Lincoln’s Political Journey, Medical Freedom Rights, and the Debt Ceiling Battle

On this Tuesday, April 25, 2023 broadcast, Kim Monson covers Abraham Lincoln’s early political struggles, the fight for medical freedom, and federal spending battles. The show opens amid breaking news of Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News and Joe Biden’s re-election announcement, setting the stage for discussions on liberty and constitutional governance with Ben Martin, Matt Dark, and Wade Miller.

Lincoln’s Law Practice and Political Ambitions

Start listening at 18:00 – Hour 1

In this segment, Ben Martin, a West Point graduate and former Army Ranger, continues his series on Abraham Lincoln’s life and sword. Martin explores Lincoln’s journey from a socially awkward young lawyer in Springfield to his tumultuous single term in Congress during the Mexican-American War. Despite his initial discomfort in high society, Lincoln’s humor, athletic abilities, and speaking skills made him irresistible to Springfield’s intellectual circles.

Martin traces Lincoln’s courtship of Mary Todd, noting it was not his first attempt at romance, having previously lost Ann Rutledge to typhus and been spurned by Mary Owens. The segment reveals how Lincoln’s principled stand against President Polk’s justification for the Mexican-American War, through his famous spot resolutions, cost him political capital and any hope of re-election. His insistence on truth over political expediency foreshadowed the moral courage that would define his presidency. Martin draws a powerful parallel between Lincoln’s era and today by quoting from the Federalist Papers about how tyrants begin their careers.

“Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, the commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.”

Ben Martin, quoting Federalist Paper No. 1

Medical Freedom and the Right to Refuse

Start listening at 70:00 – Hour 2

Matt Dark of Roots Medical and Colorado Healthcare Providers for Freedom discusses the ongoing fight for medical freedom and the right to refuse investigational drugs. Dark reveals alarming news that HHS has added seasonal flu vaccines to the PREP Act, the same emergency use authorization classification used for COVID vaccines. This signals that mRNA flu vaccines will likely be introduced in the fall under emergency use authorization.

The conversation highlights the UC Health lawsuit, which is still collecting plaintiffs who were terminated for refusing COVID vaccines. Dark explains that these lawsuits could prove crippling to healthcare systems that violated employees’ legal rights. The segment underscores that there is no law that can force participation in medical research, yet many Americans were coerced into taking experimental vaccines under threat of losing their livelihoods. Dark warns listeners to be prepared for what he sees as an inevitable push for mRNA technology in seasonal vaccines.

“So what’s going to happen, folks, is coming up in the fall, there will be some sort of a overhyped flu because they will begin to stick mRNA flu vaccine into circulation. And it may be the only thing you get.”

Matt Dark, Host of the Matt Dark Show, Roots Medical

Debt Ceiling and the Fight Against Woke Government

Start listening at 90:00 – Hour 2

Wade Miller, Executive Director of the Center for Renewing America, provides an in-depth analysis of the debt ceiling negotiations and the historic spending reduction deal put forward by Speaker McCarthy. Miller credits the Freedom Caucus and Representatives like Lauren Boebert for creating the political dynamic that made such a deal possible through their January speakership negotiations.

The proposed deal includes fiscal year 2022 spending caps, clawback of unobligated COVID funds, repeal of the student loan bailout, work requirements for welfare, the REINS Act for regulatory oversight, and rescission of IRS expansion funding. Miller warns that the real battle America faces is not traditional budget fights but the woke and weaponized agenda that seeks to implement systemic racism and sexism in government policies under the guise of equity. He cites Ibram X. Kendi’s explicit advocacy for racial discrimination, warning that such ideology has infiltrated federal agencies and poses an existential threat to equal treatment under the law.

“I mean, Kendi says the solution for past discrimination is present discrimination, and the solution for present discrimination is future discrimination.”

Wade Miller, Executive Director, Center for Renewing America