The Pennsylvania Project: Recent Episodes
The Pennsylvania Project
'Caster Ken Krawchuk showcases the political, cultural, and environmental challenges facing Pennsylvania, and explores solutions.
Ken's guest is Steven Brenize, a Libertarian Tax Collector In Shippensburg Pennsylvania . Listener questions include insurections and more on reparations. Ken's rant is about e-mail, spammers, and hearing from the dead.
Featured Toastmaster Narrator - DTM Brigid Falasca
Featured Toastmaster Cohort - Candice Winters
Related Links:
Insurrection: https://www.insurancejournal.com/blogs/big-i-insights/2020/06/05/571152.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/17/un-human-rights-chief-calls-for-reparations-to-make-amends-for-slavery
https://emojipedia.org/
https://wordcounter.io/blog/how-many-words-does-the-average-person-know/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
Ken's guest is Captain John Gallagher of the Narberth Police Department and his involvement with the Re-Open Pennsylvania rally. Leftovers from Episode 62 include listener questions about reparations for blacks and Ken's rant about Eminent Domain.
Featured Toastmaster Cohort – Donna Herb
Related Links:
https://ij.org/press-release/top-ten-worst-abuses-of-eminent-domain-spotlighted-in-new-report/
http://castlecoalition.org/2121
https://chestercountyramblings.com/2020/05/28/dick-saha-you-were-an-amazing-man-and-a-lot-of-us-will-miss-you/
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Bulldozed/ZLBop-2VeIUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22saha+farm%22&pg=PA237&printsec=frontcover
https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blog/real-estate/2013/08/remember-the-saha-land-grab-in.html
Ken's guests are Andy Starr and Marc Bozzacco, two of the ralliers from last Saturday’s Shutdown the Shutdown rally, going into all the gory details of what went down
Listener questions include reparations for blacks, and some compliments for Ken's wife Roberta
Ken's rant was pre-empted in favor of the guests
Featured Toastmaster Narrator and Cohort - Donna Herb
Related Links:
https://montcolp.org/montco-liberty-blog/blog-articles/80-news/117-montco-libertarians-to-stage-nine-shutdown-the-shutdown-rallies-on-may-30th
Ken's guest is Drew Miller, a Pittsburgh attorney suing Governor Big Bad Wolf over the need to simultaneously collect signatures to get on the ballot AND socially distance
Listener questions include the foundations of Libertarianism and Toilets
Ken's Rant is about the reactions from police and legislators regarding the upcoming Re-Open Pennsylvania rally.
Featured Toastmaster Narrator Marc Chierici
Featured Toastmaster Cohort Candice Winters
Related Links:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-05-22/elon-musk-speaks-frankly-on-coronavirus-spacex-and-rage-tweets
https://wgxa.tv/news/nation-world/letter-from-doctors-calls-on-president-trump-to-end-lockdown
https://www.scribd.com/document/462469213/Doctor-Letter#from_embed
Ken's guest is Marc Scaringi, attorney, author, and fellow radio talk show host in Harrisburg, and speaker at the recent Re-Open Pennsylvania rally
Listener questions include how to collect signatures AND socially distance (hint: Not possible!)
Ken's rant is how you personally can take action against the lockdowns
Featured Toastmaster Narrator Marc Chierici
Featured Toastmaster Cohort Margaret Susuni
Related Links:
https://www.foxnews.com/world/imperial-college-britain-coronavirus-lockdown-buggy-mess-unreliable
Ken's guest is Julie Potter, Proprietor of the Tame Your Mane Hair and Styling Salon in Blair County, who defied the lockdown order and remained open
Listener questions include equal pay for comparative worth
Ken's rant is all about his 43 years of marriage and how he and Robert made it work.
Featured Toastmaster Narrator: Roberta Krawchuk
Featured Toastmaster Cohort: Daniel Graciano
Related Links:
https://tameyourmane.sexy/
https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Comparable+Worth
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/shocking-two-thirds-patients-recently-hospitalized-ny-had-been-staying-n1201421
Ken's guest is Ashley Klingensmith, Pennsylvania Director of Americans for Prosperity
Our resident Leftist, Bernie McCann, is live on the phone asking Leftist questions.
