Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - The Bill of Rights is coming around at a time when Rhode Island and North Carolina are refusing to ratify. They’re still terrified of the new government. Do you really think the first ten amendments were put in there so the federal government could order the states about? It’s...Read More
Mandeville, LA – By the early twenty-first century, Americans had become accustomed to, even took for granted, virtually everything against which George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had warned: gigantic public and private debt, a massive national government, entangling foreign alliances, a standing army, undeclared war in the form of military interventionism, the destruction of American agrarianism,...Read More
Mandeville, LA – [Editor’s Note: Melvin E. Bradford was a titan in the stand made against Leo Strauss and his army of faux intellectuals responsible for the rise of today’s neocons and the religion of ‘Murican Exceptionalism”. Bradford wrote this essay in the late 1990’s. – Ed. M.C.] “Predictably, Jefferson’s Union did die in 1861. And in...Read More
Inauguration Speech of Thomas Jefferson 4 March, 1801 Friends and Fellow-Citizens: CALLED upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country, I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow-citizens which is here assembled to express my grateful thanks for the favor with which they have been pleased...Read More
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript –“I want to read to you from Thomas Jefferson’s inaugural address, just one paragraph. This has great bearing on the situation out there in Nevada, in Clark County, Nevada with rancher Cliven Bundy and the tyrants of the Bureau of Land Manglement executing the orders of a federal judge tyrant...Read More
Mandeville, LA – Today’s Pile of Prep: most of the stories and research used to put together the Mike Church Show on the Veritas Radio Network’s CRUSADE Channel. 2016 is here and WELCOME to the All-New, Mike Church Show on the CRUSADE Channel, listen LIVE for Free (don’t cost nuthin’). Sapientia et Veritas -“If this opinion...Read More
Mandeville, LA – (To characterize Ms. Allen’s writings as “wisdom” would be an insult to Our Lady the Seat of Wisdom, however, this Memorial Day weekend needs a countervailing emission of Truth against the jingoists deifying the Founders and the Constitution that brought forth much of the unJust war, whose casualties we will mourn. –...Read More
DC McAllister – Transgender Restrooms In North Carolina Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “In our fallen world, we’ve chosen to imitate the girl on the cover of Cosmo. We tell our children: You want to be like the baseball player, the football player. That’s fine to desire vocations, don’t get me wrong. We have...Read More
Mandeville, LA – [Editor’s note: the following is excerpted from a letter written by Jefferson to John Taylor of Caroline County, available as a Project ’76, Audio Webisode here.] “I see in it much matter for profound reflection; much which should confirm our adhesion, in practice, to the good principles of our constitution, and fix...Read More
Our newest [r]epublican series t-shirt, the 2014 edition, sure to get a Bill Kistol, NeoCons attention. Sometimes the best slogans are short and sweet: “Sparta- These United States - Athens” is one of them.Read More
Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - When Jefferson was Adams Vice President he attended the meetings of the US Senate every day and realized that "Hey, you guys could use some rules" so he wrote the handbook that we still use today for governing the actions of the Senate. And while all of...Read More
https://media.blubrry.com/crusade/mikechurch.com/mc-media/preview/240715_Kevin_Gutzman_Interview_On_Jefferson_And_Connecticut_COD_PREVIEW.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSSMandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – History has a way of getting in the way of the designs of men who wish to do things that are ahistorical. When you start bringing history up, and the way history actually happened and...Read More
https://media.blubrry.com/crusade/mikechurch.com/mc-media/daily-clip/09042014_COD_what_it_meant_to_be_a_Founder_and_republican.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSSMandeville, LA –This Clip of The Day was originally aired and published on Apr 10,2014 and is part of the Founders Pass Flashback Collection. Exclusive Transcript – “Taylor writes a series of letters to this Thomas Ritchie guy. They get published...Read More
https://media.blubrry.com/crusade/mikechurch.com/mc-media/daily-clip/12122013_COD_Adams_was_Colossus_of_Independence.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS“John Adams was our Colossus on the floor. He was not graceful, nor elegant, nor remarkably fluent; but he came out, occasionally, with a power of thought and expression that moved us from our seats.” – Thomas Jefferson as transcribed by Daniel Webster...Read More
Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Audio and Transcript - I was up very late last night looking this up because I knew it was going to come up today. One of you clowns is about to call me and bring up the Barbary pirates and how Thomas Jefferson bombed them back into the stone ages, settled...Read More
This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. Two notable birthdays on this day, that of Nathan Hale (1755) and John Trumbull (1756).Read More
https://media.blubrry.com/crusade/mikechurch.com/mc-media/daily-clip/23032015_COD_Texans_cant_read_the_Bill_of_Rights_Either_Confederate_license_plate_case_belongs_in_Austin_NOT_DC_PREVIEW.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSSMandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “If there is one great error in the “conservative / Tea Party” movement, that’s it right there, this fiction that Washington and company belong on Mount Olympus, and that there was some kind of great...Read More
Governing Authority Comes From But ONE Sacred Source Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “The Fundamental question, which you’ve been touching on this show, and it’s a radical question, it’s a frightening question to a lot of people, is: Where do we go for advice on moral issues, the moral issues of our time that...Read More
