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What to do about our many healthcare crises. It is just one healthcare crisis after another.

What to do About Our Many Healthcare Crises | Part 1

By Dr Mark | July 30, 2022 | Comments 0 Comment

Show Summary: We are dumping billions upon billions into our healthcare system. But there are more healthcare crises than ever. What’s going on? We talk with health care system expert, Lisa Lettenmaier to find out what’s happening and why there are so many crises. Next week, we’ll look at the root cause of so many of these problems and what can be done.

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Original Air Dates: July 30th & 31st, 2022 | Guest: Lisa Lettenmaier

This Week – Our Many Healthcare Crises

We are diving deep into the problems plaguing our health care system. The many healthcare crises and the ever-growing expense. How is it that we are spending more than ever — by far! — on healthcare and yet it’s just one crisis after another?

Does anyone even remember that we were promised that Obamacare would fix all this? And cost less?

We bring back our healthcare system expert, Lisa Lettenmaier. Lisa is currently an insurance agent and owns Health Source NW. But her background is in accounting, overseeing budgets and forecasting for major companies. So when she looks at the healthcare crises, she is viewing it not just from an insurance standpoint but from a systemic analyst’s viewpoint.

And it’s not good.

We talk with Lisa about the many healthcare crises right now but focus on three in particular that are the most troubling. Including the mental health crisis, which, in many ways, is emblematic of the other system-wide problems.

We’ll continue this deep dive next week and focus in on the root of all these crises. Which has changed everything—and not for the good.

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Research, Links Mentioned & Additional Info

Rising prescription drug prices (OregonLive, July 20, 2022)

Oregon agency sets virtual public hearings on 2023 health insurance preliminary rate decisions (KTVZ, July 23, 2022)

Healthcare and ambulance services deal with capacity crisis (KGW, July 22, 2022)

Profits of the pandemic: Moderna gives Boston’s property market a shot (Daily Mail, July 23, 2022)

WA hospitals facing ‘unsustainable’ financial losses, in danger of cutting services (Seattle Times, July 21, 2022)

Left’s Latest Health Care Scheme Will Worsen Inflation, The Deficit, And Your Insurance (The Federalist, July 25, 2022)

Difficulty Paying Bills Tops Pandemic High in US Census Survey (Yahoo News, July 25, 2022)

Covid Relief Spending by the Federal Government (via USASpending.gov, retrieved July 28, 2022)

Dobbs and EPA rulings: It’s a whole new court baby and why that’s great for the Constitution

Dobbs and EPA — What a Whole New SCOTUS Means for America

By Dr Mark | July 23, 2022 | Comments 0 Comment

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Show Summary: This week, two momentous decisions by the Supreme Court will have long-reaching impact. We talk with constitutional attorney, Jonathan Emord, about the Dobbs and EPA rulings, why they are so important, and the impact they will have. And why Dobbs and EPA signal a whole new court—and the first true major blow to the deep state in decades.

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Original Air Dates: July 23, 2022 | Guest: Jonathan Emord

This Week – Dobbs and EPA

Instead of two guests, we have two topics. We are going to dig in deep into two recent Supreme Court decisions: the Dobbs and EPA rulings.

Specifically, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and WV v EPA. These two decisions alone represent a huge shift at SCOTUS.

Both of rulings these are momentous in their own rights.

Dobbs because it erases an imaginary “Constitutional right” of abortion and will open the door to more protections for the unborn at the state level. And the EPA ruling, because it restores some Constitutional balance among the branches of government. And opens the door to weakening the administrative state. Provided that Congress exercises the power that was restored to it.

Did the 2022 elections just get yugely more important? Yes.

Dobbs Overturns Roe v Wade

Why was Roe v Wade so hard to overturn? How did the 1973 court get is so wrong and invent a “right”? Tune in to find out. And, also importantly, going forward Dobbs gives SCOTUS the mental permission — the fortitude and courage — to make other rulings that restore constitutional order.

The era of the John Roberts court is officially over.

Could America, after all the shrieking is done, could America turn more pro life after the overturn of Roe v Wade with more protections for the unborn? And could we be witnessing the beginning of the end of the Deep State?

West Virginia vs EPA – First Major Blow to the Deep State

As Jonathan Emord reminds us, the administrative state is the true government because they hold all the real power. Effectively. Because Congress has not used its power. And the Executive Branch has both abused its power through overreach and failed to use its power to rein in unelected bureaucrats.

Want to know how the administrative state (aka the Deep State) took over? Then you must read Jonathan Emord’s The Authoritarians

The EPA ruling just restored the separation of powers in a big way. The EPA grabbed a tremendous amount of power when it decided it could use the Clean Air Act to effectively regulate the entire economy via climate change. Now, its WV v EPA ruling stripped the EPA of that power and handed it back to Congress. Effectively, SCOTUS reaffirmed that laws must come through Congress, not the unelected bureaucrats of the administrative state. And, potentially, could strip billions from the Far Left’s theft of public dollars.

