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An Appeal From Mike Church: This Site Needs Your Support

Mandeville, LA - My Dear friends, This year’s Founders Pass membership drive has met about 40% of our modest goals thanks to the extraordinary generosity of you and 1 of our generous patrons during the 1/2 price membership drive! While that is great news, the other 60% remains to be raised and I pray you will consider supporting this site and our continuing efforts top bring you the best historical and faith based […]

May 22, 2015 17

Daily Clip

Jimmy Madison Hid 1794 Secession Pamphlet To Preserve Union

There are four men that are mentioned in this that were in the Philadelphia Convention that framed the Constitution. All four of them realized the gravity of what it is they're discussing in 1794 in Congress. Three of them decide that the solution is disunion. The fourth says I don't think you should do that, but he doesn't say that they can't do it. Do I have your attention and […]

August 4, 2014 5

Transcripts

What If Constitution Meant Agreed-Upon Things When Ratified ?

Any Diversion Today Indicates Unconstitutional Acts Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "So I have these two stories here about Obamacare, a pair of rulings yesterday, one judge saying that the subsidy funding method is illegal, unconstitutional, and another saying, [mocking] “Oh, come on, it’s like ordering a Domino’s pizza.” I’m not making this up." Check out today’s transcript for the rest… Begin Mike Church Show Transcript Mike: So I […]

July 28, 2014 10

Founders Corner

Kevin Gutzman – The Folly Of Today’s American Exceptionalism, Pt. I

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Kevin: Again, nowadays one can turn on talk radio, this current show excepted, virtually any day of the week and hear Limbaugh and Levin and so on complaining that the United States isn’t intervening directly in Syria, isn’t sending an army back to Iraq, isn’t doing anything about what happened in Crimea and so on. Again, Limbaugh often says: President Obama doesn’t want America […]

July 9, 2014 6

Transcripts

What Really Happened At Start Of Federal Convention Of 1787, Pt. I

Interview with Kevin Gutzman - Federal Convention Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Let’s get to the matter at hand here with Professor Kevin Gutzman, who is one of the foremost authorities on James Madison. I wanted to start with the introduction of the Virginia Plan, which happened 237 years ago today. Governor Randolph was, of course, the gentleman that introduced the plan. It wasn’t Madison who introduced it. In the […]

June 2, 2014 9

Interviews

Founders Admitted Failure To Defend Spirit Of ’76 After Ratification Of Constitution

Did The Founders Get It 100% Perfect? Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Let me share something with you on the 237th anniversary of the bullet points of the Constitution being introduced in Federal Convention in 1787. This is from Christopher Ferrara’s phenomenal book Liberty, the God That Failed, page 242, “The Founders’ Season of Regret – Things Fall Apart.”" Check out today’s transcript for the rest… Begin Mike Church Show […]

June 2, 2014 9

Transcripts

Jefferson Had Issues With His Generation Too

Every Generation Has It's Problems Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Remember, Russell Kirk, the great conservative author and the man many believe was correctly and aptly titled the father of modern-day conservatism, Kirk was fond of this phrase that he thought all conservatives should have in the back of their mind at all times. It was okay, indeed it was advisable, to stand up on the shoulders of giants." […]

March 13, 2014 5

Transcripts

Caller Russ: I Knew Edmund Burke, You Might Be an Edmund Burke Midder Church

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "What you just said was sensationally, it’s appropriate, it’s pertinent to today, and I don’t think there are very many of us that are even capable of understanding that without sitting here and reflecting and pondering. What he said, folks, was that he thinks Burkean conservatism is only relative to the time that you live in or the era you live in, which would mean […]

December 15, 2013 6

Transcripts

Conservatism Should Come First And Has Nothing To Do With Politics

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Conservatism is an intellectual exercise. It is an exercise in thinking, in bringing the magnificent past, the history that we have to draw from, which is unbelievable, the history we have to draw from, the events, the great writers, the philosophies. This is part of the equation. It’s not just the founders. There were people before founders. The founders are part of it, sure, […]

October 29, 2013 7