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Nov 16 2024 517 ep. 55 mins 376

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Steven Hayward brings you the Power Line Blog's perspective on the week's big headlines.

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The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Gonzo Unplugged Edition

Nov 16 2024 33 mins

This is going to be unlike any previous edition of the Three Whisky Happy Hour, because it was literally recorded during happy hour at the annual meeting of the Federalist Society in Washington, in a corner of the mass reception hall where John Yoo and I invited all comers to swing by to offer a few comments. This completely unstructured (but therefore highly authentic!) conversati

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Priorities for Trump II

Nov 09 2024 70 mins

The Power Line single-malt whisky bar is still trying to process Donald Trump's decisive victory in the election, and this episode reflecting on the scene offers up a few fresh (we hope) takeaways from the result that we haven't yet seen elsewhere in the media, and then we turn our attention to some key priorities for the second Trump Administation starting in January. In such a ta

The Three (Five!) Whisky Happy Hour: Election Night Vigil Edition

Nov 06 2024 65 mins

For our many regular listeners who were not able to join us last night for our live taping of this special mid-week episode that included Scott Johnson and (very late) John Hinderaker (hence the "Five Whisky Happy Hour"), much of what we talked about has been overtaken by subsequent vote counts and other results. But we did have a number of questions and issues that should still be

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Garbage Time

Nov 01 2024 65 mins

In our last episode before the election, the 3WHH bartenders pour a stiff one in honor of the end of recycling, since were back to pure garbage now, though Biden getting in his last chomps of a baby was a special bonus to end the week.We spend most of this episode reflecting on the final week of the campaign, arguing about what kind of vote fraud may or may not take place, and offe

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: French Fries for the Home Stretch

Oct 26 2024 52 mins

So it was Hitler week for Democrats, who are still fuming over being cooked by Donald Trump in a McDonald's deep fryer, and covering up their indigestion with an E.coli outbreak. Behind the public polls catching up with the terrible body language of Democrats and the news media lies a growing recognition that Kamala's brat summer has gone splat as election day approaches. The 3WHH

Classic Edition: "Agents of a Hostile Foreign Power"

Oct 21 2024 31 mins

The news out over the weekend that Israel's attack plans against Iran have been leaked by our government and/or European governments ought to be a major scandal and cause for a serious criminal investigation, but in fact the real story to be followed may be much worse: is anyone asking whether Iran has penetrated our government—either with spies inside our intelligence agencies,

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Back to the Classroom!

Oct 19 2024 59 mins

The Three Whisky gang were together in person live late today, the culmination of an intensive three-day project that we describe at the opening segment of the show. Fortunately John Yoo's office was well-supplied with Maker's Mark and Glenlivet 15, so everything is right with the world. After the opening overture, we get down to business, pondering the "body language" of the body

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Make Citizenship Great Again

Oct 12 2024 67 mins

Lucretia hosts this week's episode, which takes up exactly where we left off last week's episode—with the topic of vote fraud and whether Democrats might (ahem) steal the election from Trump. Without revisiting the weirdness and irregularities of the 2020 result distorted by the Covind-induced election rules changes, we go over in some detail what changes have been made over the

The Three Whisly Happy Hour: October Surprises Edition

Oct 05 2024 56 mins

October is not even one week along and we've already had enough "October surprises" to span about five years. First, the epiphany of J.D. Vance, Superstar. If he had been any better we'd need to enlist Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice to score and produce the Broadway musical of Vance the Vanquisher. Come to think of it, that would make a great professional wrestling name. Except Ti

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Stalking Kamala Edition

Sep 28 2024 62 mins

The whole gang is finally back stateside and even in the same time zone, but somehow John and Lucretia found themselves being stalked by Kamala Harris on Friday. First the Veep extraordinaire turned up near Lucretia's border town to talk tough on immigration, and then decamped to the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, right across the street from the University Club, where John happe