With these two rulings, we stand at the threshold of history.

Mentioned: The Dr. Frank Executive Club Presentation – Link and Chuck Wiese Primer

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Jonathan Emord’s The Authoritarians is an absolute must-read
Brick by Brick, Courts Build a Roadblock Against Biden’s Administrative State (The Epoch Times, July 20, 2022)
Supreme Court Targets the Real Enemy (The Epoch Times, July 1, 2022)
- When you consider the implications of this one decision, they are awesome. It doesn’t just apply to the EPA and its elaborate plans for changing the global climate through command and control. It also applies to every other agency [all 432 of them], including the CDC and even the Federal Reserve itself.
The Dobbs Decision, Explained (The Daily Signal, June 24, 2022)
Historic Supreme Court Ruling a Win for Sanctity of Life (GOP.gov, June 24, 2022)
Read this terrific and fascinating post from the wife of Andrew Torba (the founder of Gab.com) on the incredible link between a mom and her unborn child that continues for years after birth. Or after an abortion. Could this explain why so many women deeply regret their choice?
The Astonishing Implications of Schedule F (Brownstone Institute, June 27, 2022)
- The Washington Post in an editorial expressed absolute shock and alarm at the implications: The directive from the White House, issued late Wednesday, sounds technical: creating a new “Schedule F” within the “excepted service” of the federal government for employees in policy-making roles, and directing agencies to determine who qualifies. Its implications, however, are profound and alarming. It gives those in power the authority to fire more or less at will as many as tens of thousands of workers currently in the competitive civil service, from managers to lawyers to economists to, yes, scientists.

Woke Sabotage: A Path of Destruction on Purpose? Or Just Accidental?

By Dr Mark | July 16, 2022 | Comments 0 Comment

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Show Summary: We all know the Left’s ideology leaves a path of destruction wherever it goes. That’s why people flee Marxist countries on homemade rafts. The latest incarnation of Left ideology is collectively known as “woke” as they seek to enforce their vision of a socialist utopia on elements of American society. Like making race and gender a hiring criteria. Or pushing unlimited, anytime abortion, even “post birth abortion” (i.e., infanticide). But that wide swath of destruction. Is it on purpose or just accidental? It’s time to wake up about woke sabotage.

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Original Air Dates: July 16th & 17th, 2022 | Guests: Donna Jackson & Ethan Peck

This Week – Woke Sabotage. It’s not an Accident

This week, it’s all about fighting woke policies and ideologies. We have two guests on from two different projects of the National Center for Public Policy Research. Donna Jackson from National Center’s Project 21 to talk about the impact Biden’s economic policies are having not just on Black communities but how the policies developed in democrat-run cities are now being unleashed on the rest of America to weaken us.

And she discusses Black pastors being paid to sabotage Black communities and lead them astray.

Mentioned in the opener: Milton Friedman’s “The Social Responsibility of Business”

Then we talk with first-time guest Ethan Peck about woke impacts in corporations. We talk about his experiences as the Free Enterprise Project attempted to present shareholder resolutions to block woke corporate policies. You won’t believe what happened when he was the only shareholder at the annual shareholder meeting of a woke corporation. And we talk Twitter as the prime example of woke corporations getting a pass from blatantly illegal acts simply because they’re woke. And we talk about how woke CEOs have fallen into a huge trap with their knee-jerk reactions to a post Roe v Wade world. Could they be an accessory to a crime?

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More about Project 21. More about the Free Enterprise Project. Their parent organization is the National Center for Public Policy Research.
Donna Jackson’s bio, articles, and interviews. The ones we specifically mentioned are:
- “How Biden’s Energy Policies Harm African Americans” (Donna Jackson, Daily Signal Interview, July 6, 2022)
- Critical Race Theory Undermines Religious Faith, by Donna Jackson (Project 21, Nov 9, 2021)
Ethan Peck’s bio and posts. The ones we specifically mentioned are:
- Corporate Elites Don’t Recognize Shareholders as Owners (Daily Caller, Jul 11, 2022)
- With Knee-Jerk Dobbs Responses, Woke CEOs Keep On Digging (Free Enterprise Project, June 30, 2022)
Not mentioned but a great interview: Don’t sell your shares of woke corporations! Ethan Peck on the Jeff Crouere Show (Real America’s Voice, June 19, 2022)
A must read: The Many Reasons ESG Is a Loser (Wall Street Journal, July 10, 2022)
- Key point: University of Colorado professor Sanjai Bhagat, writing in the Harvard Business Review, makes four important points about ESGs
  - 1) ESG funds have underperformed;
  - 2) companies that tout their ESG credentials have worse compliance records for labor and environmental rules;
  - 3) ESG scores of companies that signed the U.N. Principles of Investment didn’t improve after they signed, and financial returns were lower for those that signed, and [my favorite point];
  - 4) Companies publicly embrace ESG as a cover for poor business performance.
Inflation rose 9.1% in June, even more than expected, as consumer pressures intensify (CNBC, July 13, 2022)
Counter Wokecraft: An Executive Summary (New Discourses, Nov 23, 2021)
Oregon Department of Education paying $1.9 million to train teachers against Western values of ‘individualism’ (Fox 40, N.D.)
Black pastors blasted for earning millions while preaching to low-income communities (Rolling Out, July 2, 2014)
What Honest, Natural ESG Would Look Like (The National Center, July 13, 2022)

