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Getting it Right - Rick Wagner — 366 episodes

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The War That Comes in Pieces

2

When Institutions Stop Doing Their Job

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Iran, Gas Prices, and America’s Forgotten Ambition

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The Terrain of Conflict: Iran and the Maritime Choke Points

5

The Long War Mindset: From Crusades to Modern Conflict

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AI, Bias & the Family Feud Problem — How We Should Use Tech for Research

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Institutional Drift: From Iran to Minnesota

8

Belonging Over Belief: Why People Join Radical Causes Without Caring About Outcomes

9

Soft Power, Hard Landings: Budgets, Borders, and the Cost of Pretending

10

The Educational No Longer Prepares You To Do Anything

11

Why Is Our System More Focused On Rehabilitating Predators Than Protecting Citizens?

12

More Money For Education? Why?

13

One Of The Biggest Dangers in Society Is Forgetting How We Got Here

14

Mayoral Shake-Ups: Breaking Down the Winners, Losers, and What Comes Next

15

Last Weeks Election Results Are Making A Very Strong Statement - Let's Discuss

16

What's Happening In The Bahamas And How Might This Unfold?

17

Another Voyage Down The River of Weird

18

Endless Noise: Why Does 24/7 News Tell You So Little?

19

The Middle East Has Never Been A Peaceful Place

20

We Get Policy Talked To Death - Let's Break Some Of These Events Down

21

What A Controversial Week In The World!

22

The Government Does Most Things Poorly

23

Brain Break! Let's Talk About Something Different This Week!

24

If America Was A Business- We'd Be Out Of Business!

25

Do Good Ideas Exist In Chicago?

26

Why Are People Against A Crack Down On Crime In DC?

27

ICE And The Western Slope - Hitting Close To Home

28

Our Judicial System Is Not On The Right Track

29

Molding Cultural Tension - The Drum Beat Has Already Begun

30

Did Trump's Team Get In Over Their Heads With The Epstein Files?

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If We Don't Seek Out The Truth, We Rely On The Media - And That's Not Wise

32

Don't Let Politicians Convince You They Know More About Life Than You Do

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It's Time To Reread Orwell's 1984. It's Feeling Eerily Familiar To Reality

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Will Iran See A Regime Change?

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Let's Talk Israel And Iran - We Should Discuss Some Historical Context

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The Left Is Afraid Of Both Trump And Musk! How Will This Shake Out?

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We Are No Longer In An Era Where Headlines Contain Real Information

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Is There Anything Trump Can Do That A Federal Judge Somewhere Won't Object?

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Trump Is Doing An Admirable Job To Say The Least

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Just Because You Make A Certain Amount Of Money - Doesn't Make It Okay For The Government To Take It

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Trump's Bringing Back Productivity and Direction

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Speak Your Mind In Another Country And You're Likely To Disappear For A While!

43

Don't Get The Rubes Upset!

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Are You Keeping Up With The Colorado Gun Laws?

45

Are Your Nervous About The Stock Market And Your Investments?

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Let's Keep The Western Slope From Turning Into Boulder!

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More Massive Progress Made By DOGE - The Left Will Use Any Means To Stop Trump and Musk

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Identifying As A Turtle And Still Carrying Political Power Is A Terrifying Thought!

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People Truly Believe Trump And Musk Are Out To Kill Them

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It's A Great Time To Be A Republican, Conservative Or Libertarian

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New Bills On The Way - They Are Squeezing Your Natural Rights And Misinterpreting The Constitution

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You Can Call It "Misinformation" But In Reality It's A Flat Out Lie

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DOGE Is Crushing DC's Dreams!

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"The More Numerous The Laws, The More Corrupt The Government" -Tacitus - Would You Agree?

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"To Know Your Past Is To Know Your Future." -Ernest Agyemang Yeboah - Let's Discuss Eastern Europe and Russia

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Democrats Are Like Rust - They Never Rest!

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Colorado Is Headed Toward Californication With It's Policies

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What's Worse? Stupid or Evil? January 20th Cannot Come Soon Enough

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Are You Curious About What's Happening In The Middle East? You Need to Understand The Historical Context. Let's Discuss!

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Have Your Heard About Peanut The Squirrel? That Is What You Call Government Overreach!

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Our Government Is Either Incompetent, Dishonest or Just Plain Unable to Cope - What's Worse?

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Hunter Biden Was Pardoned! Let's Discuss This Pardoning Power - Are There Any Rules To This?

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Republicans Can Never Seem To Get Along!

