Founders Quotes Edmund Burke On Minding Your Manners “Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.” - Edmund Burke todayOctober 15, 2013 4
insert_link Transcripts Tea Party, Get Out Of Town Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – But then imagine an alternate reality in which figures like Joe Lieberman and John Kerry were stuck trying to lead a Democratic Party whose backbenchers were mostly net-roots-funded fans of Michael Moore, and you have a decent analog for where the post-Bush Republicans have ended up. Check out today’s transcript for the rest… todayOctober 15, 2013 23
insert_link Church Doctrine EBT Card Users Pay It Backwards Mandeville, LA - Church Doctrine - In his essay “The Law”, Frederic Bastiat identified the fatal tendencies of free people. “[T]here is also another tendency that is common among people. When they can, they wish to live and prosper at the expense of others.” This helps explain why the number of Americans on Food Stamps has expanded from 25 million in 2008 to 47 million this past June. While this […] todayOctober 15, 2013 7
insert_link Transcripts “It Doesn’t Take A Majority To Make A Rebellion…” Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – There were letters that Henry was writing to Washington warning Washington. I’ll put this in terms that modern people can understand: Hey, dude, we were supposed to raise a bunch of militia dudes here and they were supposed to be all ginned up and excited about fighting the Brits and independence and all that sort of jazz. Yeah, it’s not happening here anymore. Check […] todayOctober 15, 2013 9
insert_link Transcripts A Dysfunctional Citizenry Concerned About Their Dysfunctional Government Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – We’re going to step into the King Dude’s wayback machine and go back two days ago to the Gallup organization’s website. If you were perusing that particular poll on who it is that is to blame for the temporary interruption in non-essential wealth transfer payments, you may have stumbled upon this oxymoron: “Dysfunctional Government Surpasses Economy as Top U.S. Problem.” I couldn’t stop laughing […] todayOctober 15, 2013 6
insert_link Transcripts Climate Change Is Real, But It’s Not Caused By Arrogant Men Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – In case you didn’t hear the news yesterday, we’re all sentenced to die. We’re all going to die anyways, but some of us might have thought we could became centenarians, live to be 100 years old. Well, I’m not going to make it to 100 because, according to the United Nations, I’m going to die in a horrific climate apocalypse in the year 2047. […] todayOctober 15, 2013 12
insert_link Founders Television Consumerism Will Save The American Economy! Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - There's a headline at cbsnews.com that says that "Can US Consumers Save The Economy?". But isn't consumerism what's wrong with America? Isn't there another school of thought, from Wilhelm Röpke and others, that says that consuming will not get us out of debt? So this article is nothing more than an attempt at trying to get Americans to try and get their […] todayOctober 15, 2013 8
Pile Of Prep Tuesday Pile of Prep Mandeville, LA - Mike Church's daily Pile of Prep, chock full of the why we'll need StoneWall Jackson types to lead us toward where we want our culture & community to be with Mike's historical viewpoint to help make sense of it all plus other [r]epublican stories used to perform the Mike Church Show on Sirius/XM Patriot channel 125. "It seems everybody is looking for better answers to today’s problems; we want a revelation. But the problem is; we are reluctant […] todayOctober 15, 2013
insert_link Transcripts Porn And The Rom-Com Movies, Two Sides of the Same Fake Coin Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Then there is this one from Gracy Olmstead at American Conservative Magazine under the headline “Pornography and Sentimentality: The Ruins of Beauty.” This is a really good essay. Ms. Olmstead’s point is, not only does pornography destroy the beauty and the beautiful that is the sex life that God confers upon married people, but equally so do “rom-com movies,” as they’re called, the romantic […] todayOctober 14, 2013 10
insert_link Transcripts Why We’re Called to Give The Shirts Off Our Backs To The Poor & The Government Isn’t Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – To say financial ruin and financial decline is in our future if we don’t borrow more money is to equate our financial enterprises with debt and with government servitude. God calls us to Give The Shirts Off Our Backs to the poor. Is that worthy of a manly sentiment from free people or is that a bunch of people who probably lost their way […] todayOctober 14, 2013 10
