TONIGHT ON THE INDEPENDENTS (written by Matt Welch, taken from Reason)
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Tonight on The Independents: Red Meat Wednesday, With Justin Amash, Jeffrey Miron, TV’s Andy Levy, and Your Host Matt Welch!

I will be in the Kennedy chair on tonight’s episode of The Independents (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT, repeats three hours later), so you'll want to whir up the heckling machine early and often. Picking up the co-host slack will be Hot Air Editor at Large Mary Katharine Ham. But the important takeaway here is OMG Justin Amash's beard!

Our favorite libertarian-leaning Republican congressman from Michigan is back on in all his Movember glory, answering the eternal question, will the new GOP majority in Congress be worth a rip? His answers may surprise. Also getting the Q&A treatment is Harvard economist and occasional Reason contributor Jeffrey A. Miron, who will talk about his recent Cato working paper showing that recreational legalization of marijuana hasn't really had much measurable impact on drug use, crime, tourism, or much else besides.

Party Panel tonight is TV's Andy Levy (Red Eye co-host, cat-lover) and Julie Roginsky (Fox News contributor, Democrat). They will talk about the latest Jonathan Gruber video calling Americans dum-dums, the vaporware-tastic U.S.-China climate deal, the much more real specter of big-ass enviro-regs coming down the pike in the next three months, the persistence of global appetite for crappy beers, and Eminem's f-bomb fiesta in D.C. yesterday.

reason[.]com/blog/2014/11/12/tonight-on-the-independents-red-meat-wed

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Ripped with the Diamond VC500. Using the software that came packaged with the dongle. (It's called EZ Ripper.) In that software there's a "DVD Standard" which rips the video to .mpg at 720x480 with some terrible black bars. I load that file into AVIDemux. Cut the file into multiple parts to remove the commercials. Rejoin, crop, and resize those files using the same tool. For conversion I used MPEG4 AVC (x264), 2 pass on video and AAC (faac) on audio.

Not part of the scene. Just admire their naming standards.

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