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Trump's Playing 3 Dimensional Chess With His Cabinet Picks

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RFK Is Going To Hit HHS Like A Stick Of Dynamite!

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The Next Two Months Will Be Very Interesting!

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It's Not A Great Sign When A Majority Of New Jobs Being Created Are Government Jobs.

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Countdown To The Election. Get Out There And Vote!

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Everyone Is On The Edge Of Their Seat Right Now.

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What Benefits Do You Get By Being A US Citizen These Days?

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Confused By What's Going On In The Middle East? Let's Discuss!

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The Tripwires That Are The World Stage Right Now

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We Are In A State of Rapid, Reignited Inflation. What Role Will The Unions Play In This?

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The Framers Really Did Their Research When It Came To The Constitution - We Should Pay Attention

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Heaven Knows - Anything Goes!

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Without Borders Are We Even A Nation?

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Let's Talk RFK Jr. and The DNC. Kamala Sounded Better But Still Managed To Say Nothing!

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Kamala Has Gone From Being An Embarrassment To A Modern Day Margaret Thatcher

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Of Course We'll Talk About Aristotle on The Radio!

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Is It Illegal If No One Enforces The Law?

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Distracted By The Election Drama? Let's Take A Look At Asia!

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Joe's Gotta Go!

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I've Seen More Emotion From An Animatronic Than From Joe Lately!

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First Spy Balloons, Then Landing On The Dark Side of The Moon, Now Cuba!

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Are China's Motives Something To Be Concerned About?

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Drug Use and Dealing is on the Rise. Could Closing Our Wide Open Border Slow That Down?

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We Are Decapitating Ourselves!

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America Is On The Line Every Time We Vote

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Welcome To The "Increasingly Unhinged Campaign Revenge Retribution"

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A Journey Back In Time For Memorial Day

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The Most Ridiculous News Headlines Are Becoming A Reality. You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

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The People That Say "Follow The Science" Almost Never Do!

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"I've Got The Emails" - Scariest Words A Liberal Can Hear!

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The Left and Their Tyranny of Low Expectations

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An Attack On Talk Radio - Nothing New But They're Back At It!

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You Paid For Those Student Loans! They Didn't Just Go Away. Universities Got Their Money.

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Our Lives Move From One Screen To The Next. For Kids It's Even Worse!

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Keep Your Freedoms Alive Out There!

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It's Almost Election Time. Get Ready For Republicans To Fight Themselves!

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Listen Up! New Concerning Second Amendment Bills Are Coming Our Way. Let's Do Something About It!

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Let's Recap The State of The Union Address. Pharmacology Has Come A Long Way!

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Are You Ready To Hear The Budget On Our Current Homeless Pandemic?

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What Are Our Countries Chances Of Coming Back From This?

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The Constitution Does Not Give You Rights. It's Made to Protect Your Rights!

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Episode 200! Magic 8 Ball Says: "Future Cloudy, Try Again Later"

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Ever Gotten Into An Argument With AI?

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Greg Abbott is Challenging the Supreme Court and Joe Biden. How Will Biden Respond?

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It's Impossible To Keep Track Of Everything Going On In The Middle East Right Now!

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Your Ability To Conduct Business The Way You Could The Year Before Is Compromised By Government

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Joe is Barely Hanging on Here. What Kind of Campaign are We Going to See this Year?

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You Can’t Really Understand Where We Are Unless You Know How We Got Here

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Cut The Dems A Break, They Went To Harvard! They Don’t Know What A Republic Is.

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How Will Hunter Skate Around This Time? Maybe Hillary Can Give Him Some Pointers?

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Who Are We Allowing To Shape The Next Generation? Why Have We Not Put Our Foot Down With These Educational Institutes?

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What Has The Biden Administration Cost The Average American?

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Violence Is Escalating And It Doesn’t Seem To Just Be Guns Anymore

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Where Is Hamas Getting Its Funding? That Seems To Be A Good Place To Start.

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Even Our Poorest Members Of Society Still Have It Better Than Much Of The World

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What’s Going On In Denver? Are There Solutions For The Unhoused?

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School Board Elections Are Coming Soon! Let’s Get To Know Candidate Cyndee Skala.

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Want To Make A Difference In This Country? School Board Elections Are Coming Soon! Let’s Hear From Barbara Evanson.

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How Can America Appropriately Support Israel Without Starting WWIII?

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Our Financial Future Never Seems To Be Planned Past The Next Election These Days!

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Want To Know Why Men Are Interested In The Roman Empire?

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Are You Really ”Unsafe” Or Is Someone Just Challenging Your Ideas?

