Ep. 103 - The Truth About Political Blasphemy and Heresy

In the wake of the death of George Floyd - the protests, riots, looting, arson and murdering - it has become readily apparent to anyone paying attention that we have now entered a new era of forced conformity. You either go along with the party line, repeat after them word-for-word, or you risk being canceled, de-platformed, fired and/or charged with political blasphemy and heresy.
Show Notes:
Episode #50 - The Truth About Party Over Principle
Episode #69 - The Truth About White Privilege
Episode #102 - The Truth About the Outrage Culture
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Ep. 98 - The Truth About Abraham Lincoln - Part I

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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Ep. 91 - The Truth About Joe Biden

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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Ep. 60 - The Truth About Do Something - Red Flag Laws

Following the two most recent mass shootings, the usual cries of DO SOMETHING have resurfaced as they always do following attacks or a crisis. After the Las Vegas shooting, we heard cries for a ban on bump stocks; today it's calls for red flag legislation. These laws, also known as Gun-Violence Restraining Orders, or Extreme Risk Protection Orders allow family members and mental health professionals to petition a court for an order enabling legal authorities to temporarily remove guns from those who are deemed to be a significant danger to themselves or others.
As is often the case with these DO SOMETHING solutions, it sounds good on the surface but what is the truth? Listen to find out.
Show Notes:
Bipartisan Red Flag Gun Laws Plan Has Support in Congress
Red Flag Laws; Second Amendment Advocates Warn Trump About Support for Gun Reform Measures
Red Flag Laws or How to Repeal the Second Amendment Soviet Style Without a Pesky Vote
Rhode Island ACLU Analysis of Red Flag Legislation
Maryland Officers Serving Red Flag Gun Removal Order Fatally Shoot Armed Man
Chinese Social Credit Score Prevents 2.5 Million Discredited Entities from Buying Plan Tickets
Red Flag Laws: Oppose the Disease at Its Beginning
Brief History of the Income Tax
Cornell Law - The Presumption of Innocence
Debunking the Patriot Act as It Turns 15
The Enforcement Problems with Gun Grabbing Red Flag Laws Are Even Worse Than You Think
Revealing the Truth About Gun Control, Red Flag Laws and the Second Amendment
Red Flag: The Dangerous Urge to Do Something
Fee.org:
Bipartisan Support for Gun Confiscation is Growing
Red Flag Gun Laws Are a Page Out of Dystopian Science Fiction Novels
Red Flag Gun Laws Turn Due Process on Its Head
Truth Quest Podcast Episodes:
Episode #37 – The Truth About the BOR – The Incorporation Doctrine
Episode #59 – The Truth About What We Agree On
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Ep. 58 - The Truth About Mass Shootings

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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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. 37 - The Truth About the Bill of Rights

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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Ep. 18 - The Truth About Gun Control

Gun control is one of the most contentious issues in American politics. The pro-Second Amendment, pro-gun arguments are so much more persuasive and based on facts, common sense, and logic that gun control advocates should be embarrassed to even engage in an argument.  
Successfully arguing this issue really only requires you to repeat the words of gun control advocates back to them with a little commentary. The illogical nature of their arguments and the place of ignorance from which they often argue is quite easy to identify and dismantle for any intellectually honest person.
Show Notes:
More Guns, Less Crime – John Lott, Jr.
The Naked Constitution – Adam Freedman
Control - Glenn Beck
The 2nd Amendment Empowers Women More than Lapel Pins.
www.wrongaboutguns.com
Prager University – Is Gun Ownership a Right?
Praesidium - Short Film
Cato Institute - Tough Targets When Criminals Face Armed Resistance
CrimeResearch.org - Sixty-Eight Defensive Gun Uses by People Carrying Guns in Public Over the Last Three Months
Daniel J. Mitchell
Gun Control Works in Europe, Where Do Terrorists Get their Weapons?
Now there Are Four: Another Honest Liberal Debunks Gun Control
The Bill of Rights, Gun Ownership, and the Constitution
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Ep. 3 - The Truth About the Constitution - Where in the Constitution

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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