Thomas Jefferson

Don’t Be Surprised When Politicians Act Like…Politicians

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – This is what you get when you don’t study history and when we think we’re just us and there was no history that came before us because we’re so arrogant and conceited. You do know that it was members of the Roman Senate, senators, that killed Julius Caesar, or at least assisted in it. You do know that a politician, a vice president and […]

April 11, 2013 9

Transcripts

President Jefferson’s First Days In Office

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I was asking the question as to whether or not Patrick Henry was correct when he predicted that the office of President is to become a great and powerful king and he is to be supported in extravagant magnificence. What did Jefferson, when he succeeded John Adams to the office of the President, say to those he was corresponding with about what he was […]

April 10, 2013 8

Transcripts

Kansas Joins The Nullification Fight Over Gun Laws

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Yesterday we talked to my buddy Mark Kreslins about the attempt to nullify Obamacare in the State of Oklahoma and that it stalled in the Oklahoma Senate because of the protestations of one historically ignorant senator, a gentlemen by the name of Clark Jolley. That’s up for debate as to what’s going to happen with that. There is another effort in the State of […]

April 9, 2013 4

Transcripts

The Student Loan Bubble Is Not What Jefferson Had In Mind

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The largest bubble right now, the bubble that is about to burst and is bursting right now is the student loan bubble. There are almost $1 trillion worth of outstanding student loans right now. All that money was guaranteed by you and me, Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer, and was transferred into where? It came from the federal government and transferred into the coffers of […]

April 4, 2013 10

Founders Television

What a Constitution Can and Can’t Do

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - There's an article at The Imaginative Conservative by Bruce Frohnen entitled "What the Constitution Can, and Can't, Do". The purpose of a Constitution is not to bequeath rights to people or establish some social order protected by government. We do have a Bill of Rights that says that people that reside within the states reserve the right to regulate a militia and […]

April 2, 2013 15

Interviews

Kevin Gutzman Interview: Madison, Bill of Rights, Nullification And Second Amendment

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Professor Dr. Kevin Gutzman is on the Dude Maker Hotline, celebrating ten years of your buddy being here on Sirius XM satellite radio airwaves. I don’t know if you knew that. This week is our anniversary. Tomorrow is James Madison’s birthday as well. We have a two-fold purpose. Plus James Madison and the Making of America is out in paperback. Check out today’s transcript […]

March 18, 2013 29

Transcripts

Marco Rubio And His Neocon Buddies Need To Go Back And Study History

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “The idea is America and it still works,” what idea? A proper noun is not an idea. Folks, this is where these American exceptionalists should lose the intellectual thinker, the critical thinker, the person that actually reads, the person that actually contemplates, the person that actually considers, the person who is actually humble, the person who actually believes that history is an ongoing process […]

March 15, 2013 6

Transcripts

More Money Does Not Equate To Better Education

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – There’s something to be said about parenting, believe it or not. James Madison was a child prodigy, that may be true, but in his formative years he was homeschooled. He was taught at home. Thomas Jefferson was a childhood prodigy, I would wager, and in his formative years he was homeschooled. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…

March 11, 2013 8

Transcripts

Kevin Gutzman – A Comparison of Presidents on Presidents’ Day

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - You said Tyler is your favorite president. He’s another one of these guys that if you ask Joseph Ellis or the woman that wrote the book that ultimately became the movie Lincoln, one of these presidential historians, Tyler will probably rank somewhere between 38 and 43, yet you and McClanahan ranked him up there as number one and two. Why? Check out today's transcript […]

February 19, 2013