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Our Future Relations With Taiwan - Let’s Hear Their Point of View

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Bonus Podcast – Are the North Koreans the New Cubans

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Do You Believe In The Generational Cycle?

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Don’t Just Be A Rider On The Storm. Get Involved.

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Trump’s Being Sacrificed On The Alter Of Political Power

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Where Do You Think Kids Learn Their Moral Compass From Now?

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We Think They Are Wrong, They Think We Are Evil

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When Did A Blatant Disregard For America Become The Norm?

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Don’t Lose Your Principle And Your Peace Trying To Fit In

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An Ever Evolving Republic

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What Happens To A Society Where People Must Go Along With Things They Know Not To Be True?

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Hunter’s Business Is His Father.

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Is Gavin Newsom The New JB? But Who Will Play Kamala??

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We’ve Reached The Point Where Tolerance Is Not Enough

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”God Save The Queen, Man!” And The Rest Of Biden’s Gun Control Speech

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School Board Elections Are Coming Up In The Next Cycle. Let’s Vote Like Our Future Depends On It.

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The Rule Of Law. It Means Something Different To These Guys. Not What You And I Mean.

143

Is There A Limit To The Belief In ”Your Truth”? Do Physics Apply?

144

How Many Times Can You Be Wrong About The Weather Before You’re Wrong About The Climate?

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Colorado Has The Highest Car Jacking Rate In The Country! Why?

146

Where You See The Cracks In Civilization

147

Maybe We All Just Have Oppositional Defiant Disorder?

148

Coloradans: Did You Know About These New Gun Control Bills Just Signed?

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It’s Terrible What The Left Is Doing On Purpose, But I’m Really Bothered By What They’ll Do On Accident

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A Local Story, But A Universal Tale

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The Troops On That Side Are Very Small, But Very Loud.

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Take Trump’s Name Out Of It And You Can See How Truly Insane This Indictment Is.

153

Are You A Parent In The Grand Junction Area? A New Charter School Is On The Horizon!

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Here’s The Tea With Special Guest, Diane Schwenke. What’s On The Ballot In Grand Junction This Year?

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Join Us With Special Guest, Author Mark Moyar. But First We’ll Calculate When We’ll Actually Get To Retire!

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Can You Be Polyamorous And An Asexual At the Same Time? Woke-ism Is Confusing!

157

Homelessness Is On The Rise In Colorado! Kelly Caufield With Common Sense Institute Joins Us With The Numbers

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Welcome To California! I Mean Colorado: A Government That Can Take Away Your Plastic Bag, Can Do A Lot!

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Blabbering And Blubbering About Balloons. We’re Still Playing The Guessing Game!

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Bizarre and Insulting Behaviors From The Chinese

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This Is How We Take Back Our Political Offices! Time To Play The Game They Have Created.

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Inflations Dropping! Can’t You Feel It In Your Energy And Grocery Bill? Yeah Right!

163

”No, I Did Not Bring My Own Sack. I’m Not A Peasant.”

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The Bar Set So Low A Snake Wearing A Top Hat Could Still Get Under It

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The Inflation Creation Act - Watch Out For The IRS This Year

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On The First Day Of Christmas, My True Love Gave To Me: Trump’s Tax Returns!

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Libertarian Elon Can Do No Right

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Military Officers Start Monitoring Facebook Posts. Progressive America At It’s Finest!

169

How Did 1/2 Of The Population Start Dominating The Rest Of Us?

170

Worried About The Climate? Just Have Some Word Salad!

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Change My Mind. Republicans are Interested in Voters. Democrats are Interested in Ballots.

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Election Post-Mortem and Navigational Assistance

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VOTE VOTE VOTE: Especially in Local Elections

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Tik Tok Challenges And The Empty Vessel That Is Joe Biden

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Part 3 - Elections Are Coming! Get to Know Joe O’Dea

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Part 2 - Bobbie Daniel Talks County Priorities

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Part 1 - Reverse Isolation - You’re Not Alone In Your Beliefs

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Part 3 - Sailing Up Out Of The Icy Mists To Disrupt The Political Establishment

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Part 2 - Biden VS. Buchanan - Neck and Neck For America’s Worst President

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Part 1 - The Central Government Becoming More Opaque All The Time

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Part 3 - The Second Amendment - It’s Been There A Long Time

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Part 2 - Special Guest George Brauchler

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Part 1 - Just Trying To Beat The Bots

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Part 3 - It Really Does Get Nuttier!

