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Impeachment and Other Updates From Inside the Beltway
17 January 2020
William Conti, Partner at Baker & Hostetler in Washington, DC, discusses impeachment, who it helps and hurts, and the Democratic presidential primaries.
U.S.-Iran Relations: How We Got Here
09 January 2020
Tzvi Kahn, Research Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, discusses the U.S. strike on Qassem Soleimani, how it represents the most consequential development in the Middle East in recent history, what it means for U.S. relations with Iran, Iraq, North Korea and Russia, and what may be next.
Impeachment, Separation of Powers and the U.S. Constitution
19 December 2019
Timothy Snowball, Attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, discusses separation of powers, the impeachment process and how the Framers of the Constitution intended for it to be used.
Transparency and Big Tech
13 December 2019
Phil Kerpen, President of American Commitment, discusses why more heavy-handed government regulation of the internet is not needed and why the FCC's transparency rule as applied currently to Internet Service Providers might be the right model for so-called Big Tech.
Why the "Green Act" May Have Us Seeing Red
05 December 2019
Ross Marchand, Director of Policy for the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, discusses the recently unveiled "Green Act," which would expand from 200,000 to 600,000 the per-manufacturer cap on tax credits for Electric Vehicle producers, and why this failed "green tax credit" should be phased out.
Elizabeth Warren's Destructive Plan to Slash Military Budgets
22 November 2019
Giselle Donnelly, Resident Fellow in Defense and National Security at the American Enterprise Institute, discusses Senator Elizabeth Warren's desire to "take a sharp knife" to defense budgets and what happens to the morale of the men and women in uniform with such steep cuts.
30 Years After the Fall of the Wall
14 November 2019
Quin Hillyer, Columnist and Nationally Recognized Authority on the Political Process, discusses the fall of the Berlin Wall thirty years later and how we can teach younger Americans about the importance of the fall of the Wall and what it symbolized.
Medicare for All's Price Tag
07 November 2019
Sally Pipes, Pacific Research Institute's President, CEO and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy, discusses presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren's "Medicare for All" plan and the candidate's inability to adequately explain how she would pay for it.
What's Scarier than Halloween? Trick-or-Treat Bans
30 October 2019
Daniel Ortner, First Amendment Attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, discusses the absurd concept of threatening to jail or charge fines to trick-or-treaters, some cities that have such ordinances on the books, and how a ban on going door-to-door violates First Amendment rights.
Inside Politics: China and the NBA, Impeachment, and The Latest on the Campaign Trail
30 October 2019
Bill Conti, Partner in the Washington, DC, office of Baker & Hostetler, discusses what's behind the China/NBA firestorm, why it won't (and shouldn't) go away, impeachment, and the latest regarding the presidential candidates on the 2020 campaign trail.
Surprise Medical Billing Solution Should Be Grounded in Free Market Principles
24 October 2019
Timothy Lee, CFIF's Senior Vice President for Legal and Public Affairs, discusses why a solution to surprise medical billing must be undertaken without disrupting the patient experience or undermining the free market, and why Independent Dispute Resolution is a proven market-based solution.
Puerto Rico, Energy and the Jones Act
06 September 2019
Phil Kerpen, President of American Commitment, discusses why President Trump should grant Puerto Rico's request for a waiver from the Jones Act, a World War I era law that requires movement of goods by water between points in the United States only by means of vessels that are U.S.-built, U.S.-owned and U.S.-crewed, and the impact such a waiver could have on Puerto Rico's struggling economy.
Should Quotas Be Set for Women in the Boardroom?
23 August 2019
Anastasia Boden, Senior Attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, discusses California's decision to require publicly traded companies to include women on their boards of directors, and why such arbitrary quotas based on faulty premises, no matter how well-intentioned, are unconstitutional.
Student Debt and Competition: Should Colleges and Universities Have More "Skin in the Game"?
16 August 2019
Mary Clare Amselem, Policy Analyst in Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation, discusses proposed legislation to expand access to career and technical education and a second proposal requiring colleges to pay 50% of the student loan balance for loans that enter default, giving colleges "skin in the game."
Untangling the Jeffrey Epstein Case
09 August 2019
Tracy Beanz, Investigative Journalist with "Uncover DC," discusses her research and the latest news regarding the Jeffrey Epstein case, how media outlets had interviewed victims yet failed to report names and crimes to the FBI, and how photos of Epstein with powerful elites are being scrubbed from some search results.
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