Mike Church
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Topic: virtue
Smaller Government Requires A Moral Society
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
Military Sexual Assault Is A Reflection Of Our Morals As A Society
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
If St. Augustine Could Be Forgiven, Why Not Mark Sanford?
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
Interview With Rod Dreher On Ruthie Leming, Community, And The Secret Of A Good Life
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
Restoring The Constitution Can't Happen With The Amoral, Atheistic Nitwittery
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
Truth Is Treason In The Empire Of Lies...And It Doesn't Pay Well Either
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
Top On The Endangered Tradition List: Marriage
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – My buddy Steve Cunningham sent me this story last night. I didn’t get a chance to read it yesterday eve but I read it this morning. The title of the story is “’Marriage Equality’ or ‘Marriage Extinction’? Next: equal rights for incest and bestiality”. I don’t see the bestiality thing. I do see the incest. I do see the bigamy and I do see the polyamory in what it is that’s being tal….Continue
We Don't Always Have To Agree - That's What Makes Life Fun
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I take great comfort in knowing, too, that during this week when you and I are reminiscing and recalling what part of the ten years you may recall, the good times and memories, and of course the bad, we should have heated conversations. That’s what we do here on this show. We do not swim with the sharks. We have our own stream that we swim in. That’s why we unplug the matrix cable out of the back of our heads. That’s why w….Continue
Cicero And The Romans Foreshadow The Fate Of The United States
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – You want to tell me that ancient history and Roman and Greek history is not worth studying, I defy you. He is describing conditions that existed around 50, 60 BC, somewhere around there. He is describing conditions which existed in ancient Rome as they lost their way and stopped being republicans and became Empiricists. The exact same thing has happened here today. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…….Continue
Texas Is Now Corrupt, Can Secession Save It?
A member of Congress is not going to be able to, just to give a recent example, stop the property tax rates from going up in the State of Texas as Susan Combs, the Texas State Comptroller, wants her fellow Texans to know. Apparently you’ve been concentrating so much on the federal legislature that you forgot there are sales taxes and property taxes in Texas. ….Continue
Gambling For Health Care
Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - You have to marvel at the lack of frontier spirit that we as Americans currently exhibit in this which is supposed to be the greatest of all debates, whether or not the public is going to be responsible for everyone’s health services or medical services, or whether or not the individual ought to be responsible for it. I think the answer is clear, don’t you? Check out today's audio and transcript for th….Continue
If Wishes Were Horses, Beggars Would Ride - Just Practice Republicanism
Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Jefferson said that republicanism is defined as: a government that is controlled by the people upon which it directly acts. In other words, if you live in a little hamlet anywhere in the United States, you have a town council or city council or alderman, whatever the case may be. Whoever is your direct lawgiver, that is who ought to exercise the most legislative power over your affairs. Why is this concept so hard to understand and wh….Continue
Mike Schools The Children On Accuracy And Being Gentlemen
Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - I’m sitting there and I’m in a very not-wealthy section of the City of New Orleans, similar to ones I’m sure you can find around where you live. I’m moved by the fact that there are these beautiful children here who someone along the way decided not to abort. I guarantee you there were economic circumstances that many of those children were born under that would suggest, especially if you’re listening to East Coast libs, that….Continue
Abortion Justified With Reason Is Still Murder
Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - All of our existence now is all to be determined by us, by man. We are in control of everything according to Ms. Williams. You then have no reason to not do almost anything or to do something in your life other than whether or not you choose to. This is why the idea that reason informs civilization, that this is one of the fatal conceits of the last 150 years, that you can be informed by reason and that al….Continue
The Purging Of Tradition And Moral Order
Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Folks, that’s a reflection of all the things we talk about. Isn’t it just another of the latest examples of our purge of tradition and our purge of true moral order and code? We don’t have a code. You make it up as you go along. If it’s inconvenient or it might cost you a couple of shekels, you just bail. You just abandon it for pure selfish reasons. It’s tragic and sad. Check out today's tra….Continue
Three Decades Since Reagan And We Haven't Solved Anything
Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - In the 32 years that intervened, has anything that Reagan was warning about back in 1981, has any of it been mitigated? Has it been solved? Has it been healed? Has it been fixed? Has it been repaired? Do we spend less than we take in? Have we gotten our house in order? As individuals, do we have our houses in order? The answer is no. Check out today's transcript for the rest...….Continue
Government And Media Corruption Is A Symptom Of Our Moral Decay
Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Think about it, our federal government we complain mightily about, our state governments we complain mightily about, they are the largest public display of what we do together. No longer are the acts of what we do together the acts of peace, human felicity and what have you. Now they are the acts of abject corruption. They are demonstrated and seen and shown in our legislatures. Is that a symptom of legislative system or is that….Continue
Now Fame Comes From Persona And Social Media, Not Deeds Or Talent
Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Of all my readings before the modern media age, of the great men that went before and those that are great -- and we know because of their deeds -- you don’t find any of this. Number one, it didn't exist, but the 17th, 18th, and 19th century antecedents or forms of it didn't exist. Were there men that were famous? Yeah, they were famous, but they were famous specifically because of their deed. Check out today's transcript for the re….Continue
Do Gun Laws and Executive Orders Make Us All Magically Safer?
Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - If all we have to do is pass laws to stop this, it would seem to me we could pass laws and stop all the malady of the human condition. We can pass laws to make every woman happy, fully employed, paid more than her male counterparts. Can we? Pass a law. We can pass laws and stop all the bullying immediately. We can stop all the horrible things that happen in schools, like children eating French fries. Just imagine the possibilities ….Continue
Ryan in Iowa Knows Virtue, or Lack Thereof, is the Problem
Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - The part of this that is crying out for the most attention is the cultural, attitudinal, and the lack of virtue part of it. Until you can restore some semblance of an agreed-upon civic virtue and begin having people practice it -- gentlemen, you have to do this. There’s no one going to do it for you. It is your job and responsibility to do this, no matter how silly or antiquated you may think it is. Change your manners, change your….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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