Monday, May 20th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: claes ryn, conservative, Constitution, constitutionalists, culture, democracy, Economy, edmund burke, electoral college, Federal Convention of 1787, free market, jacobin, jacobinism, Liberty, mob rule, Obedience to unenforceable, politics, private property, society, tradition
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Constitutionalists are raised, structured, socialized, you could say institutionalized to be constitutionalists. This does not happen much any longer, which is why our United States Constitution can be as seemingly useless and not referred to or deferred to as you would like to see it or as it once was. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…….Continue
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: big government, community, corruption, culture, Federal overlords, Human scale, Leviathan, local government, morals, republican, rethinking the american union, Secession, separation, society, state government, virtue
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The only way that I know of that you can, in a foolproof manner, remove the impediment is to create the conditions under which people are ready to separate from the impediment. Separation is the ultimate end of the impediment. A separation from that leviathan guarantees, unless they decide to declare war on you a la Lincoln, that you then have to actually practice the ancient and lost art of self-gover….Continue
Monday, May 13th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: Benghazi, community, culture, culture of violence, mitch landrieu, morals, new orleans, pro-life, society, values, violence
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – This is key, I think, a universal respect for life. If there is no universal respect for life, then you have at least part of what is necessary for this awful “culture of violence” to rear its ugly head. When I say universal respect for life, your universal respect for life covers the born, the unborn, the living, Americans and Mexicans alike or Yugoslavians or whatever. It is either universal or it is not. Check out today’….Continue
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: authority, autonomy, Boston bombing, conservative, culture, equality, freedom, god, individualism, mass murder, order, society, terrorism, terrorist
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I’ve talked on this show in the past about a term that a colleague had coined: radical autonomy. It’s pretty much the same thing. Most people today are radically autonomous. There is no higher authority other than your own conscience. The only higher authority we have is the blind, relentless, silly, and I think misguided pursuit of total equality. You’ll never achieve it. It does not happen in nature. I don’t think it….Continue
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: culture, foreign policy, military, morals, sexual assault, society, values, virtue, women in combat
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I also think that if you had that kind of upbringing and you had that kind of commitment to and reliance on a moral upbringing like you’re describing, formalities, manners, decency, respect and all the things that go along with it, you probably would not have -- first of all, you’d have a less bellicose foreign policy so you wouldn’t need as large a standing army or even have a standing army like we have. Check out today’s a….Continue
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: Catholic Church, Christianity, Colbert, confession, confessions, conservative, culture, divorce, ethics, forgiveness, Gay marriage, god, gop, jesus christ, Kennedy, Mark Sanford, marriage, morals, republican party, society, south carolina, st augustine, St. Augustin, virtue
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Mark Sanford hasn’t done anything that Ted Kennedy didn’t do. As a matter of fact, Mark Sanford is a wannabe when it comes to the peccadillos of the Kennedy clan. This idea here that you can’t be some manner of an illicit human being and hold a job or position in our magisterial federal government, I think, is ridiculous. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…….Continue
Monday, May 6th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: agriculture, culture, employment, farmers, farming, food, immigration, unemployment, welfare
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – This is a very intriguing story that you just sent me, Mr. Gruss. Strawberry farmers can’t find people in California to pick the strawberries. Congratulations, you grandparents out there. We’ve raised an entire generation of people and of youths, Americans, that will not do the jobs that their American forefathers did. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…….Continue
Friday, April 26th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: american conservative, community, conservative, culture, faith, family, gratitude, happiness, louisiana, love, morals, republican, Rod Dreher, Ruthie Leming, small towns, society, values, virtue, writing
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Let’s go to the Dude Maker Hotline and welcome for the first time to this program a writer from The American Conservative Magazine, and a gentleman that I met last June at the Academy of Philosophy and Letters in Baltimore, Maryland. It’s the one and only Rod Dreher. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…….Continue
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Audio, Transcript Topics: census, children, culture, economics, employment, family, marriage, parenting, parents, psychology, single moms, society, statistics
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Greg, on your behalf, because it sounds like you need that information in order to have a good day, I will go and find the information. As soon as I get the numbers, I will be more than happy to share them with you. Anecdotally speaking in the meantime and not empirically speaking, anecdotally speaking, I do not believe that there is any case to argue that a two-parent family is, by and large, disproportionately better off with chi….Continue
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: 1776, american conservative, atheist, christian gentleman, community, Constitution, culture, donald livingston, James Madison, local government, morals, pagan, patrick henry, politicians, rethinking the american union, society, spirit of 76, Statesman, Thomas Jefferson, virtue, What Lincoln Killed
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I have told you on about a billion and a half occasions, all you can really do is control yourself and what is in your community, or attempt to control what’s in your community, and more specifically in your own local sphere. That means your family, close family, immediate friends and relatives. You can’t possibly hope to effect and cause worldwide change because you desire it and because you think that Jefferson and Henry and ….Continue