Ken's rant is about the world's bungled response to the pandemic, and how Sweden survived where all others failed
Featured Toastmaster Narrator: Alexander Caris
Related Links:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/world/europe/sweden-coronavirus.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2020/04/01/why-is-coronavirus-fear-so-low-in-sweden/#502c37b03870
https://americansforprosperity.org/
Ken's guest is Lois Kaneshiki, Former Republican committee chair of Blair County, discussing the power of county committees.
Listener questions include the morality of dognapping
Ken's rant is a reaction to Elon Musk's colorful reaction to the lockdowns from the Q1 2020 Tesla earnings call.
Featured Toastmaster Narrator: Candice Winters
Featured Toastmaster Cohort: Ariel Kamen
Related Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvXfHHEdNc&t=2335s @39:00+
Ken's guest is Chad DeSantis, past drunken candidate for Mayor of Monongahela and a professional pain in the ass. One listener gives advice on how to buy whiskey in Pennsylvania during a pandemic (but not Ohio), and another on the morality of dognapping. Ken's rant is all about the recent Re-Open Pennsylvania rally, where his wife asks, “Do you think it’ll do any good?” “No,” Ken told her. “It’s not going to do any good at all.”
Featured Toastmaster Narrator, and Cohort: Daniel Graciano
Related Links:
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/weighing-the-week-ahead%3A-curb-your-enthusiasm-2020-04-19
ReOpenPa: https://www.facebook.com/groups/224471525312864/
Chad: https://www.wtae.com/article/man-running-for-monongahela-mayor-on-unique-platform/7161651
https://www.finewineandgoodspirits.com
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/04/how-to-get-curbside-booze-in-pa-one-man-called-80-times-using-2-phones-to-break-through.html
https://www.animallaw.info/statute/pa-cruelty-consolidated-cruelty-statutes
Contradictions: https://whyy.org/articles/just-insanity-closed-pa-businesses-cry-foul-as-competitors-snag-waivers-to-reopen/
More: https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/spl/wolf-coronavirus-shutdown-businesses-20200320.html
No transparency: https://www.ldnews.com/story/news/2020/04/20/diamond-criticizes-gov-tom-wolf-response-coronavirus-covid-19-during-harrisburg-rally/5166138002/
Sheep’s clothing: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A15-20&version=NKJV
Ken's guest is Kathleen Smith, a Libertarian School board president, and how she was able to make a difference. A listener challenges Sweden's refusal to lock down for the pandemic. Ken's rant is all about his tortuous Catholic Education, plus a musical tribute to college written by Bob Blue and sung by Donna M. Herb.
Featured Toastmaster Narrator, Cohort, and vocalist: Donna Herb
Related links:
Mine: https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2020/04/01/why-is-coronavirus-fear-so-low-in-sweden/#5fde61093870
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2020/04/09/after-rejecting-a-coronavirus-lockdown-sweden-sees-rise-in-deaths/#5db6e2f83dfe
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
https://www.wtae.com/article/state-website-overwhelmed-frustrating-pennsylvanians-seeking-to-buy-liquor/32147418#
https://www.wtae.com/article/ohio-liquor-sales-restricted-residents-pennsylvania-border/32131898
https://constitutionus.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Catechism
https://www.finewineandgoodspirits.com
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/04/gov-murphy-just-defended-njs-coronavirus-lockdown-on-fox-news-heres-how-it-went.html
Ken's guest is Greg Perry, an energy industry pipeline expert, talking about the impact of fracking. A listener asks about pandemic vaccination vs. medical freedom, especially as it affects tow unvaccinated children. Ken's rant is again all about bad beer, part 2, this time with more about the PLCB, the eternal Johnstown Flood Tax, and some bad beer puns.
Featured Toastmaster Narrator and Cohort: Pennsylvania Project Founding Father Paul Nicotera
Related links:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
Ken's guest is Dr. Val Finnell, Pennsylvania Director of the Gun Owners of America. A listener raises the issue of the legality of lockdowns under the fifth amendment. Ken's rant is all about bad beer (bad in whose opinion?), the bad Liquor Control Board, and bad DUI checkpoints. It's enough to drive you to drink!
