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Afternoon Links: October 8, 2010

by Nicole Ciandella on October 8, 2010

in Zeitgeist

1. A young Arab-American in California found a tracking device on his car and removed it. A couple days later, the FBI showed up at his door. They asked for their tracker back and told him, “You don’t need to call your lawyer. Don’t worry. You’re boring.”

2. Mark Zuckerberg talks to Slate about Facebook’s solution to the “audience problem.”

3. The Social Security Administration is reporting that 72,000 dead people received a total of $18 million in stimulus payments.

4. Daily Beast correspondent (and self-proclaimed libertarian) Tunku Varadarajan slams Forbes for naming Michelle Obama “the most powerful woman in the world.” (Varadarajan is a former Forbes Opinion editor.)

5. Reason TV presents “3 Reasons Obama’s Education Vision Deserves an F.”

LibertyWeek 55: The Health Care Mob Is Coming!

by Richard Morrison on August 11, 2009

in CEI Projects, Podcast, Zeitgeist

Your host Richard Morrison welcomes back returning guest co-host Jeremy Lott and distinguished special guest David Mark of the Politico for Episode 55 of the LibertyWeek podcast. We start with reports of unrest over health care in the provinces, the U.S. Postal Service’s death spiral and the globe trotting ways of members of Congress. We continue with some sadly familiar antitrust murmurs regarding Apple and Google, a classic union corruption scandal out of New York City and some inspiring and heroic Paralympic News.