Ep. 158 - The Truth About Monopolies

Typical discussions about monopolies usually revolve around Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, General Motors, AT&T, Microsoft and even Blockbuster Video. The focus tends to be on pricing and lack of consumer choice. However, when you examine modern monopolies, a disturbing realization occurs: government is the only real monopoly!
By its very nature governments are designed to be monopolies in the sense that they are the only permitted providers of certain services: law enforcement, the court system, the DMV, the IRS, etc. The disturbing part of the federal government's monopoly position is how they wield their power.
In this episode we examine the dangers of government's monopoly power through the lens of big tech censorship. The national Democrats have discovered that they can circumvent the First Amendment by bullying Big Tech to restrict speech that does not comport with their agenda.
Show Notes
Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company Proved That We Needed Anti-Trust Laws to Fight Such Market Monopolies
The Peter Schiff Show - Episode 709
Jen Psaki: White House Openly Giving Censorship Orders to Facebook
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Episode #103 - The Truth About Political Blasphemy and Heresy
Episode #126 - The Truth About Big Tech Censorship
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Ep.146 - The Truth About Biden’s Gun Show Loophole Statement

Resident Biden gave a brief address in the Rose Garden in early April, 2021 regarding his Executive Orders on gun control. In that short address, he made at least six clearly false statements or outright lies.
In this episode we focus our attention on one particularly misleading statement about gun show loopholes and use it as a lesson to demonstrate how the Left manipulates their voters and the media through the use of language.
It's the perfect storm! A voter base uninterested in the truth; just searching for bias confirmation. A political party willing to lie and mislead. And a media willing to parrot the narrative.
If you control the language (and the media), you can control the narrative, which explains why the Democrats refuse to debate their policies on their merits. 
Show Notes
Episode #137- The Truth About Post-Constitutional America
Joe Biden's False Claim Gun Show Background Check
Joe Bidden Lied About Gun Shows
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Ep. 137 - The Truth About Post-Constitutional America

The Constitution served as the glue that held the United States together for over two hundred years. Unfortunately, over the last century, we have seen a steady erosion of the principles and rules of the game captured in that document. So much so that we now live in a post-constitutional country where the document is all but ignored or it is bastardized to fit the needs of the ruling class.
The sheer size of the federal government and the power it wields far exceeds anything the founding generation could ever have imagined. For those who love the country, this is a sad revelation. For those who love power, control and influence, they can claim victory.
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Episode #2 - The Truth About Abortion - What About the Baby
Episode #3 – The Truth About the Constitution – Where in the Constitution
Episode #4 – The Truth About Minimum Wage
Episode #8 – The Truth About Social Security
Episode #14 - The Truth About Obamacare
Episode #16 – The Truth About the Supreme Court
Episode #18 – The Truth About Gun Control
Episode #46 - The Truth About Roe v Wade - Part I - Sick and Twisted
Episode #47 – The Truth About Roe v Wade - Part II - What They Don’t Tell You
Episode #68 – The Truth About Impeachment
Episode #72 – The Truth About Edward Snowden
Episode #82 – The Truth About How the United States is Supposed to Conduct War
Episode #86 - The Truth About the Abortion Debate
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
Episode #126 – The Truth About Big Tech Censorship
Episode #128 – The Truth About Opposition to Secession
Episode #130 – The Truth About the 2020 Presidential Election - The Big Picture
Episode #131 – The Truth About the 2020 Presidential Election - The Battleground States
Episode #132 – The Truth About the Great Social Media Purge of 2021
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Ep. 136 - The Truth About Politically-Induced Mental Illness

Back in 2010 conservative talk show host Michael Savage published a book titled, “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.” Over the years as I digested, dissected and analyzed the political arena and evaluated the policy prescriptions of the Left, I often remembered the title of his book and reflected that Savage might have been on to something.
In this episode, we examine several public policy prescriptions while asking the question, "what else besides politically-induced mental illness explains why people support and endorse these policies?"
We discuss: abortion, gender, energy, the environment, fiat currency, guns, law enforcement, the welfare state, immigration and much more.
Show Notes
Episode #2 – The Truth About Abortion – What about the baby?
Episode #4 – The Truth About Minimum Wage
Episode #7 - The Truth About Climate Change - Part I
Episode #18 – The Truth About Gun Control
Episode #33 - The Truth About Abortion - Part II - Mental Gymnastics
Episode #46 - The Truth About Roe v. Wade - Part I - Sick and Twisted
Episode #47 - The Truth About Roe v. Wade - Part II - What They Don’t Tell You
Episode #71 – The Truth About the California Wildfires
Episode #86 - The Truth About the Abortion Debate
Episode #133 - The Truth About the Paris Climate Accord and Purposeful Ignorance
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Ep. 132 - The Truth About the Great Social Media Purge of 2021

