Print Reason TV Read Full Bio Stockton, California Went Bankrupt. Is Your City Next? Stockton, California made history in June 2012 when it became the largest U.S. municipality in history to file Chapter 9 bankruptcy. It wasn't the first Golden State city to do so, and what's happening in out west is spreading to the rest of the country. 12 Aug 2012 Montreal in Turmoil: Student Strikes, Bill 78 and the Anarchopanda ReasonTV went to Montreal to explore this complex and still unresolved conflict, which raises all sorts of fundamental questions about free expression, political dissent, and governmental overreach in the name of restoring order. 11 Aug 2012 Sen. Tom Coburn: How Both Parties Bankrupted America Senator Tom Coburn, who's known in the senate as "Dr. No" for vetoing almost all new spending initiatives, says the federal budget is rife with "waste, fraud, and duplication." In 2006, Coburn co-sponsored legislation that created USASpending.gov, which makes publicly accessible a list of all recipients of government funds. In 2010, Coburn was instrumental in getting the Government Accountability Office to undertake researching and documenting wasteful government programs. 21 Jul 2012 Are Fake Prescription Drugs Killing Us? A Q & A with Roger Bate "What would have cost tens of thousands of dollars...can now be done for hundreds of dollars, so it's easier to fake stuff now," warns Roger Bate, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the author of "Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicine." 11 Jun 2012 Banning Soda, Lessons from Wisconsin, Obama the Pot Smoker In the same week that NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg was pushing the idea [of banning super-size soft drinks] he also celebrated National Doughnut Day with the world's largest box of Entenmann's donuts that were the size of manhole covers. 8 Jun 2012 ReasonTV: Jonah Goldberg on 'The Tyranny of Cliches,' Creating NRO, and Firing John Derbyshire "Liberals are sure they're in the reality-based community and anyone who disagrees with them either has a bad brain, or in some other way rejects empiricism and science, and they are the only ones working with the building blocks of facts and reason[.] And I call bullshit on that." 2 Jun 2012 'The Life of Julia' (The Libertarian Remix) In our remix of that effort, we take a look at how President Obama’s policies are already helping to make one woman’s life more miserable than it has to be – and how Mitt Romney would pretty much do exactly the same. 4 May 2012 Occupy DOJ: Protesters Demand Freedom for Convicted Cop Killer On Tuesday, April 24 members of the Occupy movement gathered in DC at the Department of Justice to protest "mass incarceration" of black and Latino youth, demand the release of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, end the "racist death penalty," and more. Among the celebrities scheduled to address the crowd were actor Danny Glover, rapper Chuck D, activist Angela Davis, and others. 25 Apr 2012 DC's Escalator Nightmare How is Washington, D.C. supposed to run the world when it can't even fix its own escalators? Strap on some steel-toed safety shoes—you're gonna need them—as Reason.tv correspondent Kennedy investigates D.C.'s dismal and dangerous subway system. 14 Apr 2012 Nanny of the Month: Bloomberg Halts Private Donations to Homeless Shelters But this month top dishonors go to the man who is perhaps the busiest busybody of them all, the big-city mayor who decided to halt private donations to his city's homeless shelters (after all, who can be sure that such donations wouldn't fill homeless people with fatty or salty food?!). 8 Apr 2012 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next
Stockton, California Went Bankrupt. Is Your City Next? Stockton, California made history in June 2012 when it became the largest U.S. municipality in history to file Chapter 9 bankruptcy. It wasn't the first Golden State city to do so, and what's happening in out west is spreading to the rest of the country. 12 Aug 2012
Montreal in Turmoil: Student Strikes, Bill 78 and the Anarchopanda ReasonTV went to Montreal to explore this complex and still unresolved conflict, which raises all sorts of fundamental questions about free expression, political dissent, and governmental overreach in the name of restoring order. 11 Aug 2012
Sen. Tom Coburn: How Both Parties Bankrupted America Senator Tom Coburn, who's known in the senate as "Dr. No" for vetoing almost all new spending initiatives, says the federal budget is rife with "waste, fraud, and duplication." In 2006, Coburn co-sponsored legislation that created USASpending.gov, which makes publicly accessible a list of all recipients of government funds. In 2010, Coburn was instrumental in getting the Government Accountability Office to undertake researching and documenting wasteful government programs. 21 Jul 2012
Are Fake Prescription Drugs Killing Us? A Q & A with Roger Bate "What would have cost tens of thousands of dollars...can now be done for hundreds of dollars, so it's easier to fake stuff now," warns Roger Bate, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the author of "Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicine." 11 Jun 2012
Banning Soda, Lessons from Wisconsin, Obama the Pot Smoker In the same week that NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg was pushing the idea [of banning super-size soft drinks] he also celebrated National Doughnut Day with the world's largest box of Entenmann's donuts that were the size of manhole covers. 8 Jun 2012
ReasonTV: Jonah Goldberg on 'The Tyranny of Cliches,' Creating NRO, and Firing John Derbyshire "Liberals are sure they're in the reality-based community and anyone who disagrees with them either has a bad brain, or in some other way rejects empiricism and science, and they are the only ones working with the building blocks of facts and reason[.] And I call bullshit on that." 2 Jun 2012
'The Life of Julia' (The Libertarian Remix) In our remix of that effort, we take a look at how President Obama’s policies are already helping to make one woman’s life more miserable than it has to be – and how Mitt Romney would pretty much do exactly the same. 4 May 2012
Occupy DOJ: Protesters Demand Freedom for Convicted Cop Killer On Tuesday, April 24 members of the Occupy movement gathered in DC at the Department of Justice to protest "mass incarceration" of black and Latino youth, demand the release of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, end the "racist death penalty," and more. Among the celebrities scheduled to address the crowd were actor Danny Glover, rapper Chuck D, activist Angela Davis, and others. 25 Apr 2012
DC's Escalator Nightmare How is Washington, D.C. supposed to run the world when it can't even fix its own escalators? Strap on some steel-toed safety shoes—you're gonna need them—as Reason.tv correspondent Kennedy investigates D.C.'s dismal and dangerous subway system. 14 Apr 2012
Nanny of the Month: Bloomberg Halts Private Donations to Homeless Shelters But this month top dishonors go to the man who is perhaps the busiest busybody of them all, the big-city mayor who decided to halt private donations to his city's homeless shelters (after all, who can be sure that such donations wouldn't fill homeless people with fatty or salty food?!). 8 Apr 2012
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