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09 Aug 2013

Has the NSA Gone Too Far?

“This is not a partisan issue, it’s not about being right or left politically. It’s about a basic, fundamental constitutional right,” says Rev. Rick Hoyt.

Rev. Hoyt is leading his church, the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, and 19 other organizations to sue the NSA for first, fourth, and fifth amendment violations resulting from electronic surveillance. Rev. Hoyt sat down with ReasonTV’s Tracy Oppenheimer to discuss the lawsuit and why his church has a history of getting involved in political matters of this nature.

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04 Aug 2013

Golden Age of MTV

To celebrate the release of Kennedy’s new book  THE KENNEDY CHRONICLES, she sat down  for a live broadcast conversation with producer and media mogul Andy Schuon, who happens to be the man responsible for launching her media career. They discussed the old days at the MTV beach house, ruminated on how cultural and technological shifts have affected popular music, and hyped Schuon’s new music video channel, Revolt, which he’s launching in conjunction with Diddy.

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03 Aug 2013

Light Rail to Nowhere

In 2011, officials in Honolulu, Hawaii began construction on a controversial 20-mile rail project partly because of almost $1.8 billion in federal subsidies to President Barack Obama’s home state. The project’s total cost estimate stands at $5.3 billion, but if other similar projects are any indication, the final price tag will increase dramatically before anyone even gets to buy a ticket. What’s playing out in the Aloha State is happening all over the country. H/T Reason.TV

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01 Aug 2013

Ban on Christians in Texas?

This month busybodies have grounded a lawn chair balloonist and cracked down on internet porn, but Nanny of the Month zeroes in on San Antonio where a hubbub is brewing about whether a proposed ordinance might actually ban Christians from holding city office.

Is it an unprecedented attack on Christianity or just a bunch of right wingers hyping a phony threat! Tune in and decide for yourself! H/T Reason.TV

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26 Jul 2013

We’re Getting Smarter

Contrary to popular belief, cancer rates are declining and average IQs are rising.

“We often overlook the many good things that are happening in the world around us today,” says Ronald Bailey, Reason’s science correspondent. In the August/September edition of Reason Magazine, Bailey lists seven surprising pieces of good news about the modern world we live in.

For example, people are getting smarter. While this may come as a surprise to anyone who has watched reality television lately, a person of average IQ today would have been in the top 15 percent of same-age scorers 50 years ago. “About half of Americans two generations ago would have been diagnosed as mentally retarded based on today’s IQ tests,” says Bailey.

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25 Jul 2013

Whistleblowing Cop Gets Boot

Auburn, Alabama is home to sprawling plains, Auburn University, and a troubling police force. After the arrival of a new police chief in 2010, the department entered an era of ticket quotas and worse.

“When I first heard about the quotas I was appalled,” says former Auburn police officer Justin Hanners, who claims he and other cops were given directives to hassle, ticket, or arrest specific numbers of residents per shift. “I got into law enforcement to serve and protect, not be a bully.” Reason.TV reports

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24 Jul 2013

Hollywood’s Closet Libertarians

“A lot of my friends are pro-marijuana legalization, [believe that] prohibition is a nightmare, and that the prison industrial complex is terrible. They won’t describe themselves as libertarian but when you lay out all their points of view for them, that’s what the platform is,” explains Los Angeles-based writer and comedian Heather Anne Campbell. “And then I found out, some of my closest and best friends are just straight-up libertarian.”

Campbell has written for Saturday Night Live, Cartoon Network’s Incredible Crew, The Mightnight Show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, performed with Drew Carey’s Improvaganza and the CW’s Who’s Line is it Anyway? Currently, she writes for a new block of animated programing called Animation Domination High-Def (ADHD) on the Fox network. More from Reason.TV.

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20 Jul 2013

The Federal Raisin Robbers

Raisin farmers in America face an implacable enemy — the federal government, though the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) — which annually confiscates 47 percent of the raisin crop without reimbursing the farmers. The bizarre, antiquated and patently unfair practice is leading many of these farmers to financial ruin, but now they are banding together to fight back. Reason.TV reports.

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18 Jul 2013

FBI Busts Bikini Baristas

Good law enforcement agencies know to take their time when staking out bikini barista establishments suspected of operating prostitution rings. It’s important to pose as customers to witness lewd acts first hand and it’s absolutely crucial to spend many months pouring over surveillance footage. In fact, you might want to call upon federal agents to provide some extra surveillance footage.

In Snohomish County, Washington a very thorough bikini barista investigation has spanned approximately nine months, involved at least two local police departments (Everett and Kent) as well as the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI, and yielded multiple arrests for prostitution and related offenses. Among those caught in the sting operation was Sheriff’s Sgt. Darrell O’Neill, who would allegedly warn bikini baristas about undercover officers in exchange for sex (yes, even while in uniform). H/T Reason.TV

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13 Jul 2013

State of the “Newsroom”

The second season of HBO’s The Newsroom premieres on Sunday, and if it’s anything like the first season, the scathing commentary on the state of journalism today will be unrelenting and painful. Reason.TV’s Tracy Oppenheimer recounts five reasons why The Newsroom is an insult to journalism.

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