democracy

Caller Wants ISIS to Follow Our Constitution, Mike Wants U.S. To Go 1st

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Caller Sal: Mike, I have to take a second just to thank you for pushing our Constitution on the radio like you do. My question is, and I don’t want to sound childish, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if the whole world followed our Constitution? My thing is -- Mike: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the United States followed our Constitution? You can’t expect the rest of […]

August 29, 2014 10

Interviews

Christopher Ferrara – Religious Bigotry Is Enforced By The State

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Chris Ferrara is on the Dude Maker Hotline with us. There’s another part of that democracy plus one. Not only is it dangerous because you have the ability to change law, with 50 percent of the population plus one, and as you point out, 50 percent of the population minus one will get to suffer. You also have the ability, using democracy and using […]

June 18, 2014 3

Daily Clip

Ferrara – Democracy Fail, How’s Taxation WITH Representation Working?

"When that idea [democracy] is introduced, you have coming into the political structure of a society this whole notion of representation, that government is a compact between the people and the government as established through their representatives. The great irony of representation is that over time it swallows up everything and destroys true liberty. If anybody doubts that, let me ask a simple question: How has taxation with representation worked […]

June 16, 2014 15

Transcripts

What Fills The Void Where “good” Once Resided?

As Tradition Is Escorted To The Door, Evil Comes Across The Threshold To Replace It Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "You ought to do all that you can to try to abide the rule and encourage others to do that. We do the exact opposite. We tell people: No, no, that’s not a real rule. That’s one of those fuddy-duddy rules, you know, when those Christian cats used to run […]

May 20, 2014 10

Transcripts

Abel Upshur – Constitution And Democracy Are Our Problems

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "The intriguing thing about reading Abel Upshur, or Judge Upshur, as he should be called, is that Upshur proceeds from the point of view that the fatal flaw in our American system -- and he predicts all the events of the 1860s and everything atrocious that has happened afterwards -- was brought about by what most of you think is the saving grace of the […]

January 22, 2014 7

Transcripts

Revisionist History, Lincoln, And The Gettysburg Address

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – By the bye, Richard Gamble, a friend and colleague of Dr. Brad Birzer’s at Hillsdale had a piece posted last week at The American Conservative Magazine entitled “Gettysburg Gospel.” I did not know this. Did you know that some of the quotes that Lincoln tossed into the American scripture were actually taken from a journal? Check out today’s transcript for the rest…

November 21, 2013 8

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 4

Transcripts

Caller Steve Says Resistance Is Futile And We Will All Be Assimilated By Leviathan

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – What’s a solution, Steve? What’s a solution? Why don’t you give me one? I have a very long, nice, written record that you can go to at this place called MikeChurch.com and you can see all the proposed solutions you would like to see. They were all aired on this radio channel. Why don’t you tell me what your solution is then? Check out […]

October 25, 2013 14

Transcripts

Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind – 60 Years Later

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The question remains: What is to be done? This is where we turn to Dr. Russell Kirk and to Bruce Frohnen’s piece at The Imaginative Conservative. This is also posted in today’s Pile of Prep. Bruch Frohnen is writing about The Conservative Mind, which is 60 years old this year. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…

October 8, 2013 2