republicanism

You Say You Wanna Rethink The Union? Consider Secession From Mordor

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – [Mike, mocking] “What’s so big about the big, bad central government? There are a lot of things bad about it. One of the things it does is it desensitizes the citizen. It deprives the citizen of the responsibility of self-government. No longer does the citizen feel as though he is the citizen soldier who is responsible for he and his. Now the citizen is […]

February 11, 2014 8

Transcripts

We Must Stop Little Leviathan In Our Towns First

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – You see here in this instance, people who just work for someone who is in government can execute nefarious acts that alter the course of history, basically, and delay or cause detours for tens of thousands of people. They cause pain and misery. If being stuck in traffic is pain and misery, let’s be honest here, these are first-world problems, folks. Check out today’s […]

January 10, 2014 4

Interviews

Kevin Gutzman On The Prophecies Of Patrick Henry & NSA Partisan Hypocrisy

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – What Henry was talking about was there is nothing in your little document there, Mr. Madison, that says this new government has to report anything to us other than they’re going to keep a ledger. You can keep a ledger in your little House of your proceedings. The president can deliver a state of the union to the Congress. Outside of that, how do […]

December 30, 2013 17

Founders Corner

David Hume, Scottish Founding Fathers & Early Promoters of [r]epublicanism

Mandeville, LA - Name the week of the year on a calendar and there is a good chance that Mike Church has brought up a man who inspired our founding fathers, David Hume and his "The Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth", on his Sirius/XM radio show or Founders TV show. Hume was an inspirational figure during the founding era and is well known to have inspired James Madison's views on […]

November 29, 2013 10

The Founders

Here’s An Example From Jefferson On How To Argue Your Position In A Scholarly Manner

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – How many times have you checked your email, gone to your Facebook page, gone to your Twitter feed, go to your blog on your website and someone has gotten into an internet spat or an electronic spat with someone else and they have played the final trump card? What is it? It’s a quote. How many times have you seen a quote played as […]

November 25, 2013 10

Transcripts

The [r]epublicanism Virus Has Escaped, Infecting Communities With The Spirit Of Self-Government And Civic Pride

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If there’s one thing I think we’re going to be very excited about the prospects of in the very near future for ourselves, for the rest of our lives, and hopefully for our children, it is that decentralization, republicanism, and civic spirit is returning. It wasn’t on the backburner. I think it was pretty much on life support. It has been revived. It has […]

November 21, 2013 3

Transcripts

[r]epublicanism Is The Glue That Can Hold This Country Together

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – In other words, we’ll vote for benefits that we know we can’t afford. We’re going to borrow money from future generations. Even when we’re told, like the Greeks are being told “You gotta stop,” we won’t do it. We’ll throw hissy fits and demand that the rest of the world bail us out. That is the pathetic state of affairs we find ourselves in […]

November 18, 2013 4

Transcripts

The Constitution Is Dead, But We Do Have Three Remedies For Decentralizing Leviathan

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – What I think I figured out is that the Obamacare act has so many of you so frustrated, politically frustrated, and since it has become nearly the singular cause célèbra of the “conservative movement,” and that there doesn’t seem to be a constitutional remedy to escape it. We’re not going to take it, but there are probably three constitutional remedies. Check out today’s transcript […]

November 14, 2013 9

Transcripts

For The Umpteenth Time, You Cannot “Fix” The Federal Leviathan, You Cannot “Fix” Politics, You Must Secede

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – As far as your third party, I don’t have the answer to your political question, because I don’t think that politics is going to solve or is capable of solving any of this. If it were, then I would think since the Roman polis was created, or if you want to go back to the Athenian republics of ancient Greece, I would think over […]

November 13, 2013 5