The Libertarian Solution Radio Program
By Nick Coons, Richard Sutton, and Jim Iannuzo
To listen to an audio podcast, mouse over the title and click Play. Open iTunes to download and subscribe to podcasts.
Podcast Description
The Libertarian Solution, Sundays at 2pm EST. The Libertarian Solution Radio Program discusses problems at the national, state, and local levels, and then provides solutions that are consistent with the libertarian philosophy of small government, self-ownership, and personal responsibility. We typically interview candidates, including those with opposing views, and we're not shy about challenging views that are logically inconsistent.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1 |
05/13/2012 - LNC Convention, NSA | We weren't able to get ahold of our scheduled guest, Robert Spencer, to discuss Islamic terrorism. Hopefully we'll be able to reschedule with him in the upcoming weeks. On today's show, we discussed the nomination of Gary Johnson as the LP candiate for president and his position on the FairTax. We also talked about the NSA's new datacenter in order to intercept and store internet traffic. | 5/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
2 |
04/29/2012 - Health Care | Guest: Dr. Elaina George On today's show, we interviewed Dr. Elaina George, an opponent of the new health care law and of socialized medicine in general. She discusses her views on the legislation, examines how it will affect the doctor-patient relationship, and talks about how she believes this is a precursor to a full single-payer system. | 4/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
3 |
04/22/2012 - Intentional Bureaucracy | On today's show, we discuss the red tape that politicians use to line their pockets as well as those of their friends. | 4/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
4 |
04/15/2012 - Taxes | Happy April 15th, every libertarian's favorite day, no? On today's show, we discuss taxes and the ideas put out by Warren Buffet about what he thinks "the right" should be paying. | 4/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
5 |
04/08/2012 - The Addiction of Statism | On today's show, we discuss why so many people miss the obviousness of failed polices. | 4/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
6 |
04/01/2012 - TBA | TBA | 4/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
7 |
03/25/2012 - Slow-Cooking the Frog | On today's show, we discuss the reason policies are enacted the way they are, and whether or not we can change the system of government to be more benevolent, or if another route must be taken. | 3/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
8 |
03/18/2012 - Taking Taxpayer Money | On today's show, we discuss taking taxpayer money and address a listener's question about the GI Bill (if you have questions you'd like to ask, feel free to post them to our Facebook page). We also discuss political pandering where the presidential candidates act like locals to get local support.. does this really work? | 3/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
9 |
03/11/2012 - A Dry Hate | Guest: Nancy Marshall Jim and Richard interview Nancy Marshall, author of "A Dry Hate", a book about the politics of Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Maricopa County, Arizona. | 3/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
10 |
02/19/2012 - Foreign Policy | Guest: R. Lee Wrights, LP Presidential Candidate On today's show, we interview R. Lee Wrights, who is seeking the LP's nomination for president. His primary topic is foreign policy, but seems to have a good working knowledge of economics, tax policy, and the drug war. | 2/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
11 |
02/12/2012 - Selling Organs | It's illegal to sell one's organs, but is it immoral? Does banning the sale of organs do anything to help, or does it have a net negative effect? On today's show, we discuss the issues behind this topic, as well as touch on the ideas of deductive vs. inductive reasoning. | 2/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
12 |
02/05/2012 - LP Presidentical Candidate Interview | Guest: Bill Still On today's show, we interviewed Bill Still, a candidate seeking the LP's nomination for president. His focus is on monetary policy and putting control of that policy back into the hands of "we the people", a vague phrase that we had difficulty getting him to define for us. | 2/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
13 |
01/29/2012 - Free Trade | Today, we discussed free trade, specifically with Cuba as mentioned in the recent Florida GOP debate, but also methods we can use to convince people of the truth value of libertarian ideas. | 1/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
14 |
01/22/2012 - The Nature of the State | On today's show, we discuss the nature of the state in more detail than usual, and the justifications used by those in power to maintain that power. | 1/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
15 |
01/15/2012 - Nuclear Weapons, Tax Systems | On today's show, we discuss the killing of the scientist in Iran, and the incentives for governments to develop and maintain nuclear weapons. We also touch on the FairTax, which we'll continue on a later show. | 1/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
16 |
01/08/2012 - Postal Service | On today's show, we discuss the inefficiencies inherent in the Postal Service and what can happen if competition is introduced. | 1/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
17 |
12/18/2011 - Political Systems | On today's show, we discussed different economic and political systems, and played a clip of a young Michael Moore questioning Milton Friedman. | 12/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
18 |
12/11/2011 - Property Rights Without Government | On today's episode, we discuss the idea of property rights, and how they can be implemented without a centralized coercive monopoly like a government. | 12/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
19 |
12/04/2011 - Tragedy of the Commons | On today's show, we discuss the tragedy of the commons, people's perceptions of "public" vs. "private", and began the discussion of what it takes to establish a functional private property system. | 12/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
20 |
11/27/2011 - Milgram Experiment | Today, we discuss Stanley Milgram's experiment, the results of the test, what it means, and some theories on how we can explain this human behavior -- And how it results in the political system that we have today. | 11/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
21 |
11/20/2011 - DuoFreedomist Party | Guest: Don Kirk, DuoFreedomist Party On today's show, we have guest Don Kirk on the show to discuss the formation of the DuoFreedomist Party. | 11/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
22 |
11/13/2011 - Pre-emption | Is acting pre-emptively in order to protect one's self or property valid, or one must have their rights violated first before one can act in self-defense? | 11/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
23 |
11/06/2011 - Risk Aversion | On today's show, we discuss the idea of risk aversion, how it properly directs capital and resources in a free market, and how government interferes with this process. | 11/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
24 |
10/30/2011 - Data Privacy | We discuss the privacy of individuals within software and web-based services, how this works today, and how it may work in a free society. | 10/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
25 |
10/23/2011 - Dependency on Government | Entitlements being "built-in" to the human psyche after generations of handouts, Ron Paul's blackouts, and creating dependencies in government. | 10/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
26 |
10/16/2011 - Occupy Wall Street | On today's episode, we discuss the media's new favorite story -- Occupy Wall Street. This is primarily a movement by the left, though there are a variety of political viewpoints present at these protests. Is the left wrong in their protests, or are they simply misinformed through decades of bad calls for "free markets" from the right? | 10/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
27 |
10/02/2011 - Top Two Initiative | One more week of technical difficulties (that's what happens when Nick isn't here). Jim and Richard discuss the top-two initiative. | 10/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
28 |
09/25/2011 - Government Stifling Production | We had some technical difficulties with the show, so portions of it are missing (the intro, the exit, the commercials, and a recorded clip that was played). Both Richard and Nick are out of town, so Jim monologues about government's role in stifling production. | 9/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
29 |
09/18/2011 - Personal Responsibility | On today's show we talk about personal responsibility, and we discuss it not as something someone must necessarily "take" for themselves, but rather as the default position that someone should not abdicate to others. | 9/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
30 |
09/11/2011 - Liberty & Security | We started the show asking some questions of Nick's statist alter-ego "John" representing the Whitehouse (disclaimer: not really) regarding the increased security implementations over the last 10 years. We continue on to discuss the raid of Gibson Guitars, and wrap it up with a discussion on the false dichotomy presented as "Liberty vs. Security". | 9/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
31 |
09/04/2011 - Phoenix's Prop 2 & Property | On today's episode, we discuss the issues behind Phoenix's Prop 2 on the recent ballot, and the philosophical problems surrounding the initiative. | 9/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
32 |
08/28/2011 - Blue Republicans | Guest: Robin Koerner, Huffington Post On today's episode, we interviewed Robin Koerner of the Huffington Post, who is working to convince liberals to register as Republican, or more specifically as "Blue Republican", for a year in order to support Ron Paul. In this interview, he explains his reasoning behind this position. | 8/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
