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    2023

# 340 - April 17, 2023, Sam Neira on "More on the Parallel Economy: Liberland Progress Report."

# 339 - March 20, 2023, Joseph Miranda on "What the Byzantine Empire Can Teach Us Today."

# 338 - February 20, 2023, Richard Boddie on "Blexit."

# 337 - January 16, 2023, Stephen C. Smith on the School Choice Initiative.

    2022

# 336 - December 19, 2022, The Great Reset. Discussion, no speaker.

# 335 - Novmeber 21, 2022, Stephen Frank reviews the election.

# 334 - October 17, 2022, Joe Panzarello offers a midterm election preview.

# 333 - September 19, 2022, Sam Neira on "When Facts are Fiction."

# 332 - August 15, 2022, Jay Jones on "Freedom Fest."

# 331 - July 18, 2022, Joseph Miranda on "Road to Ukraine II: 1919 - 2022."

# 330 - June 20, 2022, Joseph Miranda on "Road to Ukraine I: Russian Policy Since the Middle Ages."

# 329 - May 16, 2022, Sam Neira on "The Parallel Economy and You."

# 000 - April 18, 2022, No Meeting.

# 328 - March 21, 2022, Linda Dorfmont on "Tax Time as Usual in These Times Unusual."

# 327 - February 21, 2022, Joseph Miranda on "The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom." Tentative.

# 000 - January 17, 2022. No meeting due to municipal Covid restrictions.

    2021

# 326 - December 20, 2021, Marc Ang on "The Education Freedom Act."

# 325 - November 15, 2021, Joseph Miranda on "Afghan Post-Mortem: Failure Abroad, Disintegration at Home."

# 324 - October 18, 2021, Ray Acosta reviews Major Barbara.

# 323 - September 20, 2021, Stephen C. Smith on "School Choice."

# 322 - August 16, 2021, Joseph Miranda on "Wargaming and Geopolitics: The Canceled Presentation Arises."

# 321 -- July 19, 2021, Brenda and Paul Chabot on "Conservativemove Relocation Services." (by video conference)

# 320 -- June 21, 2021, Ray Acosta on "How to Keep a Relationship Alive."

# 319 -- May 17, 2021, Terry McIntyre on "Unschooling."

# 318 -- April 19, 2021, Victor Koman on "The Agorist Archives: Preserving the Legacy of SEK3."

# 317 -- March 15, 2021, Joseph Miranda on "Agorism-21."

# 316 -- February 15, 2021, Linda Dorfmont on "The Effect of New Tax Policy on the Economy: How to Prepare."

# 000 -- January 18, 2021 -- No meeting due to coronavirus shut down of venue.

    2020

# 000 -- December 21, 2020 -- No meeting due to coronavirus shut down of venue.

# 315 -- November 16, 2020, Jay Jones on "General Election Review."

# 314 -- October 19, 2020, Stephen C. Smith on "2020 Election Preview."

# 313 -- September 21, 2020, Ray Acosta on "Elfego Baca."

# 312 -- August 17, 2020, Joseph Miranda.

# 000 -- July 20, 2020 -- No meeting due to coronavirus shut down of venue.

# 311 -- June 15, 2020, Jay Jones on "Nationalism and Populism."

# 000 -- May 18, 2020 -- No meeting due to coronavirus shut down of venue.

# 000 -- April 20, 2020 -- No meeting due to corounavirus shut down of venue.

# 000 -- March 16, 2020 -- No meeting due to coronavirus shut down of venue.

# 310 -- February 17, 2020, Stephen Frank on "Presidential Primary Election Preview."

# 300 -- January 20, 2020, Terry Brussel on "Professor De La Paz and the Lunar Revolution."

    2019

# 308 -- December 16, 2019, Andrea Schreiber on "Romania."

# 307 -- November 18, 2019, Jonathan Jaech on "Ethereum and the Corporate Dragons."

# 306 -- October 21, 2019, Speaker TBA. Topic: "Brexit 2.0."

# 305 -- September 16, 2019, Nancy Shiffrin on "New Issues in Publishing."

# 304 -- August 19, 2019, Dr. J. David Lehman on "Creation, Cults, World Religions, Freedom, and Education."

# 303 -- July 15, 2019, Stan Ackerman on "The Metaphysics of Ayn Rand."

# 302 -- June 17, 2019, Marc Ang on "Curriculum Calamity: Progressive Propaganda in the Classroom." (25th Anniversary of KHC)