The EPA Ruling: How Now Green Cash Cow?

By Dr Mark | July 9, 2022 | Comments 0 Comment

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Show Summary: The West Virginia vs EPA ruling will have long-lasting impacts and could undo much of the fourth branch of government—the administrative state. We talk with meteorologist and actual scientist, Chuck Wiese on where all the global warming has gone this year and the momentous EPA ruling and its impact on the green energy movement. Which has failed so badly in other countries that places like the U.K. have reversed course. Or at least swerved a little. What could this all mean for the future of the Global Warmists and green energy pushers?

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Original Air Dates: July 9th & 10th, 2022 | Guest: Chuck Wiese

This Week – The EPA Ruling

Lost in the shrieking and wailing over the loss of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court’s EPA ruling will have a long-lasting impact on the administrative branch’s power grab.

For decades, there has been a fourth branch of government, which has become the real rulers of America. Congress has done nothing to rein it in, other than to complain about it. The EPA ruling makes it clear: agencies cannot grab power that Congress did not give it.

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The dirty truth about the Fourth Branch is that Congress is okay with it. Why? Because if some agency makes the rules, then Congress (and individual congressmen and senators) can’t be blamed. Because they didn’t do it. Gosh. It was those sneaky bureaucrats.

Let’s face it. The average member of Congress and the Senate are far, far more concerned about getting reelected. And the Fourth Branch, the administrative state, doing the dirty work gives them political cover. Legislators can go in, ask a few talking-point questions they hope will make the news, and then go off for drinks and parties.

Well, the EPA ruling puts the wheels of reform in motion. If Congress chooses to retake its power.

Want to learn more about the origins of the administrative state and how we got here? Check out this previous show with Jonathan Emord: Restore the Constitution: Eliminate the Administrative State.

We know. Depending on Congress to do the right thing seems pretty hopeless. But there is good news.

Why the EPA Ruling Matters

The Fatal Policy Flaw - Terrific video on what Global Warmists aren't telling you — Check out this terrific video on what Global Warmists aren’t telling you

The good news is the EPA ruling means we don’t need Congress. Because they’re lazy and they can get to their parties a whole lot faster if they don’t have to do anything. Or read bills. Just let the bureaucrats handle the important stuff.

Well, with the EPA ruling, it means we don’t need Congress to rein in the administrative state. Remember, to get this ruling, congress didn’t do anything. It wasn’t congress challenging the administrative state, it was West Virginia. They’d sued over coal power plants the EPA wanted to kill using power it had seized under the Clean Air Act. Congress had nothing to do with this win.

So the good news is, we the people don’t need Congress. If the administrative state steps out of line and tries to grab power, individuals can stop them in their tracks.

Chuck Wiese on the EPA Ruling

This week, meteorologist and actual scientist, Chuck Wiese, is back on the show to dissect the ruling and talk about the long-term impacts this is likely to have. Not just on the EPA but the power grab by all these other agencies. Like the CDC, FDA, and more.

We also talk about Global Warming, which is more religion than science and which has become the gateway drug for Leftist indoctrination in our schools.

And speaking of “global warming” — where is it? We’ve had a cold and wet spring and summer. Aren’t we supposed to be under water by now with all that global warming? What happened. Tune in to hear what’s happening.

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Supreme Court Targets the Real Enemy (The Epoch Times, July 1, 2022)* In reality, elected officials have very little influence over the conduct of public life relative to the administrative state. As Trump found it, not even the president is a match for the deep state.
Supreme Court Rules Against EPA – Dealing Major Blow To Dems Agenda (Pro Trump News, June 30, 2022)*Here is the opinion from John Roberts in West Virginia v. EPA. The three liberal justices dissent.
Excellent article on where things are headed: “The Mighty Gorsuch vs. the Administrative State: Quotes from West Virginia vs. EPA” (Brownstone, July 1, 2022)
PBS: What the Supreme Court’s EPA ruling means for the climate change fight (PBS, June 30, 2022)
Supreme Court’s EPA ruling is a win for the country (Washington Times, July 5, 2022)
Manufacturing Plants aren’t Just Mysteriously Getting Burned Down in the United States, it’s Happening Around the World… (Gateway Pundit, July 4, 2022)*Gateway Pundit has compiled a list documenting the number of major fires that have erupted at food industry facilities to date in 2022. A list of America’s 98 plants that have been destroyed, damaged or impacted by “accidental fires,” disease, or general causes.

