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Wisdom Wednesday: Small Business Is [r]epublican AND Christian

Why Should Small Businesses Be Important To Every American? Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Let’s set out from the outset here, these Wisdom Wednesday conversations with David Simpson that we have are meant to be provocative. They are meant to challenge some current, secular orthodoxy that most people hold and to try to get to the root of it: Upon what is this based?" Check out today’s transcript AND Clip […]

February 1, 2015 4

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Rothbard – Government Debt Is Worse Than Private Debt

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "If you are one of those that is in the employ of, as an example, one of these companies that is part of the military-industrial complex, is building bombs to destroy property in countries you can’t point to on a map while we are not at war with any country, you are partaking of this. What is so hard to understand about this? [mocking] “Mike, […]

April 3, 2014 4

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Obamacare Makes Everybody’s Dreams Come True

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If you call the HealthCare.gov website, since the Constitution and the federal leviathan now exist to make people’s dreams come true, if I push the right button or if I have the right coupon code, can I get a free dreamcatcher? You know those things that are made by Native Americans, those dreamcatcher gizmos? It’s round, has some feathers and some leather tassels hanging […]

February 5, 2014 4

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Why Capitalism Is NOT a Substitute For republicanism

Mandeville, LA - On today's show I mention this wonderful post of a speech Dr. Russel Kirk gave in 1988. After reading this piece I was moved to take the task of promoting this work because it says everything about modern conservatism (which is a misnomer now see here) and why it is doomed to fail with reverting to "small is beautiful conservation." Thanks to Winston Elliot III and The […]

September 2, 2013 10

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Americans Can Say We Live In A Free Market Economy, But That Doesn’t Make It True

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – You have to have trust in the price system and the market. That’s really one of the great fields of unexplored study in mainstream discourse in the United States, the study of actual free market, the way markets work and the way the price system is the greatest regulator and distributor of resources in the history of man. Check out today’s transcript for the […]

July 19, 2013 10

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Bernanke Continues To Build Up The Economy For A Crash

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – That’s what’s so depressing about this. You want to look at this and believe that our almighty federal overlord magical economic masters have this under control and there’s not going to be a drop off, and that roller coaster climb will just continue ad infinitum, on into infinity, never stop. We all know where this is going to end. Check out today’s transcript for […]

May 10, 2013 10

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Roepke: Property Ownership Most Important in Capitalism

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - There’s another great story at The Imaginative Conservative website about Wilhelm Roepke, the great Austrian economist and the kind of economics we ought to be talking about. We’re having this big, vainglorious discussion about the merits of Republican central economic planning versus the merits of Democrat central economic planning. They’re both central economic planners. As Governor Romney exhibited at VMI, yes, we’ll spread free […]

October 10, 2012 8

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Why Everything is NOT Economics… Mike Channels Kirk and Roepke

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - When you talk about humane economy, this is where you maybe consider that there are human and humane effects to all this economic gobbledygook that we’re all besieged and heaped upon us every day, like you just heard. Roepke had recounted a story where he had met the great Ludwig von Mises. This is all in the theme here of not everything is economic. […]

June 21, 2012 16