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14 Apr 2016

Garland’s Merits Not Enough

Georgetown law professor Randy Barnett says his former Harvard Law classmate, Merrick Garland, is “qualified” for the Supreme Court, but that doesn’t mean the Senate should confirm him. Garland, chief judge for the United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, was recently nominated to replace Judge Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama.

“Qualifications aren’t enough,” Barnett says. “What you need is what Joe Biden used to say, you have to look for, and that is judicial philosophy. And that gets us back to originalism. That is what a justice should be–an originalist, first and foremost.” Barnett explains further as he joins host Nick Gillespie in this edition of Reason.TV.

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07 Apr 2016

Obamacare Still in Hot Water

The detrimental effects of Obamacare continue to surface as its architect–President Obama–prepares to leave office. “The greatest short-term problem is to try to figure out what you do with these medical loss ratios with respect to private plans,” economist Richard Espstein says. He further notes that the continued failure of Obama’s signature legislation has now improved the prospects for legal challenges. He explains to host Nick Gillespie in this edition of Liberty Pen.

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15 Dec 2015

The Impact Of ‘Star Wars’

George Lucas’ Star Wars franchise was an immediate cultural phenomenon. The series and the numerous spinoffs in books, toys and comics date back 30-plus years and redefined how movies were made and marketed. Host Nick Gillespie sits down with cultural critics Alyssa Rosenberg of the Washington Post, Sonny Bunch of the Free Beacon and Peter Suderman of Reason, Vox to discuss how and why Star Wars changed everything and how the original movies became political and cultural touchstones in this edition of Reason.TV.

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19 Oct 2015

Syrian Disaster Obama’s Fault

There’s little doubt President Obama is crafty and shifty. Some would even go as far as to call him calculating. His dithering policy in the Middle East has public officials–both here and abroad–questioning his competence, his patriotism, even charging malfeasance in office. The ISIS crisis is a case in point. Veteran foreign affairs journalist Michael Weiss, author of The New York Times bestseller ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, believes Obama never had any intention to confront ISIS. “I can speak glibly about no-fly zones, but at this point I just understand this administration is never going to do anything to rescue the Syrian people or prevent Assad, Iran and Russia from killing everybody they want to.” Weiss tells Reason TV’s Anthony L. Fisher that Obama revealed his foreign policy hand shortly after ISIS began its reign of terror in Syria. “You’ve had this ambiguous, schizophrenic, self-contradictory policy from Day 1,” he says. “And the Russians, Iranians and the regime in Syria have all called us on it.”

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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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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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31 Mar 2015

America’s Rebel Spirit

Moonshine, a clear un-aged whiskey, evokes imagery of lawlessness and Prohibition in the early 1930s. So with Prohibition long gone, why is moonshine still thriving today and why is it illegal?

Jaime Joyce, author of Moonshine: A Cultural History of America’s Most Infamous Liquor, tells Reason.TV’s Anthony Fisher that it’s a matter of economics, since moonshine is prevalent in poor, rural America. Joyce explains the cultural significance of moonshine and the role it played in the creation of NASCAR.

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12 Mar 2015

A Matter Of Transparency

Marc Hyden, of Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty, says conservatives should fight for transparency when it comes to death-penalty drugs. “When you’re talking about the transparency issues where they’re making these secret drug combinations, it has nothing to do with national security but it’s being paid for with taxpayer funds so we deserve and have the right to know where that money is going.” Hyden elaborates in this special edition of Reason TV.

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12 Jan 2015

Backpack Funding the Answer

Nick Gillespie says our public schools aren’t doing so well. “Since the early seventies, we’ve more than doubled per pupil spending without increasing test scores for high school seniors,” he says. So what’s the solution? A little-know reform know as backpack funding. Listen to Gillespie as he explains in this edition of Reason TV.

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06 Jan 2015

A Recipe for Disaster

Mostly all actions have unanticipated consequences. But when government interjects legislation and regulation, that’s a surefire recipe for disaster. With that in mind, Reason TV presents “Greatest Moments in Unintended Consequences,” taking a closer look at the Osborne Reef, corn ethanol subsidies and Obamacare.

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