Ep. 50 - The Truth About Party Over Principles

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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Ep. 38 - The Truth About the Democratic Party

In this episode we examine the historical record of the national Democratic Party and then fast-forward to present day and uncover the real motivations behind their radical agenda.
Why do they take such hard line positions on policies like abortion, illegal immigration, welfare, gay marriage, socialized medicine, guns control, climate change, minimum wage and higher taxes? Why do they advocate for socialism? None of these policies have the support of the majority of Americans yet they are all a prominent fixture in the platform that the national Democratic Party.
Show Notes:
PragerU – The Inconvenient Truth About the Democratic Party
Truth Quest Podcast Episodes:
Episode #31 – The Truth About Socialism – Part I
Episode #32 – The Truth About Socialism – Part II
Episode #2 – The Truth About Abortion – What About the Baby?
Episode #33 – The Truth About Abortion – Mental Gymnastics
Episode #34 – The Truth About the Electoral College
Episode #26 – The Truth About the Judeo-Christian Tradition
Episode #4 – The Truth About Minimum Wage
Episode #18 – The Truth About Gun Control
Episode #7 – The Truth About Climate Change – Part I
Episdoe #9 – The Truth About Healthcare in America
Episode #12 – The Truth About Socialized Medicine
Episode #14 – The Truth About Obamacare
Episode #17 – The Truth About Healthcare Reform
Episode #3 – The Truth About the Constitution
Episode #37 – The Truth About the Bill of Rights
Episode #16 – The Truth About the Supreme Court
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Ep. 19 - The Truth About Elections and Washington D.C.

Do you ever question the amount of time and energy spent fretting about the politics coming out of Washington D.C.? The Founding Fathers never thought that the average American would spend much time pondering the goings-on in D.C. After all, the federal government's power was constitutionally restricted. In this brief episode, I suggest an alternative to our seemingly unending focus on all things D.C.
Show Notes:
Washington D.C. is Beyond Reform, Focus on Your State
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Ep. 16 - The Truth About the Supreme Court

Every year the country waits with bated breath over the latest Supreme Court opinions. If we were living true to the Constitution, this would never happen because the Supreme Court is not supreme when it comes to deciding the constitutionality of a law! Think you disagree? Listen to learn the truth about the Supreme Court.
Show Notes:
Tenth Amendment Center published Episode #16
Books:
Men in Black, Mark Levin
Origin Intent, David Barton
The Naked Constitution, Adam Freedman
The Tenth Amendment Center:
Who Made the Supreme Court King?
No, Enforcing Unconstitutional Acts Will Not Save the System
Vetting Kavanaugh According to the Constitution
The Supreme Court's Job is to Protect Americans from Democracy
Thomas Sowell Explains Wickard v. Filburn
Mises.org:
The Supreme Court is Much Too Powerful
The Supreme Court: Why the Stakes are So High
Why We're Losing Freedom - Prager University
Kris Anne Hall
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Ep. 4 - The Truth About Minimum Wage

We are going to tackle the minimum wage issue with facts, figures, economic laws, and logic rather than, what we usually get - emotional calls for the wage rate increase using illogical arguments that are in direct opposition to economic law.
I want to start with a quote by Thomas Sowell from his epic book, Basic Economics that really lays the foundation for this discussion. On page 237 he said:
“By the simplest and most basic economics, a price artificially raised tends to cause more to be supplied and less to be demanded than when prices are left to be determined by supply and demand in a free market. The result is a surplus, whether the price that is set artificially high is that of farm produce or labor.”
Show Notes:
The Real Minimum Wage is $0.00 - New York Times, January 14, 1987
2014 Congressional Budget Office Study
Harvard Business Review study, March 2018
eattle minimum wage
Minimum wage is bad for low-skilled workers – Daniel J. Mitchell
Economics in One Lesson chapter on minimum wage - Henry Hazlett
Real World Examples of How the Minimum Wage Destroys Jobs - Daniel J. Mitchell
Part II of Contra Krugman: The Book - Minimum Wage
Minimum Wage Hikes Are Killing Jobs in California's Poorest Communities, Study Says
Congress Seeks to Boost the Minimum Wage and Teen Joblessness
Fee.org
How Shake Shack is Dealing with Minimum Wage
Guess Why Hundreds of Busboys Just Lost Their Jobs
Restaurant Chain Announces Bankruptcy: Says Minimum Wage Hike to Blame
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