Featured Toastmaster Narrator and Cohort: Margaret Susuni
Related links:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/world/europe/sweden-coronavirus.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2020/04/01/why-is-coronavirus-fear-so-low-in-sweden/#502c37b03870
https://reason.com/2020/03/30/this-business-is-suing-the-government-over-a-coronavirus-closure-order/
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/consCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&ttl=35÷=0&chpt=73
https://reason.com/2020/03/18/police-powers-during-a-pandemic-constitutional-but-not-unlimited/
https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/pennsylvania-fine-wine-good-spirits-online-alcohol-sales-delivery-20200401.html
www.gunowners.org
Ken's guest is Dr. Tedd Koren, ground-breaking chiropractor and a health issues renaissance man. A listener asks what a notional Governor Ken would do about the lockdowns and gets a gubernatorial speech in return. Ken's rant is all about the futility of college, as exemplified by a sad rewrite of Frank Sinatra's hit "My Way" titled "Their Way."
Featured Toastmaster Narrator and Cohort: Distinguished Toastmaster Art Farnsworth
Supporting links:
http://BobBlue.org
https://www.wgal.com/article/average-student-loan-debt-in-pennsylvania-nearly-35-000-dollars/30512703
https://triblive.com/news/pennsylvania/study-pennsylvania-college-graduates-have-2nd-highest-average-student-debt-load-in-nation/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2019/12/16/college-enrollment-declines-again-its-down-more-than-two-million-students-in-this-decade/#208217ed3d95
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/why-elon-musk-doesnt-care-about-college-degrees.html
No guest again today. Instead, we have Participatory Democracy Part Three and Part Four, exploring the details of how you, personally can run for public office. Part Three is about how to get votes, and Part Four is all about how to make news.
Listener question is about you doing a self lockdown if you test positive for the virus
The rant is an expose about the self-immolating, so-called Patriot movement, including tax "protesters", Section 861, state citizenship, allodial title, straw man theory, and other ways to throw yourself in front of a steamroller.
Featured Toastmaster Narrator is Distinguished Toastmaster Lisa Jones
Featured Toastmaster Cohort is Ed Kmetz
Supporting links:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/13/21179291/elon-musk-coronavirus-tesla-memo-car-accident-deaths-comparison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic#/media/File:2020_coronavirus_patients_in_China.svg
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51813876
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/march/16/the-coronavirus-hoax/
https://www.dgs.pa.gov/Documents/PA-Manual-v123.pdf
No guest today. Instead, we have the first two parts about Participatory Democracy, exploring the details of how you, personally can run for public office. Part 1 is all about how to get your name on the ballot. Part Two is about attracting and keeping volunteers.
Listener question is if you personally are better off than you were three and a half years ago or worse off? And why.
The rant is a goodie: It’s all about the worldwide response to the corona virus.
Featured Toastmaster Narrator is Christopher Hulse
Featured Toastmaster Cohort is Distinguished Toastmaster Art Farnsworth
Supporting links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-compared-to-flu-mortality-rates-2020-3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_on_cruise_ships
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-toll/
https://www.pnas.org/content/104/18/7582
This episode is broadcast live from the Pennsylvania Libertarian Party convention held in Philadelphia, including interviews with a wide range of personalities, including presidential candidate Jacob Hornberger, other candidates, and party functionaries.
What sticks in Ken’s craw is political conventions of the two old parties.
Ken’s guest is Brett Croneberger, radio producer for The Pennsylvania Project on WWDB, discussing his view from the studio control room of numerous issues ranging from gun control to Toastmasters to launching a broadcasting career.
What sticks in Ken’s craw is the so-called “patriot movement” and several of their unworkable approaches to avoiding paying federal taxes, unprovable conspiracy theories, and other ways to run yourself over with a steamroller.
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Susan Hawkins, Septa Toastmasters in Phila
Guest Toastmaster Cohort: Distinguished Toastmaster Cate Conti, Doylestown Toastmasters in Doylestown
More Information:
Guests:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/7701
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rr-07-22.pdf
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-07-30.pdf
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2007/03/irs_lists_40_fr.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/17/us/home-grown-courts-spring-up-as-judicial-arm-of-the-far-right.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawman_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodial_title
https://writersfield.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/unjust-weights-and-measures-what-exactly-are-these/
https://www.larkenrose.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasland#Negative
Commercials:
Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Christopher Fave Fly Fishing: http://ChristopherFaveFlyFishing.com
Ken’s guest is Tyler Breen, intellectual instigator and host of the Terrible Conservative podcast, poking the bears known as abortion, gun control, race relations, political correctness, and worse.
