Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “There’s another part about this I want to talk about.  How many of you were around on April 15, 2009?  How many of you remember the Tea Party revolts, riots, protests, rallies on tax day 2009?  Millions upon millions of people turned out to protest what?” Check out today’s...Read More

Mandeville, LA – “Let us now approach our subject from another angle and ask what is actually needed. In the affairs of men, there always appears to be a need for at least two things simultaneously, which, on the face of it, seem to be incompatible and to exclude one another. We always need both...Read More

Imagine There’s No Union Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “I say the secession option ought to always be on the table.  The other option that ought to always be on the table if the secession option doesn’t tickle your fancy, then how about the divide-the-state option?  This one actually holds out even more hope...Read More

https://media.blubrry.com/crusade/mikechurch.com/mc-media/preview/060815_Little_R_Republicanism_Used_To_Work_And_Can_Still_Work_Today_COD_PREVIEW.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS  Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – For those of you that still cling to the misinformed notion that the United States is still a republic, it’s not.  If it were a republic, constituent states would resemble, or little republics inside...Read More

https://media.blubrry.com/crusade/mikechurch.com/mc-media/daily-clip/02072012_Transcript1_Congress_out_of_scale_EDIT.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSSMandeville, LA – This Clip of The Day was originally aired and published on Jul 2,2012 and is part of the Founders Pass Flashback Collection. Exclusive Audio and Transcript – The idea or the theory that the House of Representatives represents...Read More

America Again Project – Ratify the First Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “Item number one, we call it the Bring Congress Home Act, BCHA.  It will follow what we’re going to talk about today, which is the action item we’re starting on April 15th.  I’m announcing it today on your show.  It’s called Ratify the...Read More

When Repealing Just Won’t Work Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “The young lady asked me whether or not it would be smart to repeal the 17th Amendment, whether or not I was in favor.  I said: Absolutely, although I don’t think it would matter.  Now, I used to think that it would matter, but today...Read More

https://media.blubrry.com/crusade/mikechurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/18112014_COD_Bill_Kaufmann_Why_is_Empire_so_big_and_lusted_after_Little_America_is_great.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSSMandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “This is one of the points that you make in Bye Bye, Miss American Empire.  I’ve often talked about this on the show many, many times.  New York could have the Republic of Manhattan Island. ...Read More

https://media.blubrry.com/crusade/mikechurch.com/mc-media/daily-clip/06082014_COD_Smallest_countries_are_wealthiest_most_peaceful_countries_PREVIEW.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSSMandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – So this led me to do a little bit of research here that is not conventional this morning.  You’re not going to get this treatment anywhere else.  I’m happy to share this with you.  We all...Read More

There are four men that are mentioned in this that were in the Philadelphia Convention that framed the Constitution. All four of them realized the gravity of what it is they're discussing in 1794 in Congress. Three of them decide that the solution is disunion. The fourth says I don't think you should do that,...Read More

https://media.blubrry.com/crusade/mikechurch.com/mc-media/daily-clip/17042014_COD_No_reform_for_ailing_US_save_for_breaking_the_union_PREVIEW.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSSMandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Number one, cleanse your mind of points A, B and C because they’re not going to happen unless we can get the federal monster and its representative forms back into scale.  Okay, how are we...Read More

Human Scale and Why Little Republics Work Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “What do nine of those entities have in common?  They’re tiny.  In the grand scale of things, they’re tiny, they’re miniatures.  They’re Rhode Islands.  They’re Districts of Columbia.  Let me give you the stats on Luxembourg.  Population is 514,862.  Square mileage is 2,586...Read More

 NSA Spying On Spies is a Prime Example of the Ratchet Effect Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “As a result of the previous expansion, we now have a new crisis that has to be dealt with, that’s going to require new agencies and more employees be hired by current agencies.  Is this a great scam...Read More

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....Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – There’s a new book out called Politics on a Human Scale: The American Tradition of Decentralism. It’s published by Lexington Books. Dr. Jeff Taylor is the author. I read part of this essay to you last week and I’ve referred to it a couple other times last week. Dr....Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I think you would have a revolution in thought before you’d have a revolution in government, meaning you would know and you will know when a clamoring mass of people are agitated enough and in sufficient numbers to either demand a change or to effect a change as a...Read More