33 |
08/21/2011 - Silver Circle Movie | Guest: Megan Duffield, Silver Circle On today's show, we were thrilled to have Megan Duffiled of Silver Circle to discuss their upcoming animated movie, which is a fictional story villifying the Federal Reserve and central currencies. | 8/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
34 |
08/14/2011 - Currency and Debts | On today's show, we discussed the function of currency and how to alleviate one's dependence on the stability of any given currency. We also address an email sent in by a listener about the debt ceiling, and Ron Paul at the Iowa Straw Poll. | 8/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
35 |
08/07/2011 - Coercion | On today's episode, we discuss the nature of coercion. This article was referenced during the show, which is a great piece to help clarify the topic. | 8/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
36 |
07/31/2011 - Debt Ceiling | On today's show we cover the debt ceiling, not only because it's a hot topic, but because we had multiple requests from listeners to do a show providing the libertarian solution to the national debt. | 7/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
37 |
07/24/2011 - Gold and Money | Ron Paul says gold is money, Ben Bernanke says it's not. What qualifies something as money? Would it be better without a central bank (i.e. The Federal Reserve) where each bank could fail on its own? We discuss this on today's show. | 7/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
38 |
07/17/2011 - America the Dictatorship - Part 2 | On this week's episode, we continue our discussion on the 10 reasons why the United States is a dictatorship. | 7/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
39 |
07/10/2011 - America the Dictatorship | Current events, corporate fat cats with their private jets, and the introduction to why America is a dictatorship... it doesn't get any better than this! | 7/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
40 |
07/03/2011 - Dispute Resolution Organizations | On today's episode, we introduce what could be called the pragmatic backbone of a stateless society -- the Dispute Resolution Organization (or, DRO for short). DROs would be businesses like any that exist today, thriving only by satisfying their customers, and working to resolve disputes in the most efficient (read "non-violent", since violence is very inefficient and expensive) methods conceivable. | 7/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
41 |
06/26/2011 - Dealing with Bullies | In this episode, we deal with the concept of bullies. Is the government like a schoolyard bully that only victimizes people because they're afraid to stand up to it, or is there more to it? | 6/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
42 |
06/19/2011 - Current Events | This week, we spent the bulk of the show discussing and dissecting current events. | 6/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
43 |
06/12/2011 - The Patriot Act | The first few minutes of the show was somehow cut off, but the best part of the show still remaings. We spent most of this episode discussing the interview with Mike Renzulli from last week and dissected his points. | 6/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
44 |
06/05/2011 - Patriot Act | Guest: Mike Renzulli, RMI This week, we were rejoined by RMI President Mike Renzulli to discuss his defense of the Patriot Act. | 6/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
45 |
05/29/2011 - Fairness | On today's program, we discuss the concept of fairness, what it's role is in society, if it should be something we strive for, and if so, how to achieve it. | 5/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
46 |
05/15/2011 - Monetary Impact of the FED | Ron Paul announces that he's running for president in 2012, and we hope he'll do an excellent job of presenting the message to the public. On this episode, we played a few interview clips discussing the Federal Reserve's interest rate policy, and then provided our own insights to what happens when currencies are manipulated. | 5/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
47 |
05/08/2011 - Government as a Business | Can the government be run like a business? What is missing for this to occur. I'm sure you won't be surprised at the conclusion. | 5/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
48 |
05/01/2011 - School Choice | Guest: Liz, ASCT; Marilee, AEN Today, we had two guests on the show with opposing views. Liz from the Arizona School Choice Trust, and Marilee from the Arizona Education Network. We got to discuss with them their views on the purpose of education and the depths to which parents should be able to make educational decisions for their children. | 5/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
49 |
04/24/2011 - Market Interference | On today's program, we talk about government interference in the market, and the "elites" making poor decisions without giving their concepts a mere five seconds of thought. | 4/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
50 |
04/17/2011 - Taxes | Happy Tax Day everyone! Yes, it is a time for celebration, when we can kick off the shackles of production and perform our patriotic duty by shipping our excess earnings to government officials who will spend it in the spirit of benevolence to benefit all of manki... sorry, I can't keep a straight face anymore. Taxation is legalized theft. It's so blatantly obvious, yet so many people can't (or choose not to?) see it. | 4/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
51 |
04/10/2011 - Elitism | On this week's show, we discuss the topic of elitism, it's fatal flaws, and the realities it "achieves" when put into practice. | 4/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
52 |
04/03/2011 - Amusement Parks | Guest: Pete Trabucco This was a rather political-less episode as I interviewed Pete Trabucco (just for fun), author of America's Top Roller Coasters and Amusement Parks. If you like amusement parks and roller coasters, you'll enjoy the discussion in this episode. But we do mix it in with government somehow, as we always do, when we discuss irrational fears. They apply both to roller coasters and to state-created boogeymen. | 4/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
53 |
03/27/2011 - Libya, Japan, and the Elite | On this week's program, we discuss involvement in Libya, talked about the hysteria over nuclear power based on the recent natural disasters in Japan, and broke apart some fallacies being made in an ongoing email conversation between Nick and a listener. | 3/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
54 |
03/13/2011 - Values | On today's show, we talk about the subjectivity of values. Do people really want to invade Iran? Should we be using electric cars instead of gas? What types of lightbulbs should we use? These questions can be easily answered by the market -- get the government out of the way, and see where people put their resources. | 3/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
55 |
03/06/2011 - Foreign Policy - Iran | Guest: Mike Renzulli Our sponsor for this program is The Libertarian Store. Mike Renzulli, head of the Phoenix Objectivists and the Objectivist think-tank "The Rational Mind Institute" joins us to present his ideas regarding a pre-emptive strike against Iran. | 3/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
56 |
02/27/2011 - Current Events, Non-Aggression | Our sponsor for this program is The Libertarian Store. After spending the bulk of the show discussing a myriad of current events, we had a small amount of time to pick up on our discussion from last week. | 2/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
57 |
02/20/2011 - Non-Aggression Principle | Our sponsor for this program is The Libertarian Store. This week we discussed what is meant by the non-initiation of force principle. Are preemptive attacks ever justified? What is the appropriate response to aggressors? Libertarians are not pacifists rather we recognize that self defense is a legitimate use of force. | 2/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
58 |
02/13/2011 - Putting Fear Into Perspective | Guest: James R. Keena Our sponsor for this program is The Libertarian Store. On this episode, we're happy to interview James Keena, author of "We've Been Had: How Obama and the Radicals Conned Middle Class America". You can learn more about him and his book on his website. | 2/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
59 |
02/06/2011 - Political Rhetoric | Please check our sponsor for this episode, www.thelibertarianstore.com. On this week's episode, we break apart arguments used by politicians and bureaucrats to try and get more money from people. | 2/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
60 |
01/30/2011 - 10th Amendment | Arizona's Governor wants to borrow $330 million on June 30th and pay it back on July 1st in order to balance the budget, and the Egyption governments cuts their country from the internet. On today's program, we discuss the idea of "state's rights" as well as the meaning of "the people." | 1/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
61 |
01/23/2011 - Propaganda | On this week's show, we discussed how propaganda is used as a mechanism of control. | 1/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
62 |
01/16/2011 - Socialism, Fascism, & the Effect of Government Monopolies | On this week's show, we cover a variety of issues and bring the topic back home to the central issue, the idea of government control; whether it be directly through socialism or indirectly through fascism; the resulting oppression is always pretty much the same. | 1/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
63 |
01/09/2011 - Congresswomen Gabrielle Giffords | On Saturday, Congresswomen Gabrielle Giffords was shot and critically injured at a "Congress on your Corner" event in Tucson, AZ. We discuss the tragedy of this event from a libertarian perspective. | 1/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
64 |
