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Army 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta Master Sergeant (ret.) Dr. John W. Boswell, Ph. D.'s "Essay 1: Mostly Peaceful," published under the pen name S. Roane, 3 Jan 2021 is read and discussed via FB Live 5 Feb 2021 with Kurtis Olson. This is honoring the late John W. Boswell. John had a storied career in Army Special Forces. He took down Noriega, he fought in the actual battle depict...

We pay tribute to retired Army Master Sgt. John William Boswell (Bozz), Ph. D., who spent most of his career in Special Forces (Delta) prior to going to college as undergraduate (at DU) through graduate, eventuating in a Ph. D. during the lockdowns of 2020 from Claremont Colleges. He was my best friend in graduate school and an inspiration and motivator for The Republican Professor project, of whi...

The last three episodes, we've gone through in detail much of Senior Judge Ishii's judgment and findings of fact in Silvester v. Harris (2014) at a California-based U.S. District Court (trial court). Judge Ishii, a Democrat, found in favor of the Second Amendment against the State of California's then-attorney general, Kamala Harris. The 9th Circuit on appeal then reversed that gain for the Second...

Welcome back for Part 3 of the issue of the 10 day waiting period for firearm transfers in the State of California, the relationship of that to the Constitution. Fun for the whole family. Today, we once again have a Democrat on The Republican Professor podcast, Senior District Court Judge Anthony Ishii. Judge Ishii is an expert on this particular topic, because it was before him in 2014 in federal...

Welcome back for Part 2 of the issue of the 10 day waiting period for firearm transfers in the State of California, and the Constitution. Today, we once again have a Democrat on The Republican Professor podcast, Senior District Court Judge Anthony Ishii. Judge Ishii is an expert on this particular topic, because it was before him in 2014 in federal court in central California. Judge Ishii was appo...

Today, we have a Democrat on The Republican Professor podcast, Senior District Court Judge Anthony Ishii. Our topic is California's 10 day waiting period and the Second Amendment. Judge Ishii is an expert on that particular topic, because it was before him in 2014 in federal court in central California. Judge Ishii was appointed to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton. And to his great cred...

We're in part 2 on anger and hatred in the Bible and normative American Politics. Today's guest is, again, a Mark O. Hatfield (R, Oregon) type of Republican, Dr. Vernon Grounds, Ph. D., former Chancellor, President, and long-time professor of Philosophy and founder of the Counseling Department at Denver Seminary, where TRP's host Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph. D. knew Dr. Grounds during Dr. Mather's gra...

Today's return guest is a Mark O. Hatfield (R, Oregon) type of Republican, Dr. Vernon Grounds, Ph. D., former Chancellor, President, and long-time professor of Philosophy and founder of the Counseling Department at Denver Seminary, where TRP's host Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph. D. knew Dr. Grounds during Dr. Mather's graduate student days. Our topic today on The Republican Professor Podcast is emotiona...

Our return guest today on The Republican Professor Podcast is the former professor of Theology at the University of Hamburg in West Germany, Dr. Helmut Thielicke, Ph. D., D.Theol. (Philosophy and Theology). Professor Thielicke once again joins us through his teaching in his Theological Ethics, Vol. 2: Politics. My copy was purchased at Old Capitol Books (new location) in Monterey, California, acro...

Our special guest on this passion week episode, 2024 (Good Friday, Easter Weekend) is the former Professor of Ancient History at The Sorbonne in Paris, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges. He joins us to discuss what he calls "The Omnipotence of the State: The Ancients Knew Nothing of Individual Liberty", his chapter XVII of The Ancient City (La Cite Antique), published in 1864 and translated into Engl...

Our guest today defends the most vulnerable people, often at his own substantial cost, from bureaucrats who use the police power of the state to abuse Americans. Does the Second Amendment protect the right to keep and bear non-lethal arms? If it protects the right to keep and bear lethal arms for self-defense, a fortiori, it would seem so. Butterfly knives can be used for self-defense without depl...

How should we define these terms "Left" and "Right" ? What do they, and what should they mean ? We take a break from our time with Professor Helmut Thielicke (Theology, Univ. Hamburg, Germany) to have an excursus on the topic that Thielicke raised and that we discussed here on The Republican Professor Podcast. And that topic is: What is Left ? What is Right ? A Study of Political Extremism, and ou...

