Podcast (mike_church_preview): Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSSMandeville, LA – Realistic though they were about human weaknesses, the Framers sought to promote the common good. They looked in particular to the republics of Greece and Rome for models as well as warnings. The Constitution was to protect...Read More

Why We Must Revive Gentlemen Of Character To Restore Order – Claes Ryn Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “This article in The American Conservative, it’s about the moral and cultural preconditions of peace or of cordial relations among individuals, peoples, and civilizations.  To boil down the argument to essentials, it is this: if you want...Read More

Mandeville, LA – It takes one whale of a leap in reasoning to use the example of Communism’s most famous Communist critic -Solzhenitsyn- to backup the claim that Our Empire is the one be-knighted by Almighty God to police the planet, protect those who cannot vote and covertly re-arrange the political systems of countries at...Read More

 You Aren’t Patriotic If You Are Anti-War Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “What this guy is basically saying is that you and I are chicken hawks.  In other words, we want all these guys to go off and fight our wars for us, but we’re too big of a sissy to actually go and...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Conservatism is an intellectual exercise. It is an exercise in thinking, in bringing the magnificent past, the history that we have to draw from, which is unbelievable, the history we have to draw from, the events, the great writers, the philosophies. This is part of the equation. It’s not...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – What we need is an alteration in manner of thinking. Manner of thinking today is jingoistic “USA! USA!” as opposed to localistic. I don’t want to say republican or individualistic because individualism is also part of what’s rotten at the core of society today. Daniel Larison has this intriguing...Read More

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - There’s a difference between sincere patriotism and nationalism. I’ll take a stab at it and I will channel Claes Ryn to do so. This is just a brilliant little eight-paragraph essay on Patriotism, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism. This is from Professor Ryn's book The New Jacobinism, which you can find...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Constitutionalists are raised, structured, socialized, you could say institutionalized to be constitutionalists. This does not happen much any longer, which is why our United States Constitution can be as seemingly useless and not referred to or deferred to as you would like to see it or as it once...Read More

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - There was an America and an American people long before the Founding, long before the writing and ratifying of the Constitution. But don't tell the Decepticons, or New Jacobins as Claes Ryn calls them, because they will tell you that American Exceptionalism was born in 1776... but...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If you really want a solution, if you’re really looking for a radical way to deal with this latest scandal, instead of screaming and hollering at Obama and the IRS, which you’re going to do anyway. You’re always going to protest mightily against a tax collection agency. If you...Read More

Mandeville, LA - Mike Church's daily Pile of Prep, chock full of the IRS, Tea Party tyranny plus other [r]epublican stories used to perform the Mike Church Show on Sirius/XM Patriot channel 125. "The word 'empire' does not yet have the right ring in American ears, so the new Jacobins try not to appear too...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – We always think of things in terms of politics. Everything is political, especially when you are doing talk radio. You’re supposed to be all political all the time. There’s no room for the philosophical. There’s no room for the intellectual. By the by, the intellectual is separable from the...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Now I am accused of hating my country because I wish it to stop killing innocent people the world over!? I am also supposed to “do as others in my field have done” and get with “bringing our Government back to the people”!? By doing what!? Endorsing fools who gave us the...Read More

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...Read More

https://media.blubrry.com/crusade/mikechurch.com/mikes_audio/transcripts/March_2012/29032012_Transcript_Interview_Claes_Ryn_beautiful_conservative_fights_neocons_EDIT.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSSMandeville, LA – Exclusive Audio & Transcript – Check out Mike’s interview with Dr. Claes G. Ryn from yesterday’s show. They discuss numerous topics including the modern Conservative (or Neo-Con) and the classical Conservative. The full transcript is posted here for...Read More