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18 Jul 2025

Big Boner Birthday Wishes

Does the Wall Street Journal have a major hit piece in the works that will explore long-term relations between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein? Megan Kelly cites rumblings about just such a piece coming soon from a major newspaper. The Wall Street Journal, she believes, will be the one dropping the story.

Here, she discusses the rumors with Kmele Foster and Matt Welch, co-hosts from The Fifth Column, a podcast that covers movers and shakers within the media world.

“Everything about this has gone badly for the administration,” says Foster. “They mishandled this. You have to wonder: What on Earth is going on over there?”

The Wall Street Journal didn’t waste any time, running a birthday greetings that Trump supposedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein, wishing him a “wonderful secret” birthday with a hand-drawn naked woman.

Both J.D. Vance and Elon Musk declared the birthday card to be fraudulent and Trump himself said it was not only fake, but that he plans to sue the Wall Street Journal.

Here, Josiah Rises gives us a sneak peek into the sordid sentiments.  We haven’t seen any handwriting analysis, but you gotta be a leftist retard to think it’s real.

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20 Aug 2015

U.S. On Greek Economic Path

With the United States spending millions more than it takes in, carelessly printing money to prop up its bond and stock markets and driving the nation’s debt to the point of no return, we are facing dire economic woes, says Doug Casey, wildly successful head of Casey Research. “The United States has been going downhill since the McKinley regime,” the bearish Casey says. “Technology has been getting better, but from a philosophical point of view it’s been declining since then. And in actual economic terms, in terms of what the average guy is able to do, we’ve been going downhill since the mid-’70s.” Casey explains further to Reason TV host Matt Welch, and offers some nuggets of optimism going forward.

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05 Aug 2015

A War of Words On Science

There’s no arguing that Republicans and Democrats are at odds on almost every major issue confronting our nation. So it’s a no-brainer how politics drives what is considered bad and good science. The left charges that conservatives ignore good science by denying global warming and passing laws to restrict stem-cell research that could save lives. On the other hand, the right say its the loons on the left who are the deniers with their obsession with over-popultion and their campaigns against vaccines, plastics and artificial sweetners, to name a few. “What’s important for all of us is to separate what a politician says about science and what a politician says about policy, which is the actual job we elect politicians to do,” opines Matt Welch, editor in chief of Reason magazine. Welch joins consumer advocate John Stossel to debate the contentious issue in this edition of Liberty Pen.

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21 Jul 2015

U.S. Facing Financial Calamity

Investment guru Peter Schiff says the financial problems plaguing Greece and Puerto Rico are eerily similar to ours here in the United States. “The reality is, we’re in worst shape than Puerto Rico,” Schiff tells Reason TV’s Matt Welch. “The debt to GDP there is only about 70 percent. Here’s it’s over 100 percent, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. But the reason Puerto Rico has had to face the music, while we’re still dancing to it, in the United States, is because interest rates have risen in Puerto Rico and it’s the higher rates that create the problem. … The only reason we can pretend we’re solvent, is that interest rates here are at zero.”

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11 Mar 2014

Reform Criminal Justice

At the recent CPAC conference, conservatives uncovered a seriously expensive problem that needs tending to. The annual gathering of right-leaning activists from around the country came to a rare agreement that our criminal justice system is in need of immediate reform. Tax reform giant Grover Norquist, Texas Governor Rick Perry and former New York City Commissioner Bernard Kerik laid out their plans for reform, taking the lead from several state initiatives implemented by Republican governors. Reason.TV’s Matt Welch takes a look at the flurry of ideas.

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01 Aug 2012
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Ayn Rand Vs. Big Government

“The government is the biggest violator of our rights today.” That’s the word from Yaron Brook, co-author of Free Market Revolution and president of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights.

At FreedomFest 2012, Reason.TV’s Matt Welch sat down with Brook to discuss why big government hurts the poor and how Ayn Rand inspired the Tea Party. Rand is as popular today as ever, Brook says, noting that 1.5 million copies of her novel Atlas Shrugged have sold since President Barack Obama’s election in 2008.

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