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May 11, 2022
May 11, 2022
23 min
What powers are granted by the United States Constitution to the federal government? Not much!
What is NOT in the Constitution? A lot! Things such as:
Privacy, abortion, assault weapons, old age pensions, welfare programs or infrastructure spending! There is no mention of a central bank - paper currency or digital currency, student loans or mortgages! There’s nothing about education, healthcare or health insurance, corporate bailouts, the environment or carbon dioxide emissions! Nothing about energy, labor laws, occupational safety, transportation, food, pharmaceuticals, disease control or farm subsidies! You won’t find homeland security, the CIA, the NSA, consumer protection, election laws, border security, regulating financial companies or the FDIC!
In this episode we demonstrate the absurdity and unconstitutionality of the federal government's never-ending power grab and examine the proper role it should play in society if it were put back in its small and extremely limited, constitutional sandbox.
Show Notes
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Episode #3 – The Truth About the Constitution - Where in the Constitution?
Episode #182 - The Truth About Decentralization
What's the Point of the Ninth Amendment
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Jan 9, 2022
Ep. 182 - The Truth About Decentralization
Jan 9, 2022
Jan 9, 2022
22 min
I will be the first to admit that decentralization is not the sexiest topic, HOWEVER, it is an extremely important concept worthy of study and consideration.
I contend that the root cause of virtually every problem we have in America (and around the world) stems from centralization. I also contend that these same problems can be fixed by decentralization.
At it's most basic level, think one-size-fits-all and monopoly power versus freedom to chose, experimentation and competition. Which do you prefer?
Show Notes
Why Rothbard Wanted Radical Decentralization
Strategy to Promote Sound Money and Decentralize State
How We Will Win
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The Truth About Secession - Part II
The Truth About Secession - Part I
The Truth About the Tenth Amendment
The Truth About Opposition to Secession
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Dec 12, 2021
Dec 12, 2021
19 min
In Episode #174, I prosecuted the case against the Democrat's vaccine mandates. In this episode, I review three injunctions granted against those mandates by different courts.
The words of these judges can be used to counter the lies and propaganda that we have been fed for the last 18-20 months as membership in the Covidian Cult has grown. Their words also serve to restore some level of confidence in the broken American system of government.
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Nov 12, 2021
Nov 12, 2021
19 min
Remember the time when the King of America, Joe Biden, shuffled to a podium and decreed that, going forward, any employer with more than 100 employees would be fined if they did not force their employees to get the experimental Covid-19 vaccine? He further declared that those subjects who defied his monarchical decree would be subjected to weekly testing and required to wear a mask in the workplace.
In this episode, we examine the vaccine mandate from the perspective of an attorney prosecuting the case against King Biden and the national Democrats.
Show Notes
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Oct 23, 2021
Oct 23, 2021
10 min
During a recent press briefing, the White House press secretary said this with a straight face: “Federal law overrides state law.”
In this short episode I put to rest (once and for all) the lie that federal law has supremacy over state law.
Show Notes
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Episode #23 – The Truth About Nullification
Episode #37 – The Truth About the Bill of Rights
Episode #120 - The Truth About the Tenth Amendment
Tenth Amendment Center
The Supremacy Clause
The Supremacy Clause Smackdown: Good Morning Liberty
Path to Liberty podcast: The Supremacy Clause: An Introduction
Who's Supreme? The Supremacy Clause Smackdown
Constitution Owner’s Manual, Michael Maharrey
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Feb 14, 2021
Feb 14, 2021
31 min
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.
Show Notes
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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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Oct 29, 2020
Ep. 120 - The Truth About the Tenth Amendment
Oct 29, 2020
Oct 29, 2020
21 min
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
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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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Aug 10, 2020
Aug 10, 2020
37 min
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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May 18, 2020
May 18, 2020
19 min
In Episode #98, we focused on the most common myths about Lincoln. In this episode, we take a deeper look at the man, his motivations, his actions and consider what his true legacy should be. Specifically we examine how he destroyed states' rights, his dictatorial actions during the war, his real agenda and we make a strong case that he should have been charged as a war criminal had he lived.
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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May 10, 2020
May 10, 2020
19 min
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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