The tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots.  The hedgerow of the libertine is watered with......... well you really don't want to know.  In this episode Bob and Mark discuss the rather marked differences between libertarianism and libertinism.  The distinction is fine because both share a common root, the desire to conduct one's life as one sees fit.  Mark would like to let everyone know that Charles Morgan, not Murray, wrote "Liberties of the Mind."  It's an obscure book, but you should be able to get it through your local library.

Links

Libertarian Does Not Equal Libertine, by Chuck George

Libertarianism and Libertinism?, Frank S. Meyer

Hugo Chavez won re-election to become the President of Venezuela.  In this episode Bob and Mark discuss the effect that his presidency will ultimately have on this country.  Little reported is how corrupt the Chavez regime is.  Like all other populist movements before him, ultimately all that changes is that the corrupt class is replaced by a new "revolutionary" class that becomes just as corrupt.  As usual progressives over-look the reality of what is ocurring choosing to be blinded by the dazzling vision of the State organized to help "the people."  As progressives have been doing since the Bolsheviks, they cheerlead and cover up for dictatorial and corrupt regimes in order to keep the socialst faith. Being infidel's in the minds of socialist sangha, Bob and Mark take a look at what Chavez, and his fellow travellers, will ultimately do to the region and the poor that they are supposedly so concerned with helping.  At 23 minutes in there is a discussion about the nature of poverty that is a MUST hear.  In typical Hippie Killer fashion an objective discussion of poverty is given that will provide criteria to guides one's thinking when it comes to evaluating the various prescriptions put forth in an attempt to solve this problem.

Links:
Jack Clarke,Podcast 71, Even After a Thumpin', Bush Continues Appointing Right-Wing Extremists/QuickBlast: Chavez Landslide Victory In Venezuela
 
Corruption, Mismanagement,and Abuse of Power in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela by Gustavo Coronel

Reversal of Fortune

Other links:

Tranparency International

Article about the Skye Ventures bond problem
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11212006/business/chavez_ducks_6_bill_business_paul_tharp.htm
http://www.petroleumworld.com/issues011806.htm

Mark clipped out an appearance by Gloria Allred on The Adam Carolla Show.  Ms. Allred is now representing four gentleman who were the victim of Michael Richard's meltdown at the laugh factory.  Carolla is one of the few people who have ever actually challanged Allred's convenient, as well as lucrative, definition of "victim."  This show is about 25 minutes long and well worth the listen.

Since before the invasion of Iraq, Charles Rangel has been proposing a reinstatement of the draft.  Ostensibly it's about "sharing" the burden of defending our country, but in reality it's really about grabbing headlines.  Part of hippie folklore is that the military draws disproportionately from the poor and minorities.  This buttresses their belief that if the privileged classes shared the burden, there would be no war in Iraq.  Bob and Mark discuss this and show that it is patently false.  America's armed forces are one of the few institutions that actually closely mirrors demographic characteristics of
the American population as a whole. 

Links:
Stupid soldiers: Central to the Left's Worldview

Who Bears the Burden?

Who Are the Recruits? The Demographic Characteristics of U.S.
Military Enlistment, 2003–2005

Kerry implies that soldiers are stupid

Kerry's "apology"

Charlie Rangel on Face the Nation (see related video for the
Lindsey Graham clip)

Racial Divide Evident in Military by Juan Gonzalez