Not Directly Mentioned but Informative

Great video: The Carbon Offset Problem (Wendover Productions, June 3, 2022)
Summary of the Clean Air Act (via the EPA)
The Pendleton Act of 1883 (via University of Houston, N.D.)*This is the origins of what we now see as “civil service.” In short, the Pendleton Act attempted to free public servants from politics. Up until then, many civil servant positions were political payoffs—cushy, well-paid jobs for friends, family, and donors. The “spoils system.”
Is it ethical to purchase a lithium battery powered EV? (CFact.org, June 7, 2022)
- Some food for thought about the lack of transparency about “Clean Energy Exploitations”
- All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth’s crust for just one battery.
- To say an EV is a zero-emission vehicle is not at all valid as 80 percent of the electricity generated to charge the batteries is from coal, natural gas, and nuclear.
Top 10 Global Warming Lies That May Shock You (Forbes, Feb 9, 2015)
Excellent article on how Trump nearly ended the administrative state. And perhaps this is why they worked so feverishly to get rid of him. “The Astonishing Implications of Schedule F” (Brownstone Institute, June 27, 2022)
Expert: Green Agenda Causing US Power Grid to Be ‘Incredibly Vulnerable (The Epoch Times, July 4, 2022)
Oregon Education Association joins Oregon climate change fight (Biz Journal, June 20, 2022)

When Government Gets it Wrong, It Turns Abusive

By Dr Mark | June 18, 2022 | Comments 0 Comment

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Show Summary: This week, it’s all about abusive Big Government. Getting around it through ballot initiatives—the fight to get Real School Choice on the ballot in spite of Big Government that doesn’t want to give up its power. Plus the incredibly ugly and un-American targeting of political opposition for destruction. The new documentary, The Truth about January 6th by one of those political prisoners just came out—the silencing of Free Speech that would make the most zealous communist proud.

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Original Air Dates: June 18th, 2022 | Guest: Marc Thielman & Scott McEwen

It’s not a Conspiracy: The Government Hates You

When’s the last time you felt you could fully trust government?

And knowing what we know now about government, the abuse of power for political reasons (and the accompanying financial reasons — using government to send billions to their political allies), we can never fully trust government again until there is a serious come-to-Jesus reckoning.

This week, we talk about two abuses of government: getting around an abusive government that wants to prevent parents from getting a better education for their kids. And an abusive government that seeks to silence any and all dissent.

King George III would be proud.

Real School Choice Ballot Initiative: Round 2

Marc Thielman is leading the charge to get Real School Choice on the ballot in Oregon. Last time, the secretary of state used some mental hurdles to claim it was dealing with two constitutional issues and denied the initiative.

So they split it in two.

Before we talk about the initiatives, Marc looks back at the primary and his run for the republican nomination for Oregon’s governor—and the betrayal of a fellow candidate.

And then we look at the two initiatives, how they differ, and how they will impact kids and parents if they pass. And, of course, we look at how an abusive government will fight to keep control. Yes, that’s right. The government thinks it knows better how to raise your kids and what they need than you do.

Help Real School Choice get past the first hurdle! Sign the initiatives. Head to EducationFreedomforOregon.com

The Ultimate Example of Abusive Government: Political Prisoners

The prisoners taken into custody after the January 6th protests are living proof of what happens when people are presumed guilty and are locked away into oblivion.

We welcome back NY Times bestselling author and attorney, Scott McEwen, to talk about the incredible abuse. By our own government against fellow Americans.

We literally treated al Qaeda terrorists better than the democrats are treating American citizens. Solitary confinement. Months of it. Physically assaulted. And then denied medical treatment. Even denied medication. Denied access to religious leaders. And even denied access to their own lawyers.

The Documentary: The Truth about January 6th

Jake Lang went to the US Capitol Building January 6th to protest an election. Protest. The exact same thing the Left had done the entire summer and fall of 2020. The exact same thing the Left did the day Donald Trump was inaugurated.

Watch The Truth about January 6th documentary narrated by Jake Lang, one of the political prisoners

On January 6th, the day of the “insurrection” four U.S. citizens were killed. At the brutal hands of capitol police who beat defenseless Americans while they were on the ground.

Where’s the outrage?