01/01/2011 - Rights | On tonight's episode, we discussed the differences between positive and negative rights, and which one is logically consistent. | 1/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
65 |
12/18/2010 - TBA | -- | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
66 |
12/11/2010 - Education, Food | S.510, the "Food Modernization Act", passed the Senate and is moving to the house. Tonight, we discuss some of the details of the bill and its implications. We also place a focus on the problems with a monopolized public education system, and how and why competition provides better results. | 12/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
67 |
12/04/2010 - TSA, Wikileaks | Guest: Noel Flasterstein Noel Flasterstein, a Second Amendment advocate and constitutional lawyer, joined us to discuss the TSA's actions as they relate to the Fourth Amendment. We also discussed the recent exposure by Wikileaks and our point of view on their actions. | 12/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
68 |
11/27/2010 - TSA Part 2 | We continue our discussion of the TSA and their practice of creating airline porn... err... creating an environment where "Your Safety Is Our Priority." A protest took place this past Wednesday at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, where Jim was on assignment interviewing those participating in the protest, passengers, and even tried to get some words in from the authorities. | 11/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
69 |
11/20/2010 - TSA | This week, we focused on the Transporation Security Administration (TSA), discussing primarily their desire to install full-body scanners or to perform full-body frisking. Essentially, when traveling by air in the United States, your options will be to have nude photos taken or to be molested by a government worker. | 11/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
70 |
11/13/2010 - Mandates | We discuss the problem with government mandates, itemize a few of the more popular ones, and talk about the solution (anyone care to take a stab at the solution?). | 11/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
71 |
11/06/2010 - Election Results | This week we discussed some of the election results, and poked fun at Obama's post-election speeches. | 11/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
72 |
10/30/2010 - Prop 106 | Guest: Phil Lopes We had Rep. Phil Lopes (D-AZ27) to discuss Prop 106, the health care freedom act that, if passed, allows Arizonans to opt-out of any health care system without penalty. Lopes disagrees with the proposition, so we (as nicely as we could) discussed with him the implications of the proposition and the ObamaCare in general. | 10/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
73 |
10/23/2010 - Quantitive Easing | Nick had an interesting conversation with one of his congressional opponents at his debate earlier this week. Unfortunately, it took place off camera. Today, we discuss quantitive easing.. Yeah, that's a term you're likely to hear more about in the near future. | 10/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
74 |
10/16/2010 - Licensing | Guest: Sean Shepherd Nick was at the Southwest Students for Liberty conference this weekend, so was absent from the show. We touched on some of Arizona's local propositions coming up on this November's ballot, and dedicated the majority of the show to licensing. We also had the opportunity to interview Sean Shepherd, Libertarian candidate for Scottsdale City Council. | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
75 |
10/09/2010 - Degrees of Libertarianism | Many of you have probably heard the story about the Tennessee man who lost his house because he didn't pay the $75 annual fee for fire services, and lot of online comments we've seen about this have claimed that this is what we could look forward to in a libertarian society. We take on this view and give you our perspective. It comes as no shock to listeners of the Libertarian Solution that GM is having some credit rating difficulties, and it's new electric cars aren't exactly up to par. And finally, are there degrees of libertarianism, or is it "you either are libertarian, or you're not"? | 10/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
76 |
10/02/2010 - Various | Guest: Dom Sgambellone We were pleased to have Dom Sgambellone as a guest on the show this evening, author of the book "The America of My Dreams." His book does provide some opinion and a bit of a roadmap for America, though not libertarian in nature, and he was an interesting interview. We also played a clip from Obama regarding the Citizens United decision, and one of Ron Paul being interviewed regarding competing currencies. Tearing these up is always a blast! | 10/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
77 |
09/25/2010 - Poverty | Guest: Jordan Decker This week, we were pleased to have Jordan Decker on the show. Jordan won a gold medal title belt in the World Kickboxing Association’s (WKA’s) National Championships in the Juniors’ K-1 Muay Thai Division. He will be representing the United States in the World Championship next month in Scottland. The cost of this is $4,000, and he's raising this money on his own via donations without government assistance. Please visit his website and chip in. We also continued our discussion on poverty from the previous week. | 9/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
78 |
09/18/2010 - Libertarian Generalizations | On this evening's show, we discussed a video on YouTube titled Why I Hate Libertarians. We felt it was important to discuss this video, not because it had anything relevant to say about libertarianism (it didn't), nor that it struck a chord with rational thinkers (it didn't), nor that it even threatened the ideological movement libertarians pursue (it didn't). What it did was represent libertarians as mindless cult members, which any reasonable person can see through, including the hypocrisy within the first 30 seconds. We invited the creator of this video to come on the show so we could discuss his positions, but he beligerantly declined. | 9/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
79 |
09/11/2010 - | Guest: Andrea Garcia, Michael Patti We had the pleasure of interviewing Andrea Garcia running in LD18 for the Arizona State Senate against the infamous Russel Pearce (sponsor of SB1070), and Michael Patti running in LD9 for the Arizona State Senate. Please check out their respective websites to learn more about their campaigns. We also had the chance to touch on a little bit of basic introductory philosophy, beginning with "axioms." Hopefully this is something we can expand upon more on next week's show. We'll also be going more in-depth discussing the nature of coercion. | 9/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
80 |
09/04/2010 - | Guest: Thane Eichenauer We had Libertarian candidate for Arizona State Treasurer Thane Eichenauer to disucss his campaign. We also focused on why it's difficult, if not impossible to enact political change specifically through the political process by attacking an issue at a time instead of the principle behind a whole slew of issues. | 9/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
81 |
08/28/2010 - Non-Violent Revolution | Nick provided some information that he gathered from the Orange County LP while on his trip in Disneyland last week regarding some upsetting initiatives working their way to the ballot in California. We spent the bulk of the show discussing methods of implementing non-violent revolution. | 8/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
82 |
08/21/2010 - Facts and Perceptions | This week, we talked a bit about the events in the California state government, such as state government shutting down on Fridays (I'm sure we won't miss them). Additionally, we discussed the differences in how facts can be perceived, especially when applying incomplete thought. | 8/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
83 |
08/14/2010 - Property Rights | Guest: Dave Hodges Dave Hodges joins us on the show to discuss property rights violations happening all over the country. The perpetrator? The U.S. Air Force. He has offered listeners the option to email him with any follow up questions. You can contact him at dave3343(at)aol(dot)com. | 8/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
84 |
08/07/2010 - Secret Union Ballots | We discussed secret union ballots, the measure that was struck down by the Arizona Supreme Court as Prop 108, but hopefully will be referred back once the court's issues with the initiative have been fixed. | 8/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
85 |
07/31/2010 - | Guest: SB1070, Economics, Competition A Judge removes most of the teeth from SB1070, and the Libertarian Solution hosts rejoice! In this episode, we discuss the four points knocked down by the court in SB1070, the flawed kindergarten economic reasons why many support SB1070, and we continue our ongoing venture into competition in every industry. | 7/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
86 |
07/24/2010 - Inclined to Liberty | We continue our discussion on the various points made in Inclined to Liberty. | 7/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
87 |
07/17/2010 - Inclined to Liberty | We spent most of the hour discussing further points from "Inclined to LIberty", an excellent book with lots of great insight. | 7/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
88 |
07/10/2010 - Competition, SB1070, Is/Ought Dichotomy | After a one-week hiatus, we're back! And this show is jam-packed full of good tidbits. We kick it off with a discussion of "reasonable suspicion" vs. "probable cause" in the context of Arizona's controversial new immigration law, SB1070. From there, were discuss competition in the U.S. Post Service. Nick and Richard pit the USPS website against the Fedex website to see whether public sector or private sector services stack up higher. And finally, we discuss the is/ought dichotomy, something that should create a lot of "Oh, that makes a lot of sense; I always knew that, but never thought about it in those terms" reactions. | 7/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
