Monday 23 February 2026
Time Stamp
6:06am cst
SEGMENT 1
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24m
HEADLINE/TOPIC RUNDOWN
How about that USA hockey team?
We won the Gold medal against the Canadians!
The tribute to Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew.
They carried his jersey out on the ice.
They held his jersey up and brought the kids out onto the ice.
All 25 on the roster were American citizens.
How does this play with the left?
You know they hate this country so much, they can’t possibly enjoy the win like we are.
Smile today folks, the USA had a pretty darn good showing.
SCOTUS TARIFF DECISION
The silliness of basically telling the Executive branch they have to pay back, some unreasonable amount like $85 billion to $175 billion.
Article 1 Section 7 –
You can’t make the Treasury department make its own appropriation.
So even Justice Roberts says in his majority opinion…
Kavanaugh write and Alito and Thomas conquer.
The only question this court can answer is a yea or a nay, Kavanaugh is correct.
Did Congress intend for the president to impose tariffs under IEEPA?
6:33am cst
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SEGMENT 2
40m
HEADLINE: Listen to Kenny Albert’s electric NBC call of Jack Hughes’ overtime Olympic winner for Team USA by Cooper Albers
Team USA men’s hockey captured its first gold medal since 1980 on Sunday, edging out Canada in a 2–1 overtime thriller at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
AUDIO/VIDEO: Jack Hughes delivers the final goal for Olympic Gold!
Kenny Albert was built for moments like these!
I’m not a huge hockey fan but the American goalie won that game.
He played spectacular!
I just think it was meant to be.
The country of Canada are injured and in pain over this.
Apparently the Canadians beat the Americans in some tournament, I think it was the Four Nations Tournament and Trudeau tweeted something out about it.
Of course Trump retweeted that yesterday.
Classic Trump move.
44m
STATE OF THE UNION ADRESS
We have covered these for 16 years now.
This one tomorrow will be the 17th.
Thinking back again, about this time 6 years ago, we are on the eve of the CoronaDoom.
Do any of you remember this?
Tomorrow night, and this is cool, there is a blizzard going on over the East Coast.
The US Hockey team is landing in Miami today.
President Trump told them he would send them a military plane so they could all attend the State of the Union.
52m
HEADLINE: US Embassy Issues Security Alert for Americans in Mexico by Naveen Athrappully
The embassy advised Americans in Mexico to remain in their residences or hotels, and minimize unnecessary movements. U.S. citizens should be aware of their surroundings and avoid crowds or areas around law enforcement activity, it said.
Remember me telling you about the clause in the Constitution that calls for Letters of Marque and Reprisal?
I gave a speech at Ron Paul’s LPAC and I discussed this with Mexican Cartels.
In January of last year before the Inauguration, if Congress issued Letters of Marque and Reprisal you could take out some of these cartels.
Trump beat me to it because he made an Executive Order and designated the Mexican Cartels as enemy combatants.
Which effectively made them alien enemies.
Article 3 Section 3 –
I don’t pretend to know the repercussions of this El Mencho being killed.
HEADLINE: Armed man shot, killed after allegedly breaching secure Mar-a-Lago area by Kathryn Palmer
U.S. Secret Service agents and local authorities shot and killed an armed man who allegedly breached a secure perimeter at Mar-a-Lago and raised a gun at law enforcement officials in the early hours of Sunday, Feb. 22.
Authorities said he was carrying a shotgun and a fuel can. The president was in Washington during the incident and not at his property.
Man was identified as Austin Tucker Martin, 21, from North Carolina. Martin was reported missing within the last few days, Reuters reported.
SEGMENT 3
7:06am cst
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1h17m
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
They put this book back into print in 2010 and they wrote a small forward.
We got the books on Saturday and pulled my copy out and this will be my Lent reading.
I opened to the intro page….and well here we go.
They started talking about E.F. Schumacher in this forward.
They talked about his fascination with India, the intro concluded that he had a fascination of Buddhism.
Before writing Small is Beautiful, he did NOT become a Buddhist, he flirted with a few religions and then he went to a Latin Mass, then another one and then another one…then he converted to the Catholic Faith.
That is why he wrote SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL!
