Your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist are joined by special guest co-host Jeremy Lott for a very swashbuckling Episode 38 of LibertyWeek. We start with the rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips from Somali pirates by the U.S. Navy and Special Forces, look into the murky finances of AIG CEO Edward Liddy in Scandal Watch, and figure out what ISPs are up to in Technology News. We also get an update on how West Virginia is about to become even more Wild and Wonderful, and finally we…

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The current administration long ago decided to elevate the executive branch of government to a new level of purity by not allowing former lobbyists to hold senior appointed positions. We wouldn’t want anyone who had ever been affiliated with a for-profit company or DC pressure group to be holding the levers of power in Washington, right?

Of course not. Unless, that is, someone decides that the person in question is really a great guy and we should make an exception for…

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