how can someone be gay and republican
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gay conservatives explain how they can vote for mitt romney and still be for gay marriage filmed at a party during the republican national convention in tampa

obama039s war that isn039t a war
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since at least the collapse of the soviet union and the end of the cold war american foreign policy has been drifting- comprising a series of ad hoc interventions absent a national consensus about when to use forceand lacking an underlying set of reliable core principlesthat drift continues with president obama039s speech about our war with libya- and includes the simple fact that our commander in chief couldn039t even acknowledge that we039re in a war and that we039ve taken sides against someone he calls a quottyrant who murdered opponents at home and abroad and terrorized innocent people around the world -- including americans who were killed by libyan agentsquotdropping bombs shooting missiles deploying massive amounts of personnel and power - all of these are generally understood as acts of war but obama can039t admit that we039re waging war because then he wouldhave to acknowledge what his critics correctly underscore: constitutionally he doesn039t have a right to do this sort of thing unilaterally when the country isn039t facing a clear and present dangerwe know this because of obama himself in 2007 while a us senator and presidential candidate he flatly told the boston globe quotthe president does not have power under the constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nationquotno president was worse at foreign policy than george w bush who came to power amid promises of a quothumble foreign policyquot and then mired us in two intractable conflicts that even supporters grant were poorly executed under his command yet even bush pushed to get a fig leaf of authorization from congress before the shooting began obama039s secretary of state hillary clinton instead brandished unanimity among nato leaders as proof we were doing the right thing: quotall 28 allies havenow authorized military authorities to develop an operations plan for nato to take on the broader civilian protection mission under resolution 1973quot as if nato a cold war alliance conceived to protect the free nations of europe from a threat that went missing 20 years ago is a substitute for say the american people and their elected representativeswho knows how long will be in libya - whether under us or nato command it might be a few months or it might be many years but this much is certain: our actions there won039t have been authorized by the american people and they provide no guide to where we039ll end up nextapproximately 230 minutes written by nick gillespie shot and edited by meredith braggfor more on obama039s war that isn039t visit http:reasoncomblog20110329reasontv-obamas-war-that-isntgo to http:wwwreasontv for downloadable versions of this video and subscribe to reasontv039s youtube channel for automatic notifications when new material goes live

should you vote for the lesser of two evils
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many people say they don039t like the main candidates but they are going to vote for the one they like slightly better - lesser of 2 evils - anyways we take a look at why this isn039t the best option-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------support us by doing your normal amazon shopping through this link: http:amznto2dycfvbmake your own videos like this: http:independentfloridacomexplaindiovisit our site: http:independentfloridacomvoting-for-the-lesser-of-two-evils-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------transcript:hello everyone today we are looking at voting for the lesser of two evilsis this really the best optionthe us has always been primarily controlled by 2 parties however they haven039t always b

peter schiff speaks for 1 percent at occupy wall street
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last week reasontv followed investment guru radio show host and unflappable defender of capitalism peter schiff as he spent three hours among the occupy wall street protesters in manhattan039s zuccotti parkan unapologetic member of quotthe 1 percentquot schiff argued with all comers for the better part of an afternoonschiff is no ordinary observer as the prinicipal of the financial firm euro pacific capital he039s a full-fledged and unapologetic member of quotthe 1 percentquot as an outspoken radio show host and commentator he not only predicted the housing crash and financial crisis he railed bank and auto-sector bailouts as they were happening schiff believes that capitalism offers is the only hope for young frustrated people to have a vibrant and prosperous future so he went to occupy wall street to engage and debate the protesterstouring the occupy wall street scene in new york with a sign that read quoti am the 1 let039s talkquot schiff spent more than three hours on the scene explaining the difference between cronyism and capitalism bailouts and balance sheets and more quotthe regulation we want is the marketquot said schiff quotthat039s what worksquot schiff describes himself as quotsympatheticquot to the plight of the ows protesters but thinks their anger is misdirected at legitimate business interests and should be better at the white house congress the federal reserve and the crony capitalists they039ve bailed outcheck out schiff039s euro pacific capital at wwweuropacnetlisten to his radio show online at wwwschiffradiocombuy his latest book how an economy grows and why it crashes at http:wwwamazoncomhow-economy-grows-why-crashesdp047052670xproduced by anthony l fisher camera by nathan chaffetzruns about 19 minutes go to reasontv for downloadable versions of our videos and subscribe to reasontv039s youtube channel for automatic notification when new material goes live onlinefor a two-minute version go to http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=vzr9c1zyaoefor reason039s coverage of the occupy movement in new york washington dc los angeles and elsewhere go to http:reasoncomtopicsoccupy-wall-streethere039s a playlist of reasontv039s always expanding video coverage of the occupy movement: http:wwwyoutubecomuserreasontvgriduser3e65b192adeb84bd

