"Could Gary Johnson be the Ross Perot of 2012?" asks Reason Contributor Kennedy. Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie and Reason's Matt Welch joined Kennedy for a discussion about the future of the "libertarian moment," now that the Presidential race has come down to "two guys who love to spend money." Other topics discussed: the Obama Administration's "strong suggestion" that private companies drug test their employees, income inequality in the wake of the Buffet Rule's failure, and Sen. Richard Lugar's "fantastic legs." About 6.30 minutes. Produced by Anthony L. Fisher. Camera by Josh Swain, Meredith Bragg and Jim Epstein. Go to Reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube channel to receive automatic notifications when new material goes live.

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From the contraception mandate to Occupy Wall Street, rising gas prices, to the President's flip flop on SuperPACs. We're covering it all tonight with Reason's Nick Gillespie and Independent Presidential Candidate former Governor, Buddy Roemer. Twitter: twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com

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Friday night means the Independence Institute's public affairs television show Devil's Advocate. This week host Jon Caldara sits down with Reason.com editor-in-chief and co-author of the book "Declaration of Independents" Nick Gillespie to discuss the decline of the Democrat and Republican parties, and the rise of the "Independent" voter.

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"Reason Returns to Boston University" Liberty at Boston University hosted this presentation by Nick Gillespie, editor in chief of Reason.tv and Reason.com, on Nov. 15, 2011. Nick discussed themes from his new book, "The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America," which he coauthored with Matt Welch, editor in chief of Reason magazine. BU student Lanny Friedlander founded Reason magazine in 1968. The magazine has since become an award-winning publication with a circulation of 40000. Nick served as Reason's editor in chief from 2000 to 2008.

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O'Reilly interviews Nick Gillespie of reason magazine. Nick defends Ron Paul's positions against O'Reilly's constant attacks and interruptions. 1st segment of 2. The second segment, in video response section, is the follow up discussion. A real sick neo-con display.

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On September 11, I'll be thinking less about the World Trade Center and more about my father and the relentless -- probably unique -- ability of New York City to bury its dead and move on without a backward glance. My father was born in Manhattan in 1923, in a tenement building off Columbus Circle. A few years later, he moved to Brooklyn, a borough that was considered the country back then, a place that had more horses than cars. By the time he left there for good in 1966, it wasn't the country anymore, that's for sure. He worked for Sea-Land, a shipping company that was one of the World Trade Center's original tenants, and one of my very earliest memories is of my older brother and me playing in the company's unfinished offices in one of the towers before the complex opened to the public in 1973. Like many, probably most, New Yorkers, my father hated the Twin Towers at first, preferring the Chrysler and Empire State buildings, which had gone up during his childhood. He'd seen King Kong when it came out in 1933, he explained, and he just couldn't see the big ape climbing the towers. By the late '70s - after Philippe Petit tightrope walked across them, George Willig scaled them, Owen Quinn parachuted from them, and King Kong himself had been shot off them in a 1976 remake - he'd come around. On a trip to Manhattan around then, he asked me if I wanted to see where he'd been born. He hadn't been to the old neighborhood since before the war and was feeling nostalgic. We <b>...</b>

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On this week's Devils Advocate, Jon Caldara goes one on one with Reason Magazine editor-in-chief Nick Gillespie. Nick gives his take on the emergence of new media and how his Reason.tv is leading the charge and the growing libertarian - conservative riff. With Jon's encouragement, Nick pulls no punches when discussing his distaste for the nanny state or why conservatives and libertarians should wear leather jackets.

