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Reason.tv is home of The Drew Carey Project and other original libertarian videos. Drew Carey hosts a series of video documentaries on Reason.tv that take a hard look at the variety of threats to our liberties -- and celebrate what it really means to be free.
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Zoning vs. Eminent Domain: How Ventura County Shut Down The Pine Mountain Inn | In the northernmost reaches of California's Ventura County, a two-lane rural road called Highway 33 runs into the rugged and mostly undeveloped Transverse Mountain Range. Though it's mostly raw wilderness, a few businesses catering to adventurous explorers have long existed there, some for more than a century.But now the local government is shutting those businesses down, one by one, using arcane zoning and building-code laws to get the job done. "If there isn't someone compla | 30 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Zack Wahls, His Two Moms, & The Future of Same-Sex Marriage | What's the most persistent myth about being raised by gay parents? "That you are a child abuse victim," says Zach Wahls, author of the new book, My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength and What Makes a Family.Wahls became an internet sensation after a video of him defending his mothers' same-sex marriage was uploaded to YouTube. His 2011 t | 30 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Matt Welch Discusses Another European Bank Bailout on Fox Business | Reason Editor in Chief, Matt Welch appeared on Fox Business to discuss the another bank bailout in the works for Europeans and whether the EU will be prepared for a Greek exit. Air date: May 20, 2012.Approximately 2.46 minutes. Scroll down for HD, iPod and audio versions of this video and subscribe to | 29 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sharon Presley on Libertarian Feminism | "Many libertarian men are fairly ignorant about women's issues. Some of them are outright hostile to feminism because they've never bothered to find out what it is," says Sharon Presley, Ph.D. Presley is a founding figure in the libertarian movement and author of the book, Standing Up to Experts and Authorities. She sat down with Reason.com's managing e | 25 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Scott Walker Will Survive Wisconsin Recall: Reason-Rupe Poll Results | Will Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) get bounced from power for busting public employee unions? And what message does the June 5th recall election against Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) hold for other states struggling to balance their budgets? For the coming showdown between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney?The latest Reason-Rupe Poll reports from the Badger State. Passed last year, Walker's controversial Act 10 restricted collective bargaining rights for many public employees, causi | 24 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robert Zubrin: Radical Environmentalists and Other Merchants of Despair | "We have never been in danger of running out of resources," says Dr. Robert Zubrin, "but we have encountered considerable dangers from people who say we are running out of resources and who say that human activities need to be constrained."In his latest book, Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fat | 23 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lucy Steigerwald Discusses NDAA and Propaganda on RT | Reason Associate Editor Lucy Steigerwald discusses propositions to increase the budget for propaganda spent in countries in Iraq, Afghanistan, and even on American citizens on the RT. Airdate: May 22, 2012.7.24 minutes.Scroll down for HD, iPod and audio versions of this video and subscribe to | 22 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Haiti's Pepe Trade: How Secondhand American Clothes Became a First-Rate Business | "Haiti has practically become a trash can," says Ketcia Pierre-Louis, "where everything people in other countries don’t need comes here." Pierre-Louis is a businesswoman and affiliate of the Croix-des-Bouquets Chamber of Commerce, just outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Like many critics of imported second-hand clothing, which is known locally as "pepe," she believes the practice undercuts domestic businesses and industries. Some hav | 22 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nick Gillespie Talks Trayvon Martin, Austerity and Reproductive Rights with MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry | Reason's Nick Gillespie appeared on MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Show to discuss today's most heated topics including Trayvon Martin, austerity and reproductive rights. Air Date: May 19, 2012.About 1 hour.Visit Reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to | 22 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DC Capitol Hemp Shutting Down: Obama's War on Drugs to Blame | “The government is forcing a form of censorship on us," says Adam Eidinger, co-owner of Capitol Hemp, a two-store chain in Washington, D.C. that is closing its doors for good on August 1, 2012. "They are saying you can’t talk about certain subjects if you’re going to sell pipes.” Capitol Hemp sells clothing and soaps and a vast array of glass and other types of pipes. Police raided Capitol Hemp last fall af | 20 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Swing Vote: Why Independents Will Decide the 2012 Election | "In the past four years, two and a half million people have left the Democratic and Republican parties," explains Linda Killian, author of the new book The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents. Not