We talk about state education, FLOCK hubris and economic D-Day.

Do we want to be a great nation or a good nation? The two are not mutually exclusive, but we discuss which direction we feel the US should lean. Also, banks suck, and what does the "W" stand for anyway?

We hit everything this week with culture, healthcare, war, history and economics topics.

We talk about war and empire and government overreach.

Patriotism, sports ball, war and citizenship are all discussed on our July 4 postmortem.

We review a little speech by Gavin Newsom and finish with a discussion of a non-aggression principle defense of privacy.

We talk about the state of war (or peace) in the Mideast, Trump's shipping insurance and the trouble with trillionaires.

We talk about the end(?) of war and the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

Michael speaks with a guest from the Libertarian Party about the recent convention, the controversies and the aftermath. Then, we discuss the economic future in light of AI.

Most know of Eisenhower's warning about the military industrial complex, but he gives another warning in the same speech. We discuss the other.