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PaleCon 101: WE Better Learn Self-Government Again Before the Crash

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Going back to Thomas Fleming and PaleoCon 101. He spent decades trying to apply formulas to the differences between men and women when all he had to do was look it up in fairy tales. You have to have these vainglorious political science formulas. These are the same people that gave us, by the way, Center for American Progress and all the rest of […]

October 2, 2012 26

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Interview with Mark Steyn

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - There's a lot more to Mike's interview with Mark Steyn, from Christmas albums to American banking, but this quote just about sums it up: "We have a man under Mrs. Obama’s anti-obesity campaign, a man who sits in a basement in Washington somewhere who is the commissar of school lunches for a nation of 300 million people. A couple months back, he reduced the […]

September 28, 2012 71

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Conservatives Don’t Want a Constitutional Government and Are Not in Touch With Founders (Like John Quincy Adams)

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - There was a candidate that ran for President that made the Constitution the centerpiece of his campaign. He was told to beat it by many in this audience, certainly by vast majorities in other talk radio audiences. His name is Ron Paul. They told him they didn’t want to listen to him, didn’t want to hear about the Constitution. “Yeah, yeah, I agree with […]

September 27, 2012 17

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Claes Ryn – Jacobinism is America’s Religion Thanks to Decepticons

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Claes Ryn is a professor of history at Catholic University in D.C. He’s been on the show before. He is well versed in American history, brilliant man when it comes to the intellectual basis of what we call conservatism, and there is an intellectual basis for it, although these days it’s difficult to find, but it is out there. At one point in time, […]

September 26, 2012 27

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Russell Kirk: Restore Religion To Our Culture or Perish

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - The great Russell Kirk, the father of the modern conservative movement, who towards the end of his life saw what I just described and said somebody needs to stand up and say something about this. Here’s at least part of what he said. This is a 35,000 word essay. I’ve shared about 400 so far. How about another 400? He’s talking about our culture, […]

September 25, 2012 29

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Gentlemanly Conversation Is Not Weird, It Is Necessary

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Javier from Texas called in today and had a nice, gentlemanly conversation with Mike, here is a snippet of what he had to say about what he's learned from listening to the show, "When I tell people I’m conservative, and I usually use conservative more than Republican because of what I’ve learned from you, the little r versus the big R. I think I’m […]

September 25, 2012 33

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Why Romney Isn’t Selling In PaleoCon Libertarian Circles

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - If you wanted to do all these things and you wanted to actually participate or make these things in force of law or effective, then the path is clear. You have two choices. Article V is still out there and still to be used. The other one is to dissolve the political bands which have connected you with another. If you can’t see that […]

September 24, 2012 31

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Don’t Incorporate the First Amendment

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Nobody called the first ten amendments the Bill of Rights until incorporation was invented in the early part of the 20th century. Amendment One is part of a suite of twelve amendments that were proposed in the first congress and sent to the states for ratification. The sole and explicit purpose of those amendments were that the states that ratified begrudgingly -- like New […]

September 21, 2012 29

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How to Define a Conservative and Liberal

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - The true conservative in the mold of [r]epublicans like Madison and Washington and Taylor of Caroline and the Englishman Burke and 20th century versions you would find like Tolkien and C.S. Elliott and Russell Kirk and others, they would not recognize today’s conservatives. I think that says an awful lot of bad things about today’s conservatives. I used to ask the question: what is […]

September 21, 2012 35