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"We have to cut $1.5 trillion out of this year's budget," says investment advisor, author, and radio host Peter Schiff. Reason's Nick Gillespie sat down with Schiff at July's FreedomFest in Las Vegas. Schiff, whose most recent book is How and Economy Grows and Why it Crashes, says that the economic downturn of 2008 is only a mild preview of what's in store for the US economy in the future and predicts much higher unemployment and huge inflation over the next few years. The only way out of this mess, says Schiff, is for the government to get out of the way and let the inevitable market correction occur. "It would be painful to cut spending by that degree," he acknowledges, "but not nearly as painful as it's going to be if we don't cut spending by that degree." Shot by Jim Epstein and Zach Weissmueller and edited by Zach Weissmueller. About 5 minutes long. Go toreason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube Channel to receive automatic notifications when new material goes live. Held every July in Las Vegas, FreedomFest is an annual gathering of about 2000 free-market and libertarian enthusiasts. This year's speakers included Reason's Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, Sen. Rand Paul, Judge Andrew Napolitano, and scores of others. Reason.tv conducted interviews with more than two dozen speakers, which we'll be releasing over the next several weeks. Our growing playlist can be watched online at http

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RT's Lauren Lyster and Nick Gillespie, editor in chief of Reason.tv and Reason.com join happy hour to talk about President Obama calling the GOP's new budget a form of social Darwinism, Arkansas Supreme Court overturns Teacher-Student sex law and MSNBC's Phil Griffin doesn't think there's a need for journalists. Twitter: twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com

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At Reason Weekend 2011, held earlier this year in Laguna Niguel, California, Reason's Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie previewed their forthcomingbook The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America. The book is a rollicking tour of how we got to be freer when it comes to personal identity, creative expression, the workplace, and more. And it's an operator's manual on how to create a liberatory politics for the 21st century. "This is *the* up-to-date statement of libertarianism," says New York Times columnist, George Mason University economist, and Marginal Revolution blogger Tyler Cowen. "Not warmed-over right-wing politics, but real, true-blooded libertarianism in the sense of loving liberty and wanting to find a new path toward human flourishing." "An enthusiastic, entertaining libertarian critique of American politics, brimming with derision for the status quo and optimism for the future and confident of the right direction." Kirkus Reviews Pre-order at your favorite online bookstore and in your preferred format by going to declaration2011.com Approximately 42 minutes. Shot by Alex Manning and Paul Detrick; edited by Meredith Bragg. Visit Reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube channel to get automatic notifications when new material goes live.

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Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with the one-and-only Penn Jillette about his best-selling new book, God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales, his friendship with Glenn Beck, skepticism versus cynicism, the role of religion in terrorism, why he's a libertarian, and much more in a wide-ranging conversation. Penn Jillette is the larger, louder half of Penn & Teller. For the magical duo's official website, go here: www.pennandteller.com About 17 minutes. Shot by Anthony Fisher, Meredith Bragg, and Jim Epstein; edited by Epstein. Go to http for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube channel to receive automatic notifications when we post new videos.

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General Motors CEO Ed Whitacre has bragged in TV commercials and newspaper columns that GM has paid back its bailout "in full and ahead of schedule." As with the Pontiac Aztek, an ugly exterior masks an ever darker problem: Whitacre is being fanciful to the point of deceit. GM received $50 billion in TARP funds (never mind that TARP was only supposed to cover financial institutions). About $7 billion of that came in the form of a straight-up, low-interest loan. And about $13 billion came in the form of an escrow account. So how has GM, which lost $38 billion in 2007 even as it sold 9.4 million cars, paid back its debt? It took money from the escrow account to pay back the $6.7 billion loan. Do you remember when you were a kid and your parents gave you $20 to buy them a Christmas present? You bought them something worth $3 and pocketed the rest? That's what GM has just done. Oh, and do you remember when you hit your parents up for college? GM has applied for a $10 billion, low-interest loan from the government to modernize its plants so its cars will meet new federal mileage standards. If you think all this constitutes paying back their debt in full and ahead of schedule, you might want to check out the new line of GM cars. And hope that the company's safety engineers are better at math than their CEO.

