Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Andrew Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times blog Top of the Ticket joins us to discuss the intersection of media and politics, and Reason TV’s Nick Gillespie discusses his latest video on UPS, FedEx, unions, and big government — as well as their continuing series on Ayn Rand.

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