This is a gem: “Dolly Parton is threatening to sue The Howard Stern Show for manipulating recordings from one of her audio books last week into seemingly racist and sexually graphic sound bites. ‘I have never been so shocked, hurt and humiliated in all my life,’ Parton says in the ...
Read MoreInterview: Mary Beth Brown on Condi Rice
Regardless of what you think of the Bush administration generally, Secretary of State Rice has always been exceptionally great at her job; she’s a believer in freedom, free markets and capitalism, and she’s a dependable and competent diplomat. With speculation now that John McCain may offer her a chance to ...
Read MoreInterview: Marc Goldstone
This is a very ‘libertarian’ initiative, though Marc himself doesn’t describe himself or the project in that way. The Arizona Tax Revolt is a great name, too, and describes Marc’s drive to lower and cap property tax in the state of Arizona. In Arizona, property taxes are collected on every ...
Read MoreRon Paul campaign pulls another $6m
“Ron Paul campaign donor sets new record” – LA Times “Ron Paul supporters make history with $6m online haul” – Wired News “Money bomb – $6m in 24 hours” – USA Today Ron Paul is the most exciting libertarian alive today. His presidential campaign is attracting a lot of attention ...
Read MoreInterview: Students for Concealed Carry on Campus
In this post I reported how this group, Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, have been protesting the fact that they are prohibited from carrying their self-defence firearms on their university campuses. On this afternoon’s show, I talked with one of the group’s organisers, Stephen Feltoon, about the protest, their ...
Read MoreMinuteman Civil Defense Corps October patrols
The issue of illegal immigration seems to have evaporated from the national news recently. But one committed group of citizens in particular remain focused on the problem. The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) describe themselves as a neighbourhood watch program for the border, and their month-long October operation is in ...
Read MoreAre you living in a computer simulation?
I have lots to say on Oxford Professor Dr. Nick Bostrom’s ‘Simulation Argument‘, which postulates that there is a significant chance that we are living inside a computer simulation being run by some advanced civilisation. In the meantime a good introduction to the argument might be the interview I did ...
Read MoreInterview: Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano
Here’s my KLPZ interview with Arizona state Governor Janet Napolitano. I started by asking her a little about the Arizona Centennial celebrations, which I wasn’t too interested in (but it was the reason she did the interview). Then, we got on to the good stuff: her horrendous proposal to saturate ...
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