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Bob and his producer Charlie reminisce about the longest running libertarian talk radio show.

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Arnold Kling is an American economist and an Adjunct Scholar for the Cato Institute. 

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Alan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America" by Politico and "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights" by Newsweek. His legal career as a criminal defense lawyer has been deeply involved with death and life decisions.

In his new book "Dershowitz on Killing: How the Law Decides Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die," he examines the subjects of death, life, and the law.

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The Democrats have effectively had One Party Rule in California for the last two decades, with the exception of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s largely ineffective tenure as a Republican. The Since 1996, Democrats have continuously held a majority in the State Assembly and currently hold a dominant 62-18 supermajority in the 80-seat chamber.

Most forget what happened in the 1990s that permanently changed the balance of power. In 1994, Proposition 187 passed by referendum, with strong support from then-Governor Pete Wilson. The law banned undocumented immigrants from accessing non-emergency healthcare, public schools, and other services in California. Since then, Hispanic voters have largely voted as a bloc for Democrats, leaving Republicans all but irrelevant.

Tom Campbell served five terms in the US Congress, and one two-year term in the State Senate. He created the Common Sense Party to combine fiscal responsibility with inclusivity to appeal to the wide swath of voters who want more choice in their political candidates. Sounds a lot like libertarianism, without all the baggage that the word carries.

Is it too much to ask for an independent-minded politician who is neither bought and paid for by the unions, nor an anti-immigrant fanatic?

The California Common Sense Party has aligned with Andrew Yang’s “Forward” Party movement – trying to break the “two-party doom loop,” and find common sense solutions. Tom Campbell joins me this Sunday to break the latest news about their plans to disrupt California politics.

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Back in early 2021, Cato Institute senior fellow Ted Galen Carpenter urged Washington "to abandon its efforts to torpedo Nord Stream 2." His warnings have been proven prescient by Seymour Hersh's recent revelations, which seem to confirm the US government's involvement in the destruction of the pipeline. Many journalists admit behind closed doors that they believe in the US's involvement, yet the media remains silent out of fear of provoking a response from Russia.

In his new book Unreliable Watchdog, Ted Galen Carpenter argues that the news media has become a tool for propaganda rather than a watchdog for the American people, leading to a distorted view of U.S. foreign policy and a “garrison state” mentality.

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Philip K Howard, the founder of the Common Sense organization, joins the show to make the case for a legal solution – not a democratic one – for fixing the brokenness of the system. He seeks to gain allies from those who want more accountability from public servants, such as police officers and teachers.

But is it possible to get the public to recognize the threat of public sector employee unions to democracy? Or, if the threat has grown so great as to be deemed unconstitutional, is it even necessary?

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Alex Nowrasteh, the director of economic and social policy studies at the Cato Institute, will return to the show to discuss pragmatic solutions for alleviating the chaos at the border.

These solutions include simplifying the system and providing more opportunities for immigrants to live and work here legally.

Alex Nowrasteh is the director of economic and social policy studies. His popular publications have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, and most other major publications in the United States.

He is the coauthor (with Benjamin Powell) of the book Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2020), which is the first book on how economic institutions in receiving countries adjust to immigration. He is also the coauthor (with Mark S. Krikorian) of the booklet Open Immigration: Yea and Nay (Encounter Broadsides, 2014) and has contributed numerous book chapters about immigration to various edited volumes.

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Christian Britschgi is an associate editor at Reason who has written extensively about housing policy. His work shines a light on the root causes of the housing crisis, and why the patchwork of solutions coming from California’s legislative houses has failed to significantly ameliorate the problem.

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Will Duffield of the Cato Institute has become the go-to expert on so-called “Jawboning” i.e., informally pressuring private companies to censor disfavored speech. The “Jawboning-industrial-complex,” as Adam Kovacevich of the Chamber of Progress calls it, is made up of both parties. Companies now have internal teams to handle “suggestions” from government officials.

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