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Saturday Jul 18, 2020
Saturday Jul 18, 2020
Isn't the death of George Floyd a clear cut example of police brutality and racism? Isn't a second-degree murder conviction of Officer Derek Chauvin a slam dunk?
Upon examination of the evidence, the answer to both questions may not be in the affirmative.
Show Notes
Minneapolis Police Rendered 44 People Unconscious with Neck Restraints in Five Years
Transcript of Officer Thomas Lane's Body Camera Footage
Transcript of Officer Alexander Keung's Body Camera Footage
Leaked Body Cam Footage
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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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Saturday Mar 21, 2020
Saturday Mar 21, 2020
Joe Biden has spent almost 50 years in Washington, D.C. and, prior to that, a handful of years practicing law. He is the personification of a career politician. Personally I find him unimpressive, uninspiring and unaccomplished despite his longevity in D.C.
In this episode we will examine his voting record, his ideas, his propensity to be a bully, a compulsive liar and a gaffe machine. We also review the history of corruption among the Biden family and discuss the obvious lapse in his mental health.
Show Notes
Joe Biden's Sister Valerie Sent Millions of Joe's Campaign Dollars to her own Consulting Firm
Eight Things Biden Family's Culture of Corruption
Joe Biden Gaffes, Quotes 2020 Election
James Biden Healthcare Ventures
Truth Quest Podcast Episodes:
Episode #4 - The Truth About Minimum Wage
Episode #7 - The Truth About Climate Change
Episode #36 - The Truth About Billionaires
Episode #39 - The Truth About Student Loans and the Cost of College
Episode #63 - The Truth About the Wealth Tax
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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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Sunday Nov 17, 2019
Sunday Nov 17, 2019
If you ask the average American their impression of Edward Snowden, you are likely to hear him portrayed as a villain; he is a traitor to the country and should be tried for treason. A growing minority, however, view him as a hero for exposing the illegal and unconstitutional mass surveillance program which was implemented shortly after the terrorist attack on September 11.
In this episode, we examine the Snowden saga with an eye toward what it teaches us about the Constitution.
Show Notes:
My Life as a NewYork Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror
Presidents Surveillance Program Worked with Private Sector to Collect Data After Sept 11
Edward Snowden and Turnkey Tyranny
Edward Snowden on the Joe Rogan podcast
Permanent Record, by Edward Snowden
Truth Quest Podcast Episodes:
Episode #3 – The Truth About the Constitution
Episode #37 – The Truth About the Bill of Rights
Episode #42 - The Truth About Julian Assange
Episode #46 - The Truth About Roe v. Wade - Sick and Twisted
Episode #47 - The Truth About Roe v. Wade - What They Don't Tell You
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Monday Sep 23, 2019
Monday Sep 23, 2019
What would you say if I told you the federal income tax is unconstitutional? You most likely would say, "How can that be? I thought we have a constitutional amendment that covers the income tax?"
In this episode we are going to examine a perspective that you’ve likely never heard before and look at the truth about the federal income tax and the Sixteenth Amendment. You may be surprised to know that the manner in which the federal income tax is levied may not be in compliance with the Sixteenth Amendment nor with Supreme Court opinions on income tax cases.
Show Notes
The Great Income Tax Hoax – Irvin Schiff
Two Negative Consequences of the Income Tax – Daniel J. Mitchell
Is Today the Anniversary of the Income Tax the Worse Day in American History
Prior to 1913 No One Paid Income Tax - Why Now?
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Sunday Sep 01, 2019
Sunday Sep 01, 2019
China’s social credit score system has been in the news lately. The more I learned about it, the more I saw its implications in America. Is something like this the future of how all governments control their subjects? Who needs laws and courts and constitutional rights when you can be steered, jeered and cajoled by a social credit score?
Show Notes:
Chinese Social Credit Score Prevents 2.5 Million Discredited Entities from Buying Plane Ticiket
Silicon Valley is Building a Chinese Style Social Credit System
China's Terrifying Social Credit Surveillance System is Expanding
Forget 1984 We're Facing a Brave New World
China's Social Credit System Explained
China’s Social Credit Systems and Public Opinion: Explaining High Levels of Approval
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Saturday Aug 10, 2019
Saturday Aug 10, 2019
As I record this episode, we are living through the aftermath of two mass shootings – one at a Wal-Mart in El Paso, Texas and one in the entertainment district in Dayton, Ohio. The reaction from the Left is as expected. Blame the NRA, blame rhetoric, blame guns, blame a perceived bias in society, blame everyone and everything except the shooters.
The Left has, yet again demonstrated themselves to be political opportunists disguised as compassionate onlookers. Their condemnation discrimination exposes their glaringly obvious double standard as they direct unfounded blame, condemnation and vitriol at their political opponents while ignoring the fact that many of these mass murderers are self-proclaimed liberals, socialists and communists.
