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Tuesday, July 10. Who says you can’t fight city hall? Travis Kiger, one of the newest members of Fullerton’s city council, talks with Martha Montelongo, Ben Boychuk and John Seiler about how a group of activists and bloggers unseated three well-entrenched council members in June. Later in the program, Larry Sand, president of the California […]

This is part two of our show on Tuesday, July 3, 2012.  Tom Donaldson shares numbers and breaks down demographics and diversity of voters within ethnic groups, especially among Latino voters.  Ben talks about forthcoming articles written by him on ObamaCare and the power of the Public Court of Opinion, and Steven Greenhut’s piece on […]

Brian Calle joins Ben and Martha  for this segment of the Show on Tuesday, June 3, 2012

Retired Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief Stephen Downing, an active voice with LEAP, joins Martha Montelongo and City Journal’s Ben Boychuk, to make the case for legalization of drugs—starting with marijuana, but not ending there. Also, Martha and Ben talk about the latest effort by the state legislature to give Governor Jerry Brown’s tax increase ballot […]

Tuesday, June 19, on Gadfly Radio, Marcia Fritz, C.P.A., and an active voice for Fix Pensions First | FixPensionsFirst.com, joins Martha Montelongo, with CalWatchDog‘s managing editor, John Seiler, and Ben Boychuk, Associate Editor with City Journal.

Tuesday June 12, on Gadfly Radio,  Wayne Lusvardi joins Martha and John Seiler, managing editor of CalWatchDog, to discuss the election results of the  pension reform initiatives in San Diego, and  San Jose, the failed recall of Scott Walker in Wisconsin, the victorious recall of three sitting city council members and the election of their […]

Economic historian Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan and other great books, discusses the “vulgar Keynesianism” of Paul Krugman. We also preview elections in Wisconsin and California.

Publisher Brian Hews of the Los Cerritos News joins us to talk about the Noguez pay-to-play Million Dollars campaign contributions scandal.  

May 22, 2012: Jim Manzi, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, founder and chairman of Applied Predictive Technologies, and contributor to National Review Online, joins Martha Montelongo, Ben Boychuk, and John Seiler to discuss his new book, Uncontrolled. In particular, we focus on Manzi’s policy prescriptions for education, immigration, and welfare. How much government […]

Martha Montelongo is on vacation this week. In the first half of the program, City Journal contributor Troy Senik joins Ben Boychuk and John Seiler to discuss his article, “The Worst Union in America,” which delves into the California Teachers Assocation’s sordid history of political activism and opposition to education reforms. (The Los Angeles Times excerpted […]

Ben Boychuk, Martha Montelongo and John Seiler discuss the Kelly Thomas murder preliminary trial and the citizen blogging and activism that helped bring the case to light, and Should the Govt make it harder for parents to opt out of vaccinations for their kids? The issue of vaccinations and government regulations that allow exemptions.

May 1, 2012: Peggy Christensen joins Martha Montelongo, Ben Boychuk, and John Seiler to dispel some of the persistent myths surrounding homeschooling (which she prefers to call “open-source learning”). And Jenny Worman, a former board member with the Screen Actors Guild who is running as a Republican in a new Southern California congressional district, discusses […]

April 24, 2012: Republican Al Ramirez, who is running for U.S. Senate in California, joins Martha Montelongo, Ben Boychuk, and John Seiler to discuss how the state GOP is trying to attract Latino voters. In the second half of the program, CalWatchDog.com contributor Wayne Lusvardi discusses his rejoinder to an essay by Heather MacDonald on […]

April 17, 2012: Should public education be considered a “national defense” priority? Martha Montelongo, Ben Boychuk and John Seiler talk with Bill Evers, a Hoover Institution fellow and former Education Department official, about the federal government’s efforts to centralize education under the umbrella of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. We also talk about the […]

April 10, 2012: Martha Montelongo, Ben Boychuk and John Seiler talk to Stanford political scientist and Hoover Institution fellow Terry Moe, author most recently of Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America’s Public Schools. Is technology the key to breaking the union monopoly? Moe argues that it’s only a matter of time before innovation shakes up […]

April 3, 2012: Martha Montelongo, John Seiler and Ben Boychuk talk with former California State Senator Gloria Romero about the latest developments at Desert Trails Elementary School in Adelanto, Calif., where parents are attempting to transform the failing school into a community charter. In the second half hour, Martha, John and Ben are joined by […]

March 26, 2012: Ben Boychuk interviews CalWatchdog.com reporter John Hrabe about the California State University administrative pay controversy. In the second half of the program, Avik Roy, Manhattan Institute senior fellow in health policy, analyzes the arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court this week on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare.

Martha Montelongo, John Seiler and Ben Boychuk talk to Diane Goldstein, a drug policy reform activist, retired police officer, and spokesperson for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, about the latest developments in marijuana regulation in California. Diane says that although a ballot initiative to “regulate marijuana like wine” is unlikely to appear before 2014, there are some […]

David Crane, co-founder and president of Govern for California, joins Martha Montelongo, Ben Boychuk, and John Seiler to discuss how to overhaul the state’s dysfunctional legislature.

Martha Montelongo, Ben Boychuk and John Seiler are joined this week by Gabe Rose, assistant executive director of the Los Angeles Parent Revolution, and CalWatchdog.com reporter Katy Grimes.  Gabe brings us up to date on the struggle by parents at Desert Trails Elementary School in Adelanto to convert that failing school to a community-run charter in […]