Would the United States be better off under the Articles of Confederation rather than the Constitution?

In this episode, we examine the first constitution of the United States and the criticisms of its replacement. 

Show Notes

Today in History: The Articles of Confederation Officially Ratified

A Nullification Lesson from the Articles of Confederation

Historical Documents: Articles of Confederation

Freedoms Only Chance is to Eliminate Constitution Worship from the Minds of All Thinking Individuals

Limited Government

When it Comes to Constitution Worship

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• Episode #28 – The Truth About the Federal Reserve - The Results
• Episode #34 – The Truth About the Electoral College
  
• Episode #62 – The Truth About the Gold and Sound Money
  
• Episode #75 – The Truth About the Anti-Federalists
• Episode #162 – The Truth About the Nixon's Closure of the Gold Window
  
• Episode #198 – The Truth About What is NOT in the Constitution

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This episode is inspired by Paul Harvey's epic segment from 1965 called, "If I Were the Devil", where he outlined what the devil would do if he wanted to take down the United States.

In this episode, I attempt to update his nearly sixty-year-old rant with some specific and recent examples.

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In this episode I present the case against the National Democratic Party. You serve as the grand jury. You decide if the case presented justifies the imaginary indictment against them.

The charges include public perjury, willful negligence, criminal incompetency, conspiracy to destroy the union, violations of the First and Fourth Amendments, aiding and abetting tens of millions of murders via abortion, conspiracy to commit vote fraud, selective enforcement of federal law, thousands of charges of third degree manslaughter, falsification of documents, criminal intent to take down the currency and the economy, violating their oath of office, collusion with private companies to limit free speech and violation of federal discrimination laws.

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• Episode #2 - The Truth About Abortion - What About the Baby?
• Episode #14 - The Truth About Obamacare
• Episode #23 - The Truth About Nullification
• Episode #33 - The Truth About Abortion- Mental Gymnastics
• Episode #34 - The Truth About the Electoral College
• 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 #69 - The Truth About White Privilege
• Episode #87 - The Truth About Secession - Part I
• Episode #88 - The Truth About Secession - Part II
• 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
• Episode #126 - The Truth About Big Tech Censorship
• 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 202
• Episode #136 - The Truth About Politically-Induced Mental Illness
• Episode #143 - The Truth About the Massive Voter Drive at the Border
• Episode #150 - The Truth About Critical Race Theory
• Episode #154 - The Truth About Modern Monetary Theory
• Episode #155 - The Truth About the Senate Filibuster
• Episode #158 -The Truth About Monopolies

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In the last episode, we discussed the big picture of the 2020 Presidential Election. In this episode, we will examine irregularities, improprieties and illegalities in the battleground states of Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Arizona. Along the way I repeatedly pose the questions, "Given the sheer number of allegations, why isn’t there a massive call to get to the truth? To insure election integrity? Why the name-calling and casting of aspersions on people who want these things investigated and clarified?

Show Notes

Truth Quest Podcast Episode #122 – The Truth About the Pennsylvania Vote Count

New Detailed Inventory of Election Fraud from 2020 Election Swing States: Deroy Murdock

Key Battleground States Show Massive Election Fraud Voting Irregularities Totally Erase Biden's Lead

Suit cases pulled from under table in Fulton County, GA with no Republican observers

CCTV Video of Georgia Poll Workers Sparks Election Fraud Outrage

Truckloads of Ballots in Michigan

Witness Immigrant Shocked at Corruption and Fraud in Michigan

Election Fraud Witnesses Provide Testimony in Michigan

Numbers Don't Lie: Data Scientist Break Voter Fraud in Arizona - Shocking Video

Focus Georgia Election Fraud: President Trump Won the State in Landslide

Georgia Election Data Shows Votes Switched from Trump to Biden

Arizona Patriots Identify 160,000-400,000 Phantom Ballots

Over 432,000 Votes Removed from Trump in Pennsylvania

The Smartest Man in the Rom has Joined Sidney Powell's Team

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Despite evidence of massive, gross, forensically-proven vote fraud and despite hundreds of signed affidavits by witnesses and sworn testimony before state legislative bodies, all the electorate got from the mainstream media (including Fox News), the national Democrats and state election officials from both parties was push-back, denials and name-calling. Meanwhile the majority of national Republicans remained ramrod silent and took no action to expose and/or push for investigations into the alleged fraud.