There isn’t any. Because they disagreed politically with those who stole the election. And in communist countries (which is how the political Left sees themselves—communist revolutionaries), you’re not allowed to speak against the opposition.

Remember: These aren’t people who were there to overthrow the government. They were there to defend the Constitution. And what they saw as the abuse of government to steal an election. This wasn’t an “insurrection.” This was an attempt to stop the political theft of the country.

We talk with Scott about the legal side of things. But also the reality of dealing with an abusive government. And what needs to be done. By those on the inside.

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Help get the Real School Choice initiative past the first hurdle: enough signatures to prove interest in it. Visit the initiative home page, www.educationfreedomfororegon.com
The Truth About January 6th (Gateway Pundit, June 6, 2022)
- Jake Lang – solitary confinement for over 17 months
- Protestors were Unarmed, beaten and even killed – as they went to the Capitol to defend the constitution.
Jan. 6 Prisoner Who Was Denied Cancer Treatment Now ‘In Dire Straits’ (The Epoch Times, June 13, 2022)
- ‘’Not only were these conditions sub-human in the Jan. 6 pods but they were equally and even more so in other parts of the jail.’
A two-tier justice system sharpens in focus (Just the News, June 6, 2022)
Obama Approved Accusing Russia Of DNC Hack Before FBI Got Server (Epoch Times, June 7, 2022)
January 6 Democrats Enlist Former ABC News President (Breitbart, June 7, 2022)
US Capitol doors on Jan. 6 were magnetically locked – someone inside Capitol security had to release lock to open doors (Signs of the Times, May 24, 2021)
Vulnerabilities Affecting Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast X (CISA, June 3, 2022)
Regarding Jan 6th committee:Statement by President Donald J. Trump
A two-tier justice system sharpens in focus (Just the News, June 6, 2022)
Obama Approved Accusing Russia Of DNC Hack Before FBI Got Server (Epoch Times, June 7, 2022)
Vindicated by police, Loudermilk decries Jan. 6 panel effort to smear him as ‘reckless’ (Just the News, June 14, 2022)

Warriors Beating Back the Woke Culture

By Dr Mark | May 7, 2022 | Comments 0 Comment

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Show Summary: 2022 will be all about fighting the woke. First up, we welcome first-time guest, Judge Vance Day, who is running for Position 3 on the Oregon Court of Appeals. If he wins, he’ll be the only Constitutionalist on the court. Then we bring back Scott Shepard, Director of the Free Enterprise Project. With Disney and so many other companies going woke, there is a lot to fight against. Including companies pledging to become Death Companies.

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Original Air Dates: May 7, 2022 | Guests: Judge Vance Day & Scott Shepard

This Week – Warriors Fighting the Woke

That kinda sounds like some zombie apocalypse. But, given that the woke don’t know the constitution, don’t know basic civics (or civility for that matter), don’t know economics, and are only driven by their mindless feelings, maybe it’s appropriate.

This is our final show before Oregon’s May 2022 primary. And this year, elections will be all about fighting the woke. Whether its abortion, free speech, religion, or even things like corporations in politics, it’s all about killing zombies. Er, fighting the woke.

Judge Vance Day: Fighting the Woke Before it was Woke

And when it comes to fighting the woke, Judge Vance Day was fighting the woke before the woke was even known as the woke. While serving as a Circuit Court Judge in Marion County, he recused himself from personally officiating at same-sex weddings, which he felt was against his religion.

This greatly angered the woke, as all must bow before whatever the woke is in favor of today.

So the horde (back then, they were just “progressives”) came after him. They tried, unsuccessfully, to drive him from the bench, cancel his law license, strip him of his possessions, ruin his reputation and even have him imprisoned.

Great people. Let’s totally give their side more power.

Tune in to hear Judge Vance Day’s take on what the Oregon Court of Appeals should be like and how he would handle a leak similar to what we saw this past week as an insider leaked the Roe v. Wade draft opinion.

Scott Shepard: Fighting the Woke Corporations

Let’s face it. The woke wouldn’t exist if they didn’t have access to billions of dollars. Of your taxpayer dollars (thanks to politicized issue-funding, like global warming). And billions of donations directly to woke organizations. Like BLM, Antifa, and any number of woke organizations and chapters.

Scott Shepard’s Free Enterprise Project has teamed up with other organizations to form the Boardroom Initiative. Spearheaded by former McDonald’s CEO Ed Rensi, who has said companies have “no business” being in politics.

“Corporations have no business being on the right or the left because they represent everybody there and their sole job is to build equity for their investors.” – Ed Rensi, former McDonald’s CEO

That is straight out of Milton Friedman who said essentially the same thing. The business of business is to create value (profits) for their shareholders.

Tune in to hear Scott’s battle with woke boards at major corporations. Disney is just the most-well-known example as the woke board just lost some 60 billion in shareholder value. Think there won’t be lawsuits…?

