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Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
Ep. 236 - The Truth About the 5,000-Year Leap
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
In this episode, we summarize Cleon Skousen’s book, The 5,000-Year Leap, 28 Ideas That Changed the World.
Coming off the heels of the previous episode, where I outlined how the communist agenda for America has all but come true, I needed a little pick-me-up. I needed to be reminded of the gift the founding generation gave the world.
Stick around to the end of the episode where I offer a solution on how to save America from itself.
Show Notes
The 5,000-Year Leap, 28 Ideas That Changed the World - Cleon Skousen
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Episode #87 - The Truth About Secession - Part I
Episode #88 - The Truth About Secession - Part II
Episode #120 - The Truth About the Tenth Amendment
Episode #128 - The Truth About Opposition to Secession
Episode #182 - The Truth About Decentralization
Episode #192 - A Practical Guide to State Secession
Episode #216 - The Truth About Central Bank Digital Currency and a Cashless Society
Episode #235 - The Truth About Communists’ Goals for America
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Wednesday May 11, 2022
Ep. 198 - The Truth About What is NOT in the Constitution
Wednesday May 11, 2022
Wednesday May 11, 2022
What powers are granted by the United States Constitution to the federal government? Not much!
What is NOT in the Constitution? A lot! Things such as:
Privacy, abortion, assault weapons, old age pensions, welfare programs or infrastructure spending! There is no mention of a central bank - paper currency or digital currency, student loans or mortgages! There’s nothing about education, healthcare or health insurance, corporate bailouts, the environment or carbon dioxide emissions! Nothing about energy, labor laws, occupational safety, transportation, food, pharmaceuticals, disease control or farm subsidies! You won’t find homeland security, the CIA, the NSA, consumer protection, election laws, border security, regulating financial companies or the FDIC!
In this episode we demonstrate the absurdity and unconstitutionality of the federal government's never-ending power grab and examine the proper role it should play in society if it were put back in its small and extremely limited, constitutional sandbox.
Show Notes
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Episode #3 – The Truth About the Constitution - Where in the Constitution?
Episode #182 - The Truth About Decentralization
What's the Point of the Ninth Amendment
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Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
Ep. 128 - The Truth About Opposition to Secession
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
Rush Limbaugh recently uttered the “S” word on his program. . . SECESSION! The usual suspects in the alphabet soup, mainstream, corporate press lost their collective minds. Most of the opposition to secession is born out of ignorance. They called the idea nonsense, dangerous, treasonous, unconstitutional, un-American and racist.
What is really behind the opposition to secession? How are these talking heads and columnists impacted in the slightest if a state leaves the union? Why do they care? Why put up such a fight?
In this episode I uncover the real reasons behind opposition to secession, all of which should lead you to support the idea 100%.
Show Notes
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Episode #87 - The Truth About Secession - Part I
Episode #88 - The Truth About Secession - Part II
Episode #110 - The Truth About How to Save America from Itself
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Thursday Oct 29, 2020
Ep. 120 - The Truth About the Tenth Amendment
Thursday Oct 29, 2020
Thursday Oct 29, 2020
In this episode we examine the American experiment through the lens of the Tenth Amendment which Thomas Jefferson called the foundation of the Constitution.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
That means, the federal government is only authorized to do those few things that have been delegated to it. It is my contention that, if the federal government was still in its tiny, little sandbox created for it by the Constitution, this country would thrive. Unfortunately the federal leviathan has not only outgrown its sandbox but has taken over the entire yard, neighborhood, state, country!
The consequences of the overreach are largely unseen yet substantial. The corruption, the failure of one-size-fits-all policies, the influence peddling - all of it acts as a restraint on the American system of free markets, entrepreneurism, freedom and liberty. Instead we allow a handful of powerful people in D.C. and the media to divide us into a series of special interest groups who fight and bicker with each other. All the while the leviathan continues to grow and grow and grow with the only end in sight being the collapse of the U.S. dollar and the U.S. economy, which come to think of it, might have been the plan all along.
Show Notes
The Tenth Amendment Center
The 10th Amendment: An Introduction
Why the 10th Amendment Federalism as a Tool to Advance Liberty
The 10th Amendment Sovereignty of the People of the Several States
Historical Documents - United States Constitution: Thirty-Enumerated Powers
Podcast: The Tenth Amendment’s Original Intent
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Episodes #23 – The Truth About Nullification
Episodes #87 – The Truth About Secession – Parts I
Episodes #88 – The Truth About Secession – Parts II
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Thursday Jul 02, 2020
Ep. 105 - The Truth About June 2020
Thursday Jul 02, 2020
Thursday Jul 02, 2020
June 2020 was another eventful month most notably because the radical left-wing and fascists jumped the shark by utilizing the claim of systemic racism to, not only attempt to unseat President Trump, but to essentially tear down America as we know it.
Out with reason, conversations and debate! In with virtue signaling, wokeness and censoring anyone who dares to have an opinion outside the 3x5 card of allowable opinion!
Show Notes
Keith Ellison Elevating Charges on Derek Chauvin Charging Other Officers in George Floyd's Death
Minneapolis Police Rendered 44 People Unconscious with Neck Restraints in Last Five Years
Seattle Protests Armed Guards Local Business Extortion
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Seattle Mayor and Governor Inslee over CHOP
Watch Live Barack Obama to Discuss Police Violence in Online Town Hall
Supreme Court Adds Transgender to Sex Discrimination
Bostock v. Clayton County
U.S.. Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Abortion Clinic Restrictions
We Rig the Game: Facebook Whistleblower Reveals Bias Against Conservatives; Latest Project Veritas
BET Founder Says Black People Laugh at White People Toppling Statues
Rod Rosenstein Admits I'm Not Surre I Read Every Word of FISA Application
Drew Brees Apologizes for Insensitive Comments About Anthem Protests
Trump Tulsa Oklahoma Rally
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Ep. #2 - The Truth About Abortion - What About the Baby?
