Tuesday 15 June '10 show notes

  • Guests:
    • Dr. David Kreutzer of the Heritage Foundation.
    • Rob Kall, Executive editor and publisher of OpEdNews.com, Host of the Rob Kall Bottom-Up Radio Show.
    • Tim Dickinson, Political correspondent for Rolling Stone magazine and author of the political blog, National Affairs Daily for Rollingstone.com.
    • Young conservative Heather Bachman, Host of GOP Girl radio show, contributing columnist for DailyCaller.com.
    • Judge Vic Rawl, whose successful opponent in the primaries did not even campaign.
  • Topics:
    • Why do conservatives so hate America that they want to force us to keep sending money to the King of Saudi Arabia?
    • Is Halliburton still a rogue corporation or was it all BP's fault?
    • Is BP the modern version of Enron?
    • How on earth can young conservatives sign up for the Republican crazy train?
    • Last week's election results
  • Bumper Music:
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  • Quote: "The supreme reality of our time is ...the vulnerability of our planet." -- John F. Kennedy.
  • Clip:
    "That very word freedom, in itself and of necessity, suggests freedom from some restraining power. In 1776 we sought freedom from the tyranny of a political autocracy - from the eighteenth-century royalists who held special privileges from the crown...

    "But since that struggle, man's inventive genius released new forces in our land, forces which reordered the lives of our people. The age of machinery, of railroads; of steam and electricity; the telegraph and the radio; mass production, mass distribution - all of these combined to bring forward a new civilization and with it a problem for those who sought to remain free.

    "For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations and banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital - all undreamed of by the Fathers - the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service...

    "Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise...

    "The royalists I have spoken of, the royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. They granted that the government could protect the citizen in his right to vote, but they denied that the government could do anything to protect the citizen in his right to work and his right to live...

    "These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. But in their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike."

    Franklin D. Roosevelt, 27 June 1936, "A Rendezvous With Destiny" Speech to the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

  • Amendment XIV, Section 1, Constitution of the United States
    Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

    Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age,* and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. ...

    *Changed by section 1 of the 26th amendment.
  • Member of the day was KevinConner, who won a copy of "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" for posting Untapped America Oil Reserves is only HALF the true story on the message board.

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