What sticks in Ken’s craw is more of the ongoing Police Crisis, plus a discussion of how to rein it in; specifically, the Ten Copmandments.
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Stephanie Burg-Brown, SEPTA Toastmasters in Philadelphia
Guest Toastmaster Cohort: Non-Toastmaster Paul Nicotera
More Information:
Guests:
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/07/739308468/starbucks-apologizes-to-police-officers-who-were-asked-to-leave-an-arizona-store
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/14/602556973/starbucks-police-and-mayor-weigh-in-on-controversial-arrest-of-2-black-men-in-ph
https://www.theintell.com/news/20200224/how-political-party-insiders---not-voters---dictate-pa-special-election-candidates
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/01/pa-house-democratic-leader-criticizes-schedule-of-special-elections-citing-cost-a-waste-of-taxpayer-dollars.html
Commercials:
Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Christopher Fave Fly Fishing: http://ChristopherFaveFlyFishing.com
Ken’s guest is Michelle Siegel, candidate for the Pennsylvania State Senate in the 27th District, discussing Knoebels, the insane War on Drugs, campaign reform, and other leftish issues that align with Libertarianism.
What sticks in Ken’s craw is the contradictory Doctor Jekyll /Mister Hyde duopoly of police powers.
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Greg Ludwig TD Toasts in Mt. Laurel
Guest Toastmaster Cohort: Margaret Susuni, ETS Toastmasters in Princeton
More Information:
Guests:
https://www.successcds.net/full-form/police-full-form.html
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-police-are-writing-fewer-jaywalking-tickets-but-high-rate-still-issued-to-black-pedestrians/
https://www.Knoebels.com
Commercials:
Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Christopher Fave Fly Fishing: http://ChristopherFaveFlyFishing.com
Ken’s guest is voting methodology expert Roy Minet, discussing the reasons why our current system of electing people is the worst possible one, and the dozen or so other systems that simpulations prove would work much better.
What sticks in Ken’s craw is Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged.
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Scott Thompson, CLIMB Toastmasters in Ewing
Guest Toastmaster Cohort: Daniel Graciano, Drexel University Toastmasters in Philadelphia
More Information:
Guests:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_novels
Commercials:
Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Christopher Fave Fly Fishing: http://ChristopherFaveFlyFishing.com
Ken’s guest is Kevin Kita, chiropractor, discussing the interrelationship between mind, body, and soul, and how chiropractors bring them all together, resulting in amazing cures for migraines, cancer, and other ailments.
What sticks in Ken’s craw is again even MORE of a long list of provocative questions raised on The Pennsylvania Project but never answered.
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Lynn Dao, Smithklein Speecham Toastmasters in Upper Providence
Guest Toastmaster Cohort: Distinguished Toastmaster Karen Flam, Positively Charged Toastmasters in Philadelphia
More Information:
Guests:
https://www.inquirer.com/news/abington-school-board-police-tamar-klaiman-20200205.html
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/12/new-pa-law-restores-school-police-arrest-powers.html
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/10/pa-lawmakers-seek-fix-to-return-arrest-powers-to-school-police.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/nationwide-police-shot-and-killed-nearly-1000-people-in-2017/2018/01/04/4eed5f34-e4e9-11e7-ab50-621fe0588340_story.html?utm_term=.09b93841159b
Commercials:
Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Christopher Fave Fly Fishing: http://ChristopherFaveFlyFishing.com
More Information:
Commercials:
Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Christopher Fave Fly Fishing: http://ChristopherFaveFlyFishing.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Ken’s guest is Derek Cotton, K-9 Guidance Councilor, discussing the counterproductive way most people train their dogs, and how to let your dog actually be a dog.
What sticks in Ken’s craw is a long list of provocative questions raised on The Pennsylvania Project but never answered.
