December, 2012 - The Mike Church Show

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 17 December

This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. On this day in 1773, George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker, wrote of participating in the Boston Tea Party of the previous day.

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Why the Second Amendment must NOT be Incorporated

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Had Jefferson not listened to Madison, and had he listened instead to Edmund Pendleton, the senior Virginia statesman of the day instead. Pendleton wrote a very long letter to his former student -- that’s what Jefferson was at the time, a former law student of Pendleton’s -- begging him to lead the charge to have another convention to propose amendments to the Constitution. There […]

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Chivalry is Long Gone But We MUST Revive It

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - I think that the problem in the United States today is that we are not a virtuous, moral people, and that therefore we are more prone to accept non-virtuous, amoral behavior from our leaders because it looks natural and normal. We all act in a similar manner. We decry the politicians for plunging the nation into debt, but we seem perfectly comfy and happy […]

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John Taylor of Caroline – Debts Are Unnecessary to a Free People

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - What Taylor is saying is that you should only have a tariff because you have a couple duties that the general government has to discharge. You should only have the tariff so that you can raise money to do that. You should not use the tariff to enrich anyone. You should not use the tariff as a tool to try to guide commerce. Commerce […]

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Kirkpatrick Sale – Human Scale and Why Our Governments are Irreparable Until Scaled Down

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Here's a quote from the second part of Mike's interview with Kirpatrick Sale on Human Scale, be sure and check out the transcript for the rest, "The idea of human scale not just for architecture where it had played its part before, but for all our institutions, our corporations, our governments, our societies, our communities, there is a human scale at which everything works. […]

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Our Digital Age Makes Us Less Community-Centered Thus Less Human

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Consider what it is that the internet does. It desensitizes people to human concerns. You would not yell at your fellow man, in person, in the manner and would not call him or her the names. You would not insult their heritage, their parents, their children, their neighbors. Ninety-nine percent of what is done online that continually desensitizes and coarsens our discourse, cheapens it […]

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Daily Clip

It’s Almost Time for the Thelma and Louise Fiscal Cliff Dive

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Here’s a question: if Boehner and company won’t balance their books and pay their bills, why should we? Shouldn’t we follow the example of our leaders? I say that when I’m thinking of how much I may be in arrears in taxes right now, maybe some of you are. Should you actually pay it? Why don’t you just say, “Hey, I don’t owe taxes, […]

December 13, 2012 2

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Kirkpatrick Sale – Emancipation Hell, the Truth about Lincoln’s Illegal Act

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Here's a quote from Mike's interview with Kirkpatrick Sale, for the rest be sure and check out today's transcript, "The purpose of [the Emancipation Proclamation] was to destroy the Southern economy. The idea was that the slaves would rise up on the plantations and take over the plantations so that foodstuff couldn’t go to the Confederate Army, and maybe they would even start to […]

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This Day in Founder's History

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 13 December 2012

This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. In 1757 on this day, Benjamin Franklin wrote to an unknown recipient regarding a manuscript this person had written on religion, warning him not to publish the manuscript.

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