Host Nick Gillespie and TV personality Mike Rowe discuss the “Hidden Cost of Compliance” in this edition of Reason TV. Says Rowe, who is best known as the longtime host of Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs,” “There are an army of angry acronyms out there and they each have a very specific agenda. None of them are there to make your life easier. They are there to make you more compliant.”
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Lou Rossetto, who co-founded Wired magazine, expounds his theories on the death of the mega-state and continuing digital revolution. Rossetto tells Nick Gillespie, of Reason TV, “We came out and said there was a digital revolution happening and it was going to change everything. And that it wasn’t the priests, the pundits, the politicians and the generals who were creating positive change.” Listen in as Rossetto tells Gillespie who is responsible for the change and what he foresees for future generations.
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As the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination approaches, political operative and Nixon confidant Roger Stone has an interesting take on what happened on November 22, 1963. In the vein of conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination, Stone believes Lyndon Baines Johnson was responsible for the murder. “I think Lyndon Johnson had unique motive, means and opportunity to kill John Kennedy, and I think he participated in a plot to do so,” he says. Stone spells out his case in his soon-to-be-released book, The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ, and in this interview with Reason TV’s Nick Gillespie.
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Thousands of patriotic veterans who sustained injuries in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have returned home unsuspectingly to begin another battle–with the Department of Veteran Affairs. Although the Veterans Administration has promised injured vets adequate care and financial compensation in a timely manner, it has been unable to fulfill the promise.
“Quite frankly, most people don’t know VA has received more than 800,000 disability claims from Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, and Congress and VA planned for zero,” says Paul Sullivan, former VA program analyst. Join Reason TV’s Todd Krainin as he reports how the lapse in care is causing emotional and financial ruin for the veteran community.
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The rate of incarceration in the United States has exploded in the last four decades despite a drop in violent crime. So Reason TV’s Tracy Oppenheimer and UCLA Professor Michael Stoll ask the quintessential question: Why are so many Americans in prison? Which is also the title of a new book co-authored by Stoll, who teaches public policy at UCLA.
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Remy channels Bobby “Boris” Pickett of “Monster Mash” fame in this parody mocking the disastrous healthcare.gov Obamacare website. The GoRemy video is courtesy of Reason TV.
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It’s officially been one week since the launch of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, and early reviews have the White House cringing. In this edition of Reason TV, political commentator Peter Suderman discusses five reasons why Obamacare won’t save the nation.
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Dire economic times in the Motor City have spawned a war of sorts between small business owners and the City of Detroit. Owners claim you can’t count on the city to help stem the wave of crime that has sprouted since the city’s economic collapse. And the city says small business owners are not complying with the law. ”
Accidentally, the city has created sort of an anarchistic culture in the city, where many entrepreneurs, especially the smaller retailers and restauranteurs, simply forego getting the required permits that the city is demanding of them because it’s too expensive and because it often takes too long, and sometimes the inspections that are done are of low quality,” says Michael LaFaive of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. “Entrepreneurs have said, ‘Look, let them catch me if they can.’ Right now the city has decided that, ‘We’re going to try to catch you.'” Check out both sides of the argument on this edition of Reason.TV.
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As President Obama sets his sights on Syria, Reason TV editor Nick Gillespie makes a strong case for avoiding another war in the Middle East.
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