corporatism

Why Is Presidents Day A Holiday?

The General Government and the Power To Declare a Holiday Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "While we’re in the middle of the discussion here on Presidents’ Day, what power does the general government have to compel a holiday on the rest of us? Not that most lazy, underachieving people out there that call themselves Americans won’t take the opportunity to seize upon any day that could be called a […]

February 18, 2014 7

Daily Clip

Mendenhall Essay Pt. II – The American Union Killed America

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Three months ago I contacted Pete Haworth, who runs NomocracyInPolitics.com. I had previously contacted the editors of two other conservative major publications, I think they’re major publications, and both turned me down. Both said it wasn’t worth doing, doing this symposium on the utility and the value of continuing the current American union. I think that’s because no one wants to touch this nuclear […]

February 12, 2014 8

Transcripts

Why Buy The Cow When You Can Get Subsidized Milk For Free?

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "With all the knowledge that we have about how things grow and how the earth works and how better to grow crops so they can produce more, we still have to have some kind of a federal overlord or government overlord supervising this? I thought we were more evolved than that. The Romans had licked farming. Hell, the Egyptians had licked farming. Here we […]

December 13, 2013 8

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

The Founding Fathers Weren’t Gods, And Neither Are Modern Politicians

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I wish it were a news flash, but it’s not a news flash that the welfare state has replaced the charity state and the little laboratories of philanthropy and democracy that de Tocqueville saw when he came here back in the 1820s and 1830s and wrote a book about it called Democracy in America. I think the experiment was doomed to fail as soon […]

November 14, 2013 4

Transcripts

What Did The Founders Think Of Big Government? Let’s Ask John Taylor Of Caroline

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The last caller to the program asked me what I thought the founders, why they opposed or why they afraid of big government. I said to him that to answer that question, you’d have to understand or explain exactly what big government would have meant to them. It did not mean to them what it means to us today, because we see this monstrosity […]

November 12, 2013 8

Transcripts

Entitlement And Largesse Make Today’s Generation The Worst Ever

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – We love to call those guys who were denied access to the World War II Memorial the greatest generation, even though I say that the generation of men born between 1750 and 1780 were probably the greatest generation. I mean no offense to the great generation of the last century. We call them the greatest generation. Why? Why do we call them that, for […]

October 17, 2013 2

Transcripts

Obamacare Armageddon – There’s No Stopping This Flaming Ball Of Fire From Wiping Us Out

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – This is going to get very nasty, very expensive, and very screwed up or convoluted very fast. There’s also a story in the Washington Times today about how the Obamacare law has been amended or adjusted, before it even goes into full effect, 19 times. It’s been amended or delayed 19 times. Who has been running the House of Representin’ since the law was […]

September 13, 2013 18

Transcripts

General Dynamics Or Solyndra, It’s All Stimulus

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If you’re going to make bombs and things that blow things up and kill people and you’re going to make them using tax dollars, I guess we should be thankful that the weapons of mass destruction are being sent to go blow people and things up in other countries and not in ours. Still, to what end are the American people taxed and burdened […]

August 21, 2013 14