Reason TV

The libertarian take--Reason TV, headed by Drew Carey.

Video piece by chef Anthony Bourdain on the food police, which has particular salience for Chicago as it bans foie gras.

Added to my blogroll.

And on the Left Coast, a rising GOP star with libertarian leanings, Rep. Tom Campbell, exposing pork in both parties, but common sense on privacy:

“I’m very much a privacy guy,” Campbell avers, speaking specifically about telephone surveillance. “It’s something I feel strongly about. But there’s something I feel even more strongly about: I don’t want to be blown up. I am willing to give them some limited access to my phone records because of this war on terror.”

When Campbell talks like this it’s even easier to imagine him rising in the leadership. This is, after all, what every modern Republican in power says about privacy. When he’s pressed on how long the government should have these powers, Camp­bell can’t definitively say. “We don’t know how long this war will last,” he says. “These laws should sunset. But I think everything should sunset, except for tax cuts.”

Campbell comes from current SEC Chairman Chris Cox's old district and heads the RSC's Budget and Spending Taskforce.