After every large scale natural disaster, calls are made to reform and fix the agencies and plans of our emergency response. Often the focus is on the federal response, when the primary response for such events rests with those closest to the disaster - state and local officials and organizations. This episode explores how emergency response efforts require coordination among various agencies and departments across jurisdictional lines. Where natural disasters cannot be fully and accurately predicted, it is also time to start considering what risks we take - as individuals and as communities - when we knowingly put ourselves in areas known to be at risk for such disasters.

This episode explores the due process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment and the issues created when the courts or legislature attempt to read into the Constitution some implied body of fundamental rights they call substantive due process.

This episode discusses the history of the U.S. Department of Labor and the laws enacted, primarily beginning in the New Deal and continuing to today, that interfere with the rights of individual employees to bargain for their own labor, under the terms most important to them. Without the ability freely and voluntarily to demand what you think your own labor is worth or to pay what labor is worth to an employer, employment becomes just another area where government interference fails to achieve any purported goals for it, while causing harm to economic freedom.

Expanding on the prior episode's discussion of property rights and the critical part they play in protecting our liberty, this episode discusses some of the confusion the courts have created in deciding cases where citizens challenge government action related to property. The episode also points out the infringement of our rights to our own labor and the property we acquire through it that occurs with government wealth redistribution programs and other regulatory actions.

This episode focuses on America's founders' view of the essential place property rights have in any free society. Without the right to both acquire and possess property, we cannot be independent of our government and we cannot truly achieve liberty.

This episode discusses the history of affirmative action, key Supreme Court decisions addressing racial preferences, and what the most recent case involving racially-based admissions decisions at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina means for our chance to achieve a truly color blind society. Where the actual realities of racial preferences prove they harm everyone involved, why are so many so determined that these programs continue?

The truth is out there, but how do we find it. And, how will we know when we do find it. Media has evolved over centuries and no longer are town criers or regularly published newspapers primary sources of information and news. As more ways to get and share information emerge, it becomes harder to know what sources to trust and how to ensure the information you are receiving is accurate.

It seems today our federal government spends a lot more time talking about issues that shouldn't concern it and not much time informing us how it is responding to, or addressing, threats and concerns that fall within its constitutional purview. This episode scratches the surface of discussing how ours is now a government with the wrong priorities, a situation that puts at risk our national security and stability.

History and modern economic data indicate that smaller governments allow for more economic growth. Small, limited government is also the type of government created by our founders, as evidenced by our founding documents. Today, however, government is so large that a return to small government may no longer be feasible - at least not in the short term or even a generation - but some restriction and reduction in size and cost of government is necessary if it is going to be able to focus on its proper duties and if we are not to drown in debt. This episode discusses the affect government growth has on the economy and on viability of our nation.

Tackling the issue of identity politics and the harm being caused by the Left's insistence that we all be defined and grouped by certain "identities," this episode from early 2021 is just as relevant today, though the number of group identities keeps growing.