John W. Whitehead, a constitutional attorney and founder of The Rutherford Institute, discusses his article "How DNA is Turning Us Into a Nation of Suspects;" and the US surveillance state's increasing resemblance to its counterpart in the futuristic dystopian movie Minority Report.

Will Grigg, a blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the proposed Georgia law that would treat the killing of a police dog as second-degree murder; while police officers can't be held accountable for their routine shooting of family dogs (and even children).

Scott Horton chats with Jeffrey Tucker, Chief Liberty Officer of Liberty.me, and Ian Freeman, program director of LRN.FM, live in studio in Manchester, New Hampshire. The conversation ranges from the virtues of skateboarding, to libertarian economics and foreign policy, to US imperialism.

Mitchell Prothero, a journalist with McClatchy Newspapers, discusses the escalating battle for Tikrit, as the Islamic State fights an odd coalition of Iraqi security forces and Shiite militias led by Iranian officers.