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Co-Host: Jim Goebel

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Why A $70,000 Minimum Salary Isn’t Enough For Gravity Payments http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidburkus/2015/08/02/why-a-70000-minimum-salaries-isnt-enough-for-gravity-payments/
• 9:45 – Libertarians, Greens, Constitutionals join forces in SD, OK http://www.oppositionnews.org/articles/2015/q3/libertarians-greens-constitutionals-join-forces-sd-ok/
  • Oklahomans for Ballot Access Reform (OBAR) https://www.facebook.com/okvoterchoice
• 24:00 – He Beat the IRS in Court, But They Still Won’t Make Him Whole http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/he-beat-the-irs-in-court-but-they-wont-make-him-whole
• 34:53 – Bad Arguments for Socialized Medicine: American Lifespan Statistics Edition https://mpalumbo.liberty.me/bad-socialized-medicine-arguments-american-lifespan-statistics/

43:06 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Hillary Clinton http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/13/in-economic-address-hillary-clinton-calls-out-gig-economy.html

51:57 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/08/03/venezuelan-president-blames-us-for-supermarket-riot-that-left-one-dead/

• Amid Shortages, Venezuela Forces All Food Distribution into State Hands http://panampost.com/sabrina-martin/2015/07/23/amid-shortages-venezuela-forces-all-food-distribution-into-state-hands/

This Week’s Quote: “Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.” —T.S. Eliot

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Co-host: Dave Turcotte

News of the Bogus:

• 2:09 – What It Feels Like to Be a Gamergate Target https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAyncf3DBUQ
  • Brianna Wu’s GTA rape tweets https://twitter.com/spacekatgal/status/555874686085496834
  • Brianna Wu on Twitter: “When I was 20, my parents handed me $200,000 to start an animation business. I learned more from that experience than anything in college.” https://twitter.com/spacekatgal/status/422793818749288448
• 18:47 – Torrent Site Blockades Are Disproportional, Greek Court Rules http://torrentfreak.com/torrent-site-blockades-are-disproportional-greek-court-rules-150121/
• 22:50 – Is Vaping Worse Than Smoking? http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/opinion/joe-nocera-is-vaping-worse-than-smoking.html
  • New Study Reports High Levels of Formaldehyde in Electronic Cigarette Aerosols http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/01/new-study-reports-high-levels-of.html
• 32:36 – 12-Year-Old Girl’s Hair Causes OUTRAGE, Wait Until You Hear Why http://madworldnews.com/12-year-old-girls-hair/
• 38:49 – People can be convinced they committed a non-existant crime in just 3 hours http://www.sciencealert.com/people-can-be-convinced-they-committed-a-non-existant-crime-in-just-three-hours

50:01 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama http://bigstory.ap.org/article/1800bf6744eb4b3f91a75817d54a2a46/fact-check-obama-claims-credit-incomplete-recovery

• Bureau of Labor Statistics Data http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
• State of the Union: Barack Obama Rebutted! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGNwpFq4WY

58:45 – Idiot Extraordinaire: National Sheriffs Association and the Fraternal Order of Police https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/01/27/google-asked-to-muzzle-waze-police-stalking-app/

• Waze Social GPS Maps & Traffic – Android Apps on Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waze&hl=en

This Week’s Quote: “Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.” —L. Neil Smith

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

2014 Election Special:

• 0:27 – With a Big GOP Wave, Americans Voted for More Gridlock—And They Knew What They Wanted http://reason.com/blog/2014/11/05/americans-voted-to-end-gridlock-with-big
• 2:05 – North Carolina Senate Elections – 2014 Midterm Elections News & Results http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/2014/NC/senate/exitpoll
• 7:13 – Virginia Senate Elections – 2014 Midterm Elections News & Results http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/2014/VA/senate/exitpoll
• 8:40 – Voters Approve Marijuana Legalization in Two States and D.C. http://reason.com/blog/2014/11/05/voters-approve-marijuana-legalization-in
• 12:23 – Anti-GMO Initiatives in Oregon and Colorado: Science Wins in Centennial State – Science wins in Beaver State Too! http://reason.com/blog/2014/11/05/anti-gmo-initiatives-in-oregon-and-color
• 18:26 – Arizona Voters Approve Prop 122 to Reject Federal Acts https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2014/11/05/arizona-voters-approve-proposition-to-reject-federal-acts/
• 24:45 – Arizona Terminal Patients’ Right to Try Referendum, Proposition 303 (2014) https://ballotpedia.org/Arizona_Terminal_Patients'_Right_to_Try_Referendum,_Proposition_303_(2014))

