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Free Phone Friday Pile of Prep

Mandeville, LA - "[I]f I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened. What is more, the events of the Russian Revolution can only be understood now, at the end of the century, against the background of what has since occurred in the rest […]

October 18, 2013 15

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This Day In Founders History – 18 October

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October 18, 2013 29

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Entitlement And Largesse Make Today’s Generation The Worst Ever

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – We love to call those guys who were denied access to the World War II Memorial the greatest generation, even though I say that the generation of men born between 1750 and 1780 were probably the greatest generation. I mean no offense to the great generation of the last century. We call them the greatest generation. Why? Why do we call them that, for […]

October 17, 2013 13

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“Hey Everyone, Just Got a New Data Center, Please Text Me Your Contact Info! K THNX!” -NSA

One of the activities that will continue to be funded, that no one seems to care about, is the NSA spyfare state. The NSA is collecting millions of contacts from YOUR e-mail and instant message address books, not just in the United States, but world wide. During a single day the NSA can collect info on hundreds of thousands e-mail addresses from multiple services. Why do they need contact info […]

October 17, 2013 11

The U.S. Has Been Defaulting On Its Debt For Years And That’s Not Changing Anytime Soon

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If we go back to October the 11th, interview given by James Grant of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, you would have found this posted at the Washington Compost under the headline “Has The United States Ever Defaulted?” Grant’s answer is: Yes, and it’s going to default again; it’s inevitable. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…

October 17, 2013 25

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Default Deschmalt – The Sun Will Rise, The Moon Will Shine, And The Debt Will Still Be There

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Anthony Sanders, our friend the economist at George Mason’s Mercatus Center has been blogging about this. I asked him for some charts yesterday and he put charts together. You can find them in today’s Pile of Prep under the headline “Confounded Interest,” what Sanders says about the shutdown. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…

October 17, 2013 32

The Morning After Pile of Prep, Ready For Independence NOW?

Mandeville, LA - Mike Church's daily Pile of Prep, chock full of the why we'll need StoneWall Jackson types to lead us toward a new Independence movement 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. "To make a government requires no great prudence. Settle the seat of power; teach obedience and the work is done. To give freedom is still more easy. […]

October 17, 2013 10

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This Day In Founders History – 17 October

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October 17, 2013 22

The Great Louisiana EBT Heist

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – What happened in that Wal-Mart in Louisiana on Saturday? This is being dubbed now as the “Louisiana heist” in the towns of Mansfield and Springhill. I don’t live near either one of the two. What happened? The EBT card system apparently, run by the Xerox Corporation, went caput for a little while while the servers were being updated or whatever it was that Xerox […]

October 16, 2013 33

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Yankee Northerner Timothy Pickering Supported Secession Of The North

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Pickering sees as a solution that the Northern way of life, in order to be preserved, must separate from the Southern. How inconvenient is that statement!? The Northern way of life is in jeopardy by the Democrats of the aristocratic South, as he called them. This, of course, after what should be celebrated and enjoyed by every American as the greatest revolution in the […]

October 16, 2013 49

They Love It, They Love It Not – Republicans Need To Pick A Side On Obamacare

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – There are a lot more of the Ryans and Boehners and Cantors than there are of the Gohmerts, Amashes, and Massies. Legislatively speaking, you don’t have a leg to stand on. The other part of this is, and I’ve been pointing this out for the last two and a half years: Why are people like Paul Ryan and others running around saying they have […]

October 16, 2013 38

Wednesday 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. “Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine […]

October 16, 2013 9

This Day In Founders History – 16 October

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October 16, 2013 17

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

October 15, 2013 12

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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…

October 15, 2013 31

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 […]

October 15, 2013 18

“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 […]

October 15, 2013 16

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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 […]

October 15, 2013 32

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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. […]

October 15, 2013 26

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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 […]

October 15, 2013 26

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 […]

October 15, 2013 2

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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 […]

October 14, 2013 21

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 […]

October 14, 2013 36

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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 […]

October 14, 2013 13

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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.

October 14, 2013 31

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. […]

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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 […]

October 14, 2013 18

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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 […]

October 11, 2013 36

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…

October 11, 2013 61

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 […]

October 11, 2013 17

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This Day In Founders History – 11 October

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October 11, 2013 17

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 […]

October 10, 2013 22

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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 […]

October 10, 2013 39

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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.

October 10, 2013 17

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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 […]

October 10, 2013 30

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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 […]

October 10, 2013 14

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 […]

October 10, 2013 14

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“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 […]

October 10, 2013 23

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