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Leonard Gilroy: Privatizing Tennessee Valley Authority Merits Study FIRE PODCAST: President Barack Obama has proposed studying the possibility of privatizing the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest government-owned utility. Privatization expert Leonard Gilroy of Reason Foundation tells us why the president has a good idea, and why area politicians in both major political parties oppose it.	Richard Innes: Schools, Data-Mining, and Invasions of Privacy SRN PODCAST: Are schools collecting too much personal information about kids? The world has become an intensive data-tracking place, with grocery stores tracking your eating habits and Google tracking your internet history and search terms. Schools are no exception. Bluegrass Institute education analyst Richard Innes, an old hand at the inner workings of student data collection, joins the podcast to discuss how even "anonymous" information on a child is no longer anonymous to any researcher with a decent database. He also outlines how the federal government is moving towards creating a comprehensive cradle-through-career database on each child, and what this means for privacy, government, and education.
Dave Camp: Tax Reform BTN PODCAST: Benjamin Domenech talks with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp about his plans for tax reform.	Sam Karnick: McCain Plan Likely to Increase Prices ITTN PODCAST: Sam Karnick, Director of Research for the Heartland Institute, discusses his recent blog post on Somewhat Reasonable "McCain Plan Likely to Increase Prices, Reduce Access to TV Programming."
Andy Schlafly: Small business lawsuit against Obamacare HCN PODCAST: Benjamin Domenech talks with attorney Andy Schlafly about the latest small business lawsuit against Obamacare.	Dr. Keith Kantor: IRS Scandal Gives Obamacare a Poor Prognosis BTN PODCAST: Revelations the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative, libertarian, and constitutionalist groups for harassment could cause so much backlash that many aspects of Obamacare, which relies heavily on the IRS, could be delayed or rolled back. So says Dr. Keith Kantor, CEO of natural foods company Service Foods, who led a U.S. House of Representatives advisory committee on health care. Many of the committee's recommendations were approved by the House but blocked in the Democrat-controlled Senate.