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If You Think The Left Has Gone Loony Over Trump’s SCOTUS Pick–Just Wait. Jul 11, 2018

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You ain’t seen nothing yet. Andrew McCarthy of National Review on why Kavanaugh was perhaps the perfect Supreme Court pick, and he destroys the arguments of Trump extremists calling the judge “Pro-Obamacare” and a Bushie squish. Adam White of Hoover Institution says Kavanaugh is “the best possible pick” but says he’ll face an smear campaign unlike anything we’ve ever seen for a SCOTUS nominee.

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Facing A Conservative SCOTUS, Liberals Declare Independence From Their Sanity Jun 30, 2018

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In a special 4th of July week edition of the podcast, we talk about the big Supreme Court news with Weekly Standard legal beagle Adam J. White (also of the Hoover Institution and the Scalia School of Law). Historian Robert Allison returns to explain why New England is the best place in American to celebrate Independence Day. And Massachusetts joins a handful of other states in choosing identity...

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Why Charles Krauthammer Was One Of A Kind Jun 22, 2018

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Charles Krauthammer’s longtime friend and colleague Bill Kristol on why there isn’t another Krauthammer in American politics, and what made him different. Longtime media warrior Brian Maloney on battling bias from the wrong side of the Blue Wall, and an amazing statistic about New England politics. And Politico’s Daniel Lippmann talks about his new article on young Trump staffers being driven into...

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The Worst Father’s Day Advice…EVAH! Jun 15, 2018

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Just in time for Father’s Day weekend, the Behind the Blue Wall podcast brings you some of the most terrible and culturally unacceptable advice on being a dad ever recorded. In other words, it’s 100% honest. The editorial page editor of the Boston Herald and four-time father Tom Shattuck (aka “The Great And Powerful Tom” of radio fame) talks about what it’s really like to be a dad...

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Maine’s “Rank” Move On Voting In This Week’s Primary Jun 08, 2018

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Ranked voting, a rebel movement at Yale and remembering a wonderful moment with Charles Krauthamer–it’s all in this edition of the Behind The Blue Wall podcast. Matt Gagnon of the Maine Heritage Policy Center (and a local radio talk host, too!) explains the “ranked-choice voting system” Maine will be using this Tuesday in their state elections–and why he thinks it’s insane.

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Why Are Blue-State Republican Governors So Popular? Jun 02, 2018

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Political operative and former comms guy for two different Scott Brown US Senate races (in two different states!) Colin Reed talks about the political lessons the GOP can learn for the 2018 midterms from popular GOP governors in the liberal northeast like Charlie Baker (MA); Chris Sununu (NH) and Phil Scott (VT). Plus, how do you spell “feminism?” With a “C” if you’re Samantha Bee.

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Girl Problems, Gender Wars And a “Special Place in Hell” May 25, 2018

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New England broadcasting legend and media gadfly VB (yes, that’s his name) is on this edition of the Behind The Blue Wall podcast, helping your humble host navigate his way through the gender wars of the liberal Northeast. We talk Hillary Clinton, Harvey Weinstein and Morgan Freeman…and suddenly realize that would be the beginning of a HELL of a joke. We also debate the NFL “national anthem”...

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It Is Time For The GOP To Embrace Same-Sex Marriage? May 19, 2018

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Jennifer Horn is a former state chair of the NH GOP, and current co-chair of the NH Log Cabin Republicans. She was kicked out of last week’s state convention in part because her fellow Republicans did not want to debate her proposal to change the state party platform over the issue of marriage equality. She joins us on the BTBW podcast to make her case and to defend Gov. Chris Sununu’s decision to...

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Tucker Carlson Analyzes The Liberal Tribe May 16, 2018

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“What people in New England who hate Trump are really saying is ‘I make over $100 grand a year and I have a graduate degree.'” So says Fox News host Tucker Carlson in this bonus edition of the Behind The Blue Wall podcast. He also talks about his family’s connections to Maine, the bizarre story of the book-banning “bookstore,” and why you’ll never hear the phrase “I can’t believe you said that”...

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How Many Feminists Does It Take To Figure Out A Joke? May 13, 2018

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The brilliant Chris Caldwell of The Weekly Standard makes a reluctant-but-brilliant appearance on the podcast, live from the Ricochet Podcast Summit at AEI. We also talk about a two-word joke told on an elevator that made international news thanks to a nutty Massachusetts feminist. And cameo, off-the-record appearances by Peter Robinson and Charles C. W. Cooke.

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