89 |
06/26/2010 - Trusting Government | We know that legal monopolies are bad. Where they exist, consumers face lower quality and higher costs. This economic principle is universal. So long as a provider has no incentive to provide satisfaction, they won't. Why is it that people recognize this in the market, but not in government? | 6/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
90 |
06/19/2010 - BP, Debate Questions | This week, Nick participated in his first debate against six Republican opponents for his run for U.S. House. Tonight, we discuss those debate questions. We also follow up on new developments from British Petroleum. | 6/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
91 |
06/12/2010 - Charity, Groups vs. Individuals | Guest: Dr. Mary Ruwart This evening, we played an interview of Dr. Mary Ruwart, which we recorded at the ISIL conference in Phoenix last January. We wrap up the show discussing the points brought up by Dr. Ruwart. | 6/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
92 |
06/05/2010 - The Economy | Guest: Steve Horwitz In January of 2010 at the ISIL Conference, we interviewed Steve Horwitz, Professor at St. Lawrence University, to discuss the ideas the U.S. Government is implementing which have a track record of failure, and the ideas that people should hold as those being able to actually solve the problem. On this evening's program, we play that interview and interject our own two cents. | 6/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
93 |
05/29/2010 - Tragedy of the Commons | It seems as though Barack Obama promised during his campaign to have all combat troops out of Iraq within 16 months of taking office. That anniversary came and went on May 21st this year as the world let out a gasp of shock to the broken campaign promise. This evening, we discussed the Tragedy of the Commons and how it plays a role not only in the environment, but in many other aspects of public property. | 5/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
94 |
05/22/2010 - Giving it All to the Government | A major loss for Arizona residents last week as Prop 100 passes and the sales tax rate increase by one percentage point. The FDA wants to regulate how much salt you'll be eating. And finally, a group that recognizes the government's complicity in the BP oil spill is calling for the government to seize BP's assets -- That can't end well. | 5/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
95 |
05/15/2010 - AZ Prop 100, What a Libertarian is Not | We kicked off this episode talking about the upcoming Prop 100 election (which is Arizona's proposed one percentage point increase in sales tax). We've frequently talked about what a libertarian, but spoke more on this episode about what a libertarian is not, and applied that process to the response of common public policy issues. | 5/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
96 |
05/08/2010 - Greece & Wealth Redistribution | This week's show starts out with the weekly update on SB1070, Arizona's new controversial immigration bill. The rest of the show focuses the socialist policies that have taken a major toll on Greece, and how the United States is heading in the same direction. | 5/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
97 |
05/01/2010 - Immigration, Ballot Access | Guest: Alex Snitker, Libertarian Senate Candidate in Florida Alexander Snitker, Libertarian Senate candidate in Florida, joins us on the program to discuss the ridiculous ballot access requirements in his home state, and talks about how he is the first Libertarian candidate on the ballot running for Senate in Florida. We also dispell a few myths around immigration; myths primarily perpetrated by the conservative camp in order to keep immigrants out. | 5/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
98 |
04/24/2010 - SB1070, Civil Asset Forfeiture | Arizona passed one of the worst laws in the country recently, SB1070. We opened the show discussing some of the impacts of this new legislation. We played an interview of Ron Paul with Chris Matthews where Matthews makes his usual outrageous remarks, and we take every liberty at pointing them out throughout the interview. Finally, we discuss the growing problem of asset forfeiture, which has doubled since 2003 as police departments are facing budget cuts. | 4/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
99 |
04/17/2010 - Taxes | Guest: Arizona Treasurer Dean Martin Arizona's State Treasurer Dean Martin joins us to discuss the Governor's recent actions with regards to the group overseeing state investments, and to discuss Arizona's proposed sales tax increase on next month's ballot. The remainder of the show was spent discussing the issues of taxes, and the origination of taxation in the United States. | 4/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
100 |
04/10/2010 - Census, Doing Nothing, Utilitarianism | Guest: Jan Narveson, Waterloo University This is a repeat of the episode that originally aired on April 3, 2010. Tucson has struck down a proposal for a sales tax on food; good for them. We play a clip from a Ron Paul announcement discussing the Census, and provide our own two cents. Finally, we had interviewed Jan Narveson, former professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada, back in January at the ISIL conference. We played that interview and discussed the points that Profession Narveson brought up. | 4/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
101 |
04/03/2010 - Census, Doing Nothing, Utilitarianism | Guest: Jan Narveson, Waterloo University Tucson has struck down a proposal for a sales tax on food; good for them. We play a clip from a Ron Paul announcement discussing the Census, and provide our own two cents. Finally, we had interviewed Jan Narveson, former professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada, back in January at the ISIL conference. We played that interview and discussed the points that Profession Narveson brought up. | 4/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
102 |
03/27/2010 - Health Care, FCC, Credit Cards | To begin, we opened the show discussing the new health care legislation. If insurance companies must not discriminate against pre-existing conditions, what is the ultimate result of that policy? Next, we jumped into the FCC's Equal Time and (now defunct) Fairness Doctrine provisions. Finally, we covered the credit card legislation that passed a few months ago and discussed the implications of the (well-intended?) changes. | 3/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
103 |
03/20/2010 - Consequences of Choice | On this week's episode, we discussed the cause of the difference in success between a rich person and a poor person. | 3/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
104 |
03/13/2010 - Minarchy & Anarchy | Guest: William Thomas, The Atlas Society; Nick Coons, The Libertarian Solution Tonight's guests were William Thomas of The Atlas Society and Nick Coons (on assignment) from The Libertarian Solution. The topic of discussion was minarchy and anarchy. What do the terms mean, and which of them is a better system for society? | 3/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
105 |
03/06/2010 - Public Transporation, Property Taxes | Guest: John Cole, Unimodal; Lynn Weaver, Prop 13 AZ Joining us on the program this week was John Cole from Unimodal to discuss their revolutionary mass transportation product SkyTran. SkyTran is faster than individual vehicles, can transport more people than busses, subways and light rail, is super energy efficient, is far cheaper to build than traditional roads, and is safe. So why isn't it being installed everywhere as we speak? Lynn Weaver joined us to discuss Prop 13 Arizona, the initiative pending for this year's ballot in Arizona in order to control property tax costs. Think your property devaluation is going to cause you property taxes to decrease? Think again, Arizonans! | 3/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
106 |
02/27/2010 - Continental Congress 2009 | Guest: Ed Vallejo and Bob Schulz, We The People Is self-governance really possible. Nick's anecdote, while anecdotal, is somewhat telling. Ed Vallejo and Bob Schulz from the We The People Foundation join us for the remainder of the show to discuss the Continental Congress 2009, and the recent work they created over an 11-day period. You can read their finished product, the Articles of Freedom, online. | 2/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
107 |
02/20/2010 - Interviewing Libertarian Candidates | Guest: Lex Green; Rick Biondi Lex Green, Libertarian candidate for governor in Illinois, joins us to discuss his state's issues, views on state sovereignty, and health care. Rick Biondi, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona against John McCain, discusses his views on international affairs on the economy. And finally, Nick is accused this week via email from a member of the Green Party as being naive and a sucker for junk food. Check out his responses as Jim plays devil's advocate. | 2/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
108 |
02/13/2010 - Moochers, Looters, and Parasites, Oh My! | Guest: Alex Snitker Obama wants to keep spending and revenue "in sync" with his "Paygo" system, but this only applies to "mandatory" spending. No spending is mandatory, as Congress can set the rules however they want. Alex Snitker, 2010 US Senate Libertarian candidate in Florida, joins us to talk about his campaign, and his key issue; the FairTax. We press forward talking about the updates in the fight to knock out the sales tax on food in the City of Phoenix, and discuss the mentality of parasites on the government system. | 2/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
109 |
02/06/2010 - Phoenix Food Tax | The program began with discussing the fallacy of taxing the wealthy. We then discussed an economics professor who implemented a socialist grading system in his class to demonstrate how socialism fails. Next, we presented the ideas of an Arizona legislator who wants to require businesses to sign an "ethical" statement of business in order to operate. Finally, we focused on the new Phoenix sales tax on food, with our motto "Eat free or die!" | 2/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
