Defending American Exceptionalism

Twenty years after the nation was attacked by al Qaeda terrorists, it is time to remember those who fell that day, those who have since passed from health complications that were caused by conditions at the site of the attacks, and those who have fought since September 11th to disrupt terrorist organizations around the world.  With the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, it is also time t...

In the two weeks since the original episode on the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, the news on how this decision was handled just gets worse.  From leaving Americans behind to abandoning U.S. military equipment to the failure properly to coordinate with our allies, whether one supported a full withdrawal, the way this matter was carried out exposes a clear failure of leadership from th...

Now that we are further into the pandemic and are confronting mutations of the Covid-19 coronavirus, it is time to look at what worked, what didn't, what we still don't know, and what we should consider when allowing the government to dictate our behavior.  Cries to follow the science have been shown not to be based on any settled science and life has been dramatically altered in ways that ma...

Debates can continue whether the war in Afghanistan was a success, a failure, a combination of successes and failures, and what the role of the United States should be in that nation going forward.  It cannot be disputed or debated that our service men and women did a remarkable job dismantling al Qaeda and supporting the Afghan people.  What cannot be debated is that the Biden Administr...

Where private property rights were a critical aspect of freedom and security, as recognized by our Founders, more recent movements attempt to devalue these rights in favor of more collective rights that do nothing to encourage hard work and independence and instead seek to make use more reliant on government and to allow government access to the fruits of our own labor for their own projects for p...

The sudden rise of Big Tech companies - Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and a handful of others - raises questions about how much freedom we have voluntarily given to these monopolistic companies.  With more recent actions to censor user content, the question what place these companies truly should have in our society is more important than ever.  A consideration of the market share n...

The recent protests of Cuban citizens chanting, “Abajo de la dictadura” (down with the dictatorship), and Libertad (Freedom) have shone a light back on this oppressive country, reminding us of the evils of Communism as they have been imposed there.  Where memories of the Cold War have faded - for those who have any such memories at all - it is time to remember just what we are fighting when w...

Given the recent calls to end the filibuster, moves by state legislators to abandon their elected positions to deny a quorum for consideration of legislation, and the imbalance created by imposing term limits on only one of the two political branches of our federal government, it seemed a good time to take at least an introductory look into the legislative process.  The genius of our founders...

As the 20th century moved forward, it became accepted dogma that every student should complete high school and complete college.  Unfortunately, the decrease in the value of much of what is being taught - or not taught - on our campuses of higher education and the increase in the cost has done a disservice to many.  While neglecting to allow students to pursue vocational studies that wou...

Athletes competing in the Olympics - though no longer amateurs - should understand that the Olympics allows them to shine individually but while serving as representatives of their country.  They are not there for their own achievements alone, but as part of an international competition.  What happens as a part of this series of athletic events affects international policy and relations...

From shifts in educational priorities to the continuing relaxation of social mores to guide public behavior and to protect childhood innocence, we now live in a time where are children are regularly exposed to conduct and ideas that serve only to harm them and leave them ill prepared for the future.

In this episode, you will hear the entire text of the Declaration of Independence and a list of those great men who signed it.

As many of our current policymakers and political activists push for a more socialist society, the protections of the First Amendment to the Constitution related to religious freedom are being curtailed in ways inconsistent with the amendment's language and history.  Where new social movements conflict with sincerely held religious beliefs, all too often society is willing to sacrifice rights...

From before our country's inception, George Washington was put in command of a fighting army.  It was known then, as it should be now, that to be effective a military must be trained and disciplined.  We are slowly chipping away at proper training and discipline in our armed forces for the sake of diversity - a diversity that serves only to weaken our military and to threaten our nationa...

In recent years, a push has come from within our own government voluntarily to give up some of our autonomy in favor of decision making by transnational organizations.  These kinds of decisions erode our nation's independence and remove the legitimacy of any standards imposed upon us from outside influences.  Those seeking a more global government are moving us further from our own Ameri...

Today's progressive Democrats are pushing an agenda that is in direct contravention of the system and principles the founders instilled in our Constitution.  The push for fundamental changes that devalue the individual in favor of some elite-defined community good threatens to take away individual freedoms in a way that cannot continue if the United States is to survive to further its great e...

With questions swirling about President Biden's mental and physical health, Americans and the rest of the world continue to witness awkward and troubling moments of his confusion and the unwillingness and inability to answer questions such that the question must be asked:  who is really in charge?  With the most progressive agenda since FDR and Lyndon Johnson - if not more so - Americans...

The history of the area now known as the Middle East has all of the characteristics needed to set up centuries of warring factions and conflict, given the large empires that often held these lands together through force and genocide.  Though the modern era should have brokered in the opportunity for peace and stability as people gained their independence from the Ottoman Empire and then from...

Though history has included periods where the United States and China worked together as allies, the modern era brings a Chinese Communist Party with the primary goal of becoming the one superpower in the world and to do so at the expense of the United States.  From trade deficits to military build-up and human rights abuses and from complex propaganda campaigns to the theft of intellectual p...

The complicated nature of our tax system has allowed our government officials to include numerous credits, deductions, and other provisions  that seek to pander to certain groups to gain their approval.  What has resulted is a tax code that is hard to understand and that actually makes it easy to hide from us how much we are actually paying into the system and also fails to make transpar...

Allowing more power to be retained by the states and the people was key to the acceptance of the new system of governance established by the U.S. Constitution.  Over time, we have allowed a slow destruction of federalism that has stopped the ability of local solutions and makes those officials farthest removed from the people to control of more and more decisions with a dangerous nationwide,...

The lie of systemic racism seeks to divide us by race, using fear and anger to allow the greatest political power grab in the country's history.  The fact of our history with slavery does not support the conclusion that today the country is anything but free and equal, full of equal opportunity for us all.  Media and political focus on police shootings - that are not only statistically r...

With climate change advocates vilifying fossil fuels, while alternative energy sources prove unworkable, the United States is moving back into a position of energy dependence on foreign nations that seeks to harm our own citizens without any real scientific reason for the failure to rely upon our own natural resources.  Rather than preventing use of what energy sources can be found domestical...

This episodes discusses the ever increasing bias in the main stream news media and in the entertainment industry to explore how this bias - in the light of false claims by those in the media that they are actually objective - serves to indoctrinate our citizens by presenting mere opinions as fact.  This issue spreads misinformation and misunderstanding among our communities.

As the trial of Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, continues, we check in on the testimony and evidence so far, the crimes with which he has been charged, and what evidence may still be to come.