Episodios

  • What Is Wrong with Texas? | 3/18/25

    What Is Wrong with Texas? | 3/18/25
    Mar 18 2025
    The divide on the Right is between those who enjoy the warm water of politics as an end to itself and those who use it to steer the ship to fixed destinations. We are seeing this at the federal level with those who would rather focus on fake spending cuts from the DOGE and even use the DOGE as an excuse not to actually cut spending in Congress. Next, we’re joined by Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison (R), who joins us from Austin to report on how Republicans worked with Democrats to squander what should have been the most conservative session. They have not passed a single meaningful bill in the first 60 days and have no plans to pass anything transformational. He also explains how the school choice bill is misleading and woefully inadequate. Meanwhile, DEI continues to permeate every aspect of Texas government. Is there any hope of throwing these people out in primaries? That is up to us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    54 m
  • Everything You Learned About Marbury v. Madison Was Wrong | 3/17/25

    Everything You Learned About Marbury v. Madison Was Wrong | 3/17/25
    Mar 17 2025
    Trump is at a crossroads. The most important and enduring accomplishment — perhaps the only enduring accomplishment — will be to break judicial supremacism. In today’s action-packed show, I discuss the arguments Trump must make as to why judges have no jurisdiction over deportations and how he must fully ignore the courts. Such a posture will help us down the road when we push for red states to fight the next Democrat president. Next, I offer a unique history lesson on Marbury v. Madison to show how Chief Justice Marshall was not establishing judicial supremacism, but constitutional supremacism. When you understand the adjacent cases and the political events that led up to the decision, it becomes apparent that he was actually deferring to the Jefferson administration and refusing to interfere by enlarging the scope of judicial power. Based on the scholarship of 11th Circuit Judge William Pryor, I prove that Marbury actually shows the exact opposite of judicial supremacy. We are at a unique point in history to finally bury this myth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 2 m
  • Cindy Byrd: DOGE Before DOGE Was Cool | 3/13/25

    Cindy Byrd: DOGE Before DOGE Was Cool | 3/13/25
    Mar 13 2025
    Even though inflation has slowed for one month, we are trapped between a vicious trio of debt, record prices, and a recession. Meanwhile, judges continue to take over Trump’s presidency, and he refuses to exert himself over the court and/or force his agenda through Congress. Quite the contrary. RINOs successfully downed his pick for CDC director, yet they didn’t get "the Chip Roy treatment." Next, we’re joined by Cindy Byrd, the state auditor and inspector of Oklahoma, who has exposed waste, fraud, and wokeness in red-state government before it was cool. She breaks down the details of her unique forensic audits of Tulsa’s school district, which found that woke administrators were shoveling taxpayer funding to left-wing vendors and continuing CRT and DEI programs in contravention to state law. She also showed how to save money and root out eligibility fraud in Medicaid. Sadly, the legislature had no interest in following her recommendations. Now she is running for lieutenant governor to actually implement the ideas we all campaign on but that she championed before it was cool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 2 m
  • Counterpoint: Narrow GOP Majorities and Supermajorities Deliver the Same Results | 3/12/25

    Counterpoint: Narrow GOP Majorities and Supermajorities Deliver the Same Results | 3/12/25
    Mar 12 2025
    During the Biden administration, I warned that the government was engaging in “economic grooming” by acculturating the public to accept the current price levels as the new normal and to deem slower rates of increase as victories against inflation. We are seeing the same things from Trump supporters misinterpreting one month’s CPI report. We cannot lie to people that inflation has been solved without cutting spending or without a deep recession. Next, we’re joined by April Cromer, vice chair of the South Carolina state Freedom Caucus, who reports bad news from the South Carolina budget. The GOP governor and, yes, supermajority worked with every Democrat to pass a bloated and woke budget. The Freedom Caucus in South Carolina (unlike the national one) refused to go along with it and has exposed that supermajorities are just as fraudulent as narrow majorities. She explains how she beat an incumbent and why primaries are more important than general elections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 2 m
  • Why Trump Must Get Freddie/Fannie and the Fed Out of Housing | 3/11/25

    Why Trump Must Get Freddie/Fannie and the Fed Out of Housing | 3/11/25
    Mar 11 2025
    So Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is now a hero, but Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) deserves a primary?Sadly, Trump is repeating the mistakes of his first term by demanding that conservatives in Congress undermine his own stated agenda. Also, what ever happened to banning mRNA?Next, we tackle the housing crisis caused by government with banking and housing expert Alex Pollock of the Mises Institute. Alex explains the entire nature and history of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginne Mae, and the FHA and how they are inflating the housing market by backing mortgages that are insolvent. Along with the Federal Reserve, they are the source of the housing crisis. Now is the time to unwind them completely, not return them to a venture socialism public-private partnership. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 4 m
  • DOGE Is Becoming a Golden Calf | 3/10/25

    DOGE Is Becoming a Golden Calf | 3/10/25
    Mar 10 2025
    Not only are the spending cuts from the DOGE either being exaggerated or struck down by the courts, but now its existence is being used as an excuse not to cut spending for real in budget bills. Today, I explain how the budget CR is a bigger betrayal than you think. I shoot down about a dozen arguments in support of it. Unfortunately, Trump has pressured the Freedom Caucus rather than the RINOs, so we will wind up with the same old. Unless they come up with a new playbook, we know how this play ends. Also, I’m very concerned about the slow pace of deportations and explain the factors holding them up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    53 m
  • Republicans Are Underestimating the Overton Window | 3/6/25

    Republicans Are Underestimating the Overton Window | 3/6/25
    Mar 6 2025
    We begin by discussing the need and opportunity for Trump to push back against judicial supremacism lest all his policies go to waste. Next, I delve into a new poll showing how support for gay marriage is plummeting, yet Republicans refuse to utilize the Overton window and instead are making everything about female sports. The same thing applies to the budget and spending cuts. They are underestimating the mandate they have to actually eliminate programs. Trump needs to use his megaphone to explain how we are subsidizing unaffordability with these very programs both parties have supported. Sadly, they are on the cusp of playing "Lucy and the football" with the budget bill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    58 m
  • GOP Wants to Cut Spending … Without Cutting Spending | 3/5/25

    GOP Wants to Cut Spending … Without Cutting Spending | 3/5/25
    Mar 5 2025
    We begin by delving into Trump’s speech last night. What is self-evident is that Trump could crush Democrats in a shutdown or brinksmanship fight over the budget. But sadly, he is pressuring conservatives to vote for the important bills that will fund everything he is promising to cut or reform. We’re joined by the one and only Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who breaks down the math of the budget proposals to show the cognitive dissonance among Republicans. They cheer the DOGE cuts but then can’t even get behind a proposal that won’t make things worse than under Biden. Massie makes it clear that you can’t complain about inflation and support the current path. Finally, I discuss the ramifications of the Supreme Court ruling on Trump’s executive spending cuts and why he either needs to stand up to the courts or codify his policies in the budget bill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 4 m