The Brion McClanahan Show Podcast

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Confederate soldiers were proto-Nazis. This is the worst charge progressives level against the South. You see, if those evil white supremacist Southerners (as opposed to the good white supremacist Northerners) had won the War, Northern Americans would have been plagued with Adolf Hitler Calhoun right on their doorstep. It doesn’t help that you have some truly lost …more

An Obama appointed federal judge has declared a Missouri law in opposition to federal gun control to be unconstitutional. Why? SUPREMACY! This argument is the weakest in the national arsenal. Even Hamilton said unconstitutional federal legislation should not be enforced, and Hamilton never met a nationalist argument he didn’t like. It never stops dopes from being dopes, even when they have law degrees and wear …more

I know “Presidents Day” was last week, but an idiotic article at the New York Times had to get some time on The Brion McClanahan Show. Alexis Coe–self proclaimed “leading presidential historian of her generation”–claims that George Washington would have hated Presidents Day. This might be true, or it might not. Washington and the Federalists had a grand time marking his birthday while he was …more

What did Lincoln propose to do with freed slaves? The answer might surprise you. He famously told Alexander H. Stephens they could “root, hog, or die”, but Lincoln had another idea. He wanted to ship them out of the country to anywhere that would take them. When a trial run in Haiti failed about mid-way through the War, Lincoln supposedly backed off of his colonization …more

Last night the SOHO Forum in New York City hosted a debate with the prompt: Is Secession Workable and Would it Benefit Liberty? One of the original panelists had to back out, and I was asked to replace him. I couldn’t do it, either, but I thought it would make for a great episode of The Brion McClanahan Show. Without stealing my own thunder–I want …more

Last week, C-SPAN released the results of a survey which polled American historians on the question: “Who was the best president at crisis management?” The results should not surprise you. #1 was good ol’ Honest Abe. American historians are a pitiful bunch. They are worse than sheep. Follow the leader would be their favorite game, and unless their “cutting edge” conclusions are focused on race/class/gender, …more

We often hear that the United States is a “republic not a democracy.” This has great rhetorical effect for “conservatives”, and when I published my first book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers, I often had to use the same language on radio interviews. That is what “conservatives” understand. I remember one leftist journalist asking me at a book signing, in an attempted …more

Any honest person knows the answer to the subject line is no. But that hasn’t stopped “conservatives” from insisting the opposite. This is a curious phenomenon tied directly to the “proposition nation” myth of America history. Lincoln proclaimed that he was fighting for government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” in order to maintain the proposition that all men are created …more

In case you missed it last week, Joe Biden delivered his “State of the Union” address. We used to call these the annual message, but Woodrow Wilson thought that wasn’t parliamentarian enough and started the current tradition of the President getting going to deliver the message to Congress in person. He wasn’t the first. Both Washington and Adams did it, but Jefferson stopped the practice, …more