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News of the Bogus:

• 0:50 – Bad Idea Or The Worst Idea? Having The FTC Regulate ‘Fake News’ https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170201/23481336610/bad-idea-worst-idea-having-ftc-regulate-fake-news.shtml
• 6:00 – House Votes To Overturn Obama Rule Restricting Gun Sales To The Severely Mentally Ill http://www.npr.org/2017/02/02/513126985/house-votes-to-overturn-obama-rule-restricting-gun-sales-to-mentally-ill
  • Mental Health Myths and Facts https://www.mentalhealth.gov/basics/myths-facts
• 9:25 – A Hacker Just Pwned Over 150,000 Printers Left Exposed Online https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/a-hacker-just-pwned-over-150-000-printers-left-exposed-online/

15:07 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The FBI http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/fbi-foia-records-requests-email-fax/

18:48 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The News Media http://www.snopes.com/neil-gorsuchs-fascism-forever-club/

This Week’s Quote: “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.” —Thomas Jefferson

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 2:31 – Police: Finding Pirate Bay Documents is Too Expensive http://torrentfreak.com/police-finding-pirate-bay-documents-expensive-140824/
• 8:47 – What I’ve Learned from Two Years Collecting Data on Police Killings http://gawker.com/what-ive-learned-from-two-years-collecting-data-on-poli-1625472836
  • Ferguson Turns Lens On Police-Involved Killings, But Some Facts Are Few http://www.npr.org/2014/08/21/342228794/ferguson-turns-lens-on-police-involved-killings-but-some-facts-are-few
• 23:27 – Overtaxed and over there http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21587815-loopy-tax-rules-spur-expats-renounce-their-american-citizenship-overtaxed-and-over-there

31:34 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The WHO http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/sarah-knapton/11056964/Ban-toxic-e-cigarettes-indoors-says-World-Health-Organisation.html

40:36 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Barack Obama http://www.techtimes.com/articles/13774/20140823/white-house-cybersecurity-leader-proudly-claims-he-knows-nothing-about-cybersecurity.htm

This Week’s Quote: “It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. Encryption is too important to be left solely to governments.” —Bruce Schneier

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Co-Hosts: Charles Thomas, Dave Turcotte, and Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 3:18 – Obama Is Still Hiding the Legal Cover He Used to Kill an American
  http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/obama-still-wants-us-ignorant-about-why-he-thinks-he-can-kill-americans/361018/
  • The Al-Awlaki Decision: No Triumph for Transparency? http://www.lawfareblog.com/2014/04/the-al-awlaki-decision-no-triumph-for-transparency/
• 14:21 – The attempted rehabilitation of Mike Nifong http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/04/21/the-attempted-rehabilitation-of-mike-nifong/
• 29:40 – Student records being bullied on iPad threatened with felony http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/14/special-ed-student-who-recorded-being-bullied-on-his-ipad-threatened-with-felony-wiretapping-charges/

41:28 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Rand Paul http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/07/Rand-Paul-Does-American-Crossroads-Robocall-To-Thwart-Libertarian-Candidate

• Did Libertarian Lucas Overby Throw Florida Special Election to Republican Jolly? http://reason.com/blog/2014/03/12/did-libertarian-lucas-overby-throw-flori

50:08 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Unnamed Riverside County, CA Sheriff’s Deputy http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/17/calif-tv-station-films-dog-calmly-playing-with-kids-after-cop-shoots-himself-trying-to-kill-it/

This Week’s Quote: “The history of human knowledge is nothing more than the realization that yesterday’s pieties are actually shameful errors.” —Glenn Greenwald