This Day In Founding Fathers History – 1 March 2013 On this day in 1781, the Articles of Confederation were ratified by Maryland, the final of the thirteen states to ratify. “The ratification of the Articles of Confederation was delayed for two years by Maryland, who refused to ratify until the larger states—primarily Virginia and...Read More
This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. On this day in 1807, President Jefferson exposed the plot by Aaron Burr in a special message to Congress.Read More
Mandeville, LA – Below is Thomas Jefferson’s first State of the Union message to Congress, note Jefferson’s precise detail of the ongoing campaign against the Barbary pirates and his explicit call for CONGRESS to tell him what to do about it and then appropriate the funds needed to do so. Fellow Citizens of the Senate...Read More
Mandeville, LA – Are you a Federalist or not? The “Conservative” wind machine is in overdrive today over California’s plan to issue drivers licenses to “illegal immigrants”. As ill-advised and stupid as this may be, CA is totally within it’s rights to regulate “alien friends” and issue them any state ordination they see fit. Recall little...Read More
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Actually, we can blame the founding fathers for the idea of public education. It was a pet project of Jefferson’s. It’s on his obelisk at Monticello that he was the founder of the University of Virginia. What was the University of Virginia? It was publically funded. It was funded by...Read More
Why would the States ever ratify something that they had no equal part in determining the extent of the powers of the government that the constitution created?Read More
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “Let’s bring Professor Gutzman in here. How did President Jefferson respond to those actions of what we know today as the Barbary pirates? Kevin: This was not really a matter of any dispute among the people who made the federal governments. It’s not surprising that Jefferson and his friends in...Read More
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – This is where John Taylor gets into: “Okay, well, you guys lied to us. You said that if we signed on the dotted line and adopted this Constitution gizmo that you would conduct your affairs in a certain way, and that we would conduct our affairs in a certain way,...Read More
This Day In Founding Fathers History – 31 July On this day in 1775, the Continental Congress issued “Resolutions of Congress on Lord North’s Conciliatory Proposal.” The proposal had been an attempt to divide the colonies by urging one or more colonies to abandon the others. British Parliament offered colonies to the chance to contribute...Read More
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...Read More
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The greatest revolution among the 13 colonies was not the one that was taking place in Philadelphia in Independence Hall. It was actually taking place in Williamsburg. This was the erection of or the composition of the first state constitution that a free people, or people who had acquired...Read More
Part 1 – Christopher Ferrara Interview “Liberty, the God That Failed” (original air date 11 Feb, 2014) Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Some of you are going to have issues with this, and I think that’s why Mr. Ferrara needs to be a guest on programs like this. Proverbial envelopes need to be pushed...Read More
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...Read More
James Monroe the Republican Hero Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “Happy belated birthday to James Monroe. That’s why we started this conversation, because Monroe was one of two continentals that was wounded in the Battle of Trenton. If you’ve heard Times That Try Men’s Souls or if you’ve read about it, you know that it...Read More
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “We have this little piece of history that I found, this essay that was written by John Taylor about the yet to be assembled Virginia Dynasty’s quandary in the early days of the [r]epublic. If you don’t know what the Virginia dynasty was, it was the presidencies of Jefferson, Madison...Read More
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. ...Read More
Militia Needs Everything the Standing Military Has Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “The Virginia militia, the South Carolina militia, the Georgia militia, the North Carolina militia, the Tennessee volunteers, they were already armed. They were armed as militiamen and they were armed as if they were an army that could be called upon and...Read More
"This is another interesting point of discussion when we talk about this. Exactly what is a State? Is a State a geographical entity? Well, you could say that you call the State of Georgia, for example, Georgia because of the border it has with Tennessee and South Carolina and Alabama and Florida, which are very...Read More
What Would Past Presidents Think of Current Presidential State Of The Union? (Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published on Jan 29, 2014) Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I want to read something to you from the — I realize I am boring you people to tears today with all these tales of...Read More
Rethinking The American Union Is Not Just For Mike, Wilkow Gets In On The Action Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript –“Let’s say 20 states are going to band together to say: That’s it! Obamacare, NSA, IRS, Benghazi, wars all around the known universe, trillions of dollars in debt and deficit, unfunded liabilities out the wazoo,...Read More
James Madison Is Not The Sacred Oracle Of Nullification But Guess Who Is? Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “Why should it all just come down to whatever James Madison said? Madison was just one man after all. It seems that you would find other opinions on this and other writings and other things that could...Read More
