Defending American Exceptionalism

This short episode is an introduction to what is likely to be a controversial issue before too long - whether the United States should launch its own central bank backed digital currency, or CBDC.  An Executive Order signed by the President in March directed a number of members of the Administration to look into U.S. digital currency.  With the growth of the cryptocurrency market, govern...

Despite the claim of Vice President Kamala Harris that our border is secure, millions have illegally entered our nation during the Biden Administration and, yet, the Administration continues to ignore this crisis and to deny its existence.  The refusal of the federal government to take actions actually to secure the border is forcing governors in the most affected states to take actions to sh...

Without a question, gas-powered vehicles have a down side - pollution, accidents, congestion - but they also offer a kind of mobility - automcobility - that allows us independence, self-determination, and the ability to live and work in places of our choosing.  Automobiles also connect us to one another, allowing us to travel far distances on our own schedules and with our own itineraries. &n...

Education has societal value.  But an individual's choice of course of study and what to pay for that study is that individual's own decision.  Even more so a personal individual decision, is the decision to borrow money to pay for an education.  As with any loan and investment with those borrowed funds, the person agreeing to pay back those funds should evaluate the return on inves...

This episode poses the theory that the focus on Donald Trump - both by his supporters and his opponents - is not as much about who he is but what he stands for.  Donald Trump was not a career politician.  He was not a creature of decades inside the Beltway and he did not accept in opposition to his plans that things simply were not done that way or that they were always done some other w...

It is never a bad time to be reminded that part of the genius of the system created by our founders is that it is based on a system that intended to leave more power to the states and local governments - those closest to the people - and less for the federal government.  As more and more policy actions are being taken at the federal level, perhaps it is time we, as a society, ask whether we m...

With the recent passage of federal legislation packed full of various incentives to shift to cleaner energy, it seems the perfect time to re-release this episode to get back to the basics of where we are in terms of energy options and what is still lacking if we are effectively to shift society away from traditional sources of energy, such as oil, gas, and coal.

This is a re-release of the 11th episode of the podcast.  The episode explores how the movement known as feminism - once a general call for equal treatment of women - has done more to harm the female gender than to help it.

This episode is a re-release of Episode 7, originally recorded on February 28, 2021.  It explores the history and purpose of the Second Amendment and why it is a right critical to all other freedoms.

This is a re-release of the podcast's very first episode, with a new introduction to remind all of us how special this great nation we call America truly is.

Today's severe misunderstanding of the First Amendment's Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses and Thomas Jefferson's 1802 phrase a "wall of separation of church and state" has led to a modern belief that any mention or reference to religion in public discourse is improper and a sign of an impending theocracy.  This view is either ignorant of or intentionally overlooks the role of religion...

This episode takes a quick look at some of the most outrageous claims from the Left about how conservatives are threatening democracy and freedom, when the truth lies much more in the conclusion that it is the Left deflecting from its own efforts to ever more boldly take from us our most prized freedoms and right to self governance.

This episode looks at several of the most headline grabbing decisions of the Supreme Court's most recent term to celebrate a return of political issues to the political branches and to the people.  

Through poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, Paul Revere's Ride, this short special episode reminds us that the birth of our nation depended on the many small acts of so many who fought for freedom.

With video footage capturing President Biden, after already coming to a stop, falling from his bicycle, the image seemed representative of the entire Administration.  No matter what the issue and whether it is an actual policy enactment or a proposal, President Biden and his supporters have an uncanny ability to choose the wrong path nearly 100% of the time.  Whether foreign policy, mili...

Expanding the prior discussion of the right to bear arms protected by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, this episode explores the pattern of demanding restrictions on gun rights whenever a mass shooting stokes fear in the population.  The proposed gun restrictions never attempt to address the actual root causes of gun violence or to recognize that, though mass shootings (however...

This special episode reviews some of the most remarkable revelations uncovered about those in support of transgenderism on today's far Left as shown in the recently released documentary, What Is A Woman.

With student loan debt topping $1.6 trillion and proposals to forgive all or a portion of these loans coming from many in our federal government gaining ground, it is time to review who should be responsible for these loans.  When considering student loan debt, it is also important to consider what our students are learning and what they are not when they pay often hundreds of thousands of do...

This episode discusses the growing trend of companies to make public statements or more in support of some of the more extreme Left policy demands.  If companies fail to consider their actual business purposes when becoming involved in these political issues, they fail their shareholders and their consumers.  Worse, the real goals of those bullying corporations into participating in the...

This episode explores crime rates, how terms like "violence" and "extremist" are being defined, and whether there is a political basis for current rates of violent crime.  The episode also revisits some of the societal causes of crime in order to refocus policies on the moral component of a safe society.

Whether it is transgenderism taught in elementary school classrooms or lessons that teach some students they are inherently oppressed and others that they are inherently racist and oppressors, our current treatment of children is stealing from them any sense of true childhood and exposing them to ideas that will serve only to harm them mentally and physically.  This episode discusses some of...

As the podcast returns to discussing current events, after several weeks of taking some steps through history to remind us where we have been as a civilization, it appears that today's issues are becoming more and more ridiculous and unbelievable.  From a leaked draft Supreme Court opinion to Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter and the creation of a Disinformation Governance Board in an agency of...

As World War II comes to a close, the world sees two Superpowers and two distinct societal, economic, and governmental philosophies battle for supremacy around the globe.  The winner would be on the side of freedom but the Cold War would not be fought without cost and it appears its resolution would not end the continuing fight between freedom and totalitarianism, between capitalism and commu...

This episode continues the multi-part series briefly summarizing the history of western civilization with a focus on the unique place in history held by the United States of America.  Consisting of discussion of several key conflicts in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, this episode will touch on America's founding, the Civil War, and the rise in American influence through World Wars I and...

From Ancient Greece and Rome to the Middle Ages, the Crusades and the periods of Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Renaissance, this episode hits some high points in our history to help us appreciate how far man has come, what we should have learned from prior civilizations and why knowledge of history is imperative for future success of our nation and of society itself.