gov gary johnson among the occupy wall street protesters
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quotthe root of all evilquot says gop presidential candidate and former two-term gov gary johnson r-nm quotis politicians that are going to save us from terrorists from illegal immigrants from drugs 039elect me039 they say 039and i039ll save you039039johnson was responding to a question put to him on tuesday october 18 as he talked with occupy wall street protesters in manhattan039s zuccotti parkreasontv tagged along with johnson among the folks he encountered were former tea party members people who quotgot some money and should be taxed morequot and individuals who questioned just what quotwall streetquot meant when applied in such a vague way cenk uygur host of the popular quotyoung turksquot online show tells johnson that despite many differences quotthe tea party sends the exact same message as these guys: 039we039re pissed man we039re tired of not getting represented039quotvideo produced by reasontv039s anthony l fisherabout 5 minutes long go to http:reasontv for downloadable versions of our videos and subscribe to reasontv039s youtube channel for automatic notification when new material goes live onlinefor reason039s coverage of the occupy movement in new york washington dc los angeles and elsewhere go to http:reasoncomtopicsoccupy-wall-streetto watch all of reason039s occupy videos go to http:wwwyoutubecomplaylistlist=pl3e65b192adeb84bd

obama supporters quotoccupyquot dc 1012011
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occupy dc october 1st 2011adamvsthemancomvideo by eddie free and adam kokesh

noam chomsky on ron paul039s 911 theories: quotwhat he said is completely uncontroversialquot
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democracynoworg - during the most recent republican presidential debate on monday september 12th congressman ron paul of texas drew boos and jeers from the crowd and his fellow debaters for his views on the roots of 911 attacks dr paul criticized us foreign policy as the catalyst stating quotwe039re under great threat because we occupy so many countries we have to be honest with ourselves what would we do if another country say china did to us what we do to all those countries over therequot for more democracy now spoke with professor emeritus of linguistics at the massachusetts institute of technology noam chomsky dr chomsky responded to dr paul039s comments by reciting the history of antagonism to us policy concluding: quoti think what he said is completely uncontroversial you can read it in government documentsquotexcerpt of rush transcript:aaron mat dn co-host: well noam you mentioned the changes in discourse between 10 years ago and today and actually this issue of the reasons behind 911 came up last night at the republican presidential debate congress member ron paul of texas drew boos from the crowd and a rebuke from other candidates on the podium when he criticized us foreign policy in discussing the roots of 911rep ron paul: we039re under great threat because we occupy so many countries we039re in 130 countries we have 900 bases around the world we039re going broke the purpose of al-qaeda was to attack us invite us over there where they can target us and they have been doing it they have more attacks against us and the american interests per month than occurred in all the years before 911 but we039re there occupying their land and if we think that we can do that and not have retaliation we039re kidding ourselves we have to be honest with ourselves what would we do if another country say china did to us what we do to all those countries over thereso this whole idea that the whole muslim world is responsible for this and they039re attacking us because we039re free and prosperous that is just not true osama bin laden and al-qaeda have been explicit they have been explicit and they wrote and said that we attackedwe attacked america because you had bases on our holy land in saudi arabia you do not give palestinians a fair treatment and you have been bombingi didn039t say that i039m trying to get you to understand what the motive was behind the bombing at the same time we had been bombing and killing hundreds of thousands of iraqis for 10 years would you be annoyed if you039re not annoyed then there039s some problemaaron mat: that was republican congress member ron paul of texas speaking last night at the republican presidential debate noam chomsky your responsenoam chomsky: i think what he said is completely uncontroversial you can read it in government documents you can find it in polls maybe people don039t like to hear it but as i mentioned before it goes back to the 1950s actually right after 911 the wall street journal to its credit did a study of privileged muslims sometimes called quotmonied muslimsquot people in the muslim world who are deeply embedded in the us global projectlawyers directors of multinational corporations and so on not the general population and it was very much like what eisenhower hadwas concerned about and the national security council in the 1950s there was a lot of antagonism toa lot of antagonism to us policy in the region partly support of dictators blocking democracy and development just as the national security council concluded in 1958follow democracy now online:facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomdemocracynowtwitter: democracynowsubscribe on youtube: http:wwwyoutubecomdemocracynowdaily email news digest: http:wwwdemocracynoworgsubscribeplease consider supporting independent media by making a donation to democracy nowtoday visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgdonateyt

look out kate upton az pol pushing anti-photoshopping bill nanny of the month feb 2012
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this month039s slate of busybodies includes a familiar name as well as some nannying newcomerssen chuck schumer d-ny ever watchful for the new quotclub drugquot is waging yet another crusade against yet another new product and guess who he039s doing it for the kidsand then there039s utah state rep tim cosgrove d-murray faced with the fact that law enforcement was wasting resources on anti-prostitution sting operations at salons that offer new age healing techniques cosgrove didn039t suggest legalizing prostitution nor did he advise cops to ditch the stings and focus on catching bad guys you know those who hurt people and steal thingsinstead he introduced a bill that would jail reiki practitioners and other business owners unless they spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars to obtain massage licenses he039s probably doing it for the kidsbut this month the top slot goes to someone elsein the midst of the kate upton sports illustrated airbrushing controversy comes word that a grand canyon state pol decides it039s time to crack down on post production techniques that make models smoother and sexier but hey she039s doing it for the kidspresenting reasontv039s nanny of the month for february 2012: arizona state rep katie hobbs d-phoenixapproximately 90 seconds quotnanny of the monthquot is written and produced by ted balaker opening animation by meredith bragg special thanks to kevin r breento watch previous episodes go here: http:wwwyoutubecomplaylistlist=pl2dd00e99b83a258avisit http:reasontv for links and downloadable versions of this and all our videos and subscribe to reasontv039s youtube channel to receive automatic notification when new content is posted

nashville039s sedan drivers fight city effort to run them off the road
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until 2010 sedan and independent limo services were an affordable alternative to taxicabs a trip to the airport only cost 25 but in june 2010 the metropolitan county council passed a series of anti-competitive regulations requested by the tennessee livery association-a trade group formed by expensive limousine companies these regulations force sedan and independent limo companies to increase their fares to 45 minimum the regulations also prohibit limo and sedan companies from using leased vehicles require them to dispatch only from their place of business require them to wait a minimum of 15 minutes before picking up a customer and forbid them from parking or waiting for customers at hotels or bars and in january 2012 companies will have to take all vehicles off the road if they are more than seven years old for a sedan or suv or more than ten years old for a limousine these regulations have nothing to do with public safety nashville could have limited its requirements to those regulations that are designed to genuinely protect the public039s health and safety such as requiring insured and inspected vehicles and driver background checks but instead nashville is stooping to economic protectionism to put affordable car services out of business in favor of more expensive services that happen to have more political power many nashville residents who regularly use limos and sedans will be forced to spend twice as much money for exactly the same service and hard-working sedan drivers will be driven out of business on april 20 2011 the institute for justice teamed up with three nashville entrepreneurs and filed a federal lawsuit in the us district court for the middle district of tennessee to vindicate the right of nashville039s limo and sedan operators to earn an honest living free from excessive government regulation

