PEACE: The old policy of avoiding “entangling alliances” is a better — foreign policy!

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5a7LX5MA6MR2nBy7cNMHmY?si=j4iZJvfuSzymwAGhffae6w&nd=1&dlsi=d14082ab8d034d52

Is Paleoconservatism Isolationist?
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I would never describe a paleoconservative foreign policy as “isolationist.” That is a pejorative used by its detractors. Non-interventionist would be the proper term. This is the traditional American conservative position dating to the Washington administration. It is not pacifist or ideologically anti-war–paleocons are not Quakers–nor does it seek to cut off diplomacy or trade with the rest of the world. The old policy of avoiding “entangling alliances” is a better interpretation than “isolation.” 

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And, maybe if our Gooferment had a better handle on diplomacy, then 175 “little girls” (IDK how “little” they were, but school aged) would still be alive.  And 7 Americans and an unknown number of Iranains.)

“No matter who you vote for, you get John McCain” – @ThomasEWoods.

Congress has unconstitutionally delegated the power to “make war” to our now “elected king”.

“The current state of American government is that members of Congress just want to be influencers because writing good laws and doing actual oversight requires to much work, presidents just want to play war because domestic policy is too hard and not as fun, and judges get to write laws and play president because it’s easier than getting elected.” — Sean Davis of The Federalist

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Joe Biden has a plan to enable more judicial tyranny

Friday, August 9, 2024

Brion McClanahan is an author, historian, professor and speaker with a focus on the Founding Fathers and the founding principles of the United States.

FROM A RECENT EMAIL BROADCAST FROM HIM

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Joe Biden has a plan to reduce the power of the Supreme Court. I’ll probably talk about this very soon on my show.

It seems the left has decided that the Court is a threat to their agenda, which is really funny because that is the only way they’ve been able to ram their unpopular plans down the throats of the American public.

Sure, some people like what they do. The same could have been said for any political movement in Western Civilization, but the left figured out in the 20th century that their authoritarian agenda would not have enough “democratic” support to make it work.

Hence, judicial tyranny.

Real “originalists” have been screaming at the clouds about this since the early 19th century.

I can hear Spencer Roane or Patrick Henry saying, “I told you so.”

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When I was in grammar school a history assignment was to read the Federalist papers.  That continued in high school. I read them but I didn’t grok them.

It wasn’t until I read Lysander Spooner that I went back to those Federalist Papers and had my eyes opened.

All the politicians and bureaucrats were tyrants then and now were tyrants in disguise.

“Would you tell me please, Mr. Howard, why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away? An elected legislature can trample a man’s rights as easily as a king can.” Mel Gibson as the character Benjamin Martin in the movie The Patriot http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187393/quotes

We’ve had our RIGHTS transformed into privileges.  Deigned to us by our betters to be suspended at will and whimsy,

Argh!

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INTERESTING: “political puritans” aka “yankee” like a contemporary “Karen”

Sunday, February 6, 2022

https://anchor.fm/brion-mcclanahan/episodes/Episode-246-Political-Puritans-e811ma

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A Yankee is a peculiar type of American that was born and bred in New England in the 17th century but that eventually found his way into virtually every part of the United States, and like a horde of locusts, he plunders and consumes everything he deems unholy.

The Yankee is always concerned that someone, somewhere is doing something he doesn’t like and it is his goal to ensure that stops.

This originated in Puritan theology and has been secularized in the modern age. That is why I have termed the new left the “political puritans.”

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Yup, it certainly seems that no one can MYOB.  

FMPOV, I don’t want my face rubbed in whatever you’re doing.  If I don’t feel that whatever you’re doing will impact my life, I really don’t care.  And most of all I don’t want to pay for whatever you’re doing. Hence why I really don’t like politicians and bureaucrats.

I guess I’m not a “Yankee” or a “Karen”. 

Live and let live.  MYOB.  AND, most of all, blessed are the Peacemakers. 

Sigh!

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Podcast Episode 224: The Constitution and Executive Power | Brion McClanahan Author & Historian

Friday, April 19, 2019

A leftist professor wants to limit executive power. This should not be news in the Age of Trump. Every leftist wants to do that, but this leftist might be slightly different. Professor Julia Azari wrote a piece for Vox arguing that the Constitution doesn’t do enough to limit executive power and suggests amending it to do so.

Source: Podcast Episode 224: The Constitution and Executive Power | Brion McClanahan Author & Historian

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We need to reign in the Executive.  The problem is NOT BHO44 or DJT45.  The DOWG weren’t perfect and they didn’t do enough to prevent the President from becoming a King. Or worse, a Deity.

I think of how some of my Depression Era relatives “worshiped” FDR and the fights when certain uncles who were war vets pointed out his flaws (i.e., women), claims that just weren’t true (i.e., he saved us from the Depression), and “conspiracy theories” (i.e., he caused Pearl Harbor; he led us into war; he was a socialist that gave away the world at Yalta).

Maybe that where I get my “suspicion” that ALL the Conspiracy Theories have a grain of truth at the core AND SOME even are true!

Argh!

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