Everybody knows WBSM is our hometown radio station. My broadcast roots here date back to 2009. My familial seeds were planted at the tail end of the last century. Yet, I cast myself as the proverbial outsider. Most listeners get flustered and frustrated over my freedom-oriented, constitutional, often contrarian rants, but I’m OK when their freedom or livelihood is at risk. Call me a passionate Libertarian, always advocating for the taxpayer and individualism. My bitcoin-business updates alert listeners on how to earn crypto and use it as a savings and payment tool. After retiring from full-time hosting, I still practice my preach. You'll find me operating two home businesses, actively promoting freedom and bitcoin, plus serving as a locally elected Dartmouth Town Meeting member. I’m most proud watching my two adult sons pursue their American dream. Mine consists of traveling, and learning more about places, people and the business side of bitcoin. My 40-foot shuttle bus is being converted into a motorhome-office studio, so I can travel, expand operations and host audio and video shows from wherever home is at that moment. I call it living my “Plan B” lifestyle!
Brian Thomas
OPINION| Thomas: Sign The Petition to Halt Taxpayer Abortion Clinic Funding [Poll]
Decades ago the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled, constitutionally, that if our tax dollars paid for health clinics providing birth services, then it needed to use our tax dollars to fund clinics in the abortion biz.
OPINION| Thomas: That’s No Fish, That’s Governor Baker Politically Flopping
Campaign season 2014. Then, candidate Charlie Baker wanted to banish mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses. Fast forward to August 2017. Governor Baker does an about face. He files a bill making it manslaughter on people who sell illegal drugs resulting in death...
OPINION| Thomas: Sheriff Needs To Drain The deputy Swamp [Video]
There are now two Bristol County Sheriff's Deputies charged in the famed "Codfather" illegal fish and money smuggling crime. The latest alleged crooked cop is a Captain by rank. James Melo slapped in federal court on conspiracy and bulk cash smuggling charges...
OPINION| Thomas: Time To Stop Taxation for Schools 8-30-2017
My friends in the government schools industrial complex will hate this. Those involved in parochial, private and home schooling get it. The government schools industrial complex have an unfair advantage. They get municipal, state and federal governments to tax the people outlandish fees to pay for a less than stellar service...
OPINION | Thomas: Crazy To Forget Slavery
It's easy to let an event slide when it does not effect you. It's another thing entirely when said event alters, permanently, life's course. The middle passage slavery trade forever changed the lives of hundreds of millions of people. African men, women and children were uprooted, caged, fed slop, shackled on boats bound east to a new, unforgiving world...
OPINION| Thomas: The New Minority Is Covered Under The First Amendment
The day is not so rapidly coming. I yearn to see for myself. To draw a deep inhale at the expressions on the millions of faces when that fateful date is boldly etched on the calendar. The shock and dumbfoundedness. The hope and exuberance. That "what's next" feeling...
OPINION| Brian Thomas: Look Out for Trouble
A slew of building and car fires has New Bedford unnerved. It's a proverbial whodunit. Investigators are scouring leads. Some neighbors believe the alleged arsonist is from the neighborhood. City Councilor Coehlo hints it may be kids. Nobody knows...
OPINION| Thomas: Simple Solutions to Post Office Crime
It can't get any worse than this. Two men, one from Texas and the other considered homeless. Two men on two separate days caught, red handed by police. The scoundrels bagged for the high crime of stealing. This is not any old theft. Both are charged with charging their cell phones by using an outdoor outlet outside the downtown New Bedford Post Office...
OPINION|Thomas: Free Community College is Tantamount to Government Choosing Sides
Rhode Island, New York and Oregon are doing it. Free tuition and in some cases no fees at state run community colleges. The question has come up, should Massachusetts community colleges be free? I say no!
The term free college is an oxymoron...
OPINION| Thomas: Deport RMV Workers For Voter Fraud
Where's the outrage? Four RMV employees working at Boston's Haymarket branch get bagged, allegedly, in a fraud case, and nobody's screaming bloody murder.
Evelyn Medina, Annette Gracia, Kimberly Jordan and David Brimage are hired to dot the I's and cross the T's at the Registry...