News of the Bogus:

• 26:41 – Police can demand fingerprints but not passcodes to unlock phones, rules judge http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/11/03/police-can-demand-fingerprints-but-not-passcodes-to-unlock-phones-rules-judge/
• 28:53 – A Selfie in the Voting Booth? We’ve Got a Felony For That http://reason.com/blog/2014/11/04/a-selfie-in-the-voting-booth-weve-got-a
• 32:26 – AP Exclusive: Ferguson no-fly zone aimed at media https://apnews.com/article/674886091e344ffa95e92eb482e02be1

36:33 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Newington, Connecticut Elementary Schools http://rare.us/story/this-town-just-canceled-halloween-to-appease-the-pc-police/

40:08 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Ezekiel J. Emanuel http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/why-i-hope-to-die-at-75/379329/

This Week’s Quote: “I long to believe in immortality. I shall never be able to bid you an entire farewell. If I am destined to be happy with you here — how short is the longest life. I wish to believe in immortality — I wish to live with you forever.” —John Keats

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Co-Hosts: Dave Turcotte and Daniel Wilcox

News of the Bogus:

• 1:16 – U.S. Hikes Fee To Renounce Citizenship By 422% http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2014/08/28/u-s-hikes-fee-to-renounce-citizenship-by-422/
• 7:07 – Dominica Will Be First Nation with Universal Bitcoin Possession http://panampost.com/belen-marty/2014/08/28/dominica-will-be-first-nation-with-universal-bitcoin-possession/
  • Dominica Economy: Population, GDP, Inflation, Business, Trade, FDI, Corruption http://www.heritage.org/index/country/dominica
• 14:13 – Illinois Libertarians Lodge Criminal Complaints Over Armed Intimidation http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-ibendahl/illinois-libertarians-lod_b_5737462.html
  • Rauner Camp Brings A Gun To A Petition Fight http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-ibendahl/rauner-camp-brings-a-gun-_b_5709799.html

22:02 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Truth-out.org http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/25877-you-dont-know-what-libertarian-means

• How to Fix Health Care Without Spending a Dime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DhJ73JuWJY
• How To Argue For Universal Health Care https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fuq8Zgwrwk
• How Social Security Works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATsbbIJD3ew
• Social Security Follow-Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuaG-A6ezMQ

52:22 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Helmetta, NJ http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2014/08/30/nj-town-introduces-ordinance-ban-recording-public-officials-embarrassing-video-cop-goes-viral/

This Week’s Quote: “The camera is the new gun. There’s nothing that government dislikes more than the light of day, and cameras recording what the government is doing…we have the right to know everything that they do and why they do it and when they do it, and how they’ve taken our freedom.” —Andrew Napolitano

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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Cops Aren’t Stopping the Looting in Ferguson, So the Protesters Are http://thefreethoughtproject.com/protestors-stop-looters-ferguson-police/
• 7:20 – Rules prevent solar panels in many states with abundant sunlight http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-no-solar-20140810-story.html
  • A PETITION From the Manufacturers of Candles, Tapers, Lanterns, sticks, Street Lamps, Snuffers, and Extinguishers, and from Producers of Tallow, Oil, Resin, Alcohol, and Generally of Everything Connected with Lighting. http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
• 14:33 – Georgia county won’t pay medical bills for toddler burned by grenade in botched drug raid http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/19/georgia-county-wont-pay-medical-bills-for-toddler-burned-by-grenade-in-botched-drug-raid/

19:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: San Francisco http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/san-francisco-bans-sale-plastic-water-bottles-climate-change

• Bottled Water Companies Could Be Contributing to California’s Drought http://www.sfweekly.com/foodie/2014/08/14/bottled-water-companies-could-be-contributing-to-californias-drought

Idiot Extraordinaire: Summerville (SC) High School & Summerville Police http://www.nbc12.com/story/26319685/cops-summerville-high-school-student-arrested-after-writing-threatening-message-on-assignment

