Some months back a caller asked me what I thought was the "worst" Constitutional Amendment. He postulated that it was the 17th, which moved the election of US Senators from the State Legislature to the popular vote of a given State.

Look, from a purely strict constructionist viewpoint - which by the by - NOBODY holds - every amendment from the progressive era has been "devastating." Some more than others, but all of them destructive to the original ideas of a strictly separated Federal and State system.

That said, I have always believed that the 16th Amendment was the really destructive amendment. NOT because it established an income tax. What most people do not understand is that an income tax was always on the table. What the 16th Amendment did was remove the most effective deterrent to the income tax.... apportionment... and with the tearing down of that barrier, the door was opened for the Federal Government to subsume the States with, you guessed it, money...

The good news is that Kshama Sawant will not be on the Seattle City Council anymore. The bad news is she has a plan to infect the nation with her CHAZ/CHOP Socialism.

Free speech is free speech, folks. If you need or feel compelled to use the power of law and government to force other people to think and say what you approve, then YOU are the tyrant.

Period.

It seems like everywhere you turn, AI Chatbots are taking over the world. And maybe even WTF? It seems that religious leaders are starting to use AAI to write their sermons, which could be a problem because how in the name of G-d could an AI Chabot explain the Plague of Darkness which has Dave in a dither this week?

The Conservative media world seems to be lost in a dispute over $20Million. either that or the people involved are just... well... stupid.

Shrinkage has now been confirmed by science, while Shakira caught her cheating ex with some amazing detective work. And in Cincinnati, you'll have to choose which Mass to attend based on the position of the Priest... Beware the Darkness!

On January 20, 1942, more than a dozen high ranking officials of the Nazi Party and German government met over lunch in a villa outside Berlin. What they did around that table, over rich expensive foods and fine wines as their Army starved and froze in Stalingrad, reverberates today.

It is understood that mans inhumanity to his fellow man is too common. But at this lunch meeting, that inhumanity reached a new, as yet unheard of height. In these two hours, hatred became wholesale murder. Discrimination became a de facto excuse for destruction.

In just two hours, the Nazi government of Germany planned and began to implement "the Final Solution..."

When pressed as to why there wasn't a Bill of Rights contained in the proposed Constitution, James Madison had explained that if was believed that it would confuse the people into believing that the Bill was the limit of their rights, that no other rights existed.

Over the years, I have come to question whether or not he truly believed that or was just being... well... a politician? Why?

Because THE single issue which almost defeated the ratification of the Constitution was the lack of a Bill of Rights.

And nobody was more vocal about it (in writing, anyway) than Brutus...

For whatever it's worth, I have friends who have been caught DUI. I don't love or respect them any less for that.

But for the life of me, the idea that in 2023 we are still not only having DUI's but people are still being hurt by them is beyond my comprehension. Simply put, there is NO ONE, not one single person with a drivers license who does not know that you should not drink and drive. The question has become how much money is there in DUI? Because otherwise we'd be putting an end to it, not trying to make it even more precise of a crime.

Before the middle of the 19th century, the most famous American in the world was Benjamin Franklin. He was - as most people know - a scientist, an inventor, a printer, a writer, a socialite, a diplomat, a fashion icon and a humorist.

Today we celebrate his birthday, with some of the things that you might not know about the man who some call "the First American..."

The Vice President of the United States is always one heartbeat away from the Presidency. Or these days, one box of CLASSIFIED documents from the Oval Office? Maybe? Or is all that just a conspiracy theory?

Kinda like whether or not the climate induced cardiac events are actually happening. Or not?

We've got a listener WTF and in the middle of that we learn that Prince Harry tried to kill the King. Once upon a time that would have gotten him sent to the Tower.

Dave now knows why he takes the statins, and he's got big plans for when he wins the lottery!

The subject of gas lighting has become the topic du jour among chat shows these days. Mostly because the so-called leaders of the nation decided to float a trial balloon. Of course, the real problem is our worship of celebrity and powerful characters who don't just expect our worship, they absolutely demand it.

In the meantime, you will be happy to know that the Presidents Corvette is safe and secure in his garage, thank you very much.

Oh... along with the "CLASSIFIED" documents that he takes very seriously in the box next to it.

Back in 2014, Kevin fox and I had an interview with a guy who was talking about the coming California ark storm. At the time it seemed surreal and hard to imagine such a thing ever happening. Today though... that storm is not just here, but it's causing all the chaos that was predicted long ago.

Seattle City schools is suing social media. All of it. why? Because, the district claims that the various forms of social media are causing substantial mental illnesses. Look... they're not wrong, it clearly is. But there are a whole lot of questions as to what this lawsuit is really about.

Dave Does History hit a nerve yesterday. People only hear what they want to hear, which was, of course, the whole point of the episode.