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The Real Trump Trap

July 21, 2015 by Monica

I’ve been trying to figure out why the media is giving Trump SO much press. It’s just out of all proportion to his import and if I believe the polls at all, I’d sooner chalk-up his showing in the polls to the press he’s getting than chalking-up the press he’s getting to his showing in … Read more

An Interesting Passage from Quigley's Tragedy & Hope

February 24, 2015 by Monica

On Saturday’s show I mentioned a concept I picked up from Carrol Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope: that culture changes when children’s values are disconnected from their parents;’ this can happen in any of a number of ways from technological progress to outside cultural influences. I believe this method is deliberately used in the United States to move us from our individualist past to the “collectivist future.” Specifically I believe childhood education (literally disconnecting us from our parents), higher education (indoctrinating us to the state), high taxes (causing both parents to work), welfare (breaking up families), the drug war (creating outlaw subcultures), immigration policy (deliberately

An Interesting Passage from Quigley’s Tragedy & Hope

February 24, 2015 by Monica

What Would Make YOU Leave AMERICA? Podcast of July 12, 2014 Show

July 14, 2014 by Monica

Hour 1 Hour 2 Hour 3 A few of the references from the show: Complexity & Chaos, Empires on the Edge of Chaos, by Niall Ferguson Neo-conservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea, a review of Irving Kristol’s book.

Immigration Reform Will Make the Real Problem Worse: Podcast of February 8 Show

February 12, 2014 by Monica

I had some technical difficulties with the show – not a big deal but there are glitches both on the official WSB version (which also has commercials) and the podcast. My suggestion is to listen to the first segment in the WSB version and the rest of the show commercial free on my podcast… WSB … Read more

2014, A Libertarian Look Ahead: Podcast of January 5, 2014 Show

January 7, 2014 by Monica

Hour 1 Hour 2

Duck Dynasty Dust-Up

December 28, 2013 by Monica

Unless I really can’t avoid it, I do avoid discussing divisive “wedge” issues on the air, and I did not make an exception for the Duck Dynasty dust-up, but I do want to take this opportunity to express one heartfelt view I have. I feel strongly that the American people, gay or straight, black or … Read more

Conservative "Core Principles" or Just Political Expedients?

April 10, 2013 by Monica

Front and center on the opinion page of The Wall Street Journal yesterday was an article titled “A Conservative Case for Gay Marriage” and opposite was a full-page article titled “Evangelicals in Push for Immigration Overhaul.” Both articles make great points and are breaths of fresh air from the right, but the timing of this one-eighty makes me like the neo-conservative machine less not more.
A year ago, “defense of marriage” and stopping the “flow of illegals” were sold as inviolable conservative “core principles” by Republican politicians and the media who serve them. These were issues the likes of Karl Rove and Paul Ryan solemnly if not rabidly defended, and they were issues used against traditional conservatives and libertarians like Ron Paul. As any traditional conservative can tell you, however, these are not “core principles” of conservatism–not even neo-conservatism! These issues were intentionally manufactured to polarize voters on a single issue that would get their votes despite being betrayed by the Republican Party on the truly universal conservative principle: fiscal restraint.