Why would you leave all that out of the forward?
That forward was written to make the reader think he was a Buddhist.
Joseph Pearce wrote Small is Still Beautiful after he became Catholic.
Had Schumacher not written Small is Beautiful, how would that have changed Pearce?
1h20m
USA HOCKEY OLYMPICS
AUDIO/VIDEO: Jack Hughes delivers the final goal for Olympic Gold!
At one point in the 2nd period the Canadians had a 5 on 3.
They were out manned, they were out drafted, they were almost out played…and yet the USA men’s team won!
We just had a better goalie I think at the end of the day.
The Canadians had the puck most of the game.
They looked faster, they looked more in control but they just couldn’t finish it.
It was just meant to be and it appeared the Americans wanted it more.
AUDIO/VIDEO: Jack Hughes USA Hockey Win – I love the USA, I love my teammates. We are so strong, we have so much support. Unbelievable game by Hellebuyck, he was our best player tonight by a mile. This is American hockey right there. This is all about our country right now. I love the USA. We’re so proud to be Americans. Tonight was all for the country. The USA hockey brotherhood means so much. We’ve been together for 2 weeks but we are so strong.
AUDIO/VIDEO: President Donald Trump Speaks Over the Phone to USA Hockey Team – I just told my people 2 minutes ago, we are giving the SOTU address on Tuesday, if you want to I can send the military to get you. We will get Kash and the military to get you. I can tell you don’t worry about the weather or landing. I don’t care if it is the worst blizzard you’ll be sailing through that landing just like you did on the ice. I will tell you, we will have to bring the woman’s team too. If not I’d probably be impeached.
How many of you remember the Miracle on Ice?
Do you believe in Miracles?
It was a win at such a needed time.
It was a terrible time in 1980.
Look at what those good American boys of the US Hockey team did: invited the little children of Johnny Gaudreau, a teammate who had been killed by a drunk driver, to hold up their dad’s jersey for the team gold medal picture. Tears, y’all, tears.
HEADLINE: Cleveland 1971: The Lost City by Rod Dreher
7:35pm
SEGMENT 4
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PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN
Look at the goalies helmet. He had a Bass on it.
He had an American Eagle on the other side.
Hockey players are truly MAGA.
1h43m
CALLER GADSDEN
I grew up playing on the Illinois river.
We played outdoors, we traveled about 7 cities and we played in tournaments.
Watching that game yesterday, I got to watch it with my dad who’s 95.
The pace of that game was just so fast.
I have never seen a pace like this in the NHL ever.
They just played so incredibly.
The Canadians really brought the fire.
What does this do to American Ice Hockey?
They created some life long fans yesterday.
The entire game was just a wonderful time.
HEADLINE: Olympics Without Borders, Revisited by Brian C Joondeph
1h54m
AUDIO/VIDEO: President Donald Trump on SCOTUS & Tariffs – The Supreme Court’s ruling on tariff is deeply disappointing and I’m ashamed of certain members of the court. Absolutely ashamed for not having the courage to do what’s right for our country. Democrats on the court are thrilled, but they will automatically vote no. They’re against anything that makes America strong, healthy and Great again. They also are a frankly a disgrace to our nation.
Article 1 Section 8
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.
Congress has the explicit and sole authority.
Congress can delegate that authority to the President which it has done.
2 National Emergencies Acts
This is undeniable, our trade imbalance is in the $100’s of billions.
This was the remedy, these tariffs.
IEEPA – International Emergency Economic Powers Act
Dissenting Opinions – Justice Kavanaugh, Justice Thomas and Justice Alito.
When IEEPA was enacted, Congress and the public understood the power to regulate included tariffs.
8:07pm cst
SEGMENT 5
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2h20m
OLYMPICS RECAP
The US Men’s hockey team, completely American born, bred and raised brings home the Gold.
Contrast that with this….
HEADLINE: Eileen Gu Indicts Birthright Citizenship And Our Entire Immigration Orthodoxy by Elle Purnell
AUDIO/VIDEO: Jack Hughes USA Hockey Win – I love the USA, I love my teammates. We are so strong, we have so much support. Unbelievable game by Hellebuyck, he was our best player tonight by a mile.