# 301 -- May 20, 2019, Olivier Schreiber on "Exploding Historical Cliches."

# 300 -- April 15, 2019, Brock d'Avignon and Melinda Pillsbury-Foster on "The Freedom Plan and Interactive TV."

# 291 -- July 16, 2018, Elliot Graham on "The Most Important Election Ever."

# 290 -- June 18, 2018, Linda Dorfmont on "Tax Law Analysis/1040 Workshop."

# 289 -- May 21, 2018, Joe Panzarello on "Taking Back California."

# 288 -- April 16, 2018, Prof. Kamran Abedini on "Iranian, American and Iranian-American."

# 287 -- March 15, 2018, Tom Palzer "An Update on Efforts to Stop 'Two Two' Ballot Initiatives."

# 286 -- February 18, 2018, Nickolas Wildstar, Candidate for Governor of California.

# 285 -- January 15, 2018, Terry Brussel and Paul Gibbons on Atlas Shrugged.

    2017

# 284 -- December 18, 2017, Ryan Fobel on "Transposition: The Theological Virtue of Hope."

# 283 -- November 20, 2017, Tom Palzer on "Stop 'Top Two' Ballot Initiatives."

# 282 -- October 16, 2017, Bob Weber on "Two and a Half Cheers for Global Warming."

# 281 -- September 18, 2017, Jaak Treiman on "NATO, Article Five, and the Future of the Atlantic Alliance."

 # 280 -- August 21, 2017, Joseph Miranda on "The Deep State."

# 279 -- July 17, 2017, Ray Acosta on "The Tampico Affair and the Occupation of Veracruz."

# 278 -- June 19, 2017, Craig Huey hosts an "Election Forum: What Went Wrong in California and What We Can Do About It."

# 277 -- May 15, 2017, Emily Cutler from Southern Californians Against Forced Treatment.

# 276 -- April 17, 2017, Brad Linaweaver on "The Two Richards." [Annual SEK3 Memorial Lecture]

# 275 -- March 20, 2017, Angela McArdle, LP Candidate, 34th Congressional District.

# 274 -- February 20, 2017, Jonathan Jaech on "Voluntary Law II: The Uruleu Experiment for Organizing Libertarian Communities Within and Beyond Statist Empires."

