Entries from October 2009

October 30, 2009

A Thank You From Joey Mitchell To The SlaterRaiders

Joey Mitchell, 27 year old Marine son of Troy, called with a few seconds left in the show. We talked off the air and he has a few messages for the SlaterRaiders:

Ren Mitchell, 22 year old Soldier in Iraq. He called us the morning after he got the news:

Here are some other messages from the [...]

October 29, 2009

RIP Master Sergeant Troy Gary Mitchell

Semper Fi.

October 29, 2009

Bad News Drew

I am very not happy to announce, SlaterRaiders, that Drew Johnson will be leaving TCPR soon. Every Thursday morning for about a year now, Drew has been generous with his time. We have learned how incredible of an asset he is to the state: a principled defender of liberty. He has an inspirational story which [...]

October 29, 2009

Tribute To Troy Mitchell

***UPDATE*** October 30, 2009
CLICK HERE for a message from Joey, Troy’s 27 year old Marine son.
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October 29, 2009
Troy, 22 year Marine, was shot in the face yesterday when doing his job. His wallet and cell phone were stolen.
More than a Marine, he is the father of seven boys. Today, he is surrounded by 6 of [...]

October 28, 2009

Wanna Be Guv Bill Haslam On Tax Breaks & Govt Incentives

Mayor of Knoxville Bill Haslam stopped by the studio:

October 27, 2009

Comment Of The Day

Madam Speaker is changing the “Public Option” to the “Competitive Option” or the “Consumer Option”.
Started off with a quote from the Chief Philosophy Czar of the Mike Slater Show this morning:
Ignorance of the signification of words, which is want of understanding, disposeth men to take on trust- not only the truth they know not, but [...]

October 27, 2009

Learning About The Constitution

From Roger Pilon at CATO. The Founding Fathers intent “Necessary and Proper” “general Welfare” and the Commerce Clause:

Here is that Constitution thing we were talking about.

October 26, 2009

Madison, Shelley, Giles, and Johnny Cash

6:30 segment on the Constitution:

James Madison, Federalist #45.
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce…The powers reserved to the [...]

October 26, 2009

Eddleman Announces His Campaign Against Lowe Finney

The announcement comes FIRST to the SlaterRaiders:

You can learn more about Adrian Eddleman here.

October 23, 2009

I Knew Nothing About Net Neutrality…

…until we talked with James Gattuso from the Heritage Foundation. On the surface Net Neutrality sounds like something mind-numbingly boring and too technical to mess with, but this is an issue we all need to be up on. James does a great job of making sense of it: