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Happy Secession Day, Virginia!

Read the Virginia Secession Petition and Access Project '76 Audio below Mandeville, LA - In the process of ratifying the U.S. Constitution, the most celebrated, lengthy and heated debate was held in the Virginia Convention which convened on 4 June, 1788 in the old State House in Richmond. Seeing that there would not be enough room to accommodate the 187 delegates and thousands of interested citizens, the convention moved to the […]

April 17, 2013 1

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We Have An Empire… Should We Just Face It?

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - According to Daniel McCarthy's post at the American Conservative, "How a Federal Republic Becomes an Ideological Empire", little r [r]epublicans and localists need to just drop your delusions, face the facts, and become good little nationalists yourselves. Daniel makes many good points about HOW we got to this point, including how the Founders, especially James Madison, could not have predicted many of […]

April 16, 2013 3

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Would Ben Franklin Trade Liberty for the NSA Data Center in Utah?

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - Certainly not. The NSA "data center" in Utah will hold enough "data" to fill so many iPhone 5's that they could be stacked from here to the moon and back. The NSA says the Utah Data Center is a facility for the intelligence community that will have a major focus on cyber security. The agency will neither confirm nor deny specifics. Some […]

April 15, 2013 8

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You Have A New Follower! The IRS

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - The Internal Revenue Service is now saying they can read your e-mail, your private messages on site like Twitter and Facebook, and your text messages... all without a warrant. How can they do this you ask? Well, they're citing the 1986 Electronic Privacy Act, where you only need a subpoena, that doesn't need to be issued by a judge, and covers any […]

April 11, 2013 5

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The “Evil Liberal Media” Does Not Control You

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - People seem to be under some kind of assumption that if they could just stop the "liberal media" crowd (Chris Matthews and the rest of the crew at MSNBC) that we'd be much better off, that they some how run the country and without them "we" would all be fat and happy and well off because "we" would be winning every debate. […]

April 10, 2013 5

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British Tories and Conservatives Today, Burkes of a Feather?

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - Be sure and check out today's Founders TV as Mike compares and contrasts British Tories (who are probably not as evil as you think from "1776, Revolution, killing Americans" time) to modern day conservatives. We also go over what conservatives in the 1950s should have been studying: William F Buckley or go back to the teachings of Edmund Burke? Many Conservative Americans […]

April 9, 2013 7

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We Are Descendants of Rome Whether We Like It Or Not

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - The framers of the Constitution were well aware of what happened to the Roman Republic and then Empire, and they wanted to avoid the same fate and avoid having another Ceaser ruling the United States. George Washington, sometimes called the American Cincinnatus because of his similarity to the Roman dictator Cincinnatus because of their willingness to give up near-absolute power, was the […]

April 8, 2013 2

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Interview with Kevin Gutzman: Is Establishing a Religion Constitutional?

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - North Carolina has a bill that, in one of it's clauses, tells the Federal Government that the state CAN establish it's own religion. But is this Constitutional? There's a lot of lawyers saying it isn't, but they're quoting many long dead judges who have mis-interpreted the Constitution over the years. Professor Gutzman says that it is Constiutional... but is it the right […]

April 4, 2013 1

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Truancy Law: Making Your Children Property of The State

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - Why would you need a truancy law if going to school was the responsibility of the Parents? Can't the parents decide if their children can go to school without worrying about being fined? Well, when the state controls the school and the state decides that children must go to school because their public schools are the GREATEST THING EVER CREATED, then the […]

April 3, 2013 4