Defending American Exceptionalism

This episode reviews the far shift to the Left that American education has taken through the years and the extreme damage now being done by the refusal to allow an open discussion of differing points of view in our schools.  Rather than teaching our younger generations to think for themselves, too many school curricula and requirements are using propaganda to indoctrinate and intimidate stude...

The path toward women's rights is an interesting one, and not one that has kept as its motivation establishing an actual equal playing field for women.  Instead, it is a one-sided move toward a political agenda that does not respect, but seeks essentially to erase, women.  This episode explores the history of women in America and the rise of feminism, along with the more modern trends to...

This episode explores the history of the United States' role in the world and how the direction of its current foreign policy may be causing harm to America while also underestimating the true risk of some of the most critical threats to our national security.

This episode explores the constitutional division of responsibility for election laws between the states and federal governments, discussing the evolution of the Constitution itself in terms of who could vote, and discusses both historical and recent concerns about election fraud and integrity.  A review of the 2000 Presidential election and the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore, along...

Immigration is a desirable thing, when it is done legally.  The failings of our current immigration system bring to light the dangers caused when emotion guides policy and when those who enter illegally are ultimately permitted to benefit from that unlawful entry.  This episode discusses the history of immigration in the United States, key legal changes through the years, and the need fo...

A look at the history of the Bill of Rights and why it was added to the Constitution, specifically the Second Amendment, helps to understand the individual right embodied in that amendment and its importance to our country from its early days through today.  Though some regulation may be warranted, the attempts to significantly limit gun ownership and access pose a threat to any and all other...

This episode discusses the issues created when courts overstep their judicial role and act in the place of legislatures and the people in creating and amending legal rules.  As the courts become more politicized, the people lose their voice on key policy issues.  A commitment to the text of our laws is the only way to ensure the rule of law endures and we do not become a society ruled by...

With a historical review of the 1918 Spanish Flu and some consideration of proper emergency authorities of the President, this episode walks through the country's struggle through the recent pandemic, while reminding everyone that limits continue to exist on government authority even in times of crisis.

This episode delves into the separation of powers established by the founders and their attempt to avoid any concentration of power in one branch of government. With this understanding, the episode explores the use of Executive Orders over the years – the history of such directives, the questionable use of them in recent years and the issues raised by attempts of any President, unilaterally, to ch...

This episode explores the increasingly prevalent tendency to push Americans into groups - to identify ourselves not based on our individual character and qualities, but based on membership in some class.  The episode further discusses the damage caused to the country as a whole by this movement and especially to our children, who are more and more the focus of efforts of identity politics. &n...

This episode explores the importance of free speech to any free society, the history surrounding speech - especially political speech - that led to the drafting of the First Amendment, and the risk posed to freedom by recent attempts of censorship, both public and private.  The episode will also discuss the importance of open discussion of issues, the relationship between the freedoms of spee...

This first episode of the Defending American Exceptionalism podcast explores the dangers of recent attempts to rewrite history as it relates to the founding of the United States and highlights the deterioration of many of our founding principles resulting from these attacks and outright falsehoods.  This episode provides a foundation upon which later episodes will explore key issues facing th...