centralization

Abel Upshur Knew The Constitution Was Imperfect And Would Lead To Consolidation

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If you’re going to be a republican and you’re going to espouse and profess to promote and to pledge your life, your fortune and your sacred honor in protecting republican principles, then you are going to have to do it -- there’s no option here, to be honest and to be successful in this and truthful, all at the same time -- you’re going […]

January 21, 2014 15

Transcripts

“The NSA Are Coming! The FDA Are Coming!” What Mortified the Founding Fathers

"Consolidation of government mortified the men that we call founding fathers. In other words, it scared them to death.

December 5, 2013 7

Transcripts

Interview With Jeff Taylor On His Book “Politics On A Human Scale: The American Tradition Of Decentralism”

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – There’s a new book out called Politics on a Human Scale: The American Tradition of Decentralism. It’s published by Lexington Books. Dr. Jeff Taylor is the author. I read part of this essay to you last week and I’ve referred to it a couple other times last week. Dr. Taylor is on the Dude Maker Hotline, making his first visit here. Dr. Jeff Taylor, […]

November 19, 2013 5

Interviews

Interview With Kevin Gutzman On Obamacare

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Yesterday, I’m sure you have seen some or all of the president’s wielding of his scepter at his press conference yesterday, asserting he was granting all these insurers and the states this power to alter their plans and basically I guess to ignore what is actually in the Affordable Care Act. I asked you in an email exchange: Is there any precedent for this? […]

November 15, 2013 9

Transcripts

Conservative, Tea Party, And Republican Are Not Synonyms

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Here’s the headline from the magazine post: “Why the Tea Party Can’t Govern.” Here, let me give you the tease, “Something is seriously wrong with conservatism.” Let me stop right there. Damn skippy, yeah! Hello!? Conservatism is an advertising slogan. That’s what’s wrong with it. Anything that becomes an ism, you might say, is probably, going back to Frohnen’s post about “What is this […]

November 12, 2013 25

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Bureaucracy Eats Everything In Its Path

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – How many days have we gone down this road that the entities are too large to be managed by any one individual and the whole entity is most certainly too large to be managed by one individual? If he or she were to try, then you would have a dictatorship. Since no one in this country is going to insinuate or believe that a […]

August 20, 2013 22

The Founders

Patrick Henry Would Abolish The IRS, So Why Don’t We?

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – There’s a chapter in that book, in Albert Taylor Bledsoe’s book Is Davis a Traitor? and the chapter title is “The Founding Fathers As Political Prophets.” That’s the title of the chapter. Bledsoe lays out in very clear details from the Virginia Ratifying Convention that Patrick Henry and George Mason and others actually predicted the War of 1861, and they predicted exactly what would […]

May 17, 2013 11

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Internet Sales Tax – Senate Empowers States To Tax Citizens Of Other States

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – In case you haven’t heard the news, the Senate yesterday, in contravention of its oath of office, passed an online sales tax initiative allegedly allowing the state legislatures to then tax citizens of other states. This is quite a constitutional crisis they are setting in motion, is it not? Just consider it for a moment. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…

May 7, 2013 5

Transcripts

Organized Religion Isn’t Dying, Government Is Now Religion

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Because organized religion still exists today. It’s called government. It’s called State Legislature of Louisiana. It is called Congress. It’s called the Senate. Most people treat the Supreme Court as if it is a deity, as if it has god-like powers. Not only does it have them, it ought to discharge them, ought to use them. That is unbelievably wicked and scary, investing that […]

March 26, 2013 5