Miscellaneous
In this one-hundred and fourth episode, Todd, Jim, his permanent panelist Muslims for Liberty Will Coley, and his guest panelists LewRockwell.com blogger and writer William N. Grigg (for an hour), libertarian activist Jacob Halloway, and LewRockwell.com blogger and writer William L. Anderson discussed the following:* 1. South Carolina police officer Michael T. Slagg killed a fleeing man named Walter L. Scott by emptying his gun's clip eight times, murdering the man in the back. A black cop helped the officer cover up the scene of the crime, thus igniting the debate once again over whether cops should employ deadly force. 2. Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the now-discredit journalist who should have been disgraced for penning a hoax about a purported campus rape in the house of Phi Kappa Psi, a fraternity on the grounds of the University of Virginia issued a statement outlining her faux apology for what she had done to the boys at the frat house and for taking the word of a lying "victim" named Jackie (who was later identified as Jacquelin Coakley). 3. Rolling Stone retracted Erderly's "A Rape on Campus" piece, putting in its place a shoddy investigation into her article with the help of the Columbus Journalism Review. 4. Dhzokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty 30 times in a criminal court on all 30 counts. Real Time's Bill Maher said that others who believed this terrorist "looked arrogant" and he "looked indifferent" were "misinterpreting it. What he looked to me was confident....confident that he knew where he was going. Up to paradise." Maher was wrong, because what Tsarnaev looked to me was that he was arrogant, indifferent, and not even remorseful. Confidence certainly played a part in it, but only a minor role. 5. Rand Paul announced his run for the presidency by launching his campaign. He is getting grief from minarchists and anarchists in the Liberty movement for not cutting defense spending, and yet he was also getting grief from conservatives for not going to far enough. Should we support Rand Paul, or was he so statist now that his own father would steer clear of him? 6. The HBO documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief debuted on HBO on May 29, which resulted in huge viewing numbers for the network. According to Variety.com and other sources, 1.7 million people watched the film, and it was the source of continual conversation, even to this day. Even a petition aimed at the White House was calling for the revocation of the Church of Scientology's tax exempt status and the removal of its status as a religious institution. What did you all think? Was Scientology a religion or a cult? Or was it a business that L. Ron Hubbard crafted it to be? What did you think of Xenu the alien Intergalactic Overlord of the Galactic Confderacy? Nutty, isn't it? 7. Hillary Clinton was expected to announce her run for president on the Democratic ticket. The question was - would she run? Or wouldn't she? 8. My Michigan Governor Rick Synder, a Republican, called for an increase in the state's sales tax to cover the roads by a penny. But there was more to the proposal which was going to be on the ballot on May 5th. 9. Indiana governor Mike Pence recently signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act for his state, which almost immediately went viral and resulted in a lot of hate mail, public scrutiny, and social conservative hatred. Were social conservatives wrong to allow businesses to discriminate gay customers, or did these businesses have a right to be protected by government edict? You HAD to decide.