Hegseth Faces Democratic Fire in Contentious, Constrained Senate SecDef Nomination Hearing: ‘BradCast’ 1/14/2025
Today on The BradCast: The first of what will likely be a series of contentious U.S. Senate advice and consent hearings for key cabinet nominees tapped for the second Trump Administration. Tomorrow seven such hearings are scheduled, most of them overlapping with each other, purposely making public oversight even more difficult. [Audio link to full […]
‘Green News Report’ – December 20, 2018
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Climate change is expensive, particularly for the U.S. military; 2018 on track to be fourth costliest year in U.S. history for weather disasters; Polls show Americans waking up to climate change and the Green New Deal; PLUS: Cities and states step […]
Why Ranked Choice Voting is a Terrible Idea, Election Results/Failures and Trump’s GOP Cult: ‘BradCast’ 6/13/2018
It was another wildly busy BradCast today. I know. What else is new? But, with Trump declaring today on Twitter that “There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea” (Phew! That was easy!) and that “Our Country’s biggest enemy” is the media(!), we had plenty of time to cover a lot of other […]
‘Worse by the Day’: Puerto Rico’s Struggle, U.S. Nuclear War Footing: ‘BradCast’ 10/23/2017
The struggle for 3.5 million U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico is “getting worse by the day”, my guest who recently returned from the island tells me on today’s BradCast. So, I’m afraid, is everything else, it seems, as the President of the United States continues to put the nation on a war footing (potentially, a […]
‘Green News Report’ – January 12, 2017
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson gets a grilling on climate change during Senate confirmation hearings; Court orders Exxon to comply with Massachusetts AG’s investigation into its climate science denial; Volkswagen executives indicted in emissions cheating scandal; PLUS: President Obama appeals to reason […]
News Shower: Obama Farewell; Tillerson Hearing Day 1; Sessions Hearing Day 2; Trump Presser: ‘BradCast’ 1/11/2017
I’ve seen a lot in my life, but today may be the most insane news day I’ve ever seen, or certainly attempted to cover in a single episode of The BradCast. Among the stories we cover today, all from with the past 18 hours or so [audio link to show follows below.]… President Obama’s moving […]
The Fight for Control of the U.S. Senate: ‘BradCast’ 10/24/2016
On today’s BradCast: Will Hillary Clinton’s apparent lead in national polling and turnout to date translate into a Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate? Poll watchers and analysts, at least Democratic leaning ones, seem to think so. For now. But just barely. [Audio link for show posted below.] More early voting numbers in several states […]
‘Not Your Grandfather’s Weather’: Conservative Meteorologist on Hurricane Matthew, Climate: ‘BradCast’ 10/6/2016
On today’s BradCast: Hurricane Matthew has already wrought death and destruction in the Caribbean, is already breaking records as it bears down on the U.S. Southeastern seaboard, and is “not your grandfather’s weather” thanks to global warming, according to my guest, a 40-year veteran broadcast meteorologist. [Audio link to show is posted below.] With states […]
‘Green News Report’ – October 6, 2016
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Hurricane Matthew churns towards U.S.; Climate change shut out – again! – at the Vice Presidential debate; Canada to establish a national carbon tax; New study warns the world is rapidly using up its ‘carbon budget’; PLUS: Global Paris Agreement surges […]
Avalanche of Lies: The Pence/Kaine VP Debate: ‘BradCast’ 10/5/2016
On today’s BradCast, coverage and analysis of this year’s one and only (thank God!) Vice Presidential Debate at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia on Tuesday night between Hillary Clinton’s centrist Democratic running mate Sen. Tim Kaine of VA and Donald Trump’s religious right Republican running mate Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana. [Audio link is posted […]
The Mixed Bag that is Hillary Clinton; the D-Bag that is Donald Trump: ‘Bradcast’ 8/01/2016
On today’s BradCast, guest hosted by Angie Coiro: How the Democratic Convention came across to two lifelong progressive feminists, and how Muslim women clapped back against Donald Trump with #CanYouHearUsNow. My guest, Edina Lekovic from the Muslim Public Affairs Council, tackles Trump’s misogynist, racist reaction to Khizr and Ghazala Khan’s Democratic Convention appearance. Then, she […]
DNC Chair Out Amid Email Hacks, Protests from Sanders Supporters; Plus: Fox ‘News’ After Ailes: ‘BradCast’ 7/25/2016
On today’s BradCast, a very rocky start for Democrats in Philadelphia and bad news for Fox ‘News’ may be good news for the country. [Link to complete audio of show posted below.] Before our coverage of today’s remarkable news from the Democratic National Convention, some late (and overlooked) news on the mass shootings in Munich […]