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Please RATE and SHARE this video, and subscribe to our channel for more videos from Cato! Reason editors Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch introduce their new book, "The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America," with a multimedia presentation in the Hayek Auditorium. "In a world where our [political] choices are limited to John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi, the survivors envy the dead," they write. But that's not the world they actually see. They argue that despite our stunted politics, despite national bankruptcy, despite the war on drugs, revolutionary innovators have changed our world over the past 40 years: Vaclav Havel and the Plastic People of the Universe, Herb Kelleher and Southwest Airlines, Tiger Woods and the breakdown of categories, the personalization of media, and much more. It's just politics that is resisting freedom and choice. And now millions of voters are trying to break out of stagnant political choices. Gillespie and Welch see a "future so bright, we gotta wear shades."

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Starting with MSNBC, Reason has started airing commercials on cable news channels with the goal of bringing a new audience to Reason.com and Reason magazine For our first TV spot, we chose a slimmed-down version of our popular and acclaimed 2009 video, "UPS vs. FEDEX (Ultimate Whiteboard Remix)", which was nominated for a digital National Magazine Award and explores the way in which federal labor classifications lead firms to jockey for political favors rather than customer satisfaction. You may have heard the UPS is in quite the political fight with FEDEX. Though both are package-delivery companies, they're governed by totally different federal labor rules. As a result, UPS's workforce is much more heavily unionized than FEDEX's—and more than twice as expensive. So now UPS is trying to get FEDEX reclassified under federal law as a way of screwing a competitor. That's horrendous, but it also makes a sick kind of business sense. And it also reveals the real villain: A government that is big enough to absolutely, positively guarantee it can screw any business. Overnight. "UPS Vs. FEDEX" was produced by Meredith Bragg and Nick Gillespie (who also hosts). Approximately 1.5 minute long. This video is based on "Using Unions as Weapons," by Mercatus Center economist Veronique de Rugy, which appeared in the October 2009 print edition of Reason. Read that article at reason.com For downloadable version of this and all other Reason.tv videos go to reason.tv

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To hear the Obama administration tell it, there are few things worse than anonymous political activity. Just recently, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told the Christian Science Monitor: "The untold story of 2010 is not the "tea party" or not the health-care bill, or a number of these issues. It is the amount of money that is flowing in districts around the country and particularly the amount of anonymous money.... I haven't been any place where there aren't dozens of ads now being run and nobody knows who is behind them...I am used to a political system where people engage in battles and you know who brought them to the dance." But is anonymous political speech really that new - or that bad? Indeed, anonymous political speech isn't just a great American tradition. It helped create the United States of America. The Federalist Papers, the series of essays that influenced the adoption of the Constitution, were published under the pseudonym "Publius" (in reality James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay). The anti-Constitution position was in turn articulated by "the Federal Farmer," whose identity remains a mystery. Former Federal Election Commission chair Bradley Smith lays out other arguments in favor of anonymous political speech in a contemporary context: "[Election] disclosure regulations are some of the most burdensome. Disclosure limits free speech because it allows the government to retaliate against people. The Supreme Court has <b>...</b>

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Using only a big piece of pork, a large knife, and a small knife, the budget chef shows how to balance the federal budget by 2020. As a special treat, he does it without raising taxes from the current Bush-era rates! It seems like a complicated preparation at first, but it's so simple that almost any elected official should be able to pull it off like a pro! Domestic and foreign investors will love this, and it will also help create a stable environment conducive to long-term, sustainable economic growth. Between 2011 and 2020, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that total federal outlays - for defense, agriculture subsidies, Medicare, Social Security, you name it - will total a whopping $42.1 trillion (in 2010 dollars). To bring outlays down to revenue, we need to cut a total of $1.3 trillion in total expenditures over the next 10 years. That sounds like a really tall order until you realize that it cutting just 3.6 percent a year for each of the next 10 years. To put it in dollar terms, it means cutting about $130 billion a year from budgets that will average over $4 trillion. That's not so hard now, is it? By making small, systematic cuts to a federal budget that is larded up with more fat than an Ponderosa buffet, we can balance the budget without even nicking essential services. "Budget Chef" is written and produced by Jim Epstein, Josh Swain,Meredith Bragg, and Nick Gillespie (who also hosts). Approximately 2 minutes. Go to Reason.tv for downloadable versions <b>...</b>