# 273 -- January 16, 2017, Joseph Miranda on "U.S. Policy Toward Russia & Its Domestic Impact."

    2016

# 272 -- December 19, 2016, Linda Dorfmont on "Year End Tax Planning."

# 271 -- November 21, 2016, Bob Weber on "An Election Review."

# 270 -- October 17, 2016, Mike Everling on "An October Surprise?"

# 269 -- September 19, 2016, Baron Bruno, Candidate for State Assembly, 62nd District.

# 268 -- August 15, 2016, Honor Mimi Robson, Candidate for State Senate, 33rd District.

# 267 -- July 18, 2016, Gail Lightfoot on "Breaking the Barrier."

# 266 -- June 20, 2016, Dr. Gary Chartier on "The Possibility of a Brexit and Its Effects."

# 265 -- May 16, 2016, Ray Acosta on "The Cristero War."

# 264 -- April 18, 2016, Richard Boddie on "How 'The Donald' Might Make the LP the Other Party."

# 263 -- March 21, 2016, Joe Miranda on "Secret Battles and Weird Wars."

# 262 -- February 15, 2016, David Cole on "Republican Party Animal."

# 261 -- January 18, 2016, Ted Brown on "The State of the LPC."

    2015

# 260 -- December 21, 2015, Jerry Jewett on "The Cost of Liberty."

# 259 -- November 16, 2015, Joseph Miranda on "Challenge to Liberty in the 21st Century."

# 258 -- October 19, 2015, Patrick Bowers "Doing Business in Liberland."

# 257 -- September 21, 2015, Jaak Treiman on "Foreign Aid."

# 256 -- August 17, 2015, Nick Hankoff on "U.S. Foreign Policy: Beyond Barbarian Fantasies."

# 255 -- July 20, 2015, Alan Pyeatt on "Current Issues in Indian Country."

# 254 -- June 15, 2015, Bob Weber on "What Genetic Testing Tells Us About the History of the Human Race, or, How an African species of hairless apes left Africa, survived disasters and ice ages, and came to populate the world.

# 253 -- May 18, 2015, Will Otey on "Liberland: The Newest Nation on Earth."

# 252 -- April 20, 2015, Linda Dorfmont on "Secrets of the IRS: Tax Time Issues."

# 251 -- March 16, 2015, Joe Miranda on "Liberty and Law Enforcement."

# 250 -- February 16, 2015, Dr. David Schrader on "The Rise and Demise of Empires: Are We Next to Fall?"

# 249 -- January 19, 2015, Terry Brussel and Paul Gibbons on "Plural Marriage."

    2014

# 248 -- December 15, 2014, Peter Choi & Stephen C. Smith on "Los Angeles Election and Policy Review."

# 247 -- November 17, 2014, Pamela Donnelly on "Common Core Education Standards."

# 246 -- October 20, 2014, Carey Wedler on "Towards Liberty: A Personal Journey."

# 245 -- September 15, 2014, Marcy Guzman from TeaPac.net of Pasadena on "The Tea Party Is in the House."

# 244 -- August 18, 2014, Bob Weber on "Conspiracy Theories vs. Conspiracy Facts: The Uses and Misuses of Conspiracy Theories."

# 243 -- July 21, 2014, Geo McCalip on "Taking on the System: A Report from the Front."

# 242 -- June 16, 2014, J. Kent Hastings, Brad Linaweaver, Michael B. Everling, J. Neil Schulman on "The KHC's 20th Anniversary."

# 241 -- May 19, 2014, Don Meyer on "The Deep Web."

# 240 -- April 21, 2014, Chason Chaffin on "Federated Services."  [SEK3 Memorial Lecture]

# 239 -- March 17, 2014, Dallas Legan II on "TOR and the Noir Side of the Net."

# 238 -- February 17, 2014, Edward Plumb on "The Movies: How Safe for Libertarians?"

# 237 -- January 20, 2014, Marie-Paul Baxiu and Albert Roman on "The Epoch Times."

    2013

# 236 -- December 16, 2013, Lawrence D. Goldberg on "What Color Are Your Assets?"

# 235 -- November 18, 2013, Terry McIntyre on "Separation of School and State: Why and How?"

# 234 -- October 21, 2013, Jonathan Jaech on "The Development of Law for Voluntary Law Societies."

# 233 -- September 16, 2013, Ray Acosta on "Ricardo Flores Magon: From Classical Liberal to Anarchist."

# 232 -- August 19, 2013, Terry Brussel and Paul Gibbons on "A Course In Moral Philosophy."

# 231 -- July 15, 2013, Bruce Herschensohn on "U.S. Foreign Policy."

# 230 -- June 17, 2013, Bob Weber on "John Stuart Mill and the Failure of Classical Liberalism."

# 229 -- May 20, 2013, Geo. McCalip on "The Traffic Tickets for Revenue Scam, an Update."

# 228 -- April 15, 2013, Craig Huey on "The Growing Economic Nightmare and How You Can Restore the American Dream of Prosperity."

# 227 -- March 18, 2013, Lawrence Goldberg on "Investing IN and FOR the Future."

# 226 -- February 18, 2013, Howard Hinman on "Discovering the Secrets of Energy: What the Powers That Were Do Not Want You to Know."