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Stephanie Burg-Brown, SEPTA Toastmasters in Philadelphia
Guest Toastmaster Cohort: Distinguished Toastmaster Art Farnsworth, We The Speakers Toastmasters in Plymouth Meeting
More Information:
Commercials:
Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Ken’s guest is Allen Fox, proprietor of the Vapor Phoxxe vape lounge in Hatboro, discussing the political side of vaping, including unsung medical benefits and overly-sung misinformation campaigns.
What sticks in Ken’s craw are all the technological tyrants invading Pennsylvania, such as speed cameras and red light cameras, and how to fight back.
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Theresa Santoscoy, Reading Toastmasters in Reading
Guest Toastmaster Cohort: Margaret Susuni, ETS Toastmasters in Princeton
More Information:
Guests:
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/speeding-ticket-cameras-roosevelt-boulevard-philadelphia/185912/
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/transportation-and-transit/32-speed-cameras-being-installed-along-phillys-roosevelt-boulevard/2274105/
https://wamu.org/story/18/02/06/vast-majority-maryland-speed-camera-revenue-comes-just-two-counties/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Boulevard_(Philadelphia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_enforcement_camera
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112886619
Commercials:
Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Ken’s guest is Lou Jasikoff, investigative journalist and publisher of the Wilkes Barre Independent Gazette, discussing numerous scandals in northeastern Pennsylvania, such as Kids for Cash, Custody for Cash, nepotism, cronyism, blatant intimidation, and worse. What sticks in Ken’s craw is the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Cheryl Jenkins, SEPTA Toastmasters in Philadelphia
Guest Toastmaster Cohort: Distinguished Toastmaster Art Farnsworth of We The Speakers Toastmasters in Plymouth Meeting
More Information:
Guests:
https://www.paturnpike.com/business/act44.aspx
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/03/how-high-will-pennsylvania-turnpike-fares-go-and-other-numbers-you-should-know.html
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/12/pa-turnpike-tolls-are-about-to-rise-again.html
Commercials:
Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Ken’s guest is Susan Carty, past president of the Pennsylvania League of Women Voters, currently serving on the League’s national board in Washington DC, discussing how the League stood up to Wolf and Wagner debate debacle, and how the two old parties are undermining our political system. What sticks in Ken’s craw is Pennsylvania’s horrendous ballot access laws.
More Information:
Guests:
https://www.palwv.org/
Commercials:
Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Ken’s guest is Matt Wenrick, environmental engineer, exploring the details of cleaning up the mess left behind from past chemicals, biological agents, leaks, Superfunds, and PFOs, including biocumulation, biolatilization, and other B words.
Listeners question include a series of Facebook responses to the telling question, “What bothers you about Pennsylvania?”
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week? Libertarian “Top Ten” lists
Guests:
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
State Police taking over small town policing: https://whyy.org/articles/half-of-pa-municipalities-rely-fully-on-state-police/
Vehicle inspections: https://www.nbc12.com/2019/12/18/mechanics-react-gov-northams-proposal-eliminate-state-inspections/
Vehicle inspections: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiv7fuJ6MDmAhWNhOAKHZzmApAQFjAAegQIAxAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Flibertasutah.org%2Fpolicy-papers%2Fsafety_inspections.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2MXheK878QbPTLQkRi2oBE
Commercials:
Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Facing Up to Facebook, Part One
Ken’s guest is a collection of contributors to The Pennsylvania Project’s Facebook page, responding to the question, “What bothers you about Pennsylvania?” Issues range from corruption in Reading and in Philadelphia, to the SB 76 property tax shell game, to alternatives to government education, to the reasons behind high taxes, to state police taking over small town policing, to overtaxation of breweries, to turnpike tolls NOT being spent on the turnpike, to the fight against school vouchers, to mis-spending of the gas tax, to getting rid of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, to Common Core, to grammatical errors on The Pennsylvania Project, and more.
Listeners question include a response to Ken’s response to all the nonsense surrounding Real ID, plus details of a stinging defeat of Irv Homer’s successor at the hands of Irv’s legacy.
What “sticks in Ken’s craw”? The lack of a human guest on The Pennsylvania Project that results in relying on Facebook denizens.
