The Lunch Hour with Washington Signal

Wayne Crews is Fred L. Smith Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute & a Cato Institute alum. A one-time Libertarian candidate for South Carolina state senate, he is widely published, contributes to Forbes.com, and authors the annual Ten Thousand Commandments Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Leon Panetta is an American politician and Democrat who served as government official under several Democratic administrations Secretary of Defense, director of the CIA, White House Chief of Staff, director of the Office of Management and Budget, and as a U.S. Representative from California. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Brad Johnson is President and CEO at Mission of Hope, a charitable organization currently working in Haiti and the Dominican Republic by focusing on nutrition, education, medical care, and church advancement. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Alfredo Ortiz has been the President and CEO of Job Creators Network (JCN) since January 2014. He is also a board member for the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and an advisory board member for Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Ilya Somin is Professor of Law at George Mason University and the B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. His research focuses on constitutional law, property law, democratic theory, federalism, and migration rights.  He is the author of Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom , Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter...

James Madison was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights.  Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Gregory Angelo is a communications and public affairs specialist as well as the president of The New Tolerance Campaign. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Julie Gunlock directs the Independent Women’s Network and IWF’s Center for Progress and Innovation. She is also the Monday/Tuesday co-host of WMAL FM’s morning drive radio show O’Connor & Company, the leading talk radio station in the DC area. She is the author of the book From Cupcakes to Chemicals: How the Culture of Alarmism Makes Us Afraid of Everything and How to Fight Back and hosts the...

David Bernhardt is an American lawyer who served as the 53rd United States Secretary of the Interior from 2019 to 2021 during the Trump administration. *This episode has been reuploaded to fix an audio issue* Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Jeff McCoy is an attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, where he represents Americans fighting back against excessive and unlawful government regulations. Jeff joined PLF in 2017. Since then, he has focused his litigation on separation of powers and private property rights. Jeff also leads PLF’s coastal land rights initiative, which seeks to strengthen and defend statutory and constitutional protec...

Mike Gallagher is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Wisconsin's 8th congressional district since 2017. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Gentry Collins is the CEO of the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce and a partner at CAP Public Affairs. Collins has worked with large-scale advocacy efforts in the healthcare, automotive, infrastructure, mental health, veterans affairs, and energy sectors. He has also managed a variety of large-scale Super PACs and Independent Expenditure Units for Senatorial and Gubernatorial campaigns...

Christopher Bedford is a senior editor at The Federalist, the vice chairman of Young Americans for Freedom, a board member at the National Journalism Center, and the author of The Art of the Donald. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Javed Ali is an associate professor of practice at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Ali brings more than 20 years of professional experience in national security and intelligence issues in Washington, DC. He held positions in the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Department of Homeland Security before joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www...

Margaret Byfield was raised on a large cow calf operation in central Nevada. She became actively involved in the property rights movement after her parents, Wayne and Jean Hage, filed Hage v. United States in the Federal Court of Claims in 1991. She launched Stewards of the Range in 1992 to help landowners facing similar issues which merged into American Stewards of Liberty in 2009. She continues...

Bob Levey is a prize-winning journalist who has covered the Washington scene since the Johnson Administration.  Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Shoshana Weissmann manages R Street’s social media, email marketing and other digital assets. She also works on occupational licensing reform, social media regulatory policy, Section 230 and other issues, and has written for various publications, including The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Mike Benz, Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, is a former State Department diplomat responsible for formulating and negotiating US foreign policy on international communications and information technology matters. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Zach Greenberg is Senior Program Officer, Student Organizations, Campus Rights Advocacy for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Lyn Ulbricht is a political activist and well-known advocate for constitutional protections, individual freedom and privacy. She is also the mother of Ross Ulbricht, who is currently serving a double life sentence without parole for all non-violent charges, based on his role in the Silk Road website. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Paul Poast is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago. He is also a nonresident fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and a foreign affairs columnist for World Politics Review. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Phillip W. Magness is Senior Research Faculty and Director of Research and Education at the American Institute for Economic Research. He is also a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. He holds a PhD and MPP from George Mason University’s School of Public Policy, and a BA from the University of St. Thomas (Houston).  Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Jessica Melugin is director of the Center for Technology & Innovation at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Her research focuses on technology issues including antitrust, online privacy, Internet taxation, telecommunications, social media content and net neutrality regulation. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, PhD, is the Director, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute. He has authored the New York Times best seller Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2013), Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2009), which was named a Book of the Year by the Times (of London) Lit...

Gordon G. Chang has lived and worked in China and Hong Kong for almost two decades, most recently in Shanghai, as Counsel to the American law firm Paul Weiss and earlier in Hong Kong as Partner in the international law firm Baker & McKenzie.  He is the author of The Great U.S.-China Tech War and Losing South Korea, booklets released by Encounter Books.  Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www....