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"Reason Returns to Boston University" Liberty at Boston University hosted this presentation by Nick Gillespie, editor in chief of Reason.tv and Reason.com, on Nov. 15, 2011. Nick discussed themes from his new book, "The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America," which he coauthored with Matt Welch, editor in chief of Reason magazine. BU student Lanny Friedlander founded Reason magazine in 1968. The magazine has since become an award-winning publication with a circulation of 40000. Nick served as Reason's editor in chief from 2000 to 2008.

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"Reason Returns to Boston University" Liberty at Boston University hosted this presentation by Nick Gillespie, editor in chief of Reason.tv and Reason.com, on Nov. 15, 2011. Nick discussed themes from his new book, "The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America," which he coauthored with Matt Welch, editor in chief of Reason magazine. BU student Lanny Friedlander founded Reason magazine in 1968. The magazine has since become an award-winning publication with a circulation of 40000. Nick served as Reason's editor in chief from 2000 to 2008.

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"Reason Returns to Boston University" Liberty at Boston University hosted this presentation by Nick Gillespie, editor in chief of Reason.tv and Reason.com, on Nov. 15, 2011. Nick discussed themes from his new book, "The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America," which he coauthored with Matt Welch, editor in chief of Reason magazine. BU student Lanny Friedlander founded Reason magazine in 1968. The magazine has since become an award-winning publication with a circulation of 40000. Nick served as Reason's editor in chief from 2000 to 2008.

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President Barack Obama's proposed budget for 2012 outlines $3.7 trillion in spending during the next fiscal year and $8 trillion in new debt over the next decade. All without even a notion of how to pay for any of it. What could possibly go wrong? Or right? 3 Reasons Obama's Budget (and the GOP Response) Won't Fix Anything is written and produced by Meredith Bragg, AustinBragg, and Nick Gillespie, who also hosts. Approx 2 minutes. Visit www.reason.tv for downloadable versions of this and all our videos and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube channel to receive automatic notification when new content is posted. This video is based on a piece for AOL News by Veronique de Rugy and Nick Gillespie: www.aolnews.com

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"We had a non-Obama president recently, his name was George W. Bush, it wasn't all puppy dogs and rainbows," says Reason's Matt Welch. "Being Republican is not enough to counter Obama. Mitt Romney is not offering an alternative to Obama," adds Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie. From Newt Gingrich's inexplicable campaign chatter about a taxpayer-subsidized colony on the moon to Mitt Romney's refusal to discuss any specific spending cuts he would implement as president, Republicans continue to offer no real substantive alternative to President Obama's spendthrift economic policies. Welch and Gillespie, the co-authors of "TheDeclaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America," hosted the discussion "Why Democrat vs. Republican is the Wrong Way to Look at the 2012 Election" at Reason Weekend, the annual donor event held by Reason Foundation (the nonprofit that publishes this website). Runs about 30.41 minutes. Produced by Anthony L. Fisher, shot by Josh Swain and Fisher. Go to Reason.tv for downloadable versions of this video and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube channel to receive automatic notification when new material goes live.