In this episode we examine the 2020 presidential election from a big picture perspective. In the next episode, we will dive into the voting irregularities and apparent fraud at the state level. 

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• Episode #110 – The Truth About How to Save America from Itself
• Episode #122 – The Truth About the Pennsylvania Vote Count
• Episode #124 – The Truth About Intellectual Dishonesty

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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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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.

Show Notes

Truth Quest Podcast

• 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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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.

Show Notes

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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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How did the Democrats win (steal) Pennsylvania's twenty electoral votes? In this episode I take a look at the numbers and explain how.

Hint: Biden received 200,000 more mail-in and absentee votes than there were Democrat mail-in and absentee votes cast.

Show Notes

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• Episode #73 – The Truth About Trump Derangement Syndrome
• Episode #91 – The Truth About Joe Biden
• Episode #111 – The Truth About Kamala Harris
• Episode #118 – The Truth About the Biden Crime Family

Pennsylvania Election Returns

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October 2020 was an entertaining month. We had Covid-19 in the White House, Vice President and presidential debates, Amy Coney Barrett, evidence of the Biden Crime Family, Big Tech censorship of conservatives and Republicans and much more.

Hope you enjoy!

Show Notes

Truth Quest Podcast

• Episode 4 - The Truth About Minimum Wage
• Episode 104 - The Truth About Vote-by-Mail
• Episode 111 - The Truth About Kamala Harris
• Episode 118 - The Truth About the Biden Crime Family
• Episode 119 - The Truth About Court Packing

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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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Have you seen the latest virtue-signaling craze? The yard sign that reads: “In this house, we believe: Black Lives Matter; No Human is Illegal; Love is Love; Women’s Rights Are Human Rights; Science is Real; Water is Life; Injustice Anywhere Is a Threat to Justice Everywhere."

In this episode we unpack this type of semantically overloaded political sloganeering and ask quite a few relevant questions. 

Show Notes

• Episode #2 – The Truth About Abortion – What about the Baby?
• Episode #7 – The Truth About Climate Change - Part I
• 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 #86 – The Truth About the Abortion Debate

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If you asked 100 people if they think America is healthy culturally, financially, spiritually, educationally, racially, or constitutionally, I am willing to bet a large majority would respond in the negative.

America is broken and the only thing that can save it (from itself) is state secession.

In this episode I build the case for secession:

• The reasons it is necessary
• Why secession is good
• Refute most of the common objections to secession
• Address how it could be accomplished in the 21st century

Please comment below and help build the secession movement.

Show Notes

• Ep. 3 - The Truth About the Constitution (Where in the Constitution)
• Ep. 19 - The Truth About Elections and Washington, D.C.
• Ep. 87 - The Truth About Secession - Part I
• Ep. 88 - The Truth About Secession - Part II
• Ep. 98 - The Truth About Abraham Lincoln - Part I
• Ep. 99 - The Truth About Abraham Lincoln - Part II

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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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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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It bothers me immensely when politicians and talking heads propose intellectually lazy and dishonest policies that they know will do more harm than good. Then your friends, family and the faceless, and often nameless, folks on social media jump on the bandwagon. Their prescriptions are not based on principles (or so I thought) rather, they appear to be based on party (or group think).

I am no longer willing to cut these folks any slack because they can easily spend a few minutes on an Internet search and read multiple sides of any argument or policy. They can easily spend a few minutes trying to determine what the truth is.

Why then does this phenomenon exist? Why do those who subscribe to this form of public policy advocacy resort to low-ball tactics when it comes to the treatment of their ideological foes? You know: name-calling, violence, vilification, shutting down the speech of dissenters, mocking, de-platforming, boycotting, and censorship!

After much reflection and study, I believe these people are, indeed, principle-driven. That principle is winning - - - winning at all costs. Nothing else explains this behavior.