Friday, April 19th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: community, culture, driver's license, George Orwell, human condition, humanity, identification, loss of community, philip dick, ray bradbury, sci-fi, society, state, Surveillance state, technology, values
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – It’s really what is at the heart of and the core of what Orwell was warning about in 1984. This is what Orwell was also trying to drive the point across when he wrote Animal Farm. This is what Bradbury was getting at in Fahrenheit 451 and others. It’s what Philip K. Dick is getting at in many of his sci-fi novels and sci-fi short stories about the future, looking at it to where man is not man any longer. Man is a functionary ….Continue
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Audio, Transcript Topics: art, bombing, Boston bombing, CNN, culture, human condition, human nature, impressionism, media, painting, rush, social media, society, terror, terrorism, terrorist
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Why are we in such a hurry? I find myself being in a hurry all the time. I come to a red light and I don’t want to sit at a red light. It’s telling me to stop. Every social fiber of my being, every fiber of my being that has been socialized, that can hear, can see, can read, everything in every part of my daily life tells me to go, go, go, faster, faster, don’t stop. You must go faster. It’s like Jeff Goldblum in the ba….Continue
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: bledsoe, brion mcclanahan, culture, david simpson, history, Jefferson davis, lies, media, modernization, propaganda, research, society, truth, values, virtue
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I was told by my financial advisor David Simpson: Okay, Mike, I want you to do half of what you do, your brilliant creativity, lying to the public and telling them what they want to hear -- like for Red State Gal and Blue State on Twitter yesterday -- and then the other half of the time you can pursue the truth. You have to lie half the time in order to make a living. That’s what we’ve come to here. I don’t want to do that. ….Continue
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: abortion, bombing, boston, Boston bombing, children, Choicers, culture, doctor, Gosnell, gun ban, Kermit Gosnell, morals, murder, pro-choice, pro-life, society, terrorism, terrorist, values
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – We did a story yesterday. Most people didn’t seem very upset over the Gosnell story and what we reported as the grizzly and ghastly over and over and over a period of years occurrences inside there. Two women actually lost their lives in the Gosnell abortion clinic. I just bring it up as a reference because we were talking about this before. The pro-choice crowd loves to run around out there and talk about the choice of killing….Continue
Friday, April 5th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: culture, Education, marriage, media, Princeton, Rutgers, social media, society, women
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – As a matter of fact, I can probably just say I think that’s a good idea for my daughters, the Church daughters, to find a husband, get married, have children and stay at home. “You want to deprive them of a life really lived.” Oh, so a life really lived doesn’t include rearing the next generation of people to live lives really lived? Really, seriously? Wow, I’d love to have that debate in a public forum somewhere. Why ….Continue
Friday, April 5th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: business, culture, economics, Economy, employment, entitlement, free market, gop, illegal immigrants, immigrants, inflation, market, minimum wage, money, ObamaCare, small business, society, wage control, wages
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Any wage control damages a market because it has an effect on the price mechanism. Wage is part of the price mechanism, too. Your ability as a businessperson to set the wage, this is part of the price mechanism. This is how you arrive at how much to sell the donut for. The labor cost, that goes into the price mechanism. Anytime the government comes in and sets the price, it is altering forever the m….Continue
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: ambition, culture, facebook, future, history, humanity, invention, robot, slacker, smartphone, social media, society, technology, work, YouTube
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – In our enlightened age here, we seem to have convinced ourselves, or many people have tried to convince themselves, that technology is actually the work of the future and that’s all that is needed. No one will have to grow our food. No one will have to milk the cows. No one will have to figure out how to get the water from point A to point B. We won’t have to go through any of the things we go th….Continue
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: censor, Congress, culture, dana milbank, Don Young, politically correct, Racism, Republicans, slang, slur, social media, society, spell check, terminology, tradition, washington post
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Can I just tell you that I’ve read a couple million words text from the 18th and 19th and early part of the 20th century, and I can find no argument, no semantical argument over the use of terminology anywhere in the historical record? It just isn’t there. This is a modern fabrication of our own narcissism and our own elevated, evolved status, because we are so much higher, such a higher form of being. Check out today’s tran….Continue
Monday, April 1st, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: abortion, big government, bigotry, christian, church, culture, defense of marriage act, detocqueville, DOMA, family, Gay marriage, homosexual marriage, liberalism, Mark Steyn, marriage, morality, Patrick J Buchanan, progressive, same sex marriage, society, supreme court, theology, tradition, values, western civilization
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If you’re to denounce your theological heritage, what are you to replace it with, what the cool kids with the pumped-up kicks say is theological heritage today? Is it theological at all? Most of them probably think we need no theology. “What’s God? What do we need that for? I can’t like God on Facebook. I can’t follow Jesus on Twitter. What do I need him for? Check out today’s transcr….Continue
Monday, April 1st, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Audio, Transcript Topics: Brad Birzer, Catholic Church, Christianity, culture, god, government, morality, morals, social media, society, st augustine, tradition, values, western civilization
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If you’re going to have any chance for survival, you’re going to have to have some foundational things that everyone can agree on and you can build societies and civilizations around, that there’s no disagreement on, or very little disagreement on. Therefore you have a nucleus around which to rally. What is that nucleus today, Twitter? Facebook? What’s the nucleus, the latest immorality of th….Continue