And in the wake of the leaked ruling that could overturn Roe v. Wade, that could see federal protections for abortion removed, some major corporations are already lining up to be Death Corporations.

Maybe zombies is the right term after all.

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Vance Day, Candidate for Court of Appeals Position #3

Vance’s campaign website is www.teamvanceday.org
Good brief overview from the Rob Taylor Report: Vance Day Interview Notice
Previously suspended judge challenges incumbent (East Oregonian, Apr 29, 2022)
Former Marion County judge Vance Day to run (Statesman Journal, Mar 9, 2022)
Oregon Judge, Previously Targeted by Woke Mob, Takes On Woke Culture (PJ Media, Apr 29, 2022)
Vance Day’s campaign news release about woke smear (Team Vance Day, Kevin Hoar)

Scott Shepard

Scott is the Director of The Free Enterprise Project, a project by the National Center for Public Policy Research
Ex-McDonald’s CEO Ed Rensi: Companies have ‘no business’ being in politics (NY Post, Apr 21, 2022)
McDonald’s former CEO fights back (Daily Mail, Apr 20, 2022)
Black leaders call out ‘woke corporations’ (Just the News, Apr 20, 2022)
FA Senate approves bill revoking Disney (Just the News, Apr 20, 2022)
OR has $5.3B invested in fossil fuel (Statesman-Journal, Apr 20, 2022)
Meet the Companies that Will Facilitate Abortions for Red State Employees (Breitbart, May 4, 2022)

It’s the Economy, Stupid – But What Kind of Economy?

By Dr Mark | March 5, 2022 | Comments 0 Comment

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Show Summary: Economics is always a strange business. But like so much else of American life, the Left is corrupting the economy and using it for their own means. Especially by involving the government. And now, with the Ukraine situation, we’re seeing private businesses waging a private war against Russia — when we’re not even at war with them. Combined with what happened in Canada, is this a foreshadowing of what will happen to our economic freedoms and liberties?

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Original Air Dates: March 5th & 6th, 2022 | Guest: Jonathan Williams

This Week

To quote Bill Clinton, “it’s all about the economy, stupid.”

We take a look at the state of the union speech, the competency of those in charge and their agendas, the economy, and also the economic policies that politicians can win on this year. Even here in Oregon. Plus, with the war in Ukraine, we’re seeing an entire new kind of warfare being waged. Economic warfare on a scale we haven’t seen in ages and in ways we’ve never seen. Private companies waging a private war against a country we’re not actually at war with. Combined with what we saw in Canada, what does this mean for our economic freedoms and liberties?

READ: Jonathan’s terrific article about Utah and why they’ve stayed #1 in ALEC’s Rich States, Poor States for 14 years in a row. What are they doing that other states should be doing. And what could go wrong to knock Utah off its perch?
Get this article to your favorite candidate!

We talk with Chief Economist, Jonathan Williams, from ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) about what is going on. We talk about the SOTU speech, the competency of those in charge, and private companies blocking you when they don’t agree with your politics. And we’ll look at true economic policies to win on in 2022. Even right here in Oregon.

And don’t miss the discussion about what is happening, on economic terms, in the war between Russia and Ukraine. And what it means for our future economic liberties and freedom.

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Jonathan Williams is the Chief Economist and Exec VP at American Legislative Exchange Council. Visit ALEC.org to find out more about what they do and how you can get their policies to your politicians.

Our Essential Policy Ideas for 2022 (ALEC Policy Team, Feb 8, 2022)
Utah, Low Taxes, and the Rewards of Economic Freedom (National Review, Jan 26, 2022)
Oregon lawmakers try again (OregonLive, Feb 7, 2022)
Oregonians gloomier on economy (OregonLive, Feb 6, 2022)
Portland poll: More than 80% say life getting worse (Oregon Business Report, Feb 7, 2022)
3% sales tax pulled (Oregon Watchdog, Feb 9, 2022)
Germany Goes For Full Energy Policy Overhaul (Zero Hedge, Mar 1, 2022)
‘The Great Resignation’ Defined 2021: Here’s How To Attract, Retain And Engage Employees In 2022 (Forbes, Jan 11, 2022)
The Federal Reserve Is Going to Sell Its Corporate Bond Portfolio. What It Means. (Barrons, June 3, 2021)
The Fed is buying some of the biggest companies’ bonds, raising questions over why (CNBC, June 29, 2020)
Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (The Federal Reserve, as of March 2, 2022)

Authoritarianism Happening Around the World – Will it Happen Here?

