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Lew Rockwell, founder and president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and proprietor of LewRockwell.com, and Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, discuss the fraudulent case for war with Iraq, the longstanding policy of regime change there, the horrible sanctions, the deliberate conflation of nukes and mustard gas into “Weapons of Mass Destruction,” the hopefully receding danger of war with Iran and Pakistan due to the collapse of the American economy, McCain and Obama’s plans for “National Service” conscription and the great success of the Restoring the Republic conference.

MP3 here. (12:37)

Check out more of Lew’s show here.

Lew Rockwell is the founder and President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, Vice President of the Center for Libertarian Studies in Burlingame, California, and publisher of the political Web site LewRockwell.com. He served as Ron Paul’s congressional chief of staff between 1978 and 1982. Check out his new podcast show here.

Jacob Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. In 1987, Mr. Hornberger left the practice of law to become director of programs at The Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, publisher of The Freeman and Freedom Daily. Fluent in Spanish and conversant in Italian, he has delivered speeches and engaged in debates and discussions about free-market principles with groups all over the United States, as well as Canada, England, Europe, and Latin America, including Brazil, Cuba, Bolivia, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Argentina. He has also advanced freedom and free markets on talk-radio stations all across the country as well as on FOX New’s Neil Cavuto and Greta van Susteren shows. His editorials have appeared in the Washington Post, Charlotte Observer, La Prensa San Diego, El Nuevo Miami Herald, and many others, both in the United States and in Latin America. He is a co-editor or contributor to the eight books that have been published by the Foundation.

In a speech today, John McCain told the audience: “Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners.”

Here is a 13 second YouTube clip from the speech.

I thought McCain had been in politics long enough to know not to notify people that he was nullifying all their rights until after the election.

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Monday will reportedly see the final edition of the neoconservative New York Sun.

The Sun was started in 2002 by Conrad Black and a number of other investors. They took a consistent stand in favor of neocon wars.

At the start of this month, the newspaper said it was desperately seeking cash. It supposedly raised “a lot” of money in the following two weeks, but then came a Wall Street meltdown that appears to have ended any hope for new benefactors.

In a February 6, 2003 editorial, the newspaper called for indicting antiwar protesters for treason.