Watchdog.org Podcast

Snow has shut down the nation's capitol, but nothing can shut down the Watchdog Podcast. This week, host Eric Boehm is joined by Watchdog's top dog Will Swaim to discuss his once-and-now-again hometown football team: the Los Angeles Rams.  The Rams left behind a vacant stadium in St. Louis, a stadium that still has local taxpayers on the hook for more than $100 million in debt, for the sunny confines of Inglewood, California. There is no public money being spent on the Rams' new home, but taxpayers in southern California might not be completely off the hook.  We'll explain why. Then, a look at Swaim's latest story on the chilling effect that state regulators can have on free speech. In Montana, the Commission on Political Practices is bringing a lawsuit against a former Republican state senator in the Left's latest effort to fight "dark money" in politics.  Speech police are bad enough, but partisan speech cops are even worse. Finally, Ryan Young of the Competitive Enterprise Institute joi