110 |
01/30/2010 - Healthcare Freedom, Socialized Medicine | Guest: Tom Jenney, Americans For Prosperity; Colette Rosati Nick returned from Massachusetts and kicked off the show with his exclusive Scott Brown interview. Tom Jenney from Americans For Prosperity joined the program to talk about their local efforts called Honking for Healthcare Freedom. Later on, Colette Rosati appeared to inform us of her new efforts called Basketball for Better Health, an attempt to help people in the Ukraine (with socialized medicine) receive quality healthcare. | 1/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
111 |
01/23/2010 - Constitutional Carry, Census | Guest: Chris Knox, Firearms Coalition The show began announcing that Nick Coons had been replaced with NOTA. Our current events were Scott Brown's win and the Phoenix City $260 million dollar budget deficit / light rail expenditures. Our guest was Chris Knox from the Firearms Coalition, where we touched on the Iowa controversy, Chicago v McDonald and AZ Constitutional carry. Our last topis were the FEC Supreme court case (donations by Corporations) and weird aspects of the 2010 census -- questions that have nothing to do with apportioning representatives. Especially the Business census. | 1/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
112 |
01/16/2010 - Arizona State Budget | Guest: Dean Martin, Arizona State Treasurer Last week, we focused on Arizona's budget problems. This week is a continuation of that theme, this time with our guest Arizona State Treasurer Dean Martin. | 1/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
113 |
01/09/2010 - Arizona State Budget | Guest: Nick Dranias, Goldwater Institute Our illustrious Gov. Brewer must be a stand-up comedian. Last Thursday at a presentation, she uttered the statement, "As we all know it's the public sector that grows the economy." Nick Dranias joined us for the bulk of the program to discuss the Arizona state budget, which is supposed to be out of money come this February. While some may associate this with doom-and-gloom, Nick was considering that this may be a celebration-worthy event. | 1/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
114 |
01/02/2010 - New Year's Resolutions | Happy New Year! We finish up our round of evaluating and critiquing New Year's resolutions from around the political spectrum, with a special focus on "green" resolutions, such as eliminating all incandescent bulbs, paper bags, and a slew of other things we've come to know and love. | 1/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
115 |
12/26/2009 - New Year's Resolutions | As we look back on 2009 and see all of the advancements that government growth has made, we find one small bright spot for freedom -- it's now legal to catch rainwater in Colorado. We examine New Year's resolutions from around the political spectrum (which we plan to continue on next week's episode) and compare them to a more libertarian approach. | 12/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
116 |
12/19/2009 - Potpourri of Ideas | The discussion on tonight's episode focused on a potpourri of ideas from CO2 "pollutants", deforestation, Real ID/PASS Act, privacy, and the "public option" in higher education. | 12/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
117 |
12/12/2009 - Foreign Policy | Guest: Jim Peron, Laissez Faire Books Jim Peron from Laissez Faire Books joins us to give us an introduction to the upcoming ISIL Retreat, to discuss a historical view of the differences between libertarian (classical liberal), conservative, and socialist (neo-liberal, progressive) philosophies, and then to apply those to foreign policy. | 12/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
118 |
12/05/2009 - Political Ideologies | As we add KKNT 960 in Phoenix to our radio syndication network, we discuss differences in political ideologies (conservative, liberal, and libertarian) to give our new audience an idea of where we come from and how our support for specific public policy is determined. The main topic used for demonstration purposes is the War on Drugs, something we hope the "conservative" audience of KKNT will find interesting. | 12/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
119 |
11/19/2009 - Media Perception, Libertarian Positions | Guest: Chris Broughton We had the pleasure to interview Chris Broughton, the gentleman who brought the AR-15 rifle to the Obama rally in Phoenix several months ago. He helps to clear up some of the myths that the media has portrayed against him, and we discuss the public response to his actions. We were quizzed on common libertarian positions and had an opportunity to explain the reasoning behind those positions. | 11/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
120 |
11/12/2009 - Fry's & Safeway Strike, Unions | If Fry's (Kroger) and Safeway don't meet the economically unrealistic demands of the union by Friday at 6pm, the union will be forcing their members to strike. We discuss the role of unions and how in many cases they distort the market. Earlier this week, a listener emailed in a question; "Is God a libertarian?" He provided evidence supporting the affirmative. We also discussed the presence of a gene in the human species that appeared 200,000 years ago, which appears to be the cause of our communicative abilities, and what uniquely separates humans from all other animal species. | 11/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
121 |
11/05/2009 - Health Care, John Stossel's Special | Guest: Austin Raynor Austin Raynor of Liberty Tree, and a Libertarian Solution "Liberty Writer", joined us this evening to discuss his college campus radio show and podcast. We also discussed the ludicrosity of Pelosi's 1900+ page health care bill and how interesting it would be to if someone actually read this. John Stossel of ABC did a recent health care special from which we borrowed audio clips and commented throughout. It seems that we've beat health care to death on the show, but Obama, Pelosi, and Reid obviously haven't been tuning in as frequently as we would like. | 11/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
122 |
10/29/2009 - War on Drugs | This week, we tackle the War on Drugs. To any critically-thinking individual, this should be fairly straight-forward. Government doesn't enact laws (like those that put is in prison for possession of a plant) for public safety or even for our own protection. They do it because it appeases special interests. We discuss the institution of drug criminalization, the pragmatic and violent problems these laws cause, and as always we lay out a few solutions. | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
123 |
10/22/2009 - Producers & Parasites | The House and Senate have both passed new hate crime legislation, which we discuss briefly at the beginning of the program. We also discuss the essay Producers and Parasites, written in 1935, and point out some of its flaws. We finish up the program answering some listener emails. | 10/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
124 |
10/15/2009 - Subsidies | Guest: Mark Flatten, Goldwater Institute Mark Flatten is a new investigative journalist for the Goldwater Institute and joined us on the program to discuss events at Phoenix Sky Harbor and the administrator taking advantage of "racial quota" laws. Later in the program, we discuss government choosing winners and losers by giving hand-ups to arbitrary groups and knocking down others. | 10/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
125 |
10/08/2009 - Local Government Roles | Guest: Greg Tripoli, City Council Candidate Greg Tripoli, candidate for the Phoenix City Council in district 3, joins us to answer some tough questions about his candidacy the role of local government. Jim received a questionaire in the mail from the NRA with slanted questions that were generally pretty easy to answer, so he put Nick and Richard on the spot in the last segment. | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
126 |
10/01/2009 - Capitalism, Fraud | Guest: Carrie Ann Sitren, Goldwater Institute; Nathan Nascimento, Arizonans In Action Jim and Nick begin by discussing Michael Moore and his new movie "Capitalism: A Love Story", pointing out the incorrect terminology (calling our system "capitalism") and the hypocrisy (Michael Moore making millions in the market, then denouncing the system). We also spoke with Carrie Ann Sitren from the Goldwater Institute to receive an update on the City North case, and then with Nathan Nascimento from Arizonans In Action to discuss special districts. | 10/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
127 |
09/24/2009 - Minimum Wage, Wealth Redistribution | Nick, Richard, and Jim cover the topics of minimum wage and wealth redistribution both from effect and from morality. It's commonly known that President Obama supports both of these concepts; but as a State Senator, he also denounced the Civil Rights Movement for not doing more in the way of granting government the power to redistribute wealth. | 9/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
128 |
09/17/2009 - Constitution Day | Today is Constitution Day, and we discussed the beginnings of the document that began this nation. We provide insight as to the various interpretations of the Constitution, the good behind the document, and the flaws. | 9/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
129 |
09/10/2009 - Obama's Speech to Schools | Last week President addressed your children during their school day. Was it to promote personal responsibility and the importance of education? According to President Obama, "if you quit on school you're not just quitting on yourself, you're quitting on your country". Perhaps his speech had another motive. | 9/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
130 |