have california democrats turned their backs on social justice a conversation with chris reed
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democrats are supposed to work towards the goal of social justice right so why is it that so many policies supported by california democrats end up harming poor people and minoritiesreasontv039s paul feine sat down with journalist chris reed to talk about public employee unions welfare reform walmart the drug war and environmental regulationschris reed is an editorial writer for the san diego union-tribune and a talk show host on kogo 600 am san diego039s news ampamp talk stationapproximately 9 minutes produced by paul feine and alex manninggo to http:reasontv for downloadable versions subscribe to reasontv039s youtube channel to receive automatic notification when new material goes live

ron paul039s speech at cpac 2011: there is truly a revolution going on in this country pt1
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please give a 039thumbs up039run ronrun in 2012learning to 039live free039 comes from experience and personal growth lets break our conditioninghttp:wwwlivefreerevolutioncomhttp:livefreerevolutionblogspotcom

why obama039s stimulus failed: a case study of silver spring maryland
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high persistent unemployment and a sluggish economy underscore what all but the most-dedicated supporters of barack obama know to be true: the president039s 2009 stimulus program was a massively expensive bustunderstanding why the stimulus failed is an important step in understanding how the government canand cannotgoose economic recovery to get a better sense of how and where the stimulus went wrong reasontv focused on silver spring maryland a suburb of washington dc that039s home to a large number of government contractors and other recipients of money earmarked for the sorts of quotshovel readyquot projects that were going to bring the economy back to lifepresident obama039s top economic advisor larry summers laid out ground rules for how stimulus dollars should be spent: the funds must be quottargetedquot at resources idled by the recession the interventions must be quottemporaryquot and they needed to quottimelyquot or injected quickly into the economynone of that turned out to be true quoteven if you were to believe that government spending can trigger economic growthquot says veronique de rugy reason columnist and senior research fellow at the mercatus center quotthe money is never spent in a way that039s consistent with the conditions laid out by the keynesians for it to be efficientquotreasontv identified four basic ways in which the stimulus was doomed almost before it was put into operation for the full discussion of those areas and links to supporting data go to http:reasoncomblog20111208why-obamas-stimulus-failed-a-case-studywritten and produced by jim epstein who also narratesapproximately 8 minutesgo to http:reasontv for downloadable versions and detailed links and text also subscribe to reasontv039s youtube channel to receive automatic updates when new material goes live

the war on walmart: who039s afraid of cheap groceries
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retail giant walmart is planning to open its first stores in new york city and washington dcthat039s got local politicians and activists up in armsquotwalmart keep your plantation because there are no more slavesquot says new york city councilman charles barronwalmart will make criminals of our children argues washington dc commissioner brenda speaks because quotkids are kidsquot so they039ll shoplift and then quotsecurity will grab themquotif we039re tricked into welcoming walmart through our city gates quotwrapped up in a shiny packagequot explains new york city public advocate bill de blasio it will take over and destroy usso what039s getting anti-walmart activists so riled upthe answer: cheap grocerieswritten and produced by jim epstein with help from joshua swain narrated by nick gillespieapproximately 730 minutes

ilya somin on why the individual mandate is unconstitutional and a threat to liberty
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a supreme court ruling upholding the individual mandate quotwill really be if not a death blow then certainly a very severe blow to the whole idea that the federal government039s powers are limited and that it039s not the case that the federal government can do pretty much whatever it wantsquot says george mason university law professor ilya somin author of an amicus brief in us department of health and human services v florida a challenge to the affordable care act that the supreme court is scheduled to hear later this monthreasontv sat down with somin to discuss why his brief focuses on the individual mandate what the chances of success are and whether or not a mandate to buy insurance could empower congress to pass a mandate that all americans buy a health food like broccoliquotthere039s a lot of industries that have a lot of lobbying power and interest group clout that could promote mandates for themselvesquot says sominabout 9:30 minutes interview by zach weissmueller camera by tracy oppenheimer paul detrick and sharif matar edited by weissmuellerscroll down for downloadable versions and subscribe to reasontv039s youtube channel to receive automatic notifications when new material goes live

obama supporters quotoccupyquot dc
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occupy dc october 1st 2011adamvsthemancomvideo by eddie free and adam kokesh