This is part 3 in a series on The Republican Professor Podcast, an introduction to theological reflection on American government. Here, we broach the topic of the "power state," or the "totalitarian state," what our guest calls a "pseudo church." Our very special guest today is, once again, the esteemed and long-time Professor of Theology at the University of Hamburg, Helmut Thielicke. And I've in...

This is part 2 in a series on The Republican Professor Podcast, an introduction to theological foundations of American government, continuing our theological reflection on the "authority" of government per se. Again, to help us with this topic, our very special guest today is the long-time Professor of Theology at the University of Hamburg, Helmut Thielicke. And I've invited Professor Thielicke to...

Today's topic on The Republican Professor Podcast is an introduction to theological foundations of American government, starting with the theological reflection on the "authority" of government per se. And to help us with this topic, our very special guest today is the long-time Professor of Theology at the University of Hamburg, Helmut Thielicke. And I've invited Professor Thielicke to join us to...

Today's topic on The Republican Professor Podcast is the doctrine of "sensitive places" as an attempt to curb the right to bear arms, and to help us through that topic, our guest is the youngest judge appointed to the federal bench by President Trump, Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, who was confirmed by a Republican US Senate. She is a trial court judge in Florida. Judge Mizelle joins us today through he...

Today's topic is Religious Liberty versus Public Health, namely a vaccine mandate, and the case is from early 2020, and the guest is James Ho. The Honorable Judge James Ho joins us through his judicial writing, his opinion published in Brett Horvath v. City of Leander, TX, which is in the 946th volume of the 3rd series of the Federal Reporter starting on page 796 (946 F. 3d 787 at 796, Ho, J., con...

Today's special guest on The Republican Professor Podcast is the Hon. Brett Kavanaugh, former judge on the U.S Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Former Judge Kavanaugh was nominated to the D.C. Circuit by President George W. Bush and confirmed by a Republican U.S. Senate in 2006. Prior to that, Brett Kavanaugh worked in the White House as a staff secretary to the president. Judge Kavanaugh wa...

Today's guest on The Republican Professor podcast is a Democrat, the honorable Rufus Peckham, former associate justice on the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Justice Peckham was nominated to the high Court by President Grover Cleveland and confirmed by a Republican United States Senate. Mr. Peckham joins us today through his judicial writing, his decision for the Court in the matter of Lochner v....

Today's guest on The Republican Professor Podcast is once again Judge Laurence VanDyke. He serves as a federal appellate judge on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (U.S.). This is the federal appellate court for California. He was confirmed by the Senate after being appointed to the federal bench by President Donald J. Trump. Judge VanDyke joins us today through his judicial writing, his judgment i...

This is part 2 on COVID, California, and the Second Amendment. Today's guest on The Republican Professor Podcast is the Hon. Laurence VanDyke. He serves as a judge on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (U.S.). It's the federal appellate court for California. He was confirmed by the Senate after being appointed to the federal bench by President Donald J. Trump. Judge VanDyke joins us today through hi...

Today's guest on The Republican Professor Podcast is the Hon. Laurence VanDyke. He serves as a judge on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (U.S.). He was confirmed by the Senate after being appointed to the federal bench by President Donald J. Trump. Judge VanDyke joins us today through his judicial writing, his judgment in McDougal v. Ventura County (20 Jan 2022). To access the text for yourself an...

Welcome back for the final segment on the topic of magazine capacity and the Second Amendment. Welcome back for part 4 of 4. Once again, today's guest on The Republican Professor Podcast is the Honorable Roger T. Benitez who serves as a trial court judge at the US District Court for the Southern District of California. He was appointed to the federal bench by President George W. Bush. Judge Benite...

Today we are so very blessed to have with us, in studio, for part 3, today's guest on The Republican Professor Podcast, the Honorable Roger T. Benitez who serves as a trial court judge at the US District Court for the Southern District of California. He was appointed to the federal bench by President George W. Bush. Judge Benitez joins us through his judicial writing, his decision in Duncan v. Bon...

Once again, for part 2, today's guest on The Republican Professor Podcast is the Honorable Roger T. Benitez who serves as a trial court judge at the US District Court for the Southern District of California. He was appointed to the federal bench by President George W. Bush. Judge Benitez joins us through his judicial writing, his decision in Duncan v. Bonta, September 22, 2023. To access the text...