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Part 2 - Epic Tacoma Officers Body Cam Footage

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Part 1 - Where’s Jackie? Joe Has A Sixth Sense

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Part 3 - The Outside World Is Watching

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Part 2 - Where Will Our Woke Military Take Us?

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Part 1 - When Will My State Allow Human Composting?

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Let The People Vote

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Welcome to Martha’s Vineyard. Mrs. Obama Will Take Your Coat

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Gaslighting

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Colorado Campaign Fundraising. What a Game!

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History is Much Like Chemistry

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RIP Queen of England

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The Silver Lining to this Progressive Cloud

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Ever Wonder What It’s Like to Be in the Same Room As Michael Bennet?

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Happy Labor Day - Is Your Thermostat Bossing You Around?

199

The Brett Bair of It All

200

The Dirty Aquarium of Washington

201

Sleepy Joe and The Democrat Underground

202

All Men Want to be Rich, Rich Men Want to be Kings

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You are Smarter than They Want You to Think.

204

Touching Bottom, But Only if We Refuse to go Further Down.

205

Our 100th Episode! Search Warrants and Political Misjudgments

206

Big Joey- Not Ones Smart Thing Yet!

207

Peculiar Magistrates and The Banana Republic

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Mighty Mouse and His Toxic Masculinty

209

What Kind of Evidence is Going to Come Out About Jan 6?

210

Wondering Where I Get My Content? Let’s Talk News Sources.

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The Liberal World Order, Where People Who Don’t Know What They’re Doing, Order Us To Do Things That Can’t Be Done

212

Big Joey and Little Joe Spending $124 Billion on IRS Enforcement, for Your Convenience

213

Big Joey and Little Joe Sitting in a Tree, Solving Inflation for You and Me.

214

Who Gave The Administration The Right To Redefine ”Recession”?

215

Guest Staring Candidate Bobbie Daniel For County Commissioner

216

Who Believes This Stuff? Vote Local Folks. It Matters!

217

Political Writers Want Progressives to do to Conservatives What They Acuse Them of Doing, Sort of a Double Negative Equity.

218

Political Pest Control- Start Locally Before They Get Away

219

Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down!

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Progress Vs. Progressivism

221

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Plus a Little About the Assault Musket of 1776

222

A Little Bit From Libs of TikTok

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The Fever Swamps of Revolutionary Thinking

224

Roe V. Wade Overturned

225

The Unelectable Joe and the Main Stream Media

226

Oliver Cromwell and Manning the Barricades of Citizenship

227

Failing Forward. Ignoring The Past To Ruin The Future

228

5% to .5%. The 2020 Election In A Nutshell.

229

The Hollow Cities of Progressivism

230

Special Agent of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

231

Sleepy Joe Explains It All

232

Progressive Interference and the Pierre Delecto Menace

233

Guns, Butter And The Rise Of Pierre Delecto’s

234

Living In A Political Twilight Zone Is Bad For Your Brain

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Letting Nancy Pelosi Choose Your Firearms

236

Get Ready For The Summer Of Brownouts

237

The Sussman Verdict, A Justice System Teeters On The Brink

238

Ukraine- Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems- Destructive Stalemate

239

RememberingThose Who Gave Their Lives

240

Front Range Politicians don’t get Western Colorado

241

A Great Evil in Our Nation

242

The Trial of Michael Sussman

243

The Pillars of a Constitutional Republic

244

What Fresh Hell is This?

245

Sometimes a plain spoken hard punchin’ difficult man is just what you need

246

We like SUCCESSFUL Military Leaders

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Ukraine: A Look at Military History

248

A New, More Condescending Press Secretary

249

Give Me Liberty

250

Caution, Optimism and Shock: A Week in US Politics

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The LEFT doesn’t want to hear from you. All the more reason to SPEAK UP.

252

This week in Congress: Issues with Homeland ”Security”

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A Group of Not Very Intelligent Lunatics: Colorado Government

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Law Enforcement FOR you not AGAINST you

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Interview with Todd Rowell Sheriff of Mesa County, Colorado

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Money Money Money

257

Things Have to Get Bad Before they Get Better

258

How the DEMS keep taking Colorado

259

Republicans: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

260

First, they come for your money

261

You are under the thumb of your local government, whether you like it or not.

262

Colorado Governor Signs Confusing Health Equity Bill

263

The Song of Angry Citizens

264

The Shrinking of the Marines

265

The Wisdom of the Regular Guy

266

Progressives’ People Problem: They’re Catching On

267

RINO Roundup Time

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Shameless Self Promotion & The Search for Real Information

269

Win the Election, Save the Country

270

The Charts of Simpletons

271

The Unicycle of Inflation

272

Republicans and their amazing ability to throw game-losing interception

273

Better the Enemy We know...

