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of May 13, 2002 a debate
was held between Libertarian Talk Show Host Neal
Boortz and Georgia Congressman Bob Barr at a High School in Barr's
new congressional district in the Atlanta suburbs. The subject was
the issue of medical marijuana. The debate was broadcast on Neal's
nationwide affiliates on May 17th and again on May 27th (except by the
judgmentally-handicapped derelicts at WDBO-AM in Orlando).
Several weeks before this debate, Neal said, "I told Bob Barr right here on the air that if I had a sick and dying loved one, and he stood in the way of my bringing some medical marijuana to her to relieve her pain, that I would personally kick his ass. I don't know of anyone else who ever said that on the air to a prominent politician before." |
| C-SPAN's "American Writers" series includes several discussions about libertarian humorist and journalist H.L. Mencken. The show features commentaries by biographer Marion Rodgers (who brings up the often-overlooked rescues of German Jews aided by Mencken) and by Cato's H. L. Mencken Fellow, prolific author and Atlantic Monthly contributor P. J. O'Rourke. Another group of bios and programs in this series include presentations on the life and works of Ayn Rand. Many programs are still available via streaming video on the respective American Writers web pages. |
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 A
48-minute interview with Eminent Economist Thomas
Sowell, Senior
Fellow, Stanford University, prolific book author,
and columnist
was broadcast twice on C-SPAN2
on June 27, 1998. He discussed his book, Conquests
and Cultures, "The long-awaited climax of Thomas Sowell's grand
trilogy." It was also netcast over the web. |
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| On May 26, 1998
ABC-TV aired another one-hour special by John
Stossel, this one on the entire jail-filling absurdity of victimless
crimes, entitled Sex,
Drugs, and Consenting Adults, examing one of the most controversial
and important political questions of our age: "Should adults be imprisoned
for acts that do not physically harm the person or property of non-consenting
others?"
"Liberty: What does that word mean?" That question begins ABC News' one-hour look at laws against vice and immoral behavior. Stossel talks to Americans who say that people should only be jailed if they directly harm the person or property of others. If it doesn't harm anybody else, should it be illegal? The hour, meant to challenge conventional wisdom, visits ticket scalpers, prostitutes, pot smokers, gamblers, euthanasia defenders and others who feel that the law unfairly restricts what we can do with our own bodies and our own lives. Police, medical ethicists, and government officials defend the laws in the name of morality, safety, and community standards. America, with its roots in both puritanism and individualism, has always been caught up in this heated debate. View a short video clip HERE. TO ORDER VIDEOTAPES: click HERE. Peter McWilliams -- best-selling author of Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do -- is one of those interviewed by Stossel. He makes it clear why this show is such a major event HERE. He says, "This is the show you can recommend to everyone you know. Those who have seen the light of personal freedom will relish this breath of fresh air on network television. Those friends, coworkers, and especially relatives, who have not yet had an awakening may find this show an enjoyably packaged alarm clock. Maybe once a year network television broadcasts a truly educational program on our Constitutional freedoms and responsibilities. This is one of them. Let's make the most of it." |
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 Nationwide:
U.S.
Representative
RON
PAUL
(R-TX) was on
C-SPAN's
"Newspaper
Roundtable" along with Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) on April
21, 1998. Paul was the 1988 Presidential Candidate
of the Libertarian Party and is considered
by many to be the most outspoken, outwardly libertarian, politically
INcorrect member of congress, saying some really telling
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 RADIO
TALK SHOW HOST / Legal Consultant LARRY
ELDER gave a speech on Feb. 15, 1998 (which was broadcast on C-SPAN
on Feb.28th, with the audio archived here:
) at the California LP state convention where it was announced that LARRY
IS BACK ON THE AIR ALL 4 HOURS IN HIS ORIGINAL TIME SLOT!! Thanks
to all the fans and other broadcasters who wrote KABC, ABC, Disney and
any sponsors. Thanks go especially to David
Horowitz and the work he did in setting up the"Keep
Larry Elder on the Air Committee."
 TALK
SHOW HOST / COLLEGE PROFESSOR / AUTHOR DAVID
BRUDNOY gave a speech on Feb. 21st (which was broadcast on C-SPAN on
March 28th) at the Massachusetts Libertarian Association state convention
about the growth of libertarianism in the 21st century. C-SPAN found the
speech well worth featuring on their "American
Perspectives" program.
The audio is here:
 Oakland/Teaneck,
NJ: Talk show host / college professor DR.
MURRAY
SABRIN,
author of
Tax Free 2000,
is back on the air! He has a new show called "THE SABRIN REPORT"
on WVNJ-AM 1160, every other Sunday (Mar. 22nd, April 5th, April 19th,
May 3rd, etc.) at 9am. He was the first Libertarian
candidate for Governor
of New Jersey ever to qualify to be in any gubernatorial debates (he
was in all 3 when he ran in 1997, and all were broadcast on radio and TV).
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| "GREED"
with John Stossel
aired Feb. 3rd, 1998 on ABC-TV: ABC News correspondent John Stossel did
it again with yet another trailblazing Stosselesque documentary. THIS TIME
HE DEMONSTRATES WHERE GREED HAS BEEN GOOD TO EVERYONE. Dr. David Kelley,
ex-director of the Institute for Objectivist
Studies, and T.J. Rogers
of Cypress Semiconductor are interviewed. If you want to ORDER TRANSCRIPTS,
phone 1-800-CALL-ABC. ABC's
promo page entitled "The Good Greed Can Do" is HERE,
and the transcript is HERE.
Stossel presents a new way to define greed by examining good things enlightened self-interest can inspire: Better transportation, faster food, cheaper products. On the program economist Walter Williams observes, "In our country those areas where people are motivated the most by greed are the areas that we’re the most satisfied with, supermarkets, computers, Fedex . . . and those areas where people say we’re motivated by caring are the areas of disaster in our country, such as education, the post office, ... city garbage collection." DO SEND FEEDBACK: Stossel@abc.com Also see THIS John Stossel interview, THIS John Stossel interview, the article "Is it nobler to give than to create?" and "Selfishness vs. 'Selfishness' " THIS PROGRAM AND SOME OTHER STOSSEL DOCUMENTARIES ON VIDEOTAPE ARE AVAILABLE HERE. AN ARTICLE ABOUT THIS PROGRAM CAN BE FOUND HERE, AND ARTICLES RELATED TO THIS PROGRAM CAN BE FOUND HERE. |
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 Clint
Bolick, Vice President of the Institute
for Justice, was on ABC-TV's Politically
Incorrect on Dec.
16, 1997 |
<BACK to Libertarians on the Air!
The
powerful 1-hour special, “John Stossel
Goes to Washington” aired on Jan. 27, 2001 on ABC-TV,
thoroughly body-slamming virtually all the pathetic conventional myths
used to prop up the rotting vestiges of big-government-worship.
In orders and re-orders for 
Nationwide:
on
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