insert_link Transcripts A Government Bailout Is NOT Economic Activity Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The economic pain that is being felt is not actual economic pain. This is what drives me nuts about this. It is the actions of the State that are going to be curtailed, which are different than the actions of the private sector, as it is known. Why isn’t that being said? Check out today’s transcript for the rest… Begin Mike Church Show Transcript […] todayOctober 14, 2013 7
insert_link Transcripts The Nation That Borrows Together, Pigs Out Together Now, because we’ve run out of wilderness to conquer, now the wilderness that we conquer are teaching children that they can’t skateboard or can’t do anything else without proper padding and proper safety procedures and all that, oh but we can pigs out without safeguards. todayOctober 14, 2013 15
Pile Of Prep Monday Pile of Prep Mandeville, LA - Mike Church's daily Pile of Prep, chock full of Government Shutdown Factoids as a Republican Surrender is said to be on deck with Mike's historical viewpoint to help make sense of it all plus other [r]epublican stories used to perform the Mike Church Show on Sirius/XM Patriot channel 125. "The change in our society from Tocquevillean democratic liberty to government-enforced egalitarianism was the result of broader, deeper, and more corrupting trends than a specific change in the Constitution. […] todayOctober 14, 2013
Catholicism This Day In Founding Fathers History – 14 October 2013 This Day In Founding Fathers History – 14 October 2013 On this day in 1780, Gen. Nathanael Greene, Washington’s most able and trusted general, is named as the new commander of the Southern Army, replacing Gen. Gates. Greene then begins a strategy of rallying popular support and wearing down the British by leading Gen. Cornwallis on a six month chase through the back woods of South Carolina into North Carolina into Virginia then back into North Carolina. The British, low […] todayOctober 14, 2013 4
insert_link Transcripts Patrick Deneen Asks A Great Question: “What Is An American Conservative?” Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – There is an essay at The American Conservative Magazine website. [mocking] “Mike, you were hard on The American Conservative Magazine yesterday.” Yeah, well, I was just being honest. I don’t ask for jingoism from anyone else, so I don’t expect that anyone expects they’re going to get jingoism or Homerism from yours truly. In any event, The American Conservative Magazine’s Patrick J. Deneen posts […] todayOctober 11, 2013 18
insert_link Interviews Kevin Gutzman On 14th Amendment, Government Shutdown And More Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Let’s go to the Dude Maker Hotline. Our friend Dr. Professor Kevin Gutzman is on the line. We’re going to talk a little bit about this silliness that the president can actually act unilaterally because the 14th Amendment commands him to do so when it comes to paying the debt of the United States. Check out today’s transcript for the rest… todayOctober 11, 2013 18
Pile Of Prep Memo to GOP: A Life Lived by Polls is a Life Not Worth Living Mandeville, LA - Mike Church's daily Pile of Prep, chock full of the building momentum for secession even if Polls say it can't be done with Mike's historical viewpoint to help make sense of it all plus other [r]epublican stories used to perform the Mike Church Show on Sirius/XM Patriot channel 125. “Each of these States had a history, had an individuality. Every one was something more than a certain aggregate of square miles wherein dwelt an uncertain number of uncertain […] todayOctober 11, 2013 7
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insert_link Transcripts Obama Has Forgotten Gingrich And The Last Government Shutdown Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – There’s President Obama out there saying [mocking] “Never before in history has anyone ever used leverage to try not to raise the debt ceiling.” Gingrich is out there I guess listening to this, raising his hand and saying: Um, excuse me, we did. In 1995 and 1996, we did. I have the email blast from former Speaker Gingrich. It was an interesting read. Check […] todayOctober 10, 2013 9
insert_link Transcripts Who’s Really To Blame For The Government Shutdown? Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The Democrat Party -- again, I hate to do this in the partisan sense because I despise partisan politics. I don’t want to be a part of them, don’t want to have to talk about them, but in this instance we’re going to have to here because there is politics involved. The Democrat Party has been gaming this from the beginning, knowing that October […] todayOctober 10, 2013 20
insert_link Church Doctrine A REAL American Horror Story: The National Debt Mandeville, LA - Church Doctrine - New Orleans is a famously haunted city. The TV series American Horror Story is currently being filmed here and features a cast member named for the diabolical Delphine LaLaurie. Fans of the show delight in being scared out of their bowels by something that is as likely to happen as lightning striking them whilst inside the Superdome. todayOctober 10, 2013 7
insert_link Transcripts Where Are The Statesmen? Where Is The 2013 George Washington? Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Let’s carry the exercise out. Let’s step into the King Dude’s way forward machine. Let’s peek into the future. Let’s say the Boehner Congress caves, as they more than likely will, and they give up on the debt ceiling, give up on the spending, give up on the Affordable Care Act. Then you have resorted to, majorities of people in the several states have […] todayOctober 10, 2013 12
insert_link Founders Television The First Bill Obama Has to Pay Is… The Debt (So There’s NOT Going to Be a Default) Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - Everyone keeps worrying about whether or not the Federal Government is going default on its debt, well it's not. Congress has already approved the spending to pay the interest on the debt and the first thing Obama has to do is pay off that debt. So STOP WORRYING (or hoping) that we're going to default on our debt. What everyone is arguing […] todayOctober 10, 2013 5
Pile Of Prep Is a Republican Surrender In “Government Shutdown” On Deck? Mandeville, LA - Mike Church's daily Pile of Prep, chock full of Government Shutdown Factoids as a Republican Surrender is said to be on deck with Mike's historical viewpoint to help make sense of it all plus other [r]epublican stories used to perform the Mike Church Show on Sirius/XM Patriot channel 125. "They believed that laws were and ought to be educative, and insisted upon the centrality of virtue in a citizenry. Among the virtues most prized was frugality, and they […] todayOctober 10, 2013 7
Project '76 “These Are The Times That Try Men’s Souls” Are Still With Us Mandeville, LA - "These Are The Times That Try Men's Souls" December 23, 1776 -- for those of you that are history majors and attend your history lessons every day by visiting this radio show or by visiting MikeChurch.com and all the stuff we link to in the posts, how many of you know what was going on on December 23, 1776? The Continental Army had been thrashed. It had been thrashed, ambushed by 20,000 to 25,000 British regulars and 10,000 Hessian […] todayOctober 10, 2013 16
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insert_link Transcripts What Did You Think Decreasing The Size And Scope Of Government Would Look Like? Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Again, I fail to see why anyone that participates in, advocates for, and has been dreaming about shrinking the federal leviathan, why you are not taking the chance or the opportunity to hit the ramparts, to dig yourself in, and to encourage those that have a vote or say-so in this to hold the line. Folks, this is the battle we’ve all been waiting […] todayOctober 9, 2013 14
insert_link Transcripts It’s Not About The Party, It’s About Article I, Section 8 Of The Constitution Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If you’re a new listener, I just want to catch you up on this. I am not being partisan here. I don’t care for, as a matter of fact I despise, partisan politics. If I could do anything with the rest of my life, if I had a choice, it would be to not talk about partisan politics forever. Let’s just get that out […] todayOctober 9, 2013 12
insert_link Transcripts Thomas Paine’s Question Is Still Valid Today: Are We Slaves To The State? Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Did you hear the rest of what Paine said? If the power to tax and the power to bind in all cases whatsoever, if that is not slavery, he didn’t know what was or is. Aren’t we operating under the exact same threat that this government, this State can bind us in all cases whatsoever and that we are not free to leave it, […] todayOctober 9, 2013 8
