My thoughts on the state of our media today and the importance of a free and quality press for the functioning of our republic.

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In light of the last year of impeachment-palooza and the possibility of NY's governor facing it soon, too, I thought it would be helpful to discuss the origins of the mechanism at the federal level and how we understand it has, unfortunately, changed over time.

Suggested readings:

• U.S. Constitution - look at Art. II, Sec. 4.

Here's a short follow-up to my full length takedown of GnR, in which I bring to bear hard evidence and adroit reasoning to put this issue to rest.

I have evidence and reasoning to support this ridiculous point...bear with me.

CPAC - the annual Conservative Political Action Convention - took place in Florida over the last weekend of February and, among other luminaries from the Right, featured Donald Trump as a speaker - his first public appearance since leaving the White House. I read his speech, and speeches from some others, in search of some kind of unifying theme, direction, or identity for the conservative movement - or this part of it - in America post-Trump.

If you want to understand the politics, processes, and outcomes of Biden's cabinet and other agency and ambassadorial nominations, pay attention to moderate Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia. I introduce and give some background on him and his out-sized power in the Senate in this episode.

After a lot of years in education and working with a great many student teachers, I have come to the realization that it seems that structure and supposed quality of a teacher preparation program has virtually no bearing on whether a person ends up a good teacher or not. Hear some of my thoughts on this in this episode.

This relatively short episode includes some comments from me about podcasting and this show in general, followed by an explanation of why monopolies - especially government monopolies - are generally bad, and it's not for the reason that I often hear from people.

Viewing the Declaration of Independence as associated with the Constitution is essential understanding the latter. In this short episode I discuss a brief, but essential Lincoln document wherein he made the clear connection between those two documents. I have my wife, Krista, and childhood friend, Jeff, to thank for the inspiration that led to this episode.

Suggested Readings:

• Declaration of Independence

This episode is in response to the social media crackdown on Donald Trump and others, and how we as individuals ought to consider this as something a lot bigger than one loudmouth with bad hair.

Suggested readings:

• Speech on the Amendments to the Constitution, 8 June 1789, James Madison