This Week’s Quote: “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” —Ben Franklin

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Co-host: Dave Turcotte

Dave’s appeal: Join Our Boys

• http://joinourboys.org/
• https://www.facebook.com/Joinourboys/

NHS Special:

2:44 – NHS to charge non-EU patients 150% of cost of treatment http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/14/nhs-charge-non-eu-patients-150-per-cent-cost-treatment

• IMTJ Medical Travel Awards 2014 http://awards.imtj.com/results
• Medical Tourism Statistics & Facts http://www.patientsbeyondborders.com/medical-tourism-statistics-facts
• Medical Tourism: A Cost or Benefit to the NHS? http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0070406

12:33 – NHS crisis as struggling A&E departments fail to meet waiting time targets for A YEAR http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-crisis-struggling-ae-departments-3882288

18:29 – Forty per cent of adults advised to take statins under new NHS guidance http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10973432/Forty-per-cent-of-adults-advised-to-take-statins-under-new-NHS-guidance.html

• Statins: Are these cholesterol-lowering drugs right for you? http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-cholesterol/in-depth/statins/art-20045772

25:41 – ‘The NHS dishes out boob jobs and gastric bands but won’t pay for my life-saving heart op’: Stroke victim, 28, must now raise £10,000 for private treatment http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2695696/The-NHS-dishes-boob-jobs-gastric-bands-wont-pay-life-saving-heart-op-Stroke-victim-28-raise-10-000-private-treatment.html

31:52 – Patients denied vital operations by NHS bodies, surgeons report http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/15/patients-denied-operations-nhs-surgeons-report

41:22 – NHS shamed into U-turn as cerebral palsy kids WILL get life-changing operations like Ben Baddeley http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-shamed-u-turn-cerebral-palsy-3876212

• About Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR) http://www.stlouischildrens.org/our-services/center-cerebral-palsy-spasticity/about-selective-dorsal-rhizotomy-sdr

This Week’s Quote: “The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber…Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful “sovereign,” on account of the “protection” he affords you…The proceedings of those robbers and murderers, who call themselves “the government,” are directly the opposite of these of the single highwayman.” —Lysander Spooner

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Co-Host: Jakob Morris

News of the Bogus:

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Co-Hosts: Dave Turcotte and Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:28 – Shutdown Theater: NPS Orders Closure Of Park That Receives No Federal Funding http://libertycrier.com/shutdown-theater-nps-orders-closure-park-receives-federal-funding/
  • White House Ordering Hundreds of Privately Run, Privately Funded Parks to Close http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/02/shutdown-white-house-ordering-privately-run-privately-funded-parks-to-close/
  • Rushmore blockage stirs anger in S.D. http://siouxfallsbusinessjournal.argusleader.com/article/20131004/UPDATES/310040047/S-D-officials-object-feds-barring-visitors-from-highway-viewing-areas-near-Mount-Rushmore
  • Troops Forage for Food While Golfers Play On in Shutdown http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/troops-forage-for-food-while-golfers-play-on-in-shutdown.html
• 11:10 – Obamacare On Hold http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanedk/10100703256/
  • Trader Joe’s To Drop Health Coverage For Part-Time Workers Under Obamacare: Memo http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/11/trader-joes-obamacare_n_3902341.html
  • UPDATED: Obamacare Poster Boy Chad Henderson and His Dad Didn’t Really Buy Insurance http://reason.com/archives/2013/10/04/obamacare-chad-henderson-father/
  • Most Obamacare enrollment applications flawed http://www.cnbc.com/id/101087965
• 28:35 – How Snowden’s Email Provider Tried To Foil The FBI Using Tiny Font http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/03/228878659/how-snowdens-email-provider-tried-to-foil-the-fbi-using-tiny-font
• 34:05 – All signs point to the obvious with the War on Drugs as supply is up and prices are down http://txcann.com/2013/10/02/all-signs-point-to-the-obvious-with-the-war-on-drugs-as-supply-is-up-and-prices-are-down/
  • The temporal relationship between drug supply indicators: an audit of international government surveillance systems http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/3/9/e003077.abstract?sid=779f6f3f-d4e6-4643-a14c-01de5a8a3ef3
  • P&T Doughnuts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u59-PoxbwE