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Rand Paul (R-Ky.) took an unusual path to his seat in the United States Senate: Though his father, the libertarian Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has spent decades in office, Rand Paul had never previously held public office before winning in 2010. Throughout his campaign, Paul fils identified more with the Tea Party than with the Republican Party, and he ran against the hand-picked candidate of one of the most powerful Republicans in America, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). After trouncing both his primary challenger and the Democratic nominee, Paul did not mention the GOP once in his victory speech last November, saying instead, "Tonight, there's a Tea Party tidal wave." Since entering office, the freshman senator has quickly proven himself to be the most interesting and radical voice on Capitol Hill, proposing immediate budget cuts 500 percent steeper than anything else Republicans have contemplated, speaking eloquently against the PATRIOT Act and runaway defense spending, and going bonkers against nanny-state regulations in the home. He's even taken on the sainted 19th-century Kentucky statesman Henry Clay ("the Great Compromiser") in a speech that caused McConnell to leave the room. And this all happened just in Paul's first two months in office. Now the freshman senator has a new book out, The Tea Party Goes to Washington, that discusses his political journey, the intellectual bankruptcy of both major parties, and the urgency of our clear and present fiscal crisis. Reason's <b>...</b>

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Our guest on Q&A, our guest is Nick Gillespie, Editor in Chief of Reason.com and Reason.tv, and the co-author (with Matt Welch) of a new book about libertarianism.

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motorhomediaires.com In part 1 Nick discusses his disappointment that tragedy hadnt befallen the crew of the Motorhome Diaries. We discuss his long running involvement with Reason Magazine and the direction he took the magazine in. Nick also discusses why, despite setbacks, he feels this is the libertarian moment.

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As current drive time radio host on KYSR in Los Angeles and former MTV VJ Kennedy explains it, early reactions to her political leanings were pretty consistent. "Your name is Kennedy, and you're a Republican, and you're on MTV? What?!" At Reason Weekend 2012, Reason Foundation's annual donor event, Kennedy sat down with Reason's Nick Gillespie to discuss her transformation from Dan Quayle fetishist to hardcore libertarian, a Republican tattoo, and her recent fight with HBO's Bill Maher over atheism. About 28 minutes. Filmed by Joshua Swain and Anthony Fisher. Edited by Meredith Bragg. Go to Reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube channel to receive automatic notifications when new material goes live.

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From Nobel laureate Paul Krugman to the free-market-friendly Economist magazine to former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, all sorts of experts are charging that financial austerity measures are killing the great economies of Europe. "Austerity Is So Wrong!" reads the headline of a Krugman piece at The Daily Beast that argues against cutting government spending during weak economic times. But the critics of austerity have got it all wrong, says Mercatus Center economist and Reason columnist Veronique de Rugy. For starters, many European countries haven't cut spending at all and, among the ones that have, most have made relatively minor trims while also hiking taxes. That's known as "the balanced approach," notes de Rugy, and it almost never works to reduce debt-to-GDP ratios or get economies moving again. Yet critics of cutting government spending in a weak economy ignore academic research showing that significant spending cuts, structural reforms to entitlements, and loosening labor regulations are proven ways to reduce debt loads and get countries moving again. De Rugy talked with Reason's Nick Gillespie about austerity and its discontents - and what the United States could learn from Germany's economic reforms made earlier this century. About 7 minutes long. Produced by Jim Epstein; camera by Epstein and Meredith Bragg. Go to Reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason's YouTube channel to receive automatic notification when new material goes live.

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On this week's Devils Advocate, Jon Caldara goes one on one with Reason Magazine editor-in-chief Nick Gillespie. Nick gives his take on the emergence of new media and how his Reason.tv is leading the charge and the growing libertarian - conservative riff. With Jon's encouragement, Nick pulls no punches when discussing his distaste for the nanny state or why conservatives and libertarians should wear leather jackets.

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"In the past four years, two and a half million people have left the Democratic and Republican parties," explains Linda Killian, author of the new book The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents. Not only are these voters sick of the two dominant parties, Killian believes they are increasingly determining electoral outcomes. "They voted for Barack Obama, they voted for the Democrats in 2006, [but] they swung 19 points in voting for the Republicans in 2010." Killian sat down with Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie to examine what makes a swing voter, their growing importance, and if their socially tolerant and fiscally responsible viewpoints should buoy libertarians. Runs about 6.40 minutes Produced by Meredith Bragg. Camera by Meredith Bragg and Josh Swain. Visit www.reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to ReasonTV's YouTube Channel to receive automatic updates when new material goes live.