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Glenn Freezman of the CLIMB Toastmasters in Ewing
Guest Toastmaster Cohort: Distinguished Toastmaster Cate Conti of the Doylestown Toastmasters in Doylestown
More Information:
small-town:
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
State Police taking over small town policing: https://whyy.org/articles/half-of-pa-municipalities-rely-fully-on-state-police/
Commercials:
Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Up in Smoke
Ken’s guest is Alan Fox, proprietor of the Vapor Phoxxe vape lounge in Hatboro, talking about how the quality of vaping is being dramatically compromised by yet another government-led crackdown, leading to the creation of yet another black market.
Listeners questions include a whimsical grammatical issue, plus one about the very non-whimsical, very expensive, very-un-Libertarian Real ID, and how Pennsylvania’s legislature performed a near-180-degree flip-flop under federal pressure.
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” Toastmasters, of all things.
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Distinguished Toastmaster Thaine Shetter of the Princeton Toastmasters and ETS Toastmasters clubs in Princeton
Guest Toastmaster Cohort: Ariel Kamen of the Drexel University Toastmasters in Philadelphia.
More Information:
Guests:
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
Vapor Phoxxe Vape Lounge: http://www.vaporphoxxe.com/
Real ID: https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylvania/mc-pa-wolf-sign-sreal-id-bill-20170526-story.html
Real ID: https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylvania/mc-pa-real-id-drivers-license-20170510-story.html
Vehicle inspections: https://www.nbc12.com/2019/12/18/mechanics-react-gov-northams-proposal-eliminate-state-inspections/
Vehicle inspections: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiv7fuJ6MDmAhWNhOAKHZzmApAQFjAAegQIAxAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Flibertasutah.org%2Fpolicy-papers%2Fsafety_inspections.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2MXheK878QbPTLQkRi2oBE
Commercials:
Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Episode 35
Stupid Toastmasters
Ken, his Cohort, and Narrator explore the frightening side of Toastmaster, namely: speech contests, including a presentation AND evaluation of Ken’s winning speech titled “Stupid, Stupid, Stupid”, not to mention of a captive audience: Toastmasters club in prison.
Listeners question include more silence from our spammer, negatarian pots calling the negatarian kettle black, and how the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is protecting your password from the cops.
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week? The Pennsylvania Project of course, what with its party-killing, teetotaling fun that makes it all worthwhile.
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Distinguished Toastmaster Cate Conti of the Doylestown Toastmasters in Doylestown
Guest Toastmaster Cohort: Jena Bernstein of Liberty Toastmasters in Philadelphia
More Information:
Guests:
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Commercials:
Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
America’s Call Center: http://AmericasCallCenter.US
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Hunting for a Solution
Ken’s guest is Tom Cunningham, an avid, self-styled “wildlife population control specialist”. Listeners question include reactions to Libertarian “Humor”, videographers that push the limits, and spam.
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week? Negatarians
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Liz Jordan of the Sunrise Toastmasters club in Allentown
Guest Toastmaster Cohort: Art Farnsworth of We The Speakers Toastmasters in Plymouth Meeting.
More Information:
Guests:
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
Commercials:
Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Episode 33
A Toast to Toastmasters
Ken’s guest hit a deer on his way to the studio (he’s fine, car and deer are not), so the Narrator and Cohort stepped in to provide a primer on your typical Toastmasters meeting, with a who’s who and who does what when to who. Listeners' question includes more about the Pledge of Allegiance, and a charge of corporate hypocrisy.
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week? Libertarian “Humor”
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Cate Conti of the Doylestown Toastmasters in Doylestown
Guest Toastmaster Cohort: Margaret Susuni of the Educational Testing Service Toastmasters in Princeton
More Information:
Guests:
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Commercials:
Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Episode 31
Artificial Everything, Intelligence Optional
Ken’s guest is Donna Herb, Artificial Intelligence project manager at a major research firm. Listeners question include more about the abominable Marsy’s Law and an as-yet-unnamed law also attempting to muddy our state constitution even more.
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week? The good old Pledge of Allegiance, and a suggested alternative.
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Camille Byrd of the Northeast Philadelphia Toastmasters club in Northeast Philadelphia
More Information:
Guests:
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
Marsy’s Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsy%27s_Law
Commercials:
Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Life, the University, and Everything
Ken’s guests are Anna Egan Hess and Ariel Kamen, students at Philadelphia’s Drexel University with an in-depth review of what’s going on with today’s campus scene, including political correctness, student debt/free college, drugs, alcohol and more. Listeners question include Philly’s unconstitutional “stop and frisk” searches, and more about the primaries.