# 225 -- January 21, 2013, George Clayton Johnson on "Going for the Glory."

    2012

# 224 -- December 17, 2012, Frank Ozak and Gwenn Wycoff on "Survival Through Family Unity."

# 223 -- November 19, 2012, William H. Patterson Jr. on "The Perils of Publishing."

# 222 -- October 15, 2012, Dallas Legan II and Bob Weber on "Polifix: Movies About Politics." [Hollywood Theme Month]

# 221 -- September 17, 2012, Butler Shaffer on "Where Do We Go from Here?"

# 220 -- August 20, 2012, Jay Jones on "A Theory of Conspiracy."

# 219 -- July 16, 2012, Edward Bowers on "Referendum on '13."

# 217 -- June 18, 2012, Matthew DeBord on "Bitcoin Digital Currency: A Decentralized Online Money System."

# 215 -- May 21, 2012, Terry Brussel, Paul Gibbons, and John DeChancie on "Reflections on The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress."

# 214 -- April 16, 2012, Paul Gibbons and Bob Weber on "The Myth of the Rule of Law." [8th Samuel Edward Konkin III Memorial Lecture]

# 213 -- March 19, 2012, Brad Linaweaver on his "Sounds of Liberty radio show and Mondo Cult 3 magazine." [Award Night: The SEK3 Memorial Chauntecleer]

# 212 -- February 20, 2012, Howard Hinman on "The Secrets of MERS and the Massive Mortgage Meltdown -- Latest Developments."

# 211 -- January 16, 2012, Bob Weber on "Three Conspiracies: Two I Don't Believe in and One I Do."

    2011

# 210 -- December 19, 2011, Don Meyer on "Crisis in Counterpoint: Another View of 9/11, or, What Really Happened at Building 7?"

# 209 -- November 21, 2011, Will Otey on "Freedom Is Not for Everyone: Creating a New Libertarian Country"

# 208 -- October 17, 2011, Richard B. Boddie on "SEK3 Was Right After All"

# 207 -- September 19, 2011, Karl Hess IV on "Whither Conservation in the 21st Century: More Government or More Liberty?"

# 206 -- August 15, 2011, Howard Hinman on "The Secrets of MERS and the Massive Mortgage Meltdown."

# 205 -- July 18, 2011, Roger Bissell on "The Logic of Liberty: Aristotle, Nolan, Rand, Rothbard, and the Political Spectrum."

# 204 -- June 20, 2011, Terry Brussel, Greg Barnes, Rachel Hope on "Libertarian Relationships''

# 203 -- May 16, 2011, Ben Pleasants on "From Eroticism to Pornography"

# 202 -- April 18, 2011, J. Neil Schulman on Atlas Shrugged, the Movie.

# 201 -- March 21, 2011, Gary Chartier on "The Conscience of an Anarchist."  [Award Night: The SEK3 Memorial Chauntecleer]

# 200 -- February 21, 2010,Tibor Machan on "Is Democracy for Everybody?"

# 199 -- January 17, 2011, George McCalip updatea "Fomenting Revolution for Fun and Profit."

    2010

# 198 -- December 20, 2010, Brad Linaweaver on "The Libertarian Vanguard."

# 197 -- November 15, 2010, Ray Acosta on "The Mexican Revolution."

# 196 -- October 18, 2010, Sharon Presley on "Standing Up to Experts and Authorities: How to Avoid Being Intimidated, Manipulated, and Abused."

# 195 -- September 20, 2010, Leon Weinstein on "Up from Socialism."

# 194 -- August 16, 2010, William H. Patterson Jr. on "The Robert A. Heinlein Biography."

# 193 -- July 19, 2010, Richard Newcombe on "Why I'm leaving L.A. and taking creators with me."

# 192 -- June 21, 2010, Will Otey on "Secession."

# 191 -- May 17, 2010, Brock d'Avignon "Free Market Universal Comprehensive Health Care."

# 190 -- April 19, 2010, Bob Weber on "Four Heroes of Liberty: William Hazlitt, H.L. Mencken, Beethoven, and Goya." [7th Samuel Edward Konkin III Memorial Lecture]

# 189 -- March 18, 2010, John Goode on "Galambos and the Free Enterprise Institute."  [Award Night: The SEK3 Memorial Chauntecleer]

# 188 -- February 15, 2010, Howard Hinman on ""Debt, Hard Currency, and Capital Formation in the Age of a Greater Depression."