09/03/2009 - Rights and Laws | Guest: Jim March, BlackBoxVoting We began by discussing the potential "blowback" from the now famous publicity stunt performed by Ernest Hancock, local libertarian who along with Chris B. planned and performed the open carry of an AR-15 during Obama's presentation to Veterans. From there, we were provided updates by Jim March regarding his efforts in Pima County, AZ. We touched on the proposed Cybersecurity Act and its implications, and finally got in to the meat of our discussion on laws and rights, which will be continued on a future episode. | 9/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
131 |
08/27/2009 - Media Bias | Nick and Jim discussed media bias, including offering some clips as examples of what the media should and should not be doing. | 8/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
132 |
08/20/2009 - HCR 2014 | Guest: Nancy Barto, AZ Rep LD7 Why was John Mackey Attacked? John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, published an article on the Wall Street Journal discussing the benefits of their new health coverage, and of government butting out in general. He was promptly attacked by nothing more than rhetoric. We discuss these various points Arizona HCR 2014 Nancy Barto, the sponsor of perhaps the single best defense against socialized healthcare joined us to discuss HCR 2014, the Arizona Healthcare Freedom Act. This bill will appear on the ballot as an initiative so we can vote "Yes" and amend the Arizona State Constitution. | 8/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
133 |
08/13/2009 - Privacy | Guest: Bob Barr First, Richard, Nick and Jim discussed some hot topics including why the media is defending the government's health care plan? Whatever happened to investigative journalism? Who is getting paid off. Why do we even need a "MAINSTREAM" media? We were than joined by Bob Barr, last year's Libertarian presidential nominee, and discussed privacy issues and how the new health care bill will affect your privacy rights. Bob wrote a recent article on potential DNA databases at the hospital. Where is that blood sample going when you have a newborn? Will your entire medical record soon become government property? | 8/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
134 |
08/06/2009 - Phoenix Coyotes | Guest: Sarah Fenske, New Times Sarah Fenske joins us; a reporter from The Arizona New Times who investigated the connection between Jerry Reinsdorf (a potential Coyotes buyer and owner of the Chicago White Sox) and Ed Beasley (Glendale's City Manager). | 8/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
135 |
07/30/2009 - ObamaCare | Undercover cops arrest an undercover cop for dealing drugs. EPA supresses an internal report that shows cooling trends over the past few years. Obama flips flops on his health care proposals -- Senator Obama has a very different idea of health care than President Obama does. | 7/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
136 |
07/23/2009 - How To Fix The Economy | Arizona politicians are using tax dollars to promote themselves and take advantages over challengers to their office. Forced RFID is bad, it can be hacked more easily than most people think. We break the economy down into the symptoms, the causes, and possible solutions. | 7/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
137 |
07/16/2009 - Local Events & Lawsuits | Guest: Attorney Michael Kielsky Our scheduled guest, Bob Barr, was not able to join us. When we contacted him at the number his office provided to us, his wife answered with, "Do you know what time it is?" "Yes, it's time for Mr. Barr to do the interview that he was scheduled for." Attorney Michael Kielsky joined us to discuss the similarities between the tatoo case in Tempe, Preston v. Hallman, and a case that he's fighting in the City of Mesa. He was also able to provide some unique insight in other areas. | 7/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
138 |
07/09/2009 - TSA and Campaign For Liberty | Guest: Steve Bierfeldt, Campaign For Liberty; Chris Spangle, Indiana LP A new water park is scanning fingerprints, but telling its customers that the machine is a bone density scanner. The Prestons prevailed over the City of Tempe, again. But it appears the city will continue wasting taxpayer funds and infringing on the rights of these small business owners. Steve Bierfeldt, Campaign For Liberty, was stopped by TSA a few months back because he was carrying large quantities of cash. TSA detained and mishandled him for quite some time. He joins us on today's show to discuss his experience. Chris Spangle, Executive Director of the Indiana State LP, joins us to tell us what's going on in his state. | 7/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
139 |
07/02/2009 - Current Events | Our scheduled guest, Bernard von Nothaus of the Liberty Dollar, was not able to join us. Our sources say he fell asleep at the receiver unable to cope with the time zone difference. We tried to fill in to give the impression that he was there, but there's nothing like the real thing. In current events, it looks as though California is shutting down some of their state parks because of their budget shortages, and the parks may be turned over to the federal printing presses. Only 3.5% of government (public) high school students were able to pass the U.S. Citizenship test. The City of Tempe (headed by Mayor Hugh Hallman, who ridiculously tries to attach the "libertarian" label to his name) is attempting to shut down a tatoo parlor by revoking permits that it previously issues on the grounds that it's going to attract gangs and heroine addicts. The courts already ruled against the city, and they are now asking for a do-over. | 7/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
140 |
06/25/2009 - Second Amendment Cases | Guest: Michael Moresco, Liberty Rider; Alan Gotlieb, SAF; Gerhard Langguth, Arkansas LP This episode was packed with guests, starting with Michael Moresco, the Liberty Rider who's riding his bicycle across the country "Riding for Honesty." Next up was Alan Gotlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation, who kept us in the loop on their current gun cases, and extended an invitation for our listeners to attend this year's Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC). And to round it out, Gerhard Langguth joined us providing us with some background information on the Arkansas State LP, and we discussed the idea that proposing solutions is better than simply opposing everything. | 6/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
141 |
06/18/2009 - LP Voter Registrations; Monetary Policy | Guest: Joe Cobb; Scott Kohlhaas, Alaska LP The federal government is backing GM's 100,000-mile 5-year warranty. What will that do to the quality of GM's cars, and what cost will that impose on taxpayers? Joe Cobb from the Arizona LP joined the program to update us on the state's voter registration drive. It appears that the state and most counties are so far in the clear in terms of maintaining the required number of voters for ballot status. Given that Mr. Cobb is a professional economist and former aid to Ron Paul, we decided to take advantage of his presence and probe him a bit on monetary policy. Scott Kohlhaas from the Alaska LP provided us with some interesting history of their state's LP and what the state is working on now. | 6/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
142 |
06/11/2009 - Unions | Guest: Mike Rster, Alabama State LP We kick off the program discussing the restaurant carry bill, one that allows individuals to carry in restaurants (given the restaurant's permission), but the NRA is impeding the bill. And remember to stock up on clunkers, because the government will give you a voucher of $4,500. Later on, we focus on unions, their intrusion on property rights, and greed. To wrap up the program, we had Mike Rster on from the Alabama State Libertarian Party to enlighten us about the events in his state. | 6/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
143 |
06/04/2009 - Cap & Trade, Utilitarianism | Guest: Carrie Ann Sitren, Goldwater Institute To kick off the first segment, we received a brief update from Carrie Ann Sitren of the Goldwater Institute regarding the CityNorth case. Moving into the second segment, we discussed Cap & Trade and the federal government's proposed implementation of it. Later on, we contrasted utilitarianism with libertarianism, highlighting the differences. At the end, we wrapped it all up to provide a possible sollution. | 6/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
144 |
05/28/2009 - Second Amendment, Gun Control | Our focus on this week's episode was on the 2nd Amendment. We briefly discussed DC vs. Heller and Montana's bold move to enforce the 10th Amendment in the production and distribution of fireams within their state. We also covered the principle behind gun ownership, differences in crime rates and trends where gun control laws exist vs. where they're more lax. | 5/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
145 |
05/21/2009 - Currency | The weather was unseasonably cool this past week in the Phoenix area. Thank you Savior Obama for curbing the effect of global warming and bringing rain to the desert. Why do we use currency as a medium of exchange instead of direct barter? What is the government's proper role in currency, and how does government's manipulation of the currency affect the economy? How did we get where we are, and what's the libertarian solution to problems associated with a government-controlled currency? | 5/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
146 |
05/14/2009 - Capitalism & Free Markets | Nick was on location at Politics on the Rocks in Scottsdale in defense of capitalism, and later joined Richard and Jim in the second segment who were defending capitalism on the air. We cover the misconceptions about capitalism, and talk about "managed" or "modified" capitalism (what we have now) verus "free-market", "competitive", or "laissez-faire" capitalism (something we've never had, but we really ought to). | 5/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
147 |
05/07/2009 - Local Governments | Guest: Nick Dranias, Goldwater Institute Nick Dranias from the Goldwater Institute joined us to discuss his report "A New Charter for American Cities." The report provides information showing how local governments can infringe on the rights of the individual just as much as state and local governments, perhaps more; and provides a proposal for citizens to ensure that their local government's job is to protect their liberties. | 5/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
