18 January 2016
Veritas et Sapientia – Ben Franklins Daily Plan To Achieve Virtue
Mandeville, LA – My Intention being to acquire the Habitude of all these Virtues, I judg’d it would be well not to distract my Attention by... Read More
19 June 2015
Ben Franklin and a Free Press: You Can’t Please All of the People All of the Time
Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - Back in the time that Ben Franklin started publishing there weren't newspapers as we think of them, there were periodicals, but you couldn't really rely on them for news. So Franklin's idea was to publish these newspapers every day, since there's news every day! And one way to support this venture was to take on ads (probably one of the first persons to ever do this). When Franklin began taking ads he began receiving nasty letters about why he turned down some ads, so in typical Franklin fashion, he replied back in his own paper in essay form. He said that basically he can't win, he's published articles in his paper that he's disagreed with and articles that have lost him money. You just can't please all of the people all of the time.
19 June 2014
Kevin Gutzman – 1776 VA Constitution, Independence Day
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The greatest revolution among the 13 colonies was not the one that was taking place in Philadelphia in Independence... Read More
04 June 2014
What Really Happened At Start Of Federal Convention Of 1787, Pt. II
Interview With Kevin Gutzman Part II Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “On this day, on May the 29th — I just went back and... Read More
25 November 2013
What Will It Take For You People To See That Federalism And The Constitution Are Dead And Buried?
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Let’s go all the way back to 1787 and let’s figure out why there was a Senate to start with. To answer that question is to shed some light on the way things are supposed to work in the American constitutional system, which, by the time I’m finished with this, it’s not the way I’m going to tell you they work because they don’t work like that any longer. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…
31 October 2013
Rep. John Lewis Compares Obamacare Opponents And Nullification Proponents To The Civil Rights Era Of The ’50s
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Quite possibly for the first time in the history of the United States, there is an edict that has been issued by our almighty federal overlords who are camped out on the banks of the Potomac River in what I like to refer to as Mordor on the Potomac River. For the first time, they may have actually achieved what it was that they set out to do, which was to assume some manner of control over the personal lives of all 310 million citizens. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…
17 September 2013
How Did The United States Go From Articles Of Confederation To Constitution?
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Well, the Articles of Confederation was most certainly and positively just that. It was a compact. By definition and description it was a confederation, meaning it was a federation of states or political entities that decided, for some express purposes, they needed to confederate together in order to have a better life and existence here after the Revolutionary War. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…
21 August 2013
Northern Colorado Is Going republican
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – They act as though the State of Colorado owns the citizens of northern Colorado, and that the citizens of northern Colorado are not sovereign political entities in and of their own right should they choose to be. Folks, this is the law of nations. This is what 18th and 19th century republicanism is all about. It is all about gathering together and forming, through geographical boundaries, sovereign entities to practice self-government, republicanism. That’s why we call it republicanism. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…
15 July 2013
Interview With Brad Birzer On Conservatism, John Dickinson And More
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Brad is a professor at Hillsdale College. He is the author of the book about Charles Carroll of Carrolton, American Cicero, a great book about a forgotten founding father. He is also the editor of The Imaginative Conservative website, which we had Winston Elliott on yesterday and talked about. Brad is part of what I like to call the conservative revival. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…
30 May 2013
Despite What The History Books Say, John Quincy Adams WAS A Founding Father
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Milbank rebuffs Bachmann and makes fun of her because she mistakenly identified John Quincy Adams as a founding father. I tweeted this to Milbank and I’ll just reiterate this to the audience. John Quincy Adams WAS a founding father. He may not have been a father at the time of the founding, but he was most certainly a member of that august body of young men who would turn men who were in on the founding. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…
15 April 2013
Would Ben Franklin Trade Liberty for the NSA Data Center in Utah?
Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - Certainly not. The NSA "data center" in Utah will hold enough "data" to fill so many iPhone 5's that they could be stacked from here to the moon and back. The NSA says the Utah Data Center is a facility for the intelligence community that will have a major focus on cyber security. The agency will neither confirm nor deny specifics. Some published reports suggest it could hold 5 zettabytes of data. Ben Franklin could never have imagined the overreaches of the Federal Government when he was researching his book on the government of Pennsylvania in 1759. For more on this story, be sure and check out today's Founders TV and sign up for a Founders Pass if you don't already have one!
07 February 2013
This Day In Founding Fathers History – 7 February 2013
This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. In 1775 on this day, The Public Advertiser published a letter penned by Benjamin Franklin, “An Imaginary Speech.”
04 August 2012
This Day in Founders History – 4-5 August
Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Android | RSSThis Weekend In Founders History – 4 & 5 August On this day in 1790, the... Read More
03 August 2012
This Day in Founders History – 3 August
Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Android | RSSThis Day In Founders History – 3 August On this day in 1807, the trial of... Read More
26 July 2012
This Day In Founders History – 26 July
Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Android | RSS This Day In Founders History – July 26 On this day in 1775, the U.S.... Read More
29 June 2012
Five Men That History Says Were Important But Never Played For The Saints
5 Men That History Says Were Important But Never Played For The Saints ©2012 Mike Church On the 28th of June, 1776 5 men... Read More
27 June 2012
This Day In Founder’s History
Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Android | RSSMandeville, LA – Exclusive Audio and Video – Check out today’s Post Show Show Podcast Preview... Read More
