federalism

Why Do We Have State Constitutions If They’re Going To Be Usurped By The Federal Supreme Court?

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Let me give you the latest example of losing republicanism, this God-awful ruling that comes from the Supreme Court of the United States yesterday. You can read Scalia’s entire dissertation on why Kennedy was in error in leading a 5-4 majority in favor of universal DNA swabbing. Now, if you get arrested for anything, wherever it is that you’re arrested at, if Deputy Fife […]

June 4, 2013 8

Founders Television

Mark Kreslins: “I Say End The IRS Completely. CAN I GET AN AMEN!?”

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - They want to launch investigations into this scandal that's going on at the IRS. But what does that mean? Maybe a couple of people go to jail... MAYBE. But what would really be the best thing that could happen? The ending of the IRS. End the income tax. End the payroll tax. And you know how you do it, by restoring Federalism... […]

May 16, 2013 7

Founders Television

We Have An Empire… Should We Just Face It?

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - According to Daniel McCarthy's post at the American Conservative, "How a Federal Republic Becomes an Ideological Empire", little r [r]epublicans and localists need to just drop your delusions, face the facts, and become good little nationalists yourselves. Daniel makes many good points about HOW we got to this point, including how the Founders, especially James Madison, could not have predicted many of […]

April 16, 2013 3

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Interview With Senator Frank Niceley of Tennessee

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – You have a most intriguing and peculiar piece of legislation that actually was the brainchild of one of my organizations, the ReFounding Father Society. This is at least partially James Knox’s idea here, about how to restore some manner of federalism in the election or selection of senators, in this case in the State of Tennessee. Can you just elaborate a little on what […]

March 6, 2013 10

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Conservatives Need To Stop Fighting Over Details And Study History

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – This is why this schism is occurring inside conservative ranks. Number one, people don’t truly study conservative things. They don’t study the classics. They don’t study their actual history. They’re willing to take the mythological versions that modern-day charlatans publish, broadcast and what have you without doing their own due diligence. They haven’t considered the way the great traditions came about and why they […]

March 1, 2013 8

Daily Clip

Amity Shlaes Interview – Calvin Coolidge

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - We have the author of the new book called Coolidge. She is also the author of one of my favorite books, Forgotten Man, Ms. Amity Shlaes. She also has been a winner of the Bastiat Award, which means that she must be keeping in line with the writings of Bastiat, which makes her an all-around good person. Check out today's audio and transcript for […]

February 18, 2013 17

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A Sovereign State Is Its People, Not Its Government

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - A state is a collection of sovereign people. A state is not -- you live in Philadelphia. When your legislature or assembly meets in Harrisburg, that is not the state. That is the elected representatives of the state. The state is the people. The people are the sovereign. The only other way this works is when the king is the sovereign. Check out today's […]

February 14, 2013 7

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The NRA And Incorporationistas

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - For some reason, it has just been seared into the mind of the average American gun owner out there. It doesn’t matter what the facts are and it doesn’t matter what the Constitution as ratified and the Bill of Rights, as you call it, as ratified said. It doesn’t even matter what the first 130 years of life under that amendment, what that intent […]

January 25, 2013 7

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