Originally aired: July 16, 2026
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- How Government Wastes Our Money
- Suspend the Gasoline Tax?
- Social Security Headed for Insolvency
- Who Owns the Term ‘Barber Shop’?
- Unions Voting to Decertify
- Cost of War with Iran
- Will Red States Gain Political Power?
- Maine Lobster Board Case Headed to Supreme Court
- Virginia Voters Approve Radical Redistricting Plan
- In Defense of Data Centers
- No End in Sight to Rising Federal Debt
- Time to Privatize the TSA
- Non-Economic Consequences of War in Iran
- Reopening the Straits of Hormuz
- When Does Armed Conflict Become a War?
- Will Tariffs Be Refunded?
- ‘Emergency’ COVID Funds Remain Unspent
- Federal Budget Outlook
- Nebraska Makes Giving Birth at Home a Felony
- Constitutional Rights of Protestors
- Tim Sandefur on ChallengingCertificates of Need
- Should Jerome Powell Be Replaced?
- Economic Mis-steps of the 2020s
- Trump Succeeds in Cutting Federal Workforce
- Liberalism Has Abandoned Its Roots
- Marlo Lewis: Rolling Back Biden’s Electric Vehicle Mandates
- Steven Greenhut: San Francisco May Ban Driverless Vehicles
- Steve Greenhut: San Francisco Seeks to Ban Driverless Vehicles
- Rising Level of Political Violence
- Is Tariff Bonus a Good Idea?
- Key Issue in Supreme Court Tariff Case
- Defending Property Rights in Rhode Island
- Immigration Crackdown Impacts Farm Labor Supply
- Trump is the Coal President
- Debating Artificial Intelligence
- Fiscal Impact Of The Federal Government Shutdown
- Poland’s Economic Renaissance
- The Economic Impact Of Film Production Tax Credits
- Impact Of Fed Policy On The National Debt
- California Out-Of-State Drivers Permitted From Driving For Uber
- Intel Deal with Ryan Young
- President Donald Trump’s Tariff Strategy
- The Workings Of The Social Security System
- New Statistics Show Drop In Violent Crime
- Impact Of Raising Social Security Taxes On Younger Workers
- Tourist Traps With Christian Britschgi
- The Good And Bad of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
- The Future Of The U.S. Senate Filibuster
- Efforts To Reduce Costs In The SNAP Program
- Make America Healthy Again
- President Donald Trump’s Use Of Tariffs
- President Donald Trump’s Plan to Lower Prescription Drug Costs
- Concerns With President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”
- U.S. Senate Overturns The California Clean Air Act Ban
- Taking A Look At The U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal
- Looking At The Impact of Tariffs
- Real ID Deadline Approaches
- A Hawaiian Homeowner’s Battle With Local Regulators
- New Prohibitionists Are Hijacking Federal Dietary Guidelines
- How The Senate Budget Resolution Would Add To The National Debt
- Has Merit Replaced DEI At Federal Agencies?
- Who Should Pay For Errant FBI Raids? with Patrick Jaicomo
- Social Security Headed Towards Insolvency
- Is the Jones Act Unconstitutional?
- Rand Paul is Determined To Find Out The Truth Behind Covid-19
- On DOGE with Senator Rand Paul
- Elizabeth Warren’s Hubris Allowed Trump To Defund the CFPB
- State Constitutions: Protecting Our Rights, Even When the Federal May Not
- Maui Wildfires: Just 3 Houses Rebuilt Since Catastrophe Struck 17 Months Ago
- Executive Orders & America’s Energy Potential
- California’s Complicated Policies for Homeowners
- Fallout from Biden’s Block of Nippon-U.S. Steel Merger
- Lessons To Be Learned From 2024
- Insurance Reform
- Trump Secretary of Labor Nominee Raises Eyebrows
- Biden Admin Sets Record For Creating New Regulations with Wayne Crews of CEI
- D.O.G.E. featuring R Street’s Nan Swift
- Abolish Everything
- Energy Policy Under a Second Trump Administration
- Expiring Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: The Fiscal Cliff Awaiting Congress in 2025
- Examining the Voting Shift of Key Minority Demographics with Stephanie Slade
- Trump’s Recent Remarks on Eliminating Federal Income Tax
- Reviewing the Cato Institute’s Report Card on the Nation’s Governor’s with Chris Edwards
- Vladimir Putin’s “shifting red line” for potential use of nuclear weapons in war with Ukraine: A conversation with Mark Episkopos of the Quincy Institute
- Why the American Organ Donation Program is Failing Americans
- Nippon Steel Buyout Best Option for US Steel
- Rules, Regulations, What’s The Use?
- Cost Plus Drugs
- Staffing a Potential Second Trump Administration
- Harris & Trump Economic Policies Would Add to National Debt
- Second Anniversary of Inflation Reduction Act
- No Tax on Tips: Good Politics, Bad Policy
- Tim Walz’ Draconian COIVD-19 Lockdown Policies
- Off the Cuff Policy Making
- A Look at Governors Who May be Democrat VP Pick
- IRS Enhanced Tax Collection Flops
- Feds Want to Microchip Cows
- High Court Curbs Power of Administrative Law Judges
- IRS Uncovers More Covid Relief Fraud
- Feds Botch New FASFA Rollout
- Eliminating Federal Taxes on Tips
- Consequences of Growing National Debt
- Chinese Economy Showing Weakness
- Government ‘Junk Fees’
- Feds Pull Funding from Wuhan Nonprofit
- Social Security, Medicare Face Insolvency
- New FDA Regulations Slow Testing Approvals
- Are the Rich Paying Their Fair Share of Taxes?
- IRS Tax Reporting Oddities
- Unintended Consequences of Federal Regulations
- Why We Have Fewer Varieties of Apples
- Protectionist Law Will Slow Reopening of Baltimore Harbor
- Reforming Asset Forfeiture Laws
- Impact of High Interest Rates
- The True Cost of ‘Emergency Spending’
- ‘Shrinkflation’ Another Biden Political Liability
- Real Cause of Student Loan Debt
- Foreign Competition for Domestic Air Routes
- California Kills the ‘Gig’ Economy
- Regulating Digital Media
- Supremes Take on ‘Chevron’ Doctrine
- Federal Regulators Take Aim At Gig Workers
- Federal Budget Deficit UP $1 Trillion Since Start of NFL Season
- History of Key West
- California Faces Huge Budget Deficit
- Power of Administrative Courts
- More COVID Relief Fraud
- Lessons from the Argentinian Presidential Election
- Jarrett Dieterle on Changing Federal Franchise Regulations
- Americans Fleeing High Tax States
- Flawed Ballot Measures Lose in Maine, Colorado
- Saving Social Security
- Federal Spending Fuels Inflation
- Waste and Fraud in COVID Spending
- Impact of Federal Borrowing Spree
- Nikki Haley on National Debt
- A Town With No Zoning