By Dr Mark | February 26, 2022 | Comments 0 Comment

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Show Summary: We are witnessing global authoritarians resist the great push back. People are done with covid mandates, pushing back at never-made-sense masks and more. In Canada, the Freedom Convoy was met with Gestapo style tactics, exposing the lengths authoritarians will go to keep their power. Now Russia tramples Ukraine’s borders and sovereignty. Can this come here? What still protects us? What makes us different than places like Canada, which has it’s own Charter of Rights?

The I Spy Radio Show airs weekends, six different times, on seven different stations. Listen anywhere through the stations’ live streams! Check out when, where, and how to listen to the I Spy Radio Show. Podcast available Mondays after the show airs on out network of stations.

Original Air Dates: February 26th & 27th, 2022 | Guest: Jonathan Emord

This week it’s all about the authoritarianism we are seeing on display in on other countries — Canadian police trampling citizens and freezing bank accounts of people who weren’t even at the freedom protests but merely supported them from afar; Russia trampling on Ukraine’s sovereignty, and even here in the U.S.

Could these happen here?

Possibly, but it will be much harder — thanks to, once again, the wisdom and foresight of our Founders. Top Constitutional attorney, Jonathan Emord, tells us why America really is that shining beacon of freedom.

Jonathan Emord has quickly become one of our top, most-frequent guests. Be sure to check out his previous appearances.

Authoritarianism: Two Must-Read Books

If you only have time to read two books this year, read these:

Jonathan Emord’s The Authoritarians: Their Assault on Individual Liberty, the Constitution, and Free Enterprise from the 19th Century to the Present. You will learn about Marxist/socialist/communist ideology and how took root in America in the mid 1800s and became the justification for slavery. Also, how it continued to spread and flourished until it has now sabotaged our Constitutional republic as designed.

And Disinformation by Lt. Gen. Ion Pacepa and Ron Rychlak. Ion Pacepa The highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West, and he was the head of the Soviet disinformation campaign.

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Links & Further Info

SCOTUS Declines to Hear Religious Challenge to Vaccine Mandate in Maine (American Greatness, Feb 23, 2022)
Banks Have Begun Freezing Accounts Linked to Trucker Protest (Newsweek, Feb 18, 2022)
Blockade over, Trudeau says emergency powers still needed (Star Adviser, Feb 21, 2022)
Far-Left ‘Defund the Police’ Champion Jagmeet Singh Leads Support of Trudeau Protest Crackdown (Breitbart, Feb 22, 2022)
US Trucker Convoy Organizer: ‘We’ve Taken Every Precaution’ to Avoid Being Crushed (Epoch Times, Feb 22, 2022)
83% of Voters Expect Crime to Be an Important Issue (Breitbart, Feb 22, 2022)
GoFundMe backtracks on redistributing money for Canadian truckers, under threat of fraud investigation (Fox Business, Feb 6, 2022)
NATO Agrees to Beef Up Eastern Flank (Newsmax, Feb 24, 2022)
Two Prosecutors Handling Trump NY Case Abruptly Resign (Palmieri Report, Feb 23, 2022)

What do Covid, Prisons, and the Elliott Forest have in common

What do Covid, Prisons, & the Elliott Forest have in Common?

By Dr Mark | February 19, 2022 | Comments 0 Comment

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Show Summary: This week, it’s a roundup of some craziness around Oregon. The continuing boondoggle that is the Elliott Forest. Governor Kate Brown(shirt) seizing power by changing legislation. Using covid to releasing prisoners, closing prisons — and giving one of them to OSU. A prison that just happens to be right on the edge of the Elliott.

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Original Air Dates: February 19th & 20th, 2022 | Guests: Dr. Bob Zybach & Chuck Wiese

This week, it’s a roundup of some craziness around Oregon. The continuing boondoggle that is the Elliott Forest as, once again, Oregon tries to divest itself of a billion-dollar asset that, by law, is supposed to generate income for the state school funds. But they’d rather stare at trees. (Literally!)

Be sure to listen to the bloviating answer to Bob Zybach’s question during OSU’s Q&A

And we talk with fan-favorite, Chuck Wiese, to give us his punditry about the emptying of prisons, one of which was given back to the federal government — but now Oregon wants to lease one of them (which just happens to be right on the edge of the Elliott) back from the feds and put those men-who-stare-at-trees in it. WHAT is going on.

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Specifically Mentioned During the Show

Visit Oregon Natural Resources Industries (ONRI) facebook page for more details about the Rally at the Capitol on Feb 24th, 2022
Talk about nonsense! Listen to the talking-point-yadda-yadda answer from some dope from OSU in response to Bob Zybach’s question.