274

Colorado Senate Bill 138: Stop PAYING for DISINFORMATION

275

Hunting RINOS and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

276

Incomprehensible Incompetence: The Biden ’ministration ’splains it all

277

How Much is that War in the Window: The Media and Ukraine

278

Lessons Not Yet Learned: No Power No Peace

279

Communications and Battle

280

The Climate Change Funded War

281

Progressive Legislatures Try to Limit Fundraising from Conservative Candidates

282

Bifocal Conservatism

283

How to Break an Economy for Dummies

284

Rejoice you do not live in California or New York!

285

Critical Race Theory and Inflation are LINKED

286

Jokes are Now Presidents and Members of Congress

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Interview with House District 55 Candidate Patricia Weber

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Welcome to the Real World, Joe.

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The ROBOT Liberals are SCARY

290

Joe Biden is an Animated Sock Puppet with no Legitimate Information on Jobs

291

What is the Mission of Civil Government

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No one cares about your FREEDOM and your LIBERTY as much as you do.

293

The Insulting Act of using race as means of choosing a Supreme Court Justice

294

Gallows Humor: Sometimes we have to laugh at Biden’s incompetence

295

The politics of being ernest and watchful and moderately annoyed

296

Ukraine on the Brain

297

Biden’s woka dopa strategy

298

The RADICAL LEFT: Too Fast Too Furious

299

I’m Joe Biden and I Forgot the Message

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The Animated Mannequin and his UnAmerican Voting Act

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If you’re going to attack us, be prepared for our defense

302

Joe Manchin and Build Back Better Bingo

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Our Freedom is Constantly Under Attack

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The Church of Hard Truths Part II: Midterm Elections for 2022

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The Church of Hard Truths: Elections 2022

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Freedom Isn’t Free

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The Root of Our Political System: Freedom in America

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America’s Freedom vs Protection Pt II: income inequality

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American Ideas: Freedom vs Protection Pt I

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Democrats don‘t want Biden to run in 2024

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2024 Democrats Know they Can‘t Win

312

Inflation: Joe Biden‘s Merry Band of Disruptive Morons

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Despotic Tendencies in the White House

314

What is Dan Crenshaw DOING?

315

RIP Chris Cuomo and Jussie Smollett

316

Biden: The Declining Doofus

317

The Role of the Sheriff: Your LOCAL law enforcement

318

Do you know what‘s happening in YOUR community?

319

Are Community Newspapers Progressive Propaganda Outlets?

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How do we overcome corrupt leftist media outlets?

321

Russians are Practicing to Shoot Down our Satellites

322

The Rittenhouse Trial, Part II

323

Thoughts on Kyle Rittenhouse

324

Political Viking: The Disruptors Cometh

325

It‘s the Economy, Stupid

326

The Dying Citizen

327

Derangement, Wokeness, and a Barrage of Attacks from the LEFT

328

Biden‘s Infratstructure Bill: The H Bomb of Bad Ideas

329

Can‘t we all just get along? (The answer is apparently no.)

330

Operation Green Dagger: The British WON?

331

Terry Mcauliffe and the Great Virginia Governor‘s Race

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education

333

Your Chance to Keep the Loons out of Office

334

Interview with Andrea Haitz, candidate for School District 51 Board

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VOTE: Especially in local elections!

336

Interview with Angela Lima, District 51 School Board Member Candidate

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It‘s the American Way!

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Trickle down Doofusism-Biden‘s approach to the supply chain and inflation

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Citizenship, show up or go bust

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I Blame Richard Nixon

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ju·ris·dic·tion

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the School Board Meeting

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I‘m Just a Bill...

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A Nickel Isn‘t Worth a Dime Anymore

345

WOKE on Broadway

346

Biden Fires Border Patrol Horses While China Makes Moves on Taiwan

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This may be the ”Brave New World” we were warned about

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The Angry Doofus as the Crucible

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Vigilance is the price we pay

350

Citizen or Resident?

351

Day 242 of Citizens in the Hands of an Angry Doofus

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California Election: In the land of milk and used syringes

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The Constitution Needs a Trigger Warning?

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Nobody Knows the Trouble we Haven‘t Seen Yet

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Citizens in the Hands of an Angry Doofus - Part Deux

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Bad Economics and Worse Politicians

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Commentary on recent events - 8/28 Part III

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Interview with a Recently Returned Marine from Kabul - 8/28 Part II

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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Doofus - 8/28 Part I

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