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The Democrat Party of the New Deal and The Great Society is dead. The party of workers and big labor abandoned them in pursuit of big donor money and fringe ideology. The Jacobins eulogize the most influential party of the twentieth century and contemplate what comes next.
During Trump 45, he and his surrogates did a lot of bellyaching about the 'deep state'. Marc and James check in to see if Donald is fending off The Beast that is the Deep State or if The Beast is bringing Donald to heel. Donald's actions or inactions against Syria and Iran are discussed. Also, why is the CIA tapping the president's private phone?
Civil Asset Forfeiture is the biggest unconstitutional crime committed by enforcement agencies at all levels of government that most people have not heard of nor understand.
His accomplishments as president were overshadowed by his criminal acts. No, not that guy – Richard Nixon. Learn how a lifetime of foreign policy culminated in actions that are still felt today - and the two-hundred years that precipitated his abandonment of the gold standard in 1971.
The Warren Report was not well-received by the American public when it was released in 1964. What were some of the problems within and without the Report that caused people to lose faith in their government?
The Warren Report was not well-received by the American public when it was released in 1964. What were some of the problems within and without the Report that caused people to lose faith in their government?
On this sixtieth anniversary of the assassination of president John Kennedy, we will examine not 'the man who accompanied Jackie to Paris' but Jackie herself – the woman who redefined the role of first lady for a modern nation. Jackie was not merely the 'wife of the president' but a force onature separate and distinct from the Oval Office.
Join us as we sojourn through the life, trials, and achievements of Jackie B.
On August 8, 2022, FBI agents raided the Florida residence of former president Donald Trump, seizing more than three hundred classified documents. Although decried as a political maneuver by Trump supporters and Biden opponents – the two do not necessarily intersect – the real question is one of presidential power. Is the president accountable to the laws of the executive just as any other citizen or do the president’s proclamations carry the weight of and supersede statutory law?
James and Marc debate the customs and realities of presidential power on Truth and Other Lies: Mishandled.
If you know someone who prefers travelling in a conveyance to driving in a car that person might be an adherent of the Sovereign Citizen movement: people who believe themselves capable of outmaneuvering judicial systems using obscure loopholes in the United States Code and creative interpretations of the Constitution.
They believe themselves to be beyond the law and think they can manipulate the law to effect that belief. Discover the origin and tactics of this peculiar ideology in Citizen, Sovereign.
At 15:23, Marc uses the word claim when referring to tax returns. In this context, claim is synonymous with return.
