Welcome to the HLCPodcast for December 8, 2015. It’s the Now Trump’s Really Done It edition with special guest Mickey Kaus.

Here are our topics: 

The firestorm over Donald Trump’s comments on temporarily blocking Muslim’s from entering the country is remarkable. We talk about the politics and the policy idea.

The left repeats the claim that there are just a few bad apples in Islam over and over. But is it even vaguely true?

Self-described neo-liberal Mickey Kaus, purveyor of Kausfiles.com, joins us to discuss his proposal that the GOP ruling class forget about trying to force immigration reform on the nation. @kausmickey

We’ll have our Shower Thoughts, and our…

Hidden Gem: This week in 1961 the Beach Boys first single, Surfin’ (a pretty unimpressive little song that you’ve got to hear) was released on a little unknown label and was successful enough to force the group into recording 3 more surfing songs, which were big hits. We bring you Surfin’!

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