Friday Pile of Prep

Mandeville, LA – Mike Church’s daily Pile of Prep, chock full of the latest ObamaCare atrocities as the Constitutional crisis I have long predicted is coming to fruition. Read along with my 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.“No, they did not love free enterprise. Government and business were to be partners. Regulation was eventually accepted at the federal level because it could be coopted by the biggest corporations to drive out smaller competitors and to lend them a helping hand courtesy of the taxpayers. Historian Gabriel Kolko details the institutionalization of the big business-big government alliance in The Triumph of Conservatism.” – Professor Jeff Taylor – On the conservative tradition that inspired Reagan at Nomocracy in Politics

Mike Church’s Founders Tradin’ Post announces Christmas discount program. Take 20% off purchases of $100 and $50 off of purchases over $200.

Congressional Republicans – mostly DeceptiCONS – warm to the lame idea that sequestration (cuts to the scheduled increases in spending) is a valid method of “cutting spending” and may be ready to draw their own “Maginot line” there!

The Christmas edition of the American History Quiz from our friends at Franklin’s Opus

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There’s no better long form reading project than getting familiar with John Taylor of Caroline’s “Tyranny Unmasked” quite possibly the best tract ever written on the subject of what he called “protection” but what we call “corporatism”

What did the English think of the North’s ridiculous claims that the Confederate States 1. Could not secede 2.Were never sovereign & Independent and 3. Were justified in their defense of themselves? Read all about it, start on p. 650

H.L. Mencken is worth reading on many topics but especially on Gettsyburg, you will find his entire critique of Lincoln’s “Gospel” beginning on page 173

The biography of Albert Gallatin is worth knowing and this “American Statesman” book on him is a good start

John Taylor of Caroline was the most influential [r]epublican voice of his day and his work remains as  necessary reading. This essay by the great Joseph Stromberg, first published in 1982, explains Taylor’s [r]epublicanism and libertarian thought, unlike any other American of his time

S.J. Quinn’s The History of Fredericksburg, VA is a most thrilling historical walk through 18th & 19th century American history &b includes episodes from 1776, 1798 and 1861

One of the most accomplished yet little know Founder AND Christian Gentlemen was John Randolph of Roanoke, I am researching him for reference and for a good volume on his life to republish, this one is rare and good

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The usual DeceptiCON suspects lose their a-spiritual cookies over Pope Francis’s Evangelii Gaudium. As Patrick Deneen points out, these folks are not hearing Francis above the “he’s a Marxist!” din and probably have no desire to do so.

VIDEO: I am no Springsteen fan but this “Jack of All Trades”: song is just plain inspirational. I found myself humming the melody and waiting with happy anxiety for the next lyric. What a heartfelt, pastoral homage to the Forgotten Man

The Ice Age cometh. The former promoters of global warming’s apocalypse cannot be found with AlGore issued search warrants

Gentleman’s Tip of The Day: How to take care of a hat. No, we don’t mean baseball CAPS we’re talking classic fedoras and other classy “toppers”

We have found the Darwin Award winers for 2013…check that, for the MILLENNIA. “Heidi and Spencer” from some MTV show blew through $10 MILLION in less than 3 years, believing their own gilded, delusional PR. “We thought we were JZ and Beyonce” as if amassing $$$ fortunes makes one worthy of imitation.

Dear Leader Chairman MaObama reassures the sheople that the NSA are the most kind, considerate, Constitution coddlers in the history of the Blob and even if they aren’t, he is dialing them back a notch so their protection of “the American people” can continue forever…forever, did I say that out loud!?

Protesters gather around the free money tree and demand holiday cheer in the form of minima wage increases. As I point on on my ABC-TV WGNO ch 26 New Orleans, video, the only thing minimum wage does is re-direct resources where the market wouldn’t direct them thus causing UNDER employment.

Lest any of we peasants think that our ruling masters, including our Dear Leader, have no intention of pretending they are one of us. The White House promises that Dear Leader will be choosing his family’s health insurance plan from the ObamCare exchange. Now, just when this transaction will occur is Obama and Nostradamus’s best guess.

What is rural America for? Well it isn’t just for Hollywood’s reservoir of fictional hicks, hayseeds and gun nuts anymore. Bill Kaufmann, author of Bye Bye Miss American Empire and Copperheads explains

How is it that Wal-Mart can process 10 million transactions in 4 hours yet healthcare.gov “crashes” trying to process 50k? Maybe Wal-Mart should run ObamaCare?

Video: Gary Oldman explains Keynesian economics in 55 seconds from the film “The Fifth Element”

Spyin’ Eyes: Conor Friersdorf wants us all to keep the heat on the NSA and the Congress that did not create the agency and now refuses to exterminate it

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Host of the Mike Church Show on The Veritas Radio Network's CRUSADE Channel & Founder of the Veritas Radio Network. Formerly, of Sirius/XM's Patriot channel 125. The show began in March of 2003 exclusively on Sirius and remains "the longest running radio talk show in satellite radio history".

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