Federal Convention

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

This Day in Founder's History

This Day In Founders History – 17 October

This Day in Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation.

October 17, 2013 7

The Founders

How Did The United States Go From Articles Of Confederation To Constitution?

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Well, the Articles of Confederation was most certainly and positively just that. It was a compact. By definition and description it was a confederation, meaning it was a federation of states or political entities that decided, for some express purposes, they needed to confederate together in order to have a better life and existence here after the Revolutionary War. Check out today’s transcript for […]

September 17, 2013 7

Transcripts

Someone Send Congress A Copy Of The Constitution Before Obama Starts Another War

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Amongst the founding generation, there was pretty much rapt agreement, unanimous agreement that making wars was serious, serious business and that you didn’t want to have a standing army around, which is why they made the appropriations for no longer than two years. You didn’t want to have a president that could have at his disposal a standing army, which is why we were […]

August 28, 2013 3

Interviews

Interview With Kevin Gutzman On Natural-Born Citizen And Republican Hypocrisy

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Just like with the incorporation doctrine, after I share it, then I am hectored and heckled. My integrity is assailed. Vattel is said to have been some sort of an 18th century quack that no one ever referred to in the United States and you and Gutzman can’t prove that. Then the subject of natural-born citizen is that nobody really cares about this unless […]

August 23, 2013 10

Transcripts

Interview With Brad Birzer On Conservatism, John Dickinson And More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Brad is a professor at Hillsdale College. He is the author of the book about Charles Carroll of Carrolton, American Cicero, a great book about a forgotten founding father. He is also the editor of The Imaginative Conservative website, which we had Winston Elliott on yesterday and talked about. Brad is part of what I like to call the conservative revival. Check out today’s […]

July 15, 2013 7

Transcripts

Everyone Needs Their Daily Dose Of Drones

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - I’m going through the stories, and one of the ones I was running across, kept seeing, was the Brennan testimony and how acrimonious it got at one point. What I thought was, I don’t want to say humorous because none of this stuff should be funny, but what I thought was intriguing about this is how he presented the drone and the drone killings […]

February 8, 2013 5

Interviews

Kevin Gutzman Interview – James Madison, Rand Paul, and much more…

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - James Madison and the Making of America is out in paperback today. The author, of course, the one and only Kevin Gutzman, is on the Dude Maker Hotline with us. Check out today's transcript for the rest...

February 6, 2013 22

Daily Clip

Will 2013 Be the End of Federalism?

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Audio and Transcript - These are scary times, ladies and gentlemen. We can sit here and discuss these things all we want. We may be overreaching. We may be being a bit hyperbolic. I think the fact that there’s actually a discussion going on that’s going to inexorably affect the lives and fortunes of over 300 million people, and less than 200 people are involved in […]

January 11, 2013 4