According2Sam Podcast

Political violence has been on the rise ever since 2015, when President Trump entered politics. As he campaigned across the country, violence was waiting for him and his supporters at many of his events, especially those in cities that were controlled by Democrats. In city after city, crowds of violent demonstrators showed up to his rallies and fought with police and attacked the people who had co...

There has been a lot of talk about democracy and threats to democracy lately, but what is democracy? Founding father, Benjamin Franklin described it as two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Franklin also famously said, after the Philadelphia Convention which created the United States of America, when asked what form of government they had created, "A republic, if you can keep it....

You may have heard of 'deepfake' videos, the process of overlaying someone else's face on a video to make it look like they are doing, or saying something they never did or said, but have you heard of 'cheap fakes'? 'Cheap Fake' videos are videos that have been edited to change the context of what really happened in the unedited video. For example, video of President Trump saying, "there were fine...

CNBC anchor, Andrew Sorkin recently reported that he spoke with some CEOs who told him, off the record, that President Trump seemed to be "meandering" in a closed-door meeting they had with him. On the same day, the New York Post published a cover page with a picture of President Biden at the G7 meeting in Italy seeming to wander away from the group of other world leaders with the headline: "Meand...

Voters were warned that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation in the fall of 2020, just before the November election, and there was certainly disinformation being disseminated to the American people in those final weeks of the campaign, but it wasn't coming from Russia. It was actually coming from the American intelligence community and those blaming Russia for the laptop. It was an Ame...

President Trump was just convicted for an illegal campaign contribution in the 2016 election when he defeated Hillary Clinton. It was a convoluted case based on novel legal theory, but what it comes down to is an illegal campaign contribution. Another example of an illegal campaign contribution is a contribution 'in-kind' that exceeds the legal limit. An 'in-kind' contribution is not a financial c...

When Joe Biden was a senator in the early 1990's he supported a mandatory minimum prison sentence of five years for anyone caught with a piece of crack cocaine the size of a quarter. He didn't care if they had a problem with addiction, or how much their father loved them. It was five years in jail. "Judge doesn't even have a choice", he boasted in a speech from the Senate floor. Ironically, his so...

When Commodus became emperor after his father, Marcus Aurelius died, it ushered in the end of the Pax Romana, which was a period of almost two centuries of peace and prosperity. The young emperor was not ready to rule the great empire, and there was a sense of weakness from the moment he became Augustus. When he was assassinated the rule of law was also assassinated with him. It was the beginning...

Professor Allan Lichtman's 13 Keys for predicting the outcome of U.S. presidential elections has been the most accurate forecaster over the past 4 decades. It looks at the issues, not the polls, and it is these issues that move the polls. Lichtman's keys determine the strengths and weaknesses of the party in power, and how well or poorly they governed. Two of the 13 Keys focus on foreign policy, o...

The origins of Covid-19 have been in question since the virus first started spreading in Wuhan, China, where coincidentally there is a level 4 virology laboratory that was doing research on virus. We were first told the virus was zoonotic and had emerged in nature. They said it had come from a wet market where Chinese people buy food and it had come from a bat or a pangolin. There were many people...

Every election year politicians show up to Black churches, Black cookouts, and Black media pandering for Black votes. It is mostly Democrats, because until recently it was viewed as a waste of time and resources for Republicans to campaign for Black votes. However, that has changed. The Black vote is not as reliable for Democrats as it used to be, and both parties are now trying to get Black voter...

Campaign strategists that run major party presidential campaigns use data for every decision. They depend on polling, focus groups, modeling, and many other tools to gather as much information as they can from as many different methods possible. They can now identify particular precincts that will determine the outcome of an entire state. They know which demographic groups they need to improve wit...

The protests on college campuses over the past few weeks are only a small part of the demonstrations we have seen over the past 7 months. Protesters have taken over the Capitol, blocked traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge and at O'Hare airport. They've protested at the Correspondents' Dinner, Met Gala, and all of Joe Biden's campaign events. Many people have classified these protests as antisemitic,...

A few weeks ago, Speaker Johnson finally brought the $95 billion foreign aid package to the floor for a vote after months of holding the legislation up. It was highly controversial, and it angered many in his own party. More Republicans voted against aid to Ukraine than voted for it. In a radio interview with Mark Levin, Johnson justified his decision by saying it was the only way to get aid for I...

Sigmund Freud's theory of the unconscious and the three personality structures of human psychology is based on three principles. The ego is based on the reality principle, and it relates to the mind and an individual's ability determine what is real about the world and act accordingly. The superego is based on the morality principle, and it relates to an individual's values, ethics, and morals. Th...

The emergence of psychotherapy in the 20th century changed the way we see ourselves as humans. At no other time in human history have we been more aware of how we feel and of our emotions. Today it seems like everything in our society is viewed through how we feel, or how someone else feels. Psychotherapy has led to a whole new healthcare industry that focuses on helping people control their feeli...

The Beatitudes are a list of nine blessings that Jesus gave in the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew. "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted." These nine blessings reflect the character and attitude of those whom God favors. The meek, those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, the merciful, the pu...

After Congress approved the new supplemental foreign aid package worth nearly $100 billion, most of which goes to Ukraine, Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell was asked in a Fox News interview if the new aid will be enough money for Ukraine to push Russia back decisively. He said, “We hope so. It’s only .2 percent of our gross domestic product, so to put that in context it’s not a whole lot of...

Major General Smedley D. Butler was the most decorated Marine in American history at the time of his death. He had two Medals of Honor and sixteen other medals, including five for his heroism. In his 34-year career Butler fought in China, the Philippines, Mexico, Central America, and many more regions of the world. In 1933, after he retired, Butler claimed he had been recruited by major industrial...

In his 2002 State of the Union address, President Bush started making his case for the invasion of Iraq. He described Iraq, along with North Korea and Iran, as an "axis of evil'. He said they represented a unique threat to the world, and he was putting them on notice. The following year he invaded Iraq, based on lies and carefully manipulated intelligence that was used to support the lies. Now we...

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