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week? The abominable Marsy’s Law aiming to muddy our state constitution.
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Liam Cummings of the Drexel University Toastmasters in Philadelphia
Guest Toastmaster Co-Cohorts: Anna Egan Hess and Ariel Kamen of the Drexel University Toastmasters in Philadelphia
More Information:
Guests:
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
Marsy’s Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsy%27s_Law
Commercials:
Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Marketing Cannabis
Welcome to the fifth annual Cannabis Festival in Kutztown Pennsylvania, and meet some of the scores of vendors and thousands of attendees. Ken’s guests include a parade of cannabis growers, distributors, lobbyists, legalizers, and more, sharing their opinions on just how soon recreational cannabis is hitting a store shelf near you
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week? Cannabis: Why ain’t it legal yet?
Found in this episode:
Conversations in the Cannabis Marketplace xx:xx
- Jeff Riedy of Lehigh Valley NORML
- Devin Bridgeman on networking cannabis
- Shawn House on hemp edibles
- Jason Porter on obtaining medical cannabis cards .
- Tony Zollo on unionizing cannabis workers??
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? Why Ain’t Cannabis Legal Yet? xx:xx
- Witnessing fifty years of misinformation, persecution, and ruined lives.
- Cracks and fissures finally appearing in the insane War on Drugs
- Festive times: They’re actually selling all that stuff? Out in the open??
More Information:
Guests:
Pennsylvania Cannabis Festival: http://www.penncannafest.com/
Lehigh Valley NORML: https://norml.org/chapters/item/lehigh-valley-norml
Pennsylvania Cannabis Connection: https://www.pennsylvaniacannabisconnection.com/
Cannabis Workers Union: https://www.ufcw1776.org
Hempzels Pretzels: https://www.hempzels.com/
Justice Grown Medical Cannabis Dispensary: http://gojusticegrown.com/
Commercials:
Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Champions of the Downtrodden
Ken’s guest is David Osborne, president, co-founder, and general counsel of the Fairness Center in Harrisburg, a nonprofit, public interest law firm that provides free legal services to those hurt by public-sector union officials.
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week is corporate personhood..
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Michael Ferry
Guest Toastmaster Cohort: Dodie Preston
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag?
· DOZENS of Libertarian electoral victories!
· The plans of one of those elected Libertarians
· Are Libertarians on the political left or the political right – or someplace else?
A Conversation with David Osborne
· Is the choice to pay union dues or get fired?
· Trapping employees in unions via "maintenance of membership" policies
· Did David's Supreme Court victories end such nonsense?
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? Corporate Personhood
· “Corporations are people, my friend?” Yeah, right.
· Sullying the Pennsylvania Constitution with corporate nonsense
· Why are corporate officers above the law?
· End corporate personhood!
More Information:
Guests:
Fairness Center: https://www.fairnesscenter.org
Commercials:
Amendment 16:http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania:http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club:https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing:https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International:http://toastmasters.org
The Nuts and Bolts of Muffing It
Ken’s guest was swallowed by a crack in the schedule, so instead the topic du jour is a nuts-and-bolts primer for those who want to become involved in politics without muffing it. Topics range from initial contact to strange bedfellows to making your own news, replete with press releases, dealing with the cops, and living with yourself afterwards. Listeners question how Libertarians deal with sinister, inane gun reporting, and suffering under self-imposed condo restrictions.
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week? The two old parties stealing Libertarian ideas
Guest Toastmaster Narrator and Cohort: Dodie Preston of Cerner Toastmasters in Malvern PA
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag?
- Why does the national media portray gun owners as sinister and inane – and what you can do about it.
- The University of Chicago, Northeastern University and the CDC all agree the MSM gun rhetoric is all wrong.
- What have we done to ourselves? Condo agreements on the loose!
How to Become a Force for Freedom – Without Muffing It
- How to transition from being a voice in the wilderness to becoming a political force to be reckoned with
- The three basic concepts: Know your Enemy, Know Your Friends, and Know Yourself
- Your enemy as friend, friends becoming enemies, and strange bedfellows.
