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Why 2013 was the best year in history

Measles cases triple in the U.S.--thanks to anti-vaccine pseudoscience.

Dr. Steven Novella is with the Yale School of Medicine and co-hosts the Skeptics Guide to The Universe podcast.

Virginia Postrel's new book is The Power of Glamour. Also check out her book The Future And Its Enemies.

Lance Christensen is with the Reason Foundation's Pension Reform Project.

A woman with a 36-character long Hawaiian name got her full name on her driver's license.

The A&G After Show rundown (hour 1)

Steven Greenhut writes for the San Diego Union Tribune.

Craig Gottwals, the Obamacare expert, joined us in studio to talk about Obamacare's shifting deadlines, the IRS's illegal subsidies in federal exchanges, and what we should do after Obamacare collapses.

Joshua Thompson is a Staff Attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, who works on the Equality Under The Law program.

Kurt Altman is a Senior Attorney with the Goldwater Institute.

The Supreme Court case (kinda) touching on asset forfeiture is Kaley v. United States.

A Florida man impersonating a police officer pulled over a woman who was a real police officer. He got arrested.

Guest hosting the A&G After Show today

Join me today on Talk 650 KSTE from 10am to noon as I substitute on the Armstrong & Getty After Show. Got a great lineup of guests, including Steven Greenhut, Virginia Postrel, Dr. Steven Novella, and more!

The A&G After Show rundown (hour 2)

Christina Sandefur, Staff Attorney with the Goldwater Institute, talked about the Institute's Obamacare lawsuit, Coons v. Geithner, which will be argued before the 9th Circuit on Jan. 28.

The Independent Payment Advisory Board: the "Platonic Guardians" of medicine.

How Obamacare violates the Origination Clause.

Obamacare is an ongoing assault on the rule of law itself.

Here's the awful new Redevelopment ("Jobs And Education Development") initiative.

Fight against the return of eminent domain abuse by joining the California Alliance to Protect Private Property Rights. (I'm on the Board of Directors.)

By contrast, Arizona has some of the strongest protections for property rights in the nation. There are still problems, though.

110,000 crates of bananas rotting while people argue.

London firefighters ask for "common sense"--in cases involving trapped body parts.

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Links and details we talked about on the A&G After Show:

New restrictions, limits, burdens, and regulations on California businesses for 2014.

Jennifer Thompson is a Staff Attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, and works with the Coastal Land Rights Project. The Project maintains The Coast Watch, which covers all of the California Coastal Commission's meetings.

Bruce Herschensohn teaches at Pepperdine and is the author most recently of Obama's Globe.

Here's the Wikipedia page on the Senkaku Islands dispute.

Here's Judge Richard Leon's opinion granting a temporary injunction against the NSA's cell phone metadata program.

Here's Judge William Pauley's decision holding that the NSA program is constitutional.

The NSA is collecting too much data--it doesn't know what to do with it. 

The North Carolina possum drop

Join me on the air Monday and Tuesday

I'll be guest-hosting the A&G After Show on Talk 650 KSTE Monday and Tuesday from 10 till noon. I've got a great list of guests lined up, including Bruce Herschensohn, Virginia Postrel, Steven Greenhut, Craig the Obamacare Expert, and lots more. You can listen online here--hope you'll tune in!

The 2013 Freebies

Best book I read this year:

1. Cracks in The Invisible by Stephen Kampa

Kampa is a brilliant poet; witty, extremely clever, with a serious sense of spirituality and meaning. Obviously I do not share his Christianity, but his poetry makes me sympathize with it--which is a great accomplishment. And his secular poems, like "Not At The Grave of Dylan Thomas," or "Masterpiece Interrupted by Hobo, Park Bench, 1999," are astonishing in their apparent effortlessness. My favorite is probably "Theodicy," one of the finest poems of joy I have ever encountered. Kampa has a new book coming in the spring and I can't wait. More here.

Runners-Up:

Taylor Graham's new book

Taylor Graham is far and away the best poet in the Sacramento area. She has a new book out, called What The Wind Says. She'll be reading Jan. 8 at 8pm at Shine; on Jan. 17 at 7:30 at the Unitarian Church in Davis; and on Mar. 15 at 4:30 at the Sacramento Poetry Center.

On A&G this morning

I'll be in studio with Armstrong and Getty in about five minutes.

Update: Here's a useful video on why you should never talk to the police, even if you "have nothing to hide."

Here's the podcast of the 7 o'clock hour. I was also on for a few minutes in the 8 o'clock hour.

For more on the destruction of our right not to be unreasonably searched--including these unjust traffic checkpoints--read David Shipler's books, The Rights of The People and Rights At Risk.

I'll be guest-hosting the A&G After Show 12/30 and 12/31

If you were listening to the A&G After Show on Talk 650 KSTE this morning, you heard right: I will be guest-hosting the After Show while Dominick, Vince, and Michelangelo are on vacation December 30 and 31. I've already set up a list of great guests, including Steven Greenhut, Lance Christensen, Criag Gottwals, and others. Hope you'll tune in!