During the Dec. 15 GOP presidential debate in Las Vegas, Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio sparred on the issue of electronic privacy and the NSA surveillance program. Tom Giovanetti discusses with Mark Davis of 660 AM The Answer the merits of encryption and digital privacy vs security.

During the Dec. 15 GOP presidential debate in Las Vegas, Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio sparred on the issue of electronic privacy and the NSA surveillance program. Tom Giovanetti discusses with Mark Davis of 660 AM The Answer the merits of encryption and digital privacy vs security.

In this interview with Steel on Steel's John Loeffler, IPI research fellow Bartlett D. Cleland discusses the urgent need to protect U.S. critical infrastructure from domestic or foreign cyberattacks while balancing Americans' right to privacy. Cleland says both security and privacy can be achieved without sacrificing either, and a strong partnership with the private sector should be the goal, rather than imposing new regulations and mandates that are all but guaranteed to erode our liberties.

Maine's governor wants to make the food stamp program more of a safety net and less of a hammock by restricting it to mostly healthy food products. In this interview with KMED's Bill Meyer, IPI's Merrill Matthews discusses whether we should be making welfare more comfortable or uncomfortable for recipients in this manner.

For the third year in a row, middle class families are facing double digit price increases if they don't qualify for an Obamacare subsidy, and now the nation's largest insurer, Unitedhealth, has told investors it might exit the Obamacare exchanges. It is an embarrassment to the writers of the law if the insurers are forced out of Obamacare's exchanges because of losses, IPI's Merrill Matthews tells "Janet Mefferd Today," but Democrats may force the insurers to stay and sell in the exchanges.

IPI president Tom Giovanetti talks to 660 AM – The Answer's Mark Davis about new debates regarding electronic privacy and security in the wake of the horrific Paris terror attacks. "Anytime we have tension between personal liberty and security, the American position is to prioritize liberty over security," says Giovanetti. "Not that we don't care about security, but that we don't sacrifice our personal liberty for security. This is directly related to email privacy and encryption in the debate regarding fighting terrorism."

Merrill Matthews joins WWNC's Pete Kaliner and not much has changed in the Veterans Administration 18 months after news of its scandal first broke. The VA is a terrible apparatus for providing health care coverage and the only patients who use it are those who have no other choice, says Matthews. And while veterans would enormously benefit from having vouchers for private insurance or even be enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan, unfortunately the politicians and unions benefitting from the status quo make such reforms unlikely.

Merrill Matthews discusses with WAVA's Don Kroah in Washington DC the real and long-term effects of the minimum wage, asserting that it increases the dramatically rising entitlement mentality by demanding the government force employers to give money to workers they didn't otherwise earn. Plus, on this Veteran's Day, Matthews says not much has changed for veterans in the broken VA system 18 months after its shocking hospital wait-time scandal broke. "The VA is shucking responsibility and not much else," said Matthews.

In an interview with KLIF's Grant Stinchfield, IPI's Dr. Merrill Matthews says it's no surprise that the Obama administration has officially killed the Keystone XL, regardless that phases of the Keystone pipeline have been running for years with no problem, and even the State Department has reported the project would do no harm to the environment and would also create jobs. So can anything be done to revive the project?

Tom Giovanetti tells the Don Kroah Show that President Obama's killing the Keystone XL shows an unwillingness to deal with reality since the oil will still be drilled, but now transported in environmentally inferior way, refined in a country in which standards are lower, creating jobs elsewhere. Furthermore, Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL will mar his presidential legacy and show him to be a leader unwilling to work with Congress on anything.