A tragic encounter in Minneapolis has reignited national debate over law enforcement, activism, and the rule of law.

In this episode, Dan McCarthy examines the killing of Renee Good during an ICE operation and places it in the broader context of post-2020 policing, judicial leniency, and organized efforts to obstruct law enforcement. He explores how activist tactics, sympathetic judges, and political pressure have reshaped enforcement of immigration and criminal law, often with deadly consequences.

This episode argues that when law enforcement is undermined and criminal behavior is excused, the result is not justice but disorder. Minneapolis offers a clear warning about the costs of politicizing the rule of law.

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Did the capture of Nicolás Maduro mark a return to America’s original foreign policy or a new era of U.S. interventionism?

In this episode, we examine the so-called “Donroe Doctrine” and ask whether President Trump’s decisive operation in Venezuela aligns more closely with the Founders’ restrained vision of foreign policy than with the ideological interventionism of the 20th and 21st centuries. By revisiting the Monroe Doctrine and the historical limits America once placed on its use of force, we explore what distinguishes Trump's realism from regime-change wars.

As America approaches its 250th anniversary (the Semiquincentennial), we return to the Declaration of Independence and its most debated phrase: “all men are created equal.” Why created equal? Why not merely born equal?

In this episode, Dan McCarthy argues that the Declaration’s logic depends on a Creator: rights are not inventions of the state or products of social consensus, but endowments grounded in God and that foundation produces a radically different view of liberty, property, justice, and political authority than modern secular “rights talk.”

We also revisit what “revolution” meant to the American founders. For them, it was less a radical rupture and more a restoration of legitimate authority back to the people. From Locke to Jefferson, from Calhoun to modern ideologies, this is a philosophical primer on the competing foundations of political order and why recovering the Founding requires recovering what “created” truly implies.

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