Daniel Shays

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 25 January

This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. In 1787 on this day, Captain Daniel Shays and 2,000 of his fellow farmers launched an attack on the arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts.

January 25, 2015 11

Transcripts

Contempt and the Constitution

Whiskey Rebellion Shows Contempt Constitution Had For Regular Folks Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Wythe Holt wrote a paper a few years back titled “The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794: A Democratic Working-Class Insurrection.” I want to share just some of the introductory pieces of this. I think you’re about to hear some things that you had never heard before, were unprepared to hear, and you may have to digest and […]

November 18, 2014 15

Daily Clip

Massachusetts Has Been Divided Since Before Shays’ Rebellion

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I always look for historical angles to talk about these things that we discuss here on the program. I was wondering if all the people of all of Taxachusetts were as blindly and meekly following the orders of their state and city overlords on Friday. Would that translate to the rest of the state? Massachusetts does have a western part as well. Is there […]

April 22, 2013 11

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Daniel Shays And SEAL Team 6

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Few people know really what happened, the real story of Daniel Shays. Shays disappeared after Benjamin Lincoln fired those three cannon shots into his rebel crowd in November of 1786. Shays was basically never heard from again but went into New York or the Adirondacks. Legend says he became a mountain man. There were people that knew Shays and knew the entire story. I […]

February 12, 2013 10

Transcripts

Hey Romney… The Real Debate Is Over the TAX, Not the Rate

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Let me inform you of something. Medicare is broke. It doesn’t have enough income today to offset what it’s going to spend tomorrow. Therefore, my daughter who just started her first payroll withholding job and is paying Medicare taxes that she can’t figure out why she has to pay, is subsidizing, having her meager 15-year-old wealth confiscated from her and then transferred to a […]

September 19, 2012 6