only are these voters sick of the two dominant parties, Killian believes they are increasingly determining electoral outcomes. "They voted for Barack Obama, they voted for the Democ | 18 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What is an Astronaut's Life Worth?: An Interview with Robert Zubrin | "You're saying that you're going to give up four billion dollars to avoid a one in seven chance of killing an astronaut, you're basically saying an astronaut's life is worth twenty-eight billion dollars," says astronautical engineer and author Dr. Robert Zubrin. Zubrin, the author of a popular and controversial a | 18 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nick Gillespie Talks Will Smith and Taxes, Elizabeth Warren, and Obama's Birth Place on Red Eye | Reason.tv editor in chief Nick Gillespie appeared Fox News' Red Eye to discuss various topics, including Will Smith's disinclination to pay France's 75% income tax rate, Elizabeth Warren's supposed Cherokee heritage, and Barack Obama's publisher claiming he was born in Kenya in a promotional pamphlet. Airdate: May 18, 2012. | 17 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Matt Welch Talks Facebook IPO, Eduardo Saverin on Fox Business | Reason Editor in Chief, Matt Welch appeared on Fox Business to discuss the Facebook IPO on opening day and what the political implications are if the stock doesn't succeed. Air date: May 18, 2012.Approximately 3.35 minutes. Scroll down for HD, iPod and audio versions of this video and subscribe to | 17 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Matt Welch Discusses Attacks Ads, Super PACs, and Alienated Independents with Jansing & Co. | Reason Editor in Chief, Matt Welch appeared on Jansing & Co. to discuss the fine line between campaign and super PAC ads and whether the increase in attack ads from Obama and Romney will further alienate independents and moderates. Air date: May 18, 2012.Approximately 12.50 minutes. Scroll down for HD, iPod and audio versions | 17 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nick Gillespie Talks Robin Hood Tax, Greek Debt, Eduardo Saverin on Varney and Co. | Reason's Nick Gillespie appeared on Fox Business' Varney & Co. to discuss why the Robin Hood tax is a bad idea, why Greece should be kicked out of the Euro Zone, and why Chuck Schumer shouldn't be attacking Eduardo Saverin for renouncing his U.S. citizenship. Airdate: May 18, 2012.About 3 minutesScroll down for HD, iPod and audio versions of this video and subscribe to | 17 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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3 Lies About the Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Recall | Ever since he took on Wisconsin’s teachers unions and denied them collective bargaining rights, Republican Gov. Scott Walker has been Public Enemey No. 1 for public-sector unions all over the country. Walker faces a recall election on June 5th and may well be chased out of the governor's mansion after just one year in office. Is Walker the heartless budget-cutter his opponents claim - slashing spending, cutting taxes, and driving Wisconsin’s economy into a sinkhole | 17 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why We're Entering the Age of Ron Paul | Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) will no longer be actively campaigning in forthcoming primaries for the Republican presidential nomination. But the libertarian politician's legacy - including controversial yet popular stands on everything from auditing the Federal Reserve to withdrawing troops from abroad to radically cutting government borrowing and spending - is just getting started. Paul, says Brian Doherty, a Reason senior editor and author of the new | 16 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Outraged Fullerton citizens react to Kelly Thomas beating tape | The May 15 city council meeting in Fullerton, California was packed with outraged citizens ready to voice reactions to newly released security camera footage showing police brutally beating Kelly Thomas to death at a bus depot. Thomas was a 37-year-old schizophrenic drifter who died after a July, 2011 altercation with six police officers in which he was tasered, beat with batons, and hit repeatedly in the face.Cpl. Jay Cicinelli will face charges of involuntary manslaughter and excessi | 16 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nick Gillespie Talks Ron Paul Campaign Strategy and California Budget Woes on FBN's Willis Report | Reason's Nick Gillespie discusses California's $16 billion deficit and Ron Paul's end to his active campaign with Gerri Willis on Fox Business' Willis Report. Air Date: May 14, 2012.About 6 minutes.Scroll down for iPod and audio versions of this video and subscribe to Reason.tv's Youtube chann | 15 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brian Doherty Talks Ron Paul's Delegate Strategy on PBS Newshour | Reason Senior Editor Brian Doherty appeared on PBS Newshour to discuss Ron Paul's so-called "delegate strategy" for the primaries and what the ultimate goals of the Ron Paul Revolution might be. Approximately 9 minutes Scroll down for downloadable versions. Subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube channel to receive automatic notification when new material goes live.  | 15 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lucy Steigerwald Confiscated Cell Phones at an Obama Donor Dinner with Alyona | Reason Associate Editor Lucy Steigerwald discusses moms spraying Lysol on dancing teens, George Lucas building low income housing, and the Obama campaign confiscating donors' cell phones on the Alyona Show's Happy Hour. Airdate: May 15, 2012.6.34 minutes.Scroll down for HD, iPod and audio versions of this video | 15 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tim Cavanaugh Talks California Budget Mess on Fox 11 | Tim Cavanaugh, Managing Editor of Reason.com, talks to FOX 11 Los Angeles about California's increased spending despite proposed cuts. Air date: May 14, 2011.Approximately 2 minutes.Subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube Channel. | 14 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sex Politics and the GOP as We Know It: An Interview with Nancy Cohen | "The reason we've gone crazy, in a word, is sex," says Nancy Cohen, author of Delirium: How the Sexual Counterrevolution is Polarizing America. Cohen explains how sexual fundamentalists became the gate keepers of election 2012. "That is why we're seeing someone like Santorum, who is really a fringe candidate," Cohen says, "and it's also why Mitt Romney has been forced to talk about birth control and abortion much more than he w | 13 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Moms Say, "No More Drug War!" | "Mothers throughout history have come forward for the sake of their children," says Gretchen Burns Bergman, executive director of Parents for Addiction Treatment and Healing (PATH). "We're coming forth saying that the drug war has been more damaging to our families than the drugs themselves."The Woman's Christian Temperance Union is well-known for helping push forwar | 12 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tom Easton on Dodd-Frank: "A Terrible Law" | "I think there's growing understanding of how terrible this law really is," says The Economist's Tom Easton of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Dodd-Frank was passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, and Easton is one of the very select few who have read the | 11 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is Austerity to Blame for Europe's Economic Woes? | From Nobel laureate Paul Krugman to the free-market-friendly Economist to former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, all sorts of experts are charging that financial austerity measures are killing the great economies of Europe. "Austerity Is So Wrong!" reads the headline of a Krugman piece at The Daily Beast that argues against cutting government spending during | 11 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Vampire Economist and the Moral Molecule | In his new book, The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity, neuroeconomist Paul J. Zak discusses his research on oxytocin, aka the "moral molecule." For the past 10 years, Zak has been conducting the same kind of trust games that are common in experimental economics, but with a twist. Before and after the trust games, Zak has been taking blood samples with the goal of gaining a better understanding of h | 10 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthony Randazzo Discusses France and Greece Austerity with Alyona | Reason Foundation Director of Economic Research Anthony Randazzo discusses game changing election in France and Greece and what it can mean for austerity and the European economy on the Alyona Show. Air Date: May 7, 2012. Approximately 11 minutes. Scroll down for downloadable versions of this video and subscribe to | 9 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthony Randazzo Discusse Restoring Trust in Mortgage Backed Securities on Fox Business | Reason Foundation Director of Economic Research Anthony Randazzo appeared on Fox Business to discuss how to increase private investment in mortgage-backed securities. Air Date: May 8, 2012. Approximately 4 minutes. Scroll down for downloadable versions of this video and subscribe to Reason.tv's Youtube channel to receive automatic not | 9 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brian Doherty on Why Young People Love Ron Paul | "This is no longer just a set of weird ideas that individuals scattered across the country believe in," explains Reason's Brian Doherty, "this is a movement now." Doherty's new book, Ron Paul's rEVOLution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired, charts the rise of the 76- | 8 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cafe Hayek's Don Boudreaux Brings Sanity to the "Half-Witted" Media | "Many years ago my family ordered me to remove my shoes before sitting down to watch the evening news," recalls George Mason University economist Don Boudreaux in his new book, Hypocrites & Half-Wits: A Daily Dose of Sanity from Cafe Hayek."Seldom had I spent 30 minutes of any given evening watching the likes of Dan R | 8 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Stossel on Journalism, How he became Libertarian & his new book "No They Can't" | "Some guy came up to me said, 'Are you John Stossel?...I hope you die soon,'" recounts Fox Business Network host and Reason contributor John Stossel. Thankfully Stossel found a more civil audience when he stopped by Reason's Washington, DC office to promote his new book No, They Can’t: Why Government Fails But Individuals Succeed. During a lively Q&A sessi | 6 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Fix America's Airports with Reason's Bob Poole | Why don't airports and airlines inovate? Bob Poole has been working on finding out why for about 20 years. He gave a presentation at Reason Weekend explaining not only why but how we can fix America's airports.At Reason Weekend, the annual donor event held by Reason Foundation (the nonprofit that publishes this website), Poole gives a short history of air transportation in the United States. Airports are mismaneged a | 5 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 34 Episodes |
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