148 |
04/30/2009 - Introduction to new audience | We're back! As the first episode of our new station, 1100 KFNX, we'd like to welcome our new audience, and hope that many from KXAM have followed us over as well. And to bring the new audience up to speed, we focused on the basics of libertarianism, such as the non-aggression principle. We answer such questions as -- Are libertarians liberal or conservative? What happens in business with or without minimum wage laws? What's this idea about people interacting with each other on a voluntary basis? | 4/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
149 |
04/15/2009 - Capitalism | Guest: Tom, Freedom's Phoenix Capitalism has gotten a bad wrap recently. And if you understand what capitalism is, you know that it can't possibly be responsible for anything that's happened in our economy within the last few decades. We discuss what capitalism is and compare it to other systems. Tom from Freedom's Phoenix joined us to discuss their website and the campaigns they're running, and to provide updates about the Tea Party event in Arizona's capital. | 4/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
150 |
04/08/2009 - Self Defense | The primary question of this episode was, "Does the individual have an inalienable right to self-defense?" We believe the answer to be Yes, and we didn't receive any opposition on that point. See how this relates to issues like 9/11 and the Somli pirates. | 4/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
151 |
04/01/2009 - Photo Radar; City North | Guest: Susan Kayler; Carrie Ann Sitren (Goldwater Institute) Carrie Ann Sitren from the Goldwater Institute called in to provide an update to the CityNorth case, whereby the City of Phoenix has lost in court the ability to pay a private developer nearly $100 million in taxpayer subsidies. She was followed by Susan Kayler who successfully joined us this week to discuss photo radar in Arizona, the illegal methods used to enforce the laws, and the ineffectiveness of speed cameras. | 4/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
152 |
03/25/2009 - Economic Basics | What is an economy, and how does it operate on its own without coercion? We began addressing these questions at the start of the program, and continued that discussion throughout with the help of a couple of listener call-ins. | 3/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
153 |
03/18/2009 - Privatizing Roads | Guest: Dr. Walter Block There are roughly 46,000 deaths per year on our nation's government-maintained and managed roads, but government never receives blame for this and so therefore has no real incentive to do anything about it. Would a private road system put those who manage the roads in a position to make them safer and more efficient? We discussed this issue with Dr. Walter Block on today's program, an Austrian school economist and libertarian/anarcho-capitalist philosopher, a Professor of Economics at Loyola University New Orleans, a Senior Fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and a supporter of privatizing the nation's roads. | 3/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
154 |
03/11/2009 - Global Warming | Guest: Dr. Robert Balling Jim and Nick attended a debate at Phoenix College this past Tuesday evening regarding government stimulus spending. The two debaters arguing in favor of the stimulus had no flow in their presentations and constantly contradicted themselves. The two arguing against it made extremely persuasive arguments. And of course, we aren't biased one way or another (sarcasm). Dr. Robert Balling joined us to discuss climate change and global warming. He provided some excellent information about the earth's natural reactions to various factors and what impact humans may have on the global climate. | 3/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
155 |
03/04/2009 - Recessions and Depressions | Guest: Jim Rogers Even though it took some technical effort, we were finally able to successfully connect with Jim Rogers. The interview starts out choppy, but we do get things cleared up (are all phone calls now being routed through the Federal Reserve system?). Among other things, he provides information on how we got here, what we should do, realizes that we won't, and provides his predictions. Please support our new (hoax) sponsor, "Governments Gone Wild." | 3/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
156 |
02/25/2009 - Canadian Health Care | Guest: Brian Lee Crowley This week, we were honored to have Brian Lee Crowley from AIMS to follow up on our broadcast from Feb 11, 2009 discussing the fundamental flaws in the Canadian health care system. US politicians are working to create a nationalized health care system in this country. We need to understand why such a system is doomed to failure so we don't repeat the mistakes made by our neighbors to the north. | 2/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
157 |
02/18/2009 - State Budget, Stimulus | Guest: Arizona State Treasurer Dean Martin Joining us once again is Arizona's State Treasurer Dean Martin to discuss the state budget crisis. Apparently, the new legislature and governor have cut $1.1 billion in spending from the budget, shoring up the bulk of the crisis. We also talk about the idea of greed as the cause of our current nationwide economic situation. Was there too much greed, or not enough risk? | 2/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
158 |
02/11/2009 - Health Care | Guest: Brian Ferguson, Professor of Economics, University of Guelph If you've ever had thoughts about the United States moving to a single-payer health care system, or questions about Canada's system, this is the episode to listen to. Brian Ferguson, Professor of Economics at University of Guelph in Ontario joins us to discuss flaws in the single-payer model. He also addresses and confirms many of the common critiques (i.e. long waiting lists), and responds to common arguments for such a system. | 2/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
159 |
02/04/2009 - Taxes | In past episodes, we've discussed the concept of "taxation as theft". Today, each of us took our turn explaining our own views on why that is and how we come to that conclusion. In the later half of the program, the subject of conversation was "green taxes", along with a ridiculous example of how trying to use taxes to "persuade" people to behave a certain way is a flawed methodology. | 2/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
160 |
01/28/2009 - Budgets & Traffic Cameras | Guest: Shawn Dow, CameraFraud; Tom Jenney, AFP For our first interview, Shawn Dow from Camera Fraud joined us this evening to discuss the 2010 ballot initiative in Arizona to remove all traffic cameras from roads. Later on, we interviewed Tom Jenney with the Arizona Chapter of Americans for Prosperity to discuss the state budget deficit. In the final minutes of the show, we discussed the upcoming AZLP Convention and took a call from our favorite Green Party regular. | 1/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
161 |
01/21/2009 - Obama Policies | Welcome to the White House, President Obama. There seem to be three types of people with regards to our new President. The first is hopeful of the change he talks about, the second is fearful of the change, and the third believe that there won't actually be any change. We at the Libertarian Solution fall into the last category. While there will be superficial modifications, the overall trend of bigger and more intrusive government will stay the course, so to speak. | 1/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
162 |
01/14/2009 - Free Market Solutions | Guest: Gene Banman, Zero Motorcycles If you're interested in how the free market can take the place of government "services" and regulations, then stay tuned as we intend to do more episodes like this one. We intervewed Gene Banman, CEO of Zero Motorcycles, a company that makes electric-powered motorcycles (only dirtbikes for now, but they say street-legal vehicles will be available within a few months). We hoped to touch more on this topic and talk about our government outrage of the week, but we skewed off into a bit of a tangent with our favorite Green Party caller. | 1/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
163 |
01/07/2009 - State Income Taxes; Discrimination Laws | Guest: Ernie Hancock We've discussed in the past about how difficult the City of Mesa can be in operating a business because of their heavy-handed regulations. Forbes put them at the top of their most boring cities in the country list. Hmm... Ernie Hancock joined us on the program to talk about his new "It's NOT My Debt!" campaign. We brought to light the correlation between the state budget shortfalls across the country, and state income taxes. And finally, we discussed the impacts of discrimination laws on businesses on their communities. | 1/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
164 |
12/31/2008 - New Year's Resolutions | Guest: Carrie Ann Sitren, Goldwater Institute Our New Year's Eve program consisted of an interview with Carrie Ann Sitren, a lawyer from the Goldwater Institute, to discuss the win against Phoenix in the CityNorth case. The Arizona State Constitution doesn't allow government to give gifts, and the courts upheld that provision. We also discussed some political New Year's Resolutions, including a couple of ways to trim down the budget for the City of Phoenix, and government in general. | 12/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
165 |
12/24/2008 - Libertarianism Explained | Today being Christmas Eve, tonight's program was pre-recorded. We focus on describing the principles of libertarianism so that those new to the philosophy can understand why we oppose taxation and most laws (Hint: It's not because we want to use drugs and hoard money). We go through the process of self-ownership, self-interest, and how our principled and pragmatic views flow from those ideas. And as usual, we veer off on to a few tangents just to keep it interesting. We'll be back next week on New Year's Eve with a live program. | 12/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