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...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Wouldn’t it then be a quid pro quo to say then that the people that live in the purple or blue counties are as entitled to their own share or their own self-government as the people that are in the red counties? If they are, then what is the...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Getting a sampling of what you people are thinking and talking about today, many of you are pointing out that you’ve tried to Google search to get some news, view some news from the secession initiatives in Colorado yesterday and you can’t find it. I had the same problem....Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “It’s not Red Sox Vs Yankees, it’s Conservationists Vs Liberationists.”  Conor Friedersdorf has an interesting post at The Atlantic website.  It operates under the title, “What Parts of the New Deal Do ‘True Conservatives’ Want to Scrap?”  I can answer that question in three notes.  How about the whole...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Well, open today’s Pile of Prep and you will find a link and a quote to a blog post written by Andrew Sullivan. Sullivan writes at The Dish, which is a website that he -- he used to write for The Atlantic. He went out on his own. He’s...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Simpson makes the other brilliant point, which is very rarely discussed. Let’s just say that what you think is going to happen actually happens. What happens after that? Who gets to run the show? You people think there’s actually another George Washington out there? Our revolution was very unique....Read More

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...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – We now have three pockets across the amber waves of fuel, at least three that have been identified. That does not include the continual or I should say long-suffering desires of the people of the northern part of the State of New York who would form the nation of...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript –If we had one representative for every 30,000 souls, which was the vision of the framers and was honored all the way up until the 1910 census, if you have one representative for every 30,000 souls in the United States, you would have approximately, I believe the number is around...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I am dealing with a decimal percentage five zeroes to the right of the decimal point of what the Congress or Senate is dealing with on just one of these appropriations bills. They have to go through this every single year. If you have ever tried to slog through...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Ladies and gentlemen, socialism was never the goal of the Affordable Care Act. I know it’s a great thing to grandstand about, and it’s a great commercial endeavor to say this was all about socialized medicine and what have you. What this was about was getting more people to...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – None of this has to happen unless we have to remain the biggest, baddest bully in the history of the world when it comes to our foreign affairs. In other words, this is all made possible and necessary by our foreign policy. Ron Paul has been correct all along....Read More

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - Stephen Masty writes at the Imaginative Conservative that "America could do a service to herself, and to her lonely and overworked Presidents, by returning to monarchy." Sounds crazy huh? Well, maybe if Obama would go to a play, a movie, or a basketball game more often, he'd...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – This is as basic a fundamental -- when you talk about privileges and immunities clauses in constitutions, when privileges and immunities came up during the debates over ratification, this is exactly what was being talked about, the old vote with your feet. If you happen to vote with your...Read More

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Here's a quote from Mike's interview with Leo Linbeck III on the party system in American politics, for the rest of the interview, please check out today's transcript, "The system is set up where the incumbent has all the advantages: the financial advantages, the name ID, the party apparatus,...Read More

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Audio and Transcript - We sit here and think that we can save this union as it is and we can fix this. I keep asking the question: for what purpose? Why do you want to fix it? Can you tell me why? If you can’t get to the why, and...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – In his essay “Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth”, David Hume had a lot to say about the scale of government. According to his math, no one should represent a district larger than 1000 people. Which would mean that one of Mike’s listener’s, a county legislator in Orange County, NY...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The GSA wasted $868,000, that’s about the amount of money Congress borrows in a minute to finance the deficit.  That’s how preposterous and ridiculous this is, but we’re all outraged over it.  The American taxpayer, if there is such an animal out there, should not be looking at this...Read More

https://media.blubrry.com/crusade/mikechurch.com/beta/mc-media/daily-clip/12042012_Transcript_Livingston_Interview_EDIT.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSSMandeville, LA – Exclusive Audio & Transcript – Check out Mike’s exclusive interview with Professor Donald Livingston right here. They discuss the size and scope of the Federal Government and how out of scale it has become. This is the main...Read More