40:15 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Ed Schultz http://www.mediaite.com/tv/serious-racism-here-ed-schultz-insists-gops-shutdown-showdown-motivated-by-hate/

47:57 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Saleh bin Saad al-Luhaydan http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2013/09/28/Driving-affects-ovary-and-pelvis-Saudi-sheikh-warns-women.html

• Saudis fear there will be “no more virgins” and people will turn gay if female drive ban is lifted http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2068810/Saudis-fear-virgins-people-turn-gay-female-drive-ban-lifted.html

Catch-22: http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=bq4dyGzuN7w&subid=&offerid=239662.1&type=10&tmpid=8433&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.barnesandnoble.com%252Fw%252Fcatch-22-joseph-heller%252F1100216099

This Week’s Quote: “The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.” —Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/man-whose-wmd-lies-led-to-100000-deaths-confesses-all-7606236.html
  • Truth About War http://truthaboutwar.org/
• 2:35 – Report slams denied ambulance call death http://www.thelocal.se/39930/20120327/
  • Heart attack victim dies after ambulance denied http://www.thelocal.se/39656/20120314/
  • Boy’s call about fatal fire dismissed as ‘prank’ http://www.thelocal.se/39494/20120305/
  • 17-year-old dies after ambulance no-show http://www.thelocal.se/39022/20120209/
  • Man dies after ambulance call went unanswered http://www.thelocal.se/38842/20120201/
• 7:15 – Trolling Could Get You 25 Years in Jail in Arizona http://gizmodo.com/5898585/itll-soon-be-illegal-to-troll-in-arizona

8:45 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: C0nc0rdance (nominated by Neil Purcell) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oygQVhu30s

• Butt-tax blowback http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/butt_tax_blowback_QC2Bti6DW6m4Fe9mmF4iVI
• The Political Interests Paradox http://www.downsizedcfoundation.org/blog/the-political-interests-paradox

23:30 – Idiot Extraordinaire: NYC Department of Education http://io9.com/5896836/nyc-dept-of-education-wants-to-ban-the-word-dinosaur-from-standardized-tests

This Week’s Quote: “Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.” —John Alexander Smith

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – Japan Tests Show Low Exposure in Kids http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903639404576515890556446756.html
• 3:50 – OK, climate sceptics: here’s the raw data you wanted http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20739-ok-climate-sceptics-heres-the-raw-data-you-wanted.html
• 5:50 – ‘Tortured’ US citizens allowed to sue Donald Rumsfeld http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14453895
  • Court Advances U.S. Torture Victims’ Case Against Donald Rumsfeld http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/8515-court-advances-us-torture-victims-case-against-donald-rumsfeld
• 7:30 – Montreal police make arrest in “Mabus” case on online death threats http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110817/mtl_mabus_110817/20110817/?hub=MontrealHome
  • Montreal police make arrest in Internet threats http://www.canada.com/news/Montreal+police+make+arrest+Internet+threats/5269623/story.html
  • Case Study: How a notorious spammer was brought down via Twitter http://skeptools.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/case-study-notorious-spammer-brought-down-twitter-tumblr-social-media-mabus/

9:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Presidential Election Coverage http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/8609-has-the-media-suppressed-ron-paul-coverage

• Indecision 2012 – Corn Polled Edition – Ron Paul & the Top Tier http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-15-2011/indecision-2012—corn-polled-edition—ron-paul—the-top-tier

14:40 – Idiot Extraordinaire: FSAthe1st http://www.youtube.com/FSAthe1st

• The NHS and Free Market Healthcare http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkK7mK0rAIQ
• Waiting Times On the Rise (Pulse link) http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsarticle-content/-/article_display_list/12202663/waiting-times-on-the-rise
• Open letter from the Federation of Surgical Specialty Associations http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/apr/18/open-letter-federation-surgical
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977… Is it Constitutional? http://usconstitution.net/newforum/showthread.php?139-Foreign-Corrupt-Practices-Act-1977…-Is-it-Constitutional&s=e7ff24e06f5eb1f9cb9de4819c16d681
• Jus gentium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_gentium
• Full discussion about the Law of Nations and the jurisdictional problems http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=uJQr3wHWnC8

This Week’s Quote: “Against stupidity, the very gods themselves contend in vain.” —Friedrich Schiller

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