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Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

The IRS Scandal Is Like Something Out Of Russia Or China Under Stalin Or Mao

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Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If you’re looking for a scandal, if you’re looking for something to jump up and down and scream about and have your hair set on fire and then go running up and down the streets hollering and screaming about the injustice of it all, then Benghazi is not it but the IRS story is. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…….Continue

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Friday, April 19th, 2013

This Day In Founding Fathers History - 19 April 2013

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This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. On this day in 1775, the “shot heard round the world” was fired, starting the Battle at Lexington Green in Massachusetts.….Continue

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Monday, April 8th, 2013

Connecticut Governor Malloy's Gun Ban - Who Will Protect The Children?

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Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The State comes at this from the position that their priority and their preference supersedes or exceeds that of the parent. Could it not be said that if parents had the ability to keep their children out of all manner of public building where there are public events going on, especially if they’re well-guarded in their home or their environment, that they have then taken measures to deal with their safety? Check out today’s tr….Continue

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Monday, March 18th, 2013

Kevin Gutzman Interview: Madison, Bill of Rights, Nullification And Second Amendment

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Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Professor Dr. Kevin Gutzman is on the Dude Maker Hotline, celebrating ten years of your buddy being here on Sirius XM satellite radio airwaves. I don’t know if you knew that. This week is our anniversary. Tomorrow is James Madison’s birthday as well. We have a two-fold purpose. Plus James Madison and the Making of America is out in paperback. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…….Continue

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Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

Second Amendment Is About Arms and Militias Not Weapons

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Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Why do you think the Constitution goes into such detail? Why did the Virginians spend almost a week debating the militia clause in their convention to ratify? They were terrified of the consequences of disarming the militia, meaning making the militia not an army; making them a bunch of skeet shooters. That’s not a militia. That’s an invitation to get invaded and killed. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…….Continue

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Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

Caller Jeff vs. King Dude - Second Amendment

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - If you’d really like to be learned about this, go take your Google browser and download the entire document that is today known as the Bill of Rights. Download it and that includes the ratification instructions and the preamble that goes along with it. Come back and tell me that that amendment you cite is pointed anywhere other than at the new general government, which was just meeting for the first time….Continue

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Thursday, February 14th, 2013

Militias Are The First Responsibility Of Citizens

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - The ultimate responsibility of the citizen is to protect his property and, by extension, to protect property of those that surround him in his sovereign state, wherever his geography may be. That’s why you are a citizen and why you swear allegiance to a geographic or sovereign state. That’s the purpose of being a citizen. It’s not to buy things. It’s not to show up here or there. It is to be the first line of defense. What ….Continue

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Wednesday, February 6th, 2013

This Day In Founding Fathers History - 6 February 2013

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This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. One notable birthday on this day in history in 1756, that of Aaron Burr.….Continue

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Friday, January 25th, 2013

The NRA And Incorporationistas

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - For some reason, it has just been seared into the mind of the average American gun owner out there. It doesn’t matter what the facts are and it doesn’t matter what the Constitution as ratified and the Bill of Rights, as you call it, as ratified said. It doesn’t even matter what the first 130 years of life under that amendment, what that intent was and how that intent was honored. That doesn’t even….Continue

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Friday, January 25th, 2013

Sheriffs Need To Enforce All Eight Amendments Not Just The Second Amendment

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - If your sheriff will interpose on your behalf on behalf of the Second Amendment, why won’t your sheriff interpose on behalf of the rest of the amendments? If you sheriffs out there -- there’s probably some of you listening right now. You listen to me, if you’re doing this because it’s good politics, I understand. If you’re doing it out of devotion to principle, my question to you is: What about the other seven amendments tha….Continue

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Thursday, January 3rd, 2013

Incorporating Amendment Two Will Disarm People and Undermine Republicanism

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - I don’t have a problem with the NRA. What I said is they have foolishly and in an unconstitutional, suicidal to liberty manner, worked for and now achieved incorporation of Amendment Two and the rest of the Bill of Rights for use against the states, which, as I pointed out, a state previously would have been free, should they have cared to do so, to pass a must-carry law. You can’t do that now. Now you’ll have Nancy Pelosi getti….Continue