166 |
12/17/2008 - Free Speech | Guest: Valerie Bayham, Institute For Justice GM has had property that they purchased and polluted declared as a slum by the City of Mesa to get the city to pay for clean up, at which point they can build the property up luxuriously on the taxpayers dime. The City of Chandler is having difficulty making it's budget and laying off employees, and at the same time is purchasing a new Toyota Camry hybrid for the mayor to replace his four-year-old vehicle. We were fortunate to interview Valerie Bayham from the Institute for Justice to discuss free speech and an ongoing lawsuit in Florida to overturn a law that infringed on political speech for groups and individuals that aren't well-funded enough to comply with the expensive law. Maricopa County passes their $3 billion wish-list to the Federal Government like a child asking Santa Clause for a new video game. Hey, why not? It's the holidays! | 12/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
167 |
12/10/2008 - State Budget | Guest: Arizona State Treasurer Dean Martin To kick off the program, we began the discussion by tying up some loose ends to last week's welfare/charity topic. We quickly moved to the state budget with our guest, Arizona State Treasurer Dean Martin. Mr. Martin walked us through the budget process and helped fill in some gaps. To wrap up the end of the program, we discussed Napolitano leaving Arizona. | 12/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
168 |
12/03/2008 - Charity | Guest: Dr. Mary Ruwart We were honored to have Dr. Mary Ruwart, author and Libertarian Presidential candidate, as our guest on the program. Our discussion focused mainly on the ideas of charity; whether or not government should have a monopoly on charity, have mixed involvement, or no involvement at all. Dr. Ruwart also explained the detriments to government involvement in charity, and how getting their hands into the mix actually worsens the problem. | 12/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
169 |
11/26/2008 - Who Decides? | This episode was focused on discussing how government interferes with choice. Most people don't notice this in their everyday lives, but it can be quite apparent. We are unable to send our children to the schools of our choice, to purchase coverage from another state, and in Arizona we can't purchase wine from out of state and have it shipped in. We also received an interesting and lengthy call from Korky, our resident Green Party member who isn't shy about professing his allegiance to the Greens, that took us a bit off-track, but was interesting nonetheless. We'll be debunking some of his points in a future episode. And finally, we wrapped by discussing the interference imposed on cleaner and cheaper technologies like CNG, and talked about the possibility of Gov. Napolitano becoming the Secretary of Homeland Security in Obama's administration. | 11/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
170 |
11/19/2008 - The Economy | Guest: Byron Schlomach; Joe Cobb Jim and the MCLP are suing County Elections for not following the law during the election process, and we received an update on the case. Byron Schlomach from the Goldwater Institute joined us to describe the state budget deficit, the causes, and the potential fixes. Joe Cobb, a professional economist who worked for Congressman Ron Paul in the 80s, joined us in the studio to provide a very entertaining description of the similarities between the economic conditions of today and the 1930s, and introduced the "do something" mentality. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
171 |
11/12/2008 - Healthcare, Activism | Guest: Sean Haugh; Jim March Sean Haugh, the National Libertarian Party's political director, joined us to discuss the LP's strategy when nominating Bob Barr as their candidate, and gave us some information on becoming politically active to advance the causes of freedom. Following him was Jim March, who was on the show several weeks ago, to discuss some of the security-flawed practices (some of which he describes as stupid, and others are outright illegal) used in transporting, tallying, and otherwise handling ballots. We touched on how health care became such a problematic industry with government regulation, and finished up by encouraging people to engage others in philosophical discussion. | 11/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
172 |
11/05/2008 - Obama's Plans | Wasn't there something important that happened yesterday? Oh yeah, the election. We began with a quick recap of how we had the "opportunity" to make the choice between heads and tails of the same coin. From there, it was time to analyze what we knew of Obama's plans (he's never been very clear, so we filled in the blanks as best as we could) discussing energy and economic policy, and wrapped up with some libertarian solutions to these issues. | 11/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
173 |
10/29/2008 - Arizona Propositions | Guest: Celeste Castorena (G), LD12 House Jim started us out with a brief history of central banking prior to the Federal Reserve and how it impacted the Civil War. In the following segments, we dissected the propositions on the Arizona ballot this November and provided the pro-freedom perspectives. We also interviewed Celeste Castorena, the Green Party candidate for the State House in LD12. | 10/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
174 |
10/22/2008 - Voting Integrity | Guest: Jim March Nick had an update to his City of Mesa debacle, and we briefly touched on jobs being exported and who really owns those jobs. In the following two segments we interviewed our guest, Jim March, a voting integrity specialist. We wrapped up the show discussing the concept of extremism, tying in to Libertarians in office. | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
175 |
10/15/2008 - Non-Libertarian Claims | Guest: Jim Babka, DownsizeDC; Eric Novak, Prop 101 We began the show with a quick interview from Jim Babka with DownsizeDC.org, the organization that let's anyone easily contact their senators and representative in order to pressure them into keeping government small. We then moved on to an interview with Eric Novak, who provided us with the pros of Prop 101. The remainder of a show was answering some of the "interesting" claims of MIke Huben's Non-Libertarian FAQ. | 10/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
176 |
10/08/2008 - Taxes as Theft, Socialism | Guest: Brian Moore, Socialist Presidential Candidate; Garrick Taylor (Prop 105) The show began with a bit of a rant from Nick explaining why he has trouble listening to and partaking in conversations where people advocate using tax money in attempting to solve a given problem. The bulk of the show was dedicated to a wonderfully eye-opening interview with the Socialist Party's presidential candidate. We closed out with a quick discussion from Garrick Taylor, who was promoting the benefits of Prop 105 on Arizona's November ballot. | 10/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
177 |
10/01/2008 - Social Contract | Guest: Mike Renzulli (L), LD14; Mark Phelps (L), LD27 We picked up on a discussion from last week regarding the concept of a Social Contract and touched briefly on it during the first segment. Joining us later in the show were Mike Renzulli of LD14 and Mark Phelps of LD27, Libertarian candidates running for the Arizona State Legislature. Nearing the end of the show, we discussed in more detail what the Social Contract Theory entails, and revealed why it's not really a contract at all. | 10/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
178 |
09/24/2008 - Property Rights | Guest: Thane Eichenauer (L), CD1 The federal government is up to about $700 billion so far in bailouts with no end in sight. We were joined by Libertarian congressional candidate Thane Eichenauer running in district 1 to give us his take on the issues. The last half of the show was a discussion property rights and how they relate to freedom. | 9/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
179 |
09/17/2008 - The Federal Reserve | Guest: Michael Shoen (L), CD3 On this evening's show, we were joined by Michael Shoen, the Libertarian congressional candidate for Arizona's 3rd district. We added on to our discussion from last week about the bailouts, and we discussed somewhat in-depth on the role of the Federal Reserve and how it affects our economy. | 9/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
180 |
09/10/2008 - Freedom vs. Control | The world premier of the Libertarian Solution airs on 1310 KXAM with an introduction to libertarian philosophy and a discussion of freedom vs. control. We touched briefly on the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailouts, and were joined briefly by Arizona Sen. Karen Johnson who announced an event the following evening with speaker Jesse Ventura. | 9/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 180 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Good and level headed Libertarian discussion
I like this podcast mostly because unlike many other Libertarian podcasts, then don't go off the deep end. They keep things in a realistic point of view rather than and extreme all or nothing view like many other Libertarian podcasters do. Keep up the good work!
Excellent discussion, intelligent points of view.
I was very pleasantly surprised by this show, both the quality of the conversations and the intelligent, well-thought-out points of view.
Great Discourse!
I just got on the bandwagon with the LP this year (from the Ron Paul campaign). This show gives great thought and discourse to the party's viewpoints. I listen to it all the way over in Michigan. Thanks guys for making this available as a podcast!
Listeners also subscribed to
- Complete Liberty Podcast
- Wes Bertrand
- View In iTunes
- Freedom Watch With The Judge
- Freedom Watch With The Judge
- View In iTunes
- Reason.com and OutloudOpinion
- OutloudOpinion and Reason.com
- View In iTunes
- Ron Paul 2012 Podcast
- Ron Paul 2012
- View In iTunes
