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Thanks Media: God Gets The Bronze And The “Exceptional Nation” Gets The Gold

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Come on, Mike, there’s nothing that’s really permanent.” I suppose if you approach these things and these matters from the point of view that there is no permanence, meaning there is no God and there is no Transcendent, then I suppose you could make the case or conclude that there’s only us and only us tomorrow and only the us we make. Then there will […]

May 3, 2013 3

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What Is A State? And How Is It Sovereign?

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - I’ve been on this experimental tangent here for the last, I don’t know how long you’ve been listening, but I’ve been on this assignment in trying to explain what it is that makes a state and how it is that governments are formed in sovereign states. If you understand that from the Jeffersonian point of view, then to me it is impossible to reconcile […]

May 22, 2012 7

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Louisiana Bicentennial History

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - It was on January 22, 1812 that Louisianans decided we’re going to carve off this piece of the territory, the Orleans Territory, and we’re going to call this the State of Louisiana. The congress that bought the territory says that we can do that. The Louisiana Purchase document acknowledged that the inhabitants of what was being purchased would remain sovereign. Of course, they were […]

May 2, 2012 6