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Saturday, December 22nd, 2012

What the Bill of Rights is Meant To Do

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - The Second Amendment was not directed at the states, it was directed at the Feds. The First Amendment was directed at the Feds, and the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth. If you doubt any of this, if there’s one soul out there that doubts this, please read the entire text of Amendment IX and Amendment X. These were insisted upon by Patrick Henry himself in the Virginia Assembly, just in case ….Continue

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Thursday, December 20th, 2012

Gutzman Interview Pt. I: Incorporation of 1st and 2nd Amendment is for Progressive Losers

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - The lunatics from the Westboro Baptist Church were threatening to go protest and disrupt these people’s grieving ceremonies and funerals. Again, the incorporation doctrine would prevent the City of Newtown from calling an ad hoc meeting of their council and passing an ordinance that said you can’t, and if you do we’re going to have our police chief arrest you. Of course, some ACLU lawyer or someone is going to jump in there and s….Continue

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Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

This Day In Founding Fathers History - 19 December

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This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. One notable birthday on this day in history in 1753, that of John Taylor of Caroline.….Continue

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Wednesday, December 12th, 2012

Madison's Account of the Bill of Rights - by Kevin Gutzman

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - The Bill of Rights is coming around at a time when Rhode Island and North Carolina are refusing to ratify. They’re still terrified of the new government. Do you really think the first ten amendments were put in there so the federal government could order the states about? It’s just ridiculous. Of course, I understand many of you have been bludgeoned over the head with a lie your entire lives over what the Constitution is and what….Continue

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Tuesday, November 20th, 2012

This Day In Founders History - 20 November

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This Day in Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. On this day in 1789, New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution.….Continue

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Tuesday, September 25th, 2012

This Day In Founders History - 25 September

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On this day in 1789, twelve amendments to the Constitution were proposed by the First Federal Congress of the United States and sent to the state legislatures for ratification. To find out what else happened on This Day in Founders History check out mikechurch.com….Continue

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Friday, September 21st, 2012

Don't Incorporate the First Amendment

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Nobody called the first ten amendments the Bill of Rights until incorporation was invented in the early part of the 20th century. Amendment One is part of a suite of twelve amendments that were proposed in the first congress and sent to the states for ratification. The sole and explicit purpose of those amendments were that the states that ratified begrudgingly -- like New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia espe….Continue

Monday, August 20th, 2012

If It Was Not Granted Then it Was Reserved - Why The Lincolnistas Are Wrong

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Mandeville, LA - Noah Millman posts at the American Conservative Magazine in part: "If the secessionist cause is to be justified in the Declaration’s terms, it must make one of two claims. Either there are no “political bands” of note to dissolve – the Union is a mere compact among sovereign entities, that any party may depart from at will. Or, if those bands are granted to exist, the election of Abraham Lincoln, whose party was committed to preventing the spread of sl….Continue

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Friday, July 27th, 2012

Federalism and the Second Amendment

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Audio and Transcript - It is important for you to know that the federal Bill of Rights does not guarantee you one solitary thing in your state, nothing, zero, zilch, nada, nothing.  If you read the presentation to the states to ratify that Bill of Rights, if you read what it was that Congress said when they passed them, if you read the preamble that was inserted into the Bill of Rights, it is clear, anyone alive at the ….Continue

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Was Secession A Constitutional Right? 1868 Book Concluded It Was. "It was in 1833, for the frst time in the history of the country, that it was solemnly asserted and argued, that the Constitution of the 'United States was not a compact between the States. This new doctrine simultaneously put forth, by Mr. Justice Story in his "Commentaries on the Constitution of the 'United States," and by Mr. Daniel Webster in "the greatest intellectual effort of his life," that is, in his great speech in the Senate of the I6th of February, 1833. In order to show that the Constitution is not a compact between the States, the position is assumed, that it is not a compact at all. If it be a compact, say they, then the States had a right to secede. But it is not a compact; and hence secession is treason and rebellion. The great fundamental questions, then, on which the whole controversy hinges are, first, Is the Constitution a compact? and, secondly, Is it a compact between the States?" - Albert Bledsoe, Was Secession A Constitutional Right (1868)

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