Overlawyered » on TV and radio http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Welcome LaDona Harvey listeners http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/welcome-ladona-harvey-listeners/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/welcome-ladona-harvey-listeners/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:52:22 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26017 I just joined listeners at San Diego’s KOGO to talk about the FDA/USDA initiative to regulate salt content in food, about which you can read here and here. Deadline for filing comments is tomorrow; the most direct link I know of for doing so is here (use “Individual Consumer” as category of comment unless that doesn’t apply).

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/welcome-lars-larson-listeners-2/feed/ 0 Banning discrimination against the unemployed? http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/banning-discrimination-against-the-unemployed/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/banning-discrimination-against-the-unemployed/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:10:49 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24864 I joined the host on Connecticut’s WTIC Thursday morning to discuss President Obama’s proposed ban on employer discrimination against unemployed job applicants:

For more on this bad proposal, check out Charles Lane, Washington Post (”really bad idea that will probably destroy jobs in a misguided effort to save them”); Richard Epstein/Hoover (”most ghastly” element of jobs plan), Mickey Kaus (”Worst idea in the speech? …a museum-quality case of liberal legalism ignoring the economic cost of the mechanisms of liberal legalism”), Steve Chapman (”may very well have a positive impact on hiring. Just not in America”), Neil Munro, Adler/Volokh, Business Insider, Ted Frank/PoL, NYT “Room for Debate”, Dan Indiviglio/The Atlantic (”While this is a lovely political talking point, it won’t cut unemployment and could even make matters worse for jobless Americans”), Atlantic Wire, Tim Cavanaugh/Reason, Jay Goltz/NYT “You’re the Boss” (”I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.”), National Review, Kerry Picket/Washington Times (Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill.: “If it takes lawsuits to get work opportunities, then so be it”), earlier (& welcome Tim Cavanaugh/Reason “Hit and Run” readers).

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/banning-discrimination-against-the-unemployed/feed/ 4 New podcast: “Coffee and Markets” at New Ledger http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/new-podcast-coffee-and-markets-at-new-ledger/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/new-podcast-coffee-and-markets-at-new-ledger/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:08:29 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24730 Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry interviewed me about my new book Schools for Misrule and you can hear the resulting podcast here (& RedState, Big Government, Twitter mentions).

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/new-podcast-coffee-and-markets-at-new-ledger/feed/ 0 Welcome radio listeners, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin readers http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/welcome-radio-listeners-chicago-daily-law-bulletin-readers/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/welcome-radio-listeners-chicago-daily-law-bulletin-readers/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:08:31 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24097 I’ll be appearing this morning on KARN in Little Rock, Ark., WRVA in Richmond, Va., and WTIC in New Haven/Hartford, Ct., to discuss my New York Daily News op-ed on McDonald’s and Campbell’s changes in their food line-ups following pressure from nutritional crusaders in public office. And I was quoted by reporter Jerry Crimmins July 22 in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin on accreditation of law schools and lawyer oversupply (”ABA responds to senator’s criticisms,” subscriber paywall).

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/welcome-radio-listeners-chicago-daily-law-bulletin-readers/feed/ 0 Radio today: Fox stations, WBAL http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/radio-today-fox-stations-wbal/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/radio-today-fox-stations-wbal/#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:05:58 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23478 I’ll be on the radio a lot today talking about the Supreme Court’s Wal-Mart v. Dukes decision. That includes a bunch of Fox Radio stations at various times between 7 and 11 a.m. EDT, and then the “C4″ (Clarence Mitchell IV) show on Baltimore’s WBAL, scheduled for 1:35. More on the Dukes decision here and here.

P.S.: The station lineup includes: KURV (McAllen, TX), WHBC (Canton, OH), WSCC (Charleston, SC), WHAS (Louisville, KY), WERC (Birmingham, AL), WTRC (South Bend, IN), WGST (Atlanta, GA), WSJK (Champaign, IL), WOAI (San Antonio, TX), WSYR (Syracuse, NY), WLNI (Lynchburg, VA), KLIF (Dallas, TX), WTKS (Savannah, GA), WIND (Chicago, IL), KOGO (San Diego, CA), KCOL (Fort Collins, CO), and WAJR (Morgantown, WV).

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/radio-today-fox-stations-wbal/feed/ 0 Ron Smith show this morning; C-SPAN video http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/ron-smith-show-this-morning-c-span-video/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/ron-smith-show-this-morning-c-span-video/#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:51:25 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23295 I’m set to join Ron Smith this morning at 10:35 a.m. on Baltimore’s WBAL to discuss the federal government’s role in food and nutrition. And C-SPAN has posted the video of my Monday appearance on “Washington Journal” on the same subject. More in my new post at Cato at Liberty.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/ron-smith-show-this-morning-c-span-video/feed/ 0 The “pie chart that doesn’t want you to eat pie.” http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/the-pie-chart-that-doesnt-want-you-to-eat-pie/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/the-pie-chart-that-doesnt-want-you-to-eat-pie/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2011 21:56:26 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23239 I’ve got a new opinion piece up at the Daily Caller on the USDA’s new nutritional chart. And tune in to C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” on Monday morning at 8:30 a.m. Eastern when I’m scheduled to be a guest on this subject.

More: Link to C-SPAN video here, and more at Cato at Liberty.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/the-pie-chart-that-doesnt-want-you-to-eat-pie/feed/ 4 New TV legal drama’s protagonist: a mediator http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/new-tv-legal-dramas-protagonist-a-mediator/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/new-tv-legal-dramas-protagonist-a-mediator/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:13:37 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23224 “It’s refreshing to find a show that can demonstrate to litigation-happy America that it’s possible, even desirable, to amicably resolve disputes without going to court.” [Radley Balko, Reason, on USA Network's "Fairly Legal"] More: Abnormal Use interview with show creator Michael Sardo (via its update).

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/new-tv-legal-dramas-protagonist-a-mediator/feed/ 4 C-SPAN2 “BookTV” this weekend http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/c-span2-booktv-this-weekend/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/c-span2-booktv-this-weekend/#comments Sat, 28 May 2011 05:06:54 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23164 C-SPAN2’s popular “BookTV” has had my Schools for Misrule presentation in rotation in recent weeks and will be airing it again Saturday night/Sunday morning, specifically 1:30 a.m. Sunday Eastern Time. (Although their blurb erroneously identifies me as being with the Manhattan Institute, I’ve been with Cato for more than a year now.) You can buy the book here.

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