Elliott Forest

Legislative session may finally yield a solution for Oregon’s Elliott State Forest (OPB, Feb 6, 2022)
Oregon’s Elliott State Forest into a vast, ‘living laboratory (OPB, Nov 20, 2020)

Covid & Prisoner Release

1 Prison Has More Than 70% Of Oregon’s Corrections COVID-19 Cases (OPB, May 6 2020)
Oregon governor considers releasing 400 prisoners because of COVID (via Geller Report)
State expresses interest in taking over Shutter Creek (The World, Nov 11, 2022)

Emptying the Prisons, Close Them, Spend Money

Shutter Creek Correctional Facility expected to close down by Dec. 31 (NBC, Nov 21, 2021)
Curtains for Shutter Creek (KCBY Jul 28, 2021)

Governor Kate Sued over Prisoner Release & Clemency Abuse

Gov. Kate unlawfully commuting prison sentences (KGW, Jan 21, 2022)
- Brown announced she was using her clemency powers to let those inmates benefit from Oregon Senate Bill 1008, which passed in 2019 and reforms the juvenile justice system. AG Perlow said, the Governor’s priority is offenders of crimes, many of them violent, and ensuring they have a ‘meaningful opportunity to be released’ before they complete their duly secured criminal sentences,” she said in a statement about the legal petition. “Victims of crime, and all other Oregonians, deserve the enforcement of their rights. It is essential that all Oregonians, including public officials, adhere to the rule of law.
Oregon governor sued (WA Examiner, Jan 20, 2022)
- If Gov. Kate Brown’s clemency powers remain unchallenged, it could mean the release of violent offenders, including a man who stabbed his grandmother to death, another who killed a woman with the mental capacity of a 12-year-old and then burned her body beneath a bridge, and a then-17-year-old who shot his older brother three times in the head.
Lane County DA among group suing Oregon governor (Yahoo News, Jan 19, 2022)

Still More Related Info

Forest Service allocating $262.7 million to Oregon for wildfire recovery efforts (KTVZ, Feb 9, 2022)
Oregon has a plan to avoid a repeat. (OPB, Sept 7, 2021)
Would more logging have averted Oregon’s catastrophic 2020 wildfires (OregonLive, Update, Feb 7, 2021)
Why Salem’s Mill Creek Correctional Facility will be shuttered by July (Salem Reporter, Jan 21, 2021)
Oregon State University receives $7.1 million for six more years of long-term forest research (OSU, Dec 14, 2020)
Legislature funds Oregon State statewide programs (OSU, June 28, 2021)
Background: Shutter Creek Correctional Institution (Templeton, Nov 25, 2021)
Court gives Gov. Brown date to respond (KDVR, Jan 31, 2022)*The firm has reached an agreement with the State that no additional felons will be released between Feb. 2nd, and March 2nd, by which point the court plans to rule on the matter.

Rediscovering America - How our national holidays tell the true story of America

Restoring America: How Our National Holidays Tell Our Story

By Dr Mark | February 19, 2022 | Comments 0 Comment

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Show Summary: This week, it’s about rediscovering America, with Scott Powell, who authored the book, Rediscovering America: How the National Holidays Tell an Amazing Story about Who We Are.

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Original Air Dates: February 12th & 13th, 2022 | Guests: Scott Powell

Rediscovering America

This week it’s about rediscovering America. Scott Powell’s new book, Rediscovering America: How the National Holidays Tell an Amazing Story about Who We Are.

This show looks at how we got to America’s present condition (hint: Marxists) and a look at how we start to climb out of this (hint #2: we need to remember why America is worth fighting for). Scott Powell has been a fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and is currently senior fellow at Discovery Institute.

We discuss how America has fallen — and how we do we get it back? Would the Founders recognize the chaos of today? After all, they fought off their own tyranny. Although that was the King, an ocean away; not right here in the halls of our own government.

David Horowitz: “Scott Powell has made a major contribution in the research and writing of Rediscovering America, providing substantive reason for hope and confidence in the midst of troubled times. It may be the first book written in the history genre that lays out the progressive and redemptive course that is America’s greatest legacy.”

Why has America Lost Its Way?

We also talk with him about how our rapid material success as a country was not equaled by a similar and equal rapid progress in spiritual or social progress. This is very much a spiritual war we are going through, not just one of laws and regulations and elections.

And why aren’t the checks and balances—so carefully crafted by our Founding Fathers—not working right now?

“This book was written to defeat the enemies of our republic by equipping readers from all walks of life to get connected to the character and accomplishments of their forebears and the arc of redemption that defines our history. Prior generations of Americans who shared a similar greatness of moral vision and believed in the beauty of freedom and equality sacrificed their all that this nation might be protected, guided, and healed. We are called to do no less.”

We also talk corruption and abuse of power rather than institutional or constitutional failure, are the chief causes of decline in America today, and what you can do to help fix this.

Be sure to tune in — it was such an interesting discussion that we plan to have him back around Easter.

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Be sure to order Scott Powell’s book, Rediscovering America. It is available March 8th, 2022, but you can pre-order it today.