Introduction “Give me your entitled, your spoiled, your huddled classes yearning to live for free,

We are deep into the dangerous beginnings of our own cultural revolution, a culture war, with its intention of establishing one party rule.

Doesn’t everyone want peace? I certainly do, but not at any price, and not by any means. Peace through strength. That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode.

Continuing excesses by our leadership, politicians and progressive true believers, will lead to disaster. That is the subject of today’s 10 minute episode.

Hard work and sacrifice over time is omnipotent; it builds and strengthens individuals, families and societies. Entitlement is a cancer.

It all starts with gratitude. Gratitude is the bedrock, the touchstone for any effective philosophy. That is the subject of today’s 10 minute episode.

We Are All Flight 93: Citizen Heroes Needed. Where will you stand up and be counted? That is the subject of today’s show.

Substitute shared values, common goals, for the more external things we have relied upon in the past to bring us together.

We do not have a widespread American Work Ethic. Lack of choices has led us to working. That is the subject of today’s 10 minute episode.

If the Arabs laid down their weapons there would be no more war. If the Israelis laid down their weapons, there would be no more Israel. 

The core issue with the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion triad is that these are tactics, not a vision, not an overall strategic goal.

What can governments do, and what can they absolutely not do–the vital tasks that only we, you and I, can accomplish?

Does being an American mean that we hold to principles like “America First” and “Me First”? That is the subject of today’s 10 minute episode.

Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s. And only what is Caesar’s. That is the subject of today’s 10 minute episode.

Introduction Both sides of the police accountability discussion are using their agendas to sift, sort,

We are being lied to regularly, being fed selectively edited stories, or outright lies by agenda driven political or media sources.

In today’s anti-cop environment, police forces are being degraded. The biggest negative impact being in the poorest neighborhoods.

Governments can only legislate and provide money from taxpayers. They are not good at teaching and utter failures at motivating.

Entitlement culture will rule, and ruin, America unless we, you and I, act.

That is the subject of today’s 10 minute episode.

The United States has the most powerful military the world has ever seen–no other country comes close. At least for now. 

When are we going to grow up and agree with Dumas and Paul that the only way to live is, “One for all, and all for one?”

The overwhelming majority gun deaths are done with handguns. Mass shootings, make up a small fraction of gun deaths every year.

If your emphasis is on voting rights, the new Georgia voting law represents an unfair restriction of those rights. I am not in that camp.

If all we do is fight over masks, and school openings, we have lost before we even start. Much of the fighting is a “fight to be right.”

Introduction As we navigate what we think is right in politics, finance, with COVID, and

Does my implied honoring of Revolution 1.0 in 1776 make this a conservative podcast? Was the 1776 Revolution conservative?

Thinking in black and white, you are all with me or you are against me, is inherently lazy. It also smacks of a certain arrogance.

Promoting self reliance is hard and produces lasting positive results. Promoting a poor, victim mindset is easy and destructive.

Parents have the primary responsibility for raising their kids. Not the state. This includes education, food, clothing and housing, etc.

Biden, Trump and most others are not calling for anything resembling unity. They are simply choosing up sides.

The $1.9T to be allocated is being promoted as the third COVID Relief Package. How much is going to COVID relief?

Joe Biden is our President, as was Donald Trump. Who do I want to have as our President; not by name, but by qualifications and style?

It gets very expensive, very quickly when we choose to pay to eliminate all risk, and cover every possible circumstance.

“The fight against COVID cannot be a local war. It must be total war in every city, town and village throughout the land.”

“How can we use the differences that we have as members of different groups in ways that add to our world, and not divide and detract?”

Government is using its power to help select business winners. In this case the big guys. Is that what you want?

Remote Learning is an oxymoron. School Choice means a better education for every child, and a better value for the taxpayers.

Introduction Manipulating stock markets, attempting to make money independent of any realistic valuation of the

Impeachments are not judicial proceedings; they are entirely political. They fit the definition of a show trial perfectly.

Immigration has a clear, workable and comprehensive solution set that has been ignored for decades. Politicians don’t want a solution.

Paraphrasing Ben Franklin either we all hang together as Americans, or we will all hang each other separately. 

Everything good, including unity, requires honesty; complete and unabridged. Healing requires us to heal ourselves, not the “other person.”

I want to thank President Trump for the many good things he did, and hope never to see him on a public stage again. May he live a long and happy life. 

The last thing that we need is to further bury ourselves into think-alike silos, in the warm embrace of easy thinking. And this way is seductively easy. 

Our common enemy as the world’s oldest democracy is not Trump, antifa, Nancy Pelosi, AOC, QAnon, or Bernie. The enemy is rationalization.

Politics and variations on that theme have caused longer lasting personal “lockdowns” in my life than COVID and all of its variations.