insert_link Transcripts Interview With Dwayne Stovall, U.S. Senate Candidate From Texas Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Let us go to the Dude Maker Hotline and say hello to one of the triad of candidates for the United States Senate for the 2014 elections that I personally know. This is Dwayne Stovall, TexansForStovall.com. Check out today’s transcript for the rest… todayOctober 9, 2013 8
insert_link Founders Television Miley Cyrus and the Anti-Cult, She Can’t Be Blamed For EVERYTHING Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - We've seen some recent examples of the anti-cult, mainly at the VMA's with Miley Cyrus and her twerking incident and now her hosting of SNL. This "anti-cult" has been widely accepted in today's society, whereas actual culture (such as Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi, etc) is seen as old-fashioned and silly. Miley is the epitome of the anti-cult, but she's certainly not wholly to […] todayOctober 9, 2013 13
Pile Of Prep Government Shutdown Day 9, For GOP Media “That’s Just The Stress Talkin’ Man” Mandeville, LA - "Miley Cyrus is America’s id. She is all desire — for fame, for attention, for money — without any mediating influences like conscience, character, prudence, or taste. America celebrates her. She gets some criticism, but she can laugh it off, because she knows she’s cool. Do you doubt her importance? She hosted Saturday Night Livethis week — the apotheosis of hip." - Mona Charen AmConMag: Today's fight over the budget & debt ceiling is a future disaster for […] todayOctober 9, 2013
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insert_link Church Doctrine Common Core is Uncommonly Dumb Mandeville, LA - Church Doctrine Video - If I were conducting driver education classes and told you to be prepared to switch from safe driving techniques to the “Ricky Bobby” method you might get excited to meet Will Ferrell but as soon as that flight of fancy wore off you would wonder where the Ricky Bobby For Dummies manual was. You would thus find yourself in the same position most […] todayOctober 8, 2013 7
insert_link Transcripts David Stockman’s “Sundown In America” Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Back to David Stockman, there are a couple more stats from the “Sundown in America” essay that he wrote. You can find it in today’s Pile of Prep. If you’re not already convinced, after I read you the rollover of the debt from the first hour, Stockman isn’t finished with his rundown. I’m skipping here. This thing is 18 pages long if printed. I’m […] todayOctober 8, 2013 26
insert_link Transcripts Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind – 60 Years Later Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The question remains: What is to be done? This is where we turn to Dr. Russell Kirk and to Bruce Frohnen’s piece at The Imaginative Conservative. This is also posted in today’s Pile of Prep. Bruch Frohnen is writing about The Conservative Mind, which is 60 years old this year. Check out today’s transcript for the rest… todayOctober 8, 2013 6
insert_link Transcripts Congress Behaving Constitutionally, Seriously!? Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – In this one rare instance here, we all remain republicans but we can maybe claim that we’re Republicans now. A shocker of all shockers that Speaker John Boehner has not folded the tent, which I must say I am cheerfully impressed by. I don’t hold out any hope that he’s actually going to hold the line, but he certainly is not giving into the […] todayOctober 8, 2013 7
insert_link Founders Television Free Market Chickens Would Be Safer Than USDA Chickens Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - When you take out the one entity, in this case the USDA, that can't be sued if they approve tainted meat then you will have safer foods. Why? Because if another company was approving chickens for consumption and they screwed up, they could be sued, and they DO NOT want to be sued, eventually they'll go out of business from enough lawsuits. […] todayOctober 8, 2013 12
Pile Of Prep Obama’s “Shutdown” Stonewall Might Require Us To Go Stonewall Jackson Mandeville, LA - Mike Church's daily Pile of Prep, chock full of the why we'll need StoneWall Jackson types to lead us toward where we want our culture & community to be with Mike's historical viewpoint to help make sense of it all plus other [r]epublican stories used to perform the Mike Church Show on Sirius/XM Patriot channel 125. "What is really happening is that Washington’s machinery of national governance is literally melting down. It is the victim of 80 years of Keynesian […] todayOctober 8, 2013 11
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