Ep. #6 - The Truth About Colin Kaepernick and the NFL Anthem Protests
Ep. #16 - The Truth About the Supreme Court
Ep. #33 - The Truth About - Part II - Mental Gymnastics
Ep. #46 - The Truth About Roe v. Wade - Part I - Sick and Twisted
Ep. #47 - The Truth About Roe v. Wade - Part II - What They Don't Tell You
Ep. #102 - The Truth About the Outrage Culture
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Monday May 25, 2020
Ep. 100 - The Truth About the First 100 Episodes
Monday May 25, 2020
Monday May 25, 2020
We covered a lot of ground in the first 100 episodes - the Constitution, economics, abortion, social issues, healthcare, socialism and Christian apologetics to name a few. In this episode, I take a brief look at some of the myths we busted and review lessons learned.
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Sunday May 10, 2020
Ep. 98 - The Truth About Abraham Lincoln - Part I
Sunday May 10, 2020
Sunday May 10, 2020
When you think of Abe Lincoln what do you think? "Honest Abe?" A great orator? The Gettysburg Address? The five dollar bill? Mount Rushmore? He saved America? His assassination by John Wilkes Booth? His Zeus-like monument in Washington, D.C. He always ranks at or near the top of every list of “the greatest Presidents.”
But what is the truth about Abraham Lincoln?
Show Notes
The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and and Unnecessary War, Thomas DiLorenzo
Brion McClannahan - Episode #163 - Lincoln and Trump
Was the Civil War Necessary
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Sunday Mar 01, 2020
Ep. 88 - The Truth About Secession - Part II
Sunday Mar 01, 2020
Sunday Mar 01, 2020
In Episode #87, I introduced you to the concept of secession. We reviewed current and past secession movements and offered three reasons it is necessary AND good - decentralization, self-determination and competition. In this episode, I discuss the fourth reason secession is desirable - the idea that smaller is better. After that, we will discuss how secession is justified and dispel the most common objections to the concept of secession.
Show Notes:
American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup, F.H. Buckley
Mises Institute:
Secession in Virginia Woudl Defuse State's Conflict Over Guns
Why Governments Hate Secession
Three Reason Why More Secession Means More Freedom
Why Rothbard Wanted Radical Decentralization
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Natural Law vs. Tyranny
Left and Right Many are Turning Toward De facto Secession and That's not a Bad Thing
Tom Woods Podcast:
Ep. 52 - Secede!
Ep. 82 - Walter Williams on Nullification, Secession, and More
Ep. 196 - Secession, the South, and the Modern State Donald Livingstone
Ep. 261 – Progressive Case for Secession
Ep. 326 – What Tom Told the Washington Post about Secession
Ep. 796 – Secession is moronic
Ep. 1332 – Should Libertarians Support Secession?
Ep. 1565 – Decentralization and Secession: Jeff Deist on the Only Way Forward
Ep. 1575 – American Secession: Potential of National Breakup?
The Brion McClanhan Show:
Episode 169 – Secession and Reconciliation
Episode 293 – How Would Secession Work?
Secession is for Morons
Secession is a Solution for Deep Political Division
Ron Paul: Thoughts on Secession
Credit Suisse: The Success of Small Countries
Greater Idaho Conservatives Oregon want 22 Rural Counties Secede and Become Part Idaho
Truth Quest Podcast:
Episode #19 - The Truth About Elections and Washington, D.C.
Episode #23 - The Truth About Nullification
Episode #87 - The Truth About Secession - Part I
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Saturday Jan 11, 2020
Ep. 80 - The Truth About Democracies
Saturday Jan 11, 2020
Saturday Jan 11, 2020
Is it just me or is anyone else bothered when you hear politicians and talking heads refer to America as democracy? The “D-word” is thrown around so often by so many that I don’t think many people bat an eye when they hear it.
What is the truth about democracy in America?
Show Notes:
A Republic If You Can Keep It
Why Americas Founders Didn't Want a Democracy
Why It Matters That the United States is Supposed to be a Republic Not a Democracy
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Saturday Jul 27, 2019
Ep. 56 - The Truth About Libra - Facebook's Cryptocurrency
Saturday Jul 27, 2019
Saturday Jul 27, 2019
Facebook’s recent congressional testimony before the House Financial Services Committee regarding their proposed cryptocurrency, Libra, caught my attention. It got me wondering: where in the Constitution does it grant the federal government the power to regulate a cryptocurrency or a social media platform? I posed that question on the Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page and immediately started researching this episode.
The truth is that cryptocurrencies in general and the Libra specifically pose a threat to many entities - central banks, power hungry government officials, and too-big-to-fail banks.
In this episode I explain what Libra is and examine the threat posed by it and other cryptocurrencies. Along the way we discuss the benefits of cryptocurrencies, congressional overreach, sound money, central banks and the concept of private money.
Show Notes:
Libra White Paper
Libra House Hearing
G7 Urges Strict Libra Regime, Eyes Minimum Tax
Alternative Currencies Such as Bitcoin are a Valuable Insurance Policy Against Feckless Government
Does Libra Threaten Monetary Sovereignty?
Fee.org
Why This Economist is Skeptical of Facebook's Grandiose Claims About the Libra
Why Facebook's New Cryptocurrency is No Threat to Bitcoin
Mises.org
Libra: Competitor to Inflationary Central Banks
Facebook's Fake Money
It's No Bitcoin: Facebook's Libra Currency Tied to Government Currencies
https://mises.org/wire/idea-alternative-currencies-going-mainstream
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