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The New Guards
No, Lincoln Did NOT Set a Precedent for Progressivism | Episode 38 of The New Guards Podcast
Richie corrects the false notion that fascism is a far-right ideology, then he dives into some right-wing hipster complaints about Abraham Lincoln -- especially the ludicrous assertion that he established a precedent for big government and the Progressive movement....
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A Quick Guide to the Left-Right Ideological Spectrum
In many political conversations, you'll hear the terms “right” and “left” tossed around to refer to a person, group, or movement's general attitudes toward governmental policy. But what do they mean? It can be confusing, mostly because people have intentionally made...
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Becoming American: The Moment Identity is Born
In 1754, a young Lieutenant Colonel George Washington led an ambush against a French-Canadian patrol in Pennsylvania. Washington won the Battle of Jumonville Glen with ease -- the first conflict of the French-Indian War. Facing off against French soldiers, French...
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I Slogged Through Roe v. Wade So You Don’t Have To | Episode 37 of The New Guards Podcast
Roe v. Wade is one the mind this week as we prepare for President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, expected to come out on Monday. Many legal scholars claim Roe as perhaps the worst decision in the Court's history, but what makes it so bad? Richie slogged through the...
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Roe v. Wade and the Historical Irony of the Quest for Five Republican Justices
Everything comes down to one justice, and this justice may come down to one senator. Of course, by “everything,” I mean Roe v. Wade and the constitutional landscape of the Supreme Court for an entire generation; by “one justice,” I mean hopefully either Amy Coney...
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Senator Mike Lee for the Supreme Court? | Episode 36 of The New Guards Podcast
Chris Herrod and Mike Kennedy suffered embarrassing losses on Tuesday, but you can't blame voters for the worst campaigns in Richie's memory. Many are endorsing Mike Lee to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, but what would happen in Utah, and is it...
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Herrod and Kennedy Lost. Did We Learn Anything?
In a staggering yet not at all stunning turn of events in Utah's GOP primaries on Tuesday, Mitt Romney and John Curtis obliterated their respective opponents, Mike Kennedy and Chris Herrod, each earning approximately 75% of the vote. As I say, each was a staggering...
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Immigration Reform, as Explained by Charles Krauthammer | Episode 35 of The New Guards Podcast
Immigration is on everyone's minds, and there's a lot of emotionally charged idiocy out there. Richie clears up whom to blame for recent controversy at the border, then he breaks down the late Charles Krauthammer's proposal to solve the problem of illegal immigration,...
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There Are Two Guilty Parties in the Separation of Immigrant Children (and Two Innocent Ones)
Blame criminals for the crime; blame lawmakers for the law. Because we perceive the presidency as a near-dictatorship (and we’ve largely allowed it to become so), most of us rush to attribute to the president any major policy or event, whether good or bad. As such,...
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