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Patrick Deneen Asks A Great Question: “What Is An American Conservative?”

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – There is an essay at The American Conservative Magazine website. [mocking] “Mike, you were hard on The American Conservative Magazine yesterday.” Yeah, well, I was just being honest. I don’t ask for jingoism from anyone else, so I don’t expect that anyone expects they’re going to get jingoism or Homerism from yours truly. In any event, The American Conservative Magazine’s Patrick J. Deneen posts […]

October 11, 2013 11

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“Normal” In Modern Society Is No Indicator Of Morals Or Virtues

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Frohnen writing at Imaginative Conservative, a brilliant essay under the title “What is Normal? Culture Wars & the Boy Scouts.” I think this has everything to do with it. Is it even permissible to describe anything as normal today if it’s not really abnormal? Abnormal is basically then the new normal. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…

May 29, 2013 17

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Did Rand Paul Misspeak Or Did He Misstep?

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – It is okay to misspeak. It happens all the time. Take it from someone who does 15 hours of live broadcasting in a given week. I think, though, that your actions ultimately will speak much louder than your words. As long as you act in a manner that is congruent or consistent with an anti-drone, anti-big government, anti-police surveillance state is a good thing […]

April 26, 2013 1

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Ron Paul Endorses Mark Sanford

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – He is a gadfly, isn’t he? That’s what he was called when he was in Congress, the gadfly Ron Paul. He is kind of a counterrevolutionary spirit. The fact that the official GOP says they’re not going to support Sanford might have been enough for Ron to say: All I got to do is sign a fundraising letter? All right, give it to me. […]

April 26, 2013 7

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God Is The Answer And Must Be Restored

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Why do they continue to tell us that there really is no God and he has no part in any of our affairs public or private? Why do they continue to tell us that there is no such thing as good manners, because if you exhibit good manners you must be some sort of a chauvinistic, bigoted pig? Why, Mr. Church, why? The why […]

March 29, 2013 4

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Boy Scouts Need Real Gentlemen To Lead Them

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Most boys look up to their fathers. If dad is a good gentleman and has a good vocabulary and does those things that gentlemen ought to do, there’s a very good chance the son is going to pick up on all that because he wants to be like his father. Again, we’re at the crisis point here where it requires a male, un-metrosexual, to […]

February 6, 2013 11

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McCain’s Monkey Business On Twitter

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Are these things members of the United States Senate ought to be tweeting out? These people are, after all, in a position to vote yes or no on treaties between foreign lands. Calling elected leaders of foreign states monkeys? Check out today's transcript for the rest...

February 5, 2013 21

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Abortion Justified With Reason Is Still Murder

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - All of our existence now is all to be determined by us, by man. We are in control of everything according to Ms. Williams. You then have no reason to not do almost anything or to do something in your life other than whether or not you choose to. This is why the idea that reason informs civilization, that this is one of the […]

January 28, 2013 7

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George Carey – Can Traditionalists Regain The Republican Party?

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - This goes out to you people out there that agitate this and promote this, and you do so on a daily basis, if not hour by hour. [mocking] “We gotta take the party back. We gotta kick these RINOs out.” As I have been trying to preach to what I hope is an expanding choir out there, that is another fool’s err. Carey explains […]

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