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Paul vs Paul: New Anti-Federalists Emerge

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - On May 16, Senate Democrats continued their three-year-old tradition of failing to pass a budget. But not before voting down four Republican budget plans, plus the Obama budget, which received the special honor of being dispatched unanimously. The real news? The increasing support for the budgets offered by two men named “Paul“: Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Rand Paul. The Ryan budget was defeated, 58-41. The bolder Paul […]

May 23, 2012 2

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What Is A State? And How Is It Sovereign?

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - I’ve been on this experimental tangent here for the last, I don’t know how long you’ve been listening, but I’ve been on this assignment in trying to explain what it is that makes a state and how it is that governments are formed in sovereign states. If you understand that from the Jeffersonian point of view, then to me it is impossible to reconcile […]

May 22, 2012 7

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No One Wants to Pick Asaparagus in Washington State

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Asparagus growers in eastern Washington State are scrambling to find enough workers to cash in on their crop’s rising popularity without much success. “We have a labor shortage, pure and simple,” says Dan Fazio of the Washington Farm Labor Association. Farmers are being forced to leave 10 percent of this year’s crop uncut, which is costing them, according to the state’s asparagus commissioner a […]

May 21, 2012 2

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Reagans First Job Requires Gubbmint Permit and Tax Forms at 15 Years Old

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - My baby girl goes off and she found her first job at 15 years old. She has to go get a work permit, a permission slip, from the Parish government so that they will sanction it. Of course, I and her mother have already sanctioned it, but that’s not good enough. You have to trudge off to get some bureaucrat’s approval. Actually, you’ve got […]

May 17, 2012 6

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Jeffersons Accomplishments as President vs. Today

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - The Twelfth Amendment is passed. The method of choosing electors is changed. John Taylor of Caroline actually becomes one of those members of the electoral college that ultimately voted for the reelection of President Jefferson. He was asked to write a paper. “What did your boy Jefferson do?” said the National Intelligencer. Here’s what Taylor said Jefferson had accomplished under the caption “A Defence […]

May 16, 2012 14

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The Term [r]epublican Has Been Erased from the Lexicon

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - How did the word republicanism get cleansed and almost erased from our common public consciousness and from the works of individual writers and thinkers and politicians? Not even just politicians, citizens. It is almost impossible to read a letter, to read a tract, to read a pamphlet, to read a discussion, to read a debate, to read a Supreme Court decision, and not encounter […]

May 14, 2012 7

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Conservatives Should Conserve Things Such As Marriage and Religious Rite

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Maybe instead of thinking that we should all be left alone on an island a la Lord of the Flies, to fend for ourselves, we should be thinking about conserving the things in society that are important to us, namely Marriage and Religious Rites. Marriage is a business that the State has no business being involved in. If you want to get Married, go […]

May 14, 2012 3

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Where the Jobs AREN’T… Real Unemployment at 11.6%

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - So anything under 90,000 new jobs added is anemic, is a recession. So the real unemployment rate now is 11.6 percent based on the 5.4 million additional workers that should be counted as the U-3, that’s the unemployment rate 3, which then means that the real number of unemployed is not 12.5 million but 17.9 million, which in turn implies an 11.6 percent unemployment […]

May 7, 2012 2

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What is the Proper Role of Military Power for a Republic? – Winston Elliott III

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Winston Elliot III is the father of Winston Elliot IV, who is currently deployed in Afghanistan. He has, as I believe Obama says, skin in the Afghanistan game. Winston is asking the question, what is a republic? Does a republic do certain things? Here it is “What is the proper role of military power for a Republic?” Someone should actually ask this question of […]

May 5, 2012 1