HOW DID THE KINGDUDE GET TO BECOME THE KEEPER OF FOUNDERS RED PILL KNOWLEDGE?
I READ A LOT! And not just BUMPER STICKERS mind you. Here are my FEATURED SELECTIONS...
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Folks there is no substitute for actual acquired knowledge which you can only get through books and then back it up through applying the knowledge to the issues of the day.
Just by having a conversation with a friend or with me on the show about these things and these books ideas IS part of the higher learning. Now I'm sure there's plenty to learn on the pages of Field & Stream and American Sportsman but you can keep these books right next to them in the bathroom AND if you wanna impress guests, they look GREAT on a coffee table with your bottle of Aged Jim Beam! - Mike Church
WHAT I AM READING RIGHT NOW
In researching my movie about the writing of the Constitution I came across Mr. Brookheiser's book on Hamilton "Alexander Hamilton: American". Brookheiser puts a new face on Hamilton that departs from the Monarch loving, big government advocate he has been pegged for. All in all "Alexander Hamilton: American" is a really good walk through of the life Alexander Hamilton; a lead player in the founding of our Republic.
The Forgotten Man. This is a GREAT read and will set on it's Marx loving head the affair most people and of course the Left has with "The New Deal" and FDR's soft Socialism.
See if you notice the striking similarities between Hoover 1930 and Bush 2008. FDR as "forgotten man" candidate and Hillary Clinton's "Invisible Man".
F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom "No one book will give you ALL the eduction needed to combat the lies, deceit and evil of American Socialism (also known as Liberalism) but THIS CLASSIC will get you started.
I don't need to introduce Atlas Shrugged or Ayn Rand other than to say that Mrs. Rand has gotten ill-deserved short shrift from Conservatives. Rand totally gets totalitarianism, socialism and the undermining of human liberty required for Big Gubbmint to prosper. Perhaps this is why the REPUBLICAN intelligentsia scoffs at her and dwells on her purported religious transgressions instead.
Rand rejects Gubbmint as the answer to anything other than the entity that gets to break the bad news about overtly Moral Virtues trumping the Rule of Man and thus dispersing the crowd of tyrants dependent on that Rule and their Centralized Planning Schema.
CONTINUING EDUCATION AT NOTRE DUDE
No book is a better account of the American Revolution's Roots than David McCullough's 1776. The REAL education that you seek REQUIRES that you read Professor Bloom's "Closing of the American Mind". This is a difficult read folks but it will completely change the way you view the discourse of our day and the education your kids COULD and SHOULD receive. WARNING: Reading this book will cause you to revere Classic literature, disdain "pop culture" and get really p/o'd over that $120k student loan your kid took out to study Social Services.
Mark Steyn has written about the end of the world NOT by global warming but via Islamic Takeover. This is MUST reading for Students at American Bigot University. Mark has appeared TWICE on the Show, you can hear his interviews here.
These are books I have finished reading and they should ALL be on your bookshelves (or in your bathroom)- Ann Coulter- Godless; David McCullough- John Adams; William Bennett - America our Last, Best Hope;
Books that I HIGHLY recommend for the intelligence asspanding Right Winger in You (1776 may well be the BEST history book you'll ever read). Washington's crossing is equally informative though not as emotionally stirring as 1776.
Mandeville, LA - On today's show I mention this wonderful
post of a speech Dr. Russel Kirk gave in 1988. After reading this piece I
was moved to take the task of promoting this work because it says
everything about modern conservatism (which is a misnomer now see here)
and why it is doomed to fail with reverting to "small is beautiful
conservation." by Russell Kirk - Today I offer you some observations concerning Wilhelm Roepke, a principal social thinker of the 20th century...
Mandeville, LA AUDIO EXCLUSIVE - On today's show I took a call from several
listeners who demanded that I retract statements made in support of
Apple Computer and their manufacturing of iPads and iPhones in China.
The callers demanded an outright BAN on ANY imported products not made
by companies with benefits, labor and environmental laws identical to
our stifling and spoiled rotten varieties. While I understand the
caller's passion...
MANDEVILLE, LA - EXCLUSIVE AUDIO - Listen to Rand Paul making way too much sense in his interview on Teen-Wolf Blitzer after being detained by the TSA. However, we shouldn't try to amend the TSA as Rand suggests we should just abolish it as his father suggests. And besides, many of the security risks the TSA are trying to prevent wouldn't be a problem under a free market. Listen as Mike explains... 
