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Topic: Earl of Chesterfield

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Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Boys Need To Be Taught How To Be Good Men

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Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – This is important stuff because this is the kind of instruction that young men are not getting today, and if they are getting it, they’re not getting it in high enough quantities or not getting it in a repetitive manner. They’re learning all kinds of things about recycling. They’re learning all kinds of things about homosexuality. They’re learning all kinds of things about animal rights and gl….Continue

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Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Earl of Chesterfield: Letters to His Son

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Mandeville, LA -For the last 100 years or so, men have ceded their masculine powers both physical and mental to women who are, truth be told, are biologically inferior in both conditions when it comes to raising and grooming the next generation of Gentleman/Statesman. Please note that the preceding does not preclude a strong and necessary female role in young men's lives, quite the contrary, it merely reassigns the roles as they were traditionall….Continue

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Wednesday, February 6th, 2013

Roger Scruton On Conservatism

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - This is a review of a book written by a guy named Roger Scruton. I’m only going to read a paragraph or so of this because I thought it was insightful given the current discussion about the state of conservatism and whether or not the Grand Old Party is worthy of your time, attention and money any longer. Check out today's transcript for the rest...….Continue

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Thursday, December 20th, 2012

Caller Steven: Reading Earl of Chesterfield Has Changed His Life

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Audio and Transcript - The Earl of Chesterfield was not being extraordinary; he was being very ordinary and he keeps counseling his son that to be extraordinary, you have to fit in with and be loved by the ordinary. Are you getting that point of it? Over and over he tells him: Don’t go into a room and be the big standout, flashy dresser that will only make people jealous of you and make some people dislike you. There’s one letter where he tell….Continue

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Wednesday, November 28th, 2012

Capitalism is NOT What Conservatives Think It Is

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - This is an Inigo Montoya moment. It does not mean what you think it does. What you mean to say is free enterprise, that’s what you mean to say. You do not mean to say capitalism. As Thomas Fleming points out at Chronicles Magazine, there is a reason for that. This story is posted in its entirety in today’s Pile of Prep. Here’s what Fleming writes about the use of the term capitalism. As we continue our education together, la….Continue

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Monday, November 19th, 2012

TradCons Get Butts Kicked... Should Go On The Offensive

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - I think this is probably the valid question these days: What would a healthy conservatism look for? We’ve been fighting from a defensive posture for over 50 years now. You’ve got to get on the offense here, which is why nullification, interposition, secession, hold-out and the kind of people that are going to practice republicanism who would do nullification and interposition, or would consider rethinking the union, are going to ne….Continue

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Friday, November 9th, 2012

Welfare is Corporate as Well as Individual

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Audio and Transcript - Corporate welfare is larger than private welfare. If you’re going to demonize and vilify the takers, you better get your knives sharpened and you better set your sights on the corporate welfare, the corporatists, as well as the snotty-nosed one-percenter that is suckling off the teat and doing nothing more for his college degree that you and I paid for than going to the mailbox every other week ….Continue

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Friday, October 19th, 2012

Mike Reads Letter from the Earl of Chesterfield

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - If you really want to educate yourselves and your sons, gentlemen, I want you to pick a copy up -- it’s free of charge at the Gutenberg Press or at MikeChurch.com -- the Earl of Chesterfield’s wonderful work of letters to his son on how to become a gentleman of the world and a statesman. Every morning I make it a ritual now, I read a letter from John Stanhope, the Earl of Chesterfield. There’s a reas….Continue

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