# 187 -- January 18, 2010, Yossi Khen on "Israel-Palestine: Is Peace Possible?  A Two (Viable) State Solution."
 

    2009

# 186 -- December 21, 2009, George McCalip on "Fomenting Revolution for Fun and Profit."

# 185 -- November 16, 2009, J. Neil Schulman on "Are We Alongside Night?"

# 184 -- October 19, 2009, J. Kent Hastings on "Sound of Liberty" with Charles Hammill and Lydia van Vogt.

# 183 -- September 21, 2009, Ed Bowers on "Dollar Cost Averaging, or How to Predict the Future for Fun and Profit."

# 182 -- August 17, 2009, Chuck McGlawn on "Reclaiming the American Right: The Roadmap to Liberty."

# 181 -- July 20, 2009, Zachary Bright on "Liberty: What's It Good For?"

# 180 -- June 15, 2009, Frank Ozak and Gwenn Wycoff on "Trusts and Heirs' Rights, Part 2."

# 179 -- May 18, 2009, Nancy Shiffrin on "Anais Nin: Individualist, Thinker, Creativity Advocate, Hot Babe."

# 178 -- April 20, 2009, Jerry Jewett on "J.S. Mill and Emma Goldman." (6th SEK III Memorial Lecture)

# 177 -- March 16, 2009, Deake Hargrave and J. Kent Hastings on "A Nuclear Iran."

# 176 -- February 16, 2009, Bruce Cohen on "Foreign Policy: Achilles's Heel of the Libertarian Party?"

# 175 -- January 19, 2009, John Walsh on "Los Angeles City Election Preview"  (re: the Feb 3rd election)
 

    2008

# 174 -- December 15, 2008, Jason Gonella on "UberKonspiracy."

# 173 -- November 17, 2008, Art Olivier on "A 2008 Election Review.

# 172 -- October 20, 2008, Ben Pleasants on "The Bunker Hill Novels: Fante, Bukowski, and Miles."

# 171 -- September 15, 2008, Damon Packard on "My Work as an Underground, Gonzo, Indie Filmmaker."

# 170 -- August 18, 2008, Dr. Joe O'Neill on "George Orwell's Politics and the English Language: An Update."

# 169 -- July 21, 2008, Bob Weber on "How libertarians Lost Their Mojo, and How They Can Get it Back."

# 168 -- June 16, 2008, William Norman Grigg on "Liberty in Eclipse: The Emerging Homeland Security State."

# 167 -- May19, 2008, Eric Fine on "Current Trends in the Democratic Party."

# 166 -- April 21, 2008, Brad Linaweaver on "Reminiscences of William F. Buckley, Jr." 5th Samuel Edward Konkin III Memorial Lecture.

# 165 -- March 17, 2008, Howard Hinman on "Animal Rights vs Abuse: What are the Rights of Animals in an Age of Pit Bull Fighting Celebrities?"  With Loy LeFevre, Kent Hastings, Mary Christian, and Howard Hinman.

# 164 -- February 18, 2008, John Walsh on "Eminent Domain Revisited: How We beat the Developers and Their Kept Media at Their Own Game."

# 163 -- January 21, 2008, Frank Ozak and Gwen Wycoff on "Trusts and Heirs' Rights."

    2007

# 162 -- December 17, 2007, Victor Koman on "How Robert A. Heinlein Ruined My Life."

# 161 -- November 19, 2007, McCall Jones III on "Rand and Heinlein."

# 160 -- October 15, 2007, Mike Everling, J. Kent Hastings, Brad Linaweaver on "Old Enough to be Bar Mitzvahed: The KHC at 13 1/2; Recollections on the Contributions of Samuel Edward Konkin III to the Club and 'This Movement of Ours'"

