Defending American Exceptionalism

This episode discusses some key events in the past month or so that have worked to change the political landscape and upend the election. From concerns about President Biden's competence to an assassination attempt against former President and Presidential Candidate, Donald Trump, to important Supreme Court decisions, things have certainly changed since Spring.

This episode relies primarily on the words of our country's founders to explain why it is so very important to support, defend, and fight for this very exceptional nation and the foundation on which it rests.

This episode discusses the two party system and the current status of the nominees of each party for the office of President. Never before have there been so many issue related to the law or the candidates' competence and the choice voters have this year is one that offers two starkly different options, but where does that leave America in the long term?

Where once students young minds could explore all kinds of ideas and debate them with their peers, today's educational environment if one of stilted speech, censorship of ideas, and a failing experiment in indoctrination that will serve only to be the downfall of future generations if we cannot turn the tide very soon.

This episode considers the instability in the Middle East as just one example of the risks posed to the United States from abroad and why effective border control and immigration policy is critical if we hope to preserve our own freedom and security, at home and elsewhere.

This episode explores the foreign policy failings of the Biden Administration, especially given recent events in the Middle East. From the attacks on Israel to the unabashed threats being made by the likes of North Korea, the current Administration is on a path of weakness and not strength, risking the national security of the country.

Why do things seem so hostile, so uncivilized, and so extreme in the world of politics? This episode explores some recent events that appear to be examples of extremism in American politics and then discusses how the term extremism may be being misused in some cases, not others. It also explores how we have exchanged any core ideology in ourselves and our officials - by characterizing any commitme...

This episode discusses the history of the lack of term limits contained in the original Constitution, how we came to limit Presidents to two terms, and modern pushes for additional term limits on members of Congress and even the Supreme Court.

This episode provides a brief discussion of some of the recent news stories I have found most interesting, from the absurd to the troubling to the encouraging, these stories shed light on the state of society and remind us how important it is to stay informed.

This episode is a first real look at the various candidates running for President in 2024, what is at stake in this election, and what considerations voters may want to make when deciding whether to back a particular candidate. The episode also hopes to remind listeners that the President is not in a position to solve all of the nation's problems, nor should he be.

After every large scale natural disaster, calls are made to reform and fix the agencies and plans of our emergency response. Often the focus is on the federal response, when the primary response for such events rests with those closest to the disaster - state and local officials and organizations. This episode explores how emergency response efforts require coordination among various agencies and...

This episode explores the due process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment and the issues created when the courts or legislature attempt to read into the Constitution some implied body of fundamental rights they call substantive due process.

This episode discusses the history of the U.S. Department of Labor and the laws enacted, primarily beginning in the New Deal and continuing to today, that interfere with the rights of individual employees to bargain for their own labor, under the terms most important to them. Without the ability freely and voluntarily to demand what you think your own labor is worth or to pay what labor is worth t...

Expanding on the prior episode's discussion of property rights and the critical part they play in protecting our liberty, this episode discusses some of the confusion the courts have created in deciding cases where citizens challenge government action related to property. The episode also points out the infringement of our rights to our own labor and the property we acquire through it that occ...

This episode focuses on America's founders' view of the essential place property rights have in any free society. Without the right to both acquire and possess property, we cannot be independent of our government and we cannot truly achieve liberty.

This episode discusses the history of affirmative action, key Supreme Court decisions addressing racial preferences, and what the most recent case involving racially-based admissions decisions at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina means for our chance to achieve a truly color blind society. Where the actual realities of racial preferences prove they harm everyone involved, why ar...

The truth is out there, but how do we find it. And, how will we know when we do find it. Media has evolved over centuries and no longer are town criers or regularly published newspapers primary sources of information and news. As more ways to get and share information emerge, it becomes harder to know what sources to trust and how to ensure the information you are receiving is accurate.

It seems today our federal government spends a lot more time talking about issues that shouldn't concern it and not much time informing us how it is responding to, or addressing, threats and concerns that fall within its constitutional purview. This episode scratches the surface of discussing how ours is now a government with the wrong priorities, a situation that puts at risk our national sec...

History and modern economic data indicate that smaller governments allow for more economic growth. Small, limited government is also the type of government created by our founders, as evidenced by our founding documents. Today, however, government is so large that a return to small government may no longer be feasible - at least not in the short term or even a generation - but some restriction and...

Tackling the issue of identity politics and the harm being caused by the Left's insistence that we all be defined and grouped by certain "identities," this episode from early 2021 is just as relevant today, though the number of group identities keeps growing.

Recorded about 2 years ago from the date of this re-release, discussion of the proper role of our military is never ill-timed. Our service men and women deserve that we recognize its importance and its mission.

Despite many of the outcries from some segments of society about recent Supreme Court decisions, we all should be thankful for the Court's willingness to step back into its proper role, leaving policy decisions to the political branches and the people. That is what this episode celebrates.

As this episode from February 2021 explains, judicial activism is dangerous. Judicial activism is dangerous whether it is engaged in by conservative or liberal judges and justices. It is the usurpation of power from the political branches and the people.

Knowledge of the history of western civilization is a critical part of understanding our world - how it was, how it is, and what we should be seeking to protect and secure in terms of the lessons from our history if we hope to continue the great story of America.

In January of last year, 2022, this episode tackled the issue of Freedom of Religion, pointing out that we have turned into more of an anti-religious culture than one that truly honors the freedom freely to exercise one's religious beliefs.