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Anne C. Heller's critically acclaimed and best-selling 2009 book, Ayn Rand and the World She Made, is new in paperback (we're tempted to say that it makes a great Christmas gift, though it's clear that Rand didn't believe in the holiday or the altruism that attaches to it!). Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with Heller about Rand, whom the biographer says remains the great explicator of capitalism's virtues and remarkably undervalued by the literary establishment. "How many novelists of ideas do we have in post-war America?" asks Heller, who says the most surprising thing she learned about Rand during her research was her fearfulness. From double-locking doors to wearing heavy rubber gloves while washing dishes to avoid germs, Heller argues that Rand bore the scars of a Jewish childhood spent in the virulently anti-Semitic confines of czarist Russia and the fledgling Soviet Union. As Gillespie noted in his review of Ayn Rand and the World She Made and Jennifer Burns' Goddess of the Market, Heller's biography is a rich, sympathetic treatment of a major cultural figure that simultaneously analyzes and humanizes Rand's major, continuing influence on 20th- and 21st-century America. Approximately 6.30 minutes. Shot by Jim Epstein and Adam Hawk Jensen. Edited by Josh Swain. Go to Reason.tv for downloadable versions of this video and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube channel to receive automatic notification when new material goes live.

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On this week's Devils Advocate, Jon Caldara goes one on one with Reason Magazine editor-in-chief Nick Gillespie. Nick gives his take on the emergence of new media and how his Reason.tv is leading the charge and the growing libertarian - conservative riff. With Jon's encouragement, Nick pulls no punches when discussing his distaste for the nanny state or why conservatives and libertarians should wear leather jackets.

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Author Nick Gillespie, Reason TV editor-in-chief, on individual liberty and the growth of the independent party. David Boaz at the 2012 International Students for Liberty Conference on big government and the importance of individual liberty.

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There's news that two more US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan in the continued fallout from the Koran burning at Bagram Prison. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson is on the show to discuss this plus Iran, Syria, North Korea, and the NDAA. Then, former Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer and Reason.com and Reason TV editor in Chief Nick Gillespie will join us for an alternative politics panel. Then, Google's new privacy policy started today and we'll tell you what's changed, what ways there are around it, and explore the possibility of quitting Google altogether. And then don't miss our happy hour. Twitter: twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com

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Got a question for a libertarian? Then give it your best shot on Wednesday, June 15, when Reason's Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch answer any and all queries, such as: How do you feel about net neutrality? Who are you supporting in 2012? Why do you hate poor people? Do these pants make me look fat? Aren't libertarians just Republicans who smoke pot? What about the children? Gillespie and Welch are the authors of the new book The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America, due out on June 28th. Early reviews have called Declaration "the up-to-date statement of libertarianism" (Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution); "an enthusiastic, entertaining libertarian critique of American politics (Kirkus Reviews); and "a political alarm clock" (Amy Alkon, The Advice Goddess). For more info and to pre-order from your favorite online bookseller, go to Declaration2011.com. On Wednesday, from 10AM ET til 6PM ET, Gillespie and Welch, will receive questions via Facebook, Twitter, and email, and, with the help of Reason.tv's crack team of videographers (who may well be on crack that day), will post rapid-fire video responses to your most probing and provocative queries. The lines open on Wednesday, so think up your toughest question and send it our way between 10AM ET and 6PM ET. For more info go to reason.com

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"What would happen if there was a Republican nominee who wants to legalize heroin running against Barack Obama - who's cracking down on the war on drugs?" asks Reason's Matt Welch. "More than for any other reason," says Welch, "that's why it's going to make me sad that Ron Paul probably isn't going to be the Republican nominee." Welch joins Reason.com's Nick Gillespie and KFI DJ Kennedy for a free-wheeling discussion about who will be the last person to die for the mistake that is the drug war, the growing and seemingly unstoppable recognition of gay marriage, and Los Angeles County's bizarre ban on beach football and sandcastle-digging. About 5 minutes. Shot by Jim Epstein, Meredith Bragg, and Josh Swain, and edited by Epstein. Go to Reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube Channel to receive automatic updates whne new material goes live.