They ignore mass shootings in Chicago, death and destruction in wars all over the world, and glorify and celebrate the murder of innocent babies in the womb while laying the blame of these mass shootings at the foot of Trump, the NRA and/or anyone who supports the Second Amendment.
Finding a solution is not their objective. Their objective is gun confiscation through liberty-limiting restrictions on gun ownership. The best long-term solution is a return of God to the public square. Short of that other solutions include law enforcement stepping up their game, reforming our mental health system, exploring red flag laws and eliminating gun-free zones.
We discuss all of this and more in this episode.
Show Notes:
Media Focus on Mass Shootings Shows a Disconnect from Actual Crime Trends
FBI Crime Statistics
Babylon Bee: Gun Violence
Mass Shootings Are Not Becoming More Common
Seven Reasons to Oppose Red Flag Gun Laws
'We Have To Do Something!' Okay, Here Are Some Things We Can Do To Minimize Mass Shootings.
Truth Quest Podcast Episodes:
Episode #2 - The Truth About Abortion - What About the Baby?
Episode #33 - The Truth About Abortion - Part II - Mental Gymnastics
Episode #46 - The Truth About Roe v. Wade - Sick and Twisted
Episode #47 - The Truth About Roe v. Wade - What They Don't Tell You
Episode #55 - The Truth About Freedom from Religion
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Monday May 27, 2019
Monday May 27, 2019
I think it is safe to say that the Roe v. Wade opinion is the most controversial Supreme Court opinion of the last 50 years. If not, the consequences of it certainly are with over 50 million abortions being performed. But what is the truth about the opinion? How many people have actually taken the time to read it?
Upon reading the opinion, I was struck by the intellectual dishonesty of the majority opinion and the lack of true constitutional analysis. I was also alarmed at the callous manner in which the life in the womb was characterized and the list of so-called valid reasons for ending an innocent life.
In this episode, I introduce or reintroduce you to the Roe case and walk you through Justice Harry Blackmun's majority opinion. At times it is sick and twisted but, in the end, the court surprisingly leaves the door wide open for state regulation of abortion.
Besides leading to the death of tens of millions of innocent lives, this opinion demonstrates just how far activist judges will go in pursuit of their policy preferences. I demonstrate this by dismantling their three primary citations - the right to privacy, the Ninth and the Fourteenth Amendment.
Show Notes:
Roe v. Wade opinion
Chapter 7 of Mark Levin’s Men in Black.
Truth Quest Podcast Episodes:
Episode #2 – The Truth About Abortion – What about the Baby?
Episode #33 – The Truth About Abortion – Mental Gymnastics
Episode #3 – The Truth About the Constitution - Where in the Constitution?
Episode #16 – The Truth About the Supreme Court
Episode #37 – The Truth About the Bill of Rights
Episode #43 – The Truth About the Federalist Papers - Part I
Episode #44 – The Truth About the Federalist Papers - Part II
Episode #45 – The Truth About the Federalist Papers - Part III
Episode #26 – The Truth About the Judeo-Christian Tradition
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Sunday Mar 17, 2019
Sunday Mar 17, 2019
As most of you probably remember from your middle school civics' class, the first ten amendments of the United States Constitution are known as the Bill of Rights. What you probably do NOT know is those amendments only apply to the federal government. They were included in the Constitution as a way to insure the states that this newly created federal government would be limited in power. They would not be able to infringe upon the people's freedom of speech or their right to bear arms; they would not be able to quarter their soldiers in our homes, perform unreasonable search and seizures without probable cause, prosecute us without a speedy jury trial or impose excessive fines. But most importantly, the Tenth Amendment specifically states that any powers not granted to the federal government (mostly in Article I, Section 8) is left to the states.
Fast-forward a few decades later as the Civil War ended and the slaves were freed. Congress passed and the states ratified the Fourteenth Amendment in order to permanently codify the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which essentially insured that the newly freed slaves were treated equally under the law. It contained a few familiar phrases like, "privileges or immunities", "due process", and "equal protection".
Unfortunately for all of us, over the ensuing 150 years the Supreme Court, as it is apt to do, has perverted the Constitution (rather than protect and defend it) and found ways to apply the Bill of Rights to the states. This is known as the Incorporation Doctrine.
Show Notes:
The American Ideology, Brian Vanyo
Power Divided is Power Checked, Jason Lewis
Government by Judiciary: the Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment, Raoul Berger
Founders Constitution - University of Chicago
What is Incorporation? Brion McClanahan Show - Episode #247
The Tenth Amendment Center
Incorporation Doctrine: A Fools Game
Charlottesville: Blame the Incorporation Doctrine
Privileges and Immunities: An Overview of the Fourteenth Amendment
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