# 159 -- September 24, 2007, Jessie Lilley on "The Mondo Cult #2 Publication Celebration."

# 158 -- August 20, 2007, J. Kent Hastings on "The Heinlein Centennial Convention."

# 157 -- July 16, 2007, Thomas M. Sipos on "Should Libertarians Build Alliances With the Left?"

# 156 -- June 18, 2007, Bill Patterson on "Robert A. Heinlein: Centennial Man" (13th Anniv. meeting)

# 155 -- May 21, 2007, Paul Gibbons on "Line Marriage or Plural Marriage, and 'Live the Dream'."

# 154 -- April 16, 2007, Brad Linaweaver on "Unsatisfactory Empire."  This is the 4th Samuel Edward Konkin III Memorial Lecture.

# 153 -- March 19, 2007, Howard Hinman on "Gold Repositories (Don't Call Them Bank): Past Performance, Present Perils, and Future Prospects."  SEK3 Memorial Chauntecleer Award to be announced.

# 152 -- February 19, 2007, J. Neil Schulman on "My Wide and Varied Career as a Libertarian Philosopher, Writer, Entrepreneur, Activist, and Artist."

# 151 -- January 15, 2007, Jacek Kugler on "The Horse in Midstream: The War Presidency, Iraq, and a Future Free From Terror.
 

    2006

# 150 -- December 18, 2006, Linda Dorfmont on "Government by God: What Happens When There Is No Separation of Church and State."

# 149 -- November 20, 2006, Richard Winger reviews the mid-term elections.

# 148 -- October 16, 2006, Ben Pleasants on "Edward Dmytryk's Hollywood Dialectic."

# 147 -- September 18, 2006, Tim Starr on "Yes, Virginia, there are such things as Wars of Liberation."

# 146 -- August 21, 2006, Martin Young on "The Totalitarian Ego and Self-Deception."

# 145 -- July 17, 2006, Paul Gibbons on "There Is No State."

# 144 -- June 19, 2006, Bob Weber, Brad Linaweaver, and Victor Komon on "The Moral Dimension in U.S. Foreign Policy."

# 143 -- May 15, 2006, Brad Linaweaver and Thomas M. Sipos on "The Libertarian Effect on Culture: How Influential Are We?"

# 142 -- April 17, 2006, Chuck Hammill on "The Weaponshops of Isher."

# 141 -- March 20, 2006, John Walsh on "The Key to Kelo." With Bob Blue.

# 140 -- February 20, 2006, Howard Hinman on "The Future of Transportation."

# 139 -- January 16, 2006, Joe Cobb on "Historical Perspectives on the Libertarian Party."
 

    2005

# 138 -- December 19, 2005, Bob Weber on "The Economics of the Studio System in the Film Industry."

# 137 -- November 21, 2005, Barbara Branden on "Rand and Feminism."

# 136 -- October 17, 2005, Tracy Tormé on "Sliding It in: The Problem of the Politically Incorrect Hollywood Producer-Writer."

# 135 -- September 19, 2005, Dafydd ab Hugh on "The Dooming of America: Why Everything We Know About the Future is Wrong."

# 134 -- August 15, 2005, Victor Koman on "What Goes Up…Could Stay There: The Coming Boom in Space Tourism."

# 133 --  July 18, 2005, Dr. Julian Edney on "A New Theory of Greed."

# 132 -- June 20, 2005, Joseph Miranda on "The China Syndrome: Geopolitical Meltdown as China Covets African Oil and Trade?"

# 131 -- May 16, 2005, Sharon Presley on "Voltairine de Cleyre."  Book signing.

# 130 -- April 18, 2005, The Samuel Edward Konkin Memorial Lecture: Arthur Byron Cover.

# 129 -- March 21, 2005, J. Kent Hastings and Brad Linaweaver on "Anarquia."

# 128 -- February 21, 2005, Dr. Kelley L. Ross on "Rand in Perspective."

# 127 -- January 17, 2005, Dr. John Hospers, "Ayn Rand and Her Circle."

    2004

# 126 -- December 20, 2004, Ron Branson of J.A.I.L. for Judges.