- Make your own news? How to reach reporters, clue the cops, corral a crowd, and attract attention all around.
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? The Two Old Parties Stealing Libertarian Ideas
- Political thievery! From cannabis to homeschooling to helmet laws to microbreweries to slavery, examples of intellectual theft abound.
- Personal political thievery! A flip-flopping governor quotes directly from Ken’s gubernatorial playbook for dealing with the insane War on Drugs – using the chronically-ignored Pennsylvania Constitution, of all things.
- Finally retiring Ken’s 20-year-old signature soundbite about the Grateful Dead
- The sweet, sweet taste (and smell) of political victory!.
More Information:
Guests:
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
CDC Gun Study: https://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/1#vii
John Lott: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lott
Northeastern University study: https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/02/26/schools-are-still-one-of-the-safest-places-for-children-researcher-says
Ken Krawchuk’s 2018 gubernatorial campaign: http://KenK4Pa.com
Commercials:
Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Moore Elected Libertarians
Ken’s guest is Jennifer Moore, Vice Chair of the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania and the elected auditor of Upper Providence township, discussing the challenges she faced in her court-contested election, and how she helped orchestrate the upcoming uncontested elections of dozens more Libertarians. The listener-submitted questions include DUI checkpoints and liquor store privatization.
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week? Pennsylvania’s self-manufactured troubles
Guest Cohort and Toastmaster Narrator: Ariel Kamen of the Drexel University Toastmasters
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag?
- Three DUI checkpoints in Montgomery Township? Not the most efficient, not the cheapest, and definitely not constitutional
- Hauling away in irons people who are not drunk – and the cops know it!
- Why privatize liquor stores? Certainly they should close early, be closed on holidays, refuse to carry random brands, and make it a crime to shop in other states. NOT!
- The relic known as the Johnstown Flood Tax on alcohol purchases: 80+ years after the flood and the rebuilding are a dim memory, yet it lingers on and on.
A Conversation with Jennifer Moore
- The basics of Pennsylvania’s third-largest political party
- How to withstand a court challenge to getting on the ballot
- How to win dozens of elections for the Libertarian Party
- The annoying powers of an elected Pennsylvania auditor
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? Pennsylvania’s self-manufactured troubles
- A long laundry list of lousy legislation, including out-of-control spending, racist courts vilified law-abiding gun owners, the opioid crisis, over-militarized police, second-class citizenships, rigged elections, the trashed Pennsylvania constitution, and more, sad to say.
- What’s the solution? Stop voting for the perpetrators: The two old parties.
More Information:
Guests:
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.comFreedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Manufactured Gun Rights
Ken’s guest is Konstantin Divinsky, a firearms manufacturer from York, PA, discussing liability issues, the regulatory environment, and other challenges of his profession. Be sure to catch the video when he breaks out a foldable, fully-automatic AR-15! The listener-submitted questions include cutting social programs, separating society and state, and everyone’s favorite topic – abortion – and how to defuse the debate..
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week? The very nature of taxation
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Taylor Cardish of the Positively Charged Toastmasters club at Philadelphia Electric Co.
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag? 00:00 -14:00
- Replace the minimum wage with Universal Basic Income? How about replacing it with nothing?
- Past attempts at a Universal Basic Income had no impact, other than making recipients happier.
- Penalizing politicians for breaking their oath to the constitution?
A Conversation with Konstantin Divinsky 16:00 – 48:00
- Manufacturing firearms in Pennsylvania
- Limitation of liability for firearms manufacturers
- Industrial issues vs. political issues.
- Engaging with Lefitsts
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? The very idea of taxation 50:00 – 58:00
- Taxation: A crime against humans, against humanity
- Taxation: Home invasions, armed robbery, extortion, and worse
- What happens to the tax dollar sent to Washington? (Be sure to see the video!)
- The alternative: The Charitable Credit Act
More Information:
Guests:
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
HD Defense: https://hddefense.com/
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Morning in Pennsylvania
Ken’s guest is Kevin Gaughen, Executive Director of the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania and land use expert, discussing the phenomenal growth of the Pennsylvania Libertarian Party, the record number of candidates this year