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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: Jakob Morris

News of the Bogus:

• 0:49 – New Zealand town with ‘too many jobs’ offering packages of land and homes for $165k http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-Zealand-town-with-too-many-jobs-is-offering-8337340.php
• 4:28 – Georgia publisher jailed after filing open records request https://www.ajc.com/news/local/north-georgia-newspaper-publisher-jailed-over-open-records-request/CFPXD1Mcgk0lqXOvOf9rHK/
• 12:33 – Homeschoolers Creaming Other Students on the SAT https://fee.org/articles/homeschoolers-creaming-other-students-on-the-sat/
• 17:26 – Disabled St. Jude patient sues airport and TSA after bloody scuffle with Airport Police http://wreg.com/2016/06/30/disabled-st-jude-patient-sues-airport-and-tsa-after-bloody-scuffle-with-airport-police/

21:27 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The News Media http://www.ocala.com/news/20160630/nations-first-known-self-driving-car-fatality-happened-in-williston

27:34 – Idiot Extraordinaire: James Comey http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/us/politics/hillary-clinton-fbi-email-comey.html

• 18 U.S. Code § 793 – Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793#f
• Washington Has Been Obsessed With Punishing Secrecy Violations https://theintercept.com/2016/07/05/washington-has-been-obsessed-with-punishing-secrecy-violations-until-hillary-clinton/

This Week’s Quote: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” —Desmond Tutu

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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