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Patrick Henry as he appears debating the Constitution in Mike Church's "Spirit of '76"

Thursday, May 9th, 2013

Patrick Henry - Patriot, Pontificator And Bibliophile

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Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Hayes actually went to Red Hill, which is where Henry lived and died, and asked permission of the family and the curator of the family estate and found Henry’s own diaries and the logs that Patrick Henry used to catalog his possessions. Back in those days, if you had books, books were like -- what would you compare a book to today? A book was a prized possession. They were very difficult to make. Usually what would happen is so….Continue

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Wednesday, January 30th, 2013

This Day In Founding Fathers History - 30 January 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 1815, President Madison approved an act of Congress appropriating money to purchase Thomas Jefferson’s library.….Continue

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Friday, January 11th, 2013

What Did Virginia's Founding Fathers Really Mean When They Ratified Constitution?

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Mandeville, LA - In a post I wrote earlier this week we discussed the fact the not only were the Southern States correct in their assertion of the Constitution as a Compact but nearly the entire PLANET agreed with them-save for that violent, tyrannical mob in New England. My post made its way onto the pages of The Imaginative Conservative website. In the comments that resulted, it was asserted that I didn't know what I was talking about and that the VA Founding Fathers NEVER i….Continue

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Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

The History of the Republican Party

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - On today's Founders TV Mike goes over the history of the Republican Party and it may not be what you've been taught... The Republican Party isn't the "Defenders of the Constitution" that the current party has supposedly made themselves out to be, in fact, if you were a little r [r]epublican back before Lincoln, you were most likely... A DEMOCRAT! Be sure and grab a Founders Pass to check out the rest of….Continue

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Friday, December 14th, 2012

John Taylor of Caroline - Debts Are Unnecessary to a Free People

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - What Taylor is saying is that you should only have a tariff because you have a couple duties that the general government has to discharge. You should only have the tariff so that you can raise money to do that. You should not use the tariff to enrich anyone. You should not use the tariff as a tool to try to guide commerce. Commerce will guide itself. The genius and the brilliance of John Taylor of Caroline in the founding generation….Continue

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Monday, November 19th, 2012

The Lifestyle of the Rich and Petraeus

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - How many of you think that George Washington would have accepted all of the accoutrements that Petraeus did as head of the CIA? Do you think Washington would have taken a 28 horse entourage from the airport (had they been around) to his mistresses house? I think not, his honor would not have let him. Well, the guys that run our country now have it pretty easy, police escorts, a staff to read everything….Continue

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Friday, November 9th, 2012

Where Are the Smart Leaders Like Ronald Reagan?

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Where are the smart people at? We have a deficiency of smart people. I don’t mean people who can divine or devise a new electronic gadget for you to carry around and fritter away the hours. Where are the real smart people? Where are the Jeffersons, the Taylors, the Madisons? Where are the Davises or the Calhouns? Where are the Coolidges? Where are the Carnegies? Where are the Melons? Where are the….Continue

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Thursday, September 27th, 2012

Our Yankee Friend Andrew Cannot Understand Why Southern Gentlemen Should Exist

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Audio and Transcript - This is Mike's response to Andrew from New York, which you can listen to in today's audio. "The New York, Yankee elite cannot see the attraction or the worthiness of the Southern gentleman. No wonder you bombed us back into the stone ages, Andrew. You’re a perfect example. This is exactly the attitude that your forefathers had. They can’t understand the usefulness of these guys hanging out at their plantations. Let me….Continue

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Friday, September 21st, 2012

How to Define a Conservative and Liberal

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - The true conservative in the mold of [r]epublicans like Madison and Washington and Taylor of Caroline and the Englishman Burke and 20th century versions you would find like Tolkien and C.S. Elliott and Russell Kirk and others, they would not recognize today’s conservatives. I think that says an awful lot of bad things about today’s conservatives. I used to ask the question: what is it that we want to c….Continue

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Thursday, June 21st, 2012

Founders Foreign Policy Didn't Include Offensive Wars

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Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - There are a number of you that probably think that these conversations about these undeclared, unwinnable wars that go on, that they amount to a bunch of nothing and that we ought to get back to the real business of talking about Governor Romney versus President Obama, that that’s what we should do.  I believe that that is what I am doing.  I believe that it is the height of irresponsibility to meander about the countryside using mic….Continue

Tuesday, June 5th, 2012

John Quincy Adams' Jubilee of The Constitution-Delivered on 50th Anniversary of Washington's Inauguration

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THE JUBILEE OF THE CONSTITUTION: A DISCOURSE Delivered at the Request of THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, in the City of New York, on Tuesday, the 30th of April, 1839; Being the Fiftieth Anniversary of the INAUGURATION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON as PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, on Thursday, the 30th of April, 1789. ________________________________________ Serit arbores, quae alteri seculo prosint - * * quid spectans, nisi etiam postera secula ad se pertinere? Ergo arbore….Continue

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James Madison Explaining the new federal government's very limited powers in Federalist 45

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