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The Supreme Court is back in session with major decisions coming on the legality of Obamacare, Arizona's anti-immigration law, and the right of property owners to due process. How's the court expected rule in these cases and what are the likely implications of its decisions? Reason Senior Editor Damon Root sat down with Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie to talk about the 3 decisions to watch in the Supreme Court's current session. Shot by Joshua Swain and Meredith Bragg; edited by Jim Epstein. Approximately 4.30. Go to reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube channel to receive automatic updates when new material goes live.

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Coming June 28: The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America, by Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch. Pre-order at your favorite online bookstore and in your preferred format by going to declaration2011.com The Declaration of Independence talks about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - not the pursuit of *politics*. Something has gone horribly wrong with a country where we've got more choice at the coffee shop than we do at the ballot box. The Declaration of Independents charts how to bring the same sort of innovation and personalization that has made our private lives richer and more satisfying to the last bastions of government power such as education, health care, and retirement. Written by Reason's Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, The Declaration of Independents is a rollicking tour of how we got to be freer when it comes to personal identity, creative expression, the workplace, and more. And it's an operator's manual on how to create a liberatory politics for the 21st century. "This is *the* up-to-date statement of libertarianism," says New York Times columnist, George Mason University economist, and Marginal Revolution blogger Tyler Cowen. "Not warmed-over right-wing politics, but real, true-blooded libertarianism in the sense of loving liberty and wanting to find a new path toward human flourishing." "An enthusiastic, entertaining libertarian critique of American politics, brimming with derision for the status quo <b>...</b>

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In 1981, Secretary of Health Education and Welfare Patricia Harris wrote in the Washington Post that libertarian economists Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell are "middle class" so they "don't know what it is to be poor." In fact, Williams grew up in a single-parent household in a poor section of Philadelphia. He was raised by his mother, who was a high school dropout. The family spent time on welfare, and eventually moved into the Richard Allen public housing project. (Sowell, whose father died before he was born, was the son of a maid.) Drafted into the peacetime Army, Williams eventually earned a PhD from UCLA in the late 1960s and quickly became a sought-after researcher and public intellectual. His best known book, 1982's The State Against Blacks, argues that a major cause of black unemployment is government intervention in the labor market. Williams' contrarian views have had wide exposure through documentaries, public appearances, and for the past 30 years, a syndicated weekly column. Since 1992, Williams has also been a frequent guest host of Rush Limbaugh's radio show. Now a professor emeritus at George Mason University, Williams has taught at Temple University, California State University-Los Angeles, and other universities. (Go here for his personal web page.) His new book, Up from the Projects: An Autobiography, is a fascinating look at his childhood, his half-century-long marriage to his recently departed wife, his unusual career path, and the genesis of his <b>...</b>

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Reason.com Editor in Chief Nick Gillespie discusses what libertarians and Occupy Wall Street can learn from each other.

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RT's Kristine Frazao and Reason's Nick Gillespie join happy hour to talk about President Obama apparently being a Hipster, a Whitney Houston greeting card pulled from Target and simple names means a job promotion. Twitter: twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com

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"Considering that we had this big Tea Party movement in 2010, there has been very little talk about actually cutting spending," says American Enterprise Institute's James Pethokoukis, "except that Mitt Romney doesn't want a lunar colony." Pethokoukis is a former Reuters columnist and widely read blogger, who covers economics, politics, and fiscal policy. He sat down with Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie to talk about tax reform, cutting spending, and why slow growth is the biggest problem facing the US economy. Approximately 6 minutes. Shot by Joshua Swain and Meredith Bragg; edited by Jim Epstein. Go to Reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube Channel to receive automatic notifications when new material goes live.

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