Show Notes:

William Watkins – The New Absolutes

Pritical Thinking - Amazon

Pritical Thinking - eBooks

Michael Malice - The New Right

Truth Quest Podcast Episodes:

• Episode #4 - The Truth About Minimum Wage
• Episode #7 -The Truth About Climate Change
• Episode #31 - The Truth About Socialism - Part I
• Episode #32 - The Truth About Socialism - Part II
• Episode  #33 - The Truth About Abortion - Mental Gymnastics

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In the last two episodes, I introduced or re-introduced you to The Federalist Papers and discussed some of the checks and balances in the Constitution - the legislative and executive branches of government. Today we are going to discuss, as Paul Harvey used to say, “The rest of the story!” – the Judicial branch, States Rights, taxation, the military, and a brief look at the Necessary and Proper and Supremacy clauses of the Constitution. 

Show Notes: 

• Tenth Amendment Center publishes episode.
• The Federalist Papers
• The Original Argument, Glenn Beck
• National Association of State Budget Officers

Truth Quest Podcast Episodes:

• Episode #3 – The Truth About the Constitution
• Episode #16 - The Truth About the Supreme Court
• Episode #23 - The Truth About Nullification
• Episode #37 - The Truth About the Bill of Rights

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In Episode 43, The Truth About the Federalist Papers - Part I, I introduced (or re-introduced) you to the Federalist Papers. We discussed why the founders thought it was necessary to create a new document rather than amend the Articles of Confederation. In this episode, we look at two of the three branches of government created by this new Constitution - the legislative and executive branches.

Along the way we have uncovered the progressive tearing down of the constitutional republic the founders bequeathed us.

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The Federalist Papers were written and published in New York newspapers in 1787-1788 in order to sway public opinion to approve and ratify the newly devised United States Constitution. The essays were written by three prominent members of the founding generation - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.

I consider these essays the user’s guide for the Constitution and, therefore, deserve at least a perfunctory understanding. Short of reading the debates from the constitutional convention and the state ratification debates, the Federalist Papers provide some of the best insights into the United States Constitution.

In this episode, we will cover 25-26 essays - those covering the topics of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, the arguments for a stronger centralized government and the system of checks and balances devised by the Constitution. In the next episode we will cover the Executive and Legislative branches followed by an episode that covers everything else - the judiciary, taxation, states’ rights and a few important miscellaneous musings.  

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The call for the elimination of the Electoral College by liberals, progressives and Democrats continues to swell. After all, they rationalize, Bush got less votes than Gore and Trump got less votes than Clinton so why should they be President? Fortunately for the rest of America, the Founding Fathers had enough foresight to include the Electoral College process in the Constitution to protect the country as a whole from the tyranny of the majority.

In this episode, I give a brief history lesson on the Electoral College and explain why the, now underway, National Popular Vote movement, with the goal of eliminating the Electoral College, is both dangerous to the country and, of course, unconstitutional.

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In America we are living through a perpetual constitutional crisis. The heavy restrictions placed on the federal government by the United States Constitution have been largely ignored for most of the country's history. We have experienced both small and incremental steps in the power and growth of the federal government (federal agencies, bureaucracies and regulations) as well as large and unprecedented leaps (the Alien and Sedition Acts, the internment of Japanese, The Patriot Act, and NSA spying).

In this episode I hope to influence the way you look at the federal government going forward - through the eyes of the Founding Fathers.

As mentioned in previous episodes, questions are powerful methods of persuasion especially when you require skeptics to answer them. In Episode 2, I posed the question "WHAT ABOUT THE BABY?" Today I will pose the question, "WHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION?" This is a question I hope you ask every time you evaluate the actions of our elected and unelected officials in Washington, D.C.

Show Notes:

• Founders Constitution - University of Chicago
• WhereintheConstitution.org
• Bridge of Spies Movie Clip - What makes us American?
• The Perversion of the Presidency - Tenth Amendment Center blog post
• Tenth Amendment Center Publishes Episode #3
• Economic Liberty and the Constitution - Daniel J. Mitchell
• The First Question We Should Always Ask - Is this authorized by the constitution?

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