

It has been confirmed that Iran's (former) Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei did not survive the first few hours of Operation Epic Fury. As Bill, Steve and Scott discuss in this episode, Iran as a civilization is a clear step above that of Iraq and two steps above that of Afghanistan. President Trump has declared Epic Fury a gift to the people of Iran to throw off their oppressors.

Will they take it?