With the election over, Big Tech and the national Democrats are moving quickly to purge social media of dissent. In order to do that, they must control the narrative which requires them to behave like good, old-fashioned totalitarians.
In this episode, we examine:
Soft totalitarianism
Historical instances of speech censorship
How we got to this point
Why this is being done
The timeline of the purge
The tactics employed by the Left as they continue the purge of all things non-liberal, non-progressive, non-Democratic Party talking points including fake news and lies, the use of boogie men, lying by omission and Whataboutism
The coming social credit score system
Show Notes
Episode #61 – The Truth About the Chinese Social Credit Score System
Episode #107 - The Truth About the Death of George Floyd
Episode #111 - The Truth About Kamala Harris
Episode #117 - The Truth About the Death of Breonna Taylor
Episode #126 – The Truth About Big Tech Censorship
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Ep. 129 - The Truth About December 2020

December 2020 was another eventful month with the news dominated by the allegations, testimony and evidence of vote fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Other noteworthy stories include the return of Hunter Biden to the front page, Brexit, the death of Walter E. Williams, a car bomb in Nashville, various Corononavirus stories, and peace in the Middle East.
Show Notes
Episode #4 - The Truth About Minimum Wage
Episode #118 - The Truth About the Biden Crime Family
Episode #127 - The Truth About Walter E. Williams
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Ep. 128 - The Truth About Opposition to Secession

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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Ep. 127 - The Truth About Walter E. Williams

When Walter E. Williams passed away last week, the world lost a giant intellectual, prolific columnist, humorist, economist and preacher of the truth about free markets and the United States Constitution. He was a master communicator with an uncanny ability to make complex topics and theories understandable. Throughout his life, he demonstrated unwavering courage to stand up and tell the truth starting with his challenge of the U.S. Army and President John F. Kennedy over racial discrimination in the military while holding the lowly rank of Private!
He spent decades teaching economics at George Mason University and, along the way, blessed us with volumes of logic and common sense - some of which I share with you in this episode.
Show Notes
Walter Williams Best Moments
Walter E. Williams: Suffer No Fools
PragerU – Is Capitalism Moral?
Mark Perry - Walter E. Williams RIP
Walter Williams RIP - National Review
I Just Do My Own Thing: Walter Williams RIP
Future Prospects for Economic Liberty - Hillsdale Speech
Leonard Reed - Walter Williams Steadfast Scholar Missionary of Freedom
Walter E. Williams: Up From the Projects -
Wisdom: Walter Williams
How Walter Williams Helped Me Lose Job
Thomas Dilorenzo - Walter E. Williams RIP
WaltereWilliams.com - Amnesty Proclamation
An Evening With Dr. Walter Williams - John W. Hammond Institute for Free Enterprise 
Daniel J. Mitchell
Walter Williams RIP
Walter Williams Freedom Fighter
In the Debate Over Capitalism and Morality the Score is Walter Williams 1 Pope Francis 0
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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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Ep. 124 - The Truth About Intellectual Dishonesty

This episode is a call to action to prioritize principles over your political party. You know, things like God, family, country, the Constitution, the rule of law and intellectual honesty.
Without this prioritization of principles over party you will invariably stop thinking for yourself; you will stop thinking critically and devolve into dehumanization of your political foes, name-calling, incivility, dismissiveness, hypocrisy, an unwillingness to call out your own team and moral relativism.
At the root of it all is intellectual dishonesty and a willingness to view everyone as made in the image of God regardless of their political persuasions.
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Episode #55 - The Truth About Freedom from Religion
Episode #91 - The Truth About Joe Biden
Episode #111 - The Truth About Kamala Harris
Episode #118 - The Truth About the Biden Crime Family
Episode #123 - The Truth About the Blinding Effect of Political Bias
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Ep. 123 - The Truth About the Blinding Effect of Political Bias

In order for your average Democrat / Liberal / Trump-hater to reconcile their world view, they must maintain certain beliefs based on inaccurate information, lies or on a series of woke, virtue-signalling platitudes. Unfortunately for them (and the country) much of what they believe tends to be anti-American, anti-capitalism, anti-Constitution and, most importantly (to them) anti-Trump.
But that's only half of the story!
They must protect these beliefs by figuratively putting on blinders that inhibit their vision of the many truths that contradict their world view. Additionally, they end up endorsing character assassination, political persecution and prosecution of their political opponents, which is standard practice from their leaders.
At the end of the day, they are blinded by their political bias.
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Episode #34 - The Truth About the Electoral College
Episode #73 – The Truth About Trump Derangement Syndrome
Episode #91 - The Truth About Joe Biden
Episode #107 - The Truth About the Death of George Floyd
Episode #111 - The Truth About Kamala Harris
Episode #117 - The Truth About the Death of Breonna Taylor
Episode #118 - The Truth About the Biden Crime Family
Episode #119 - The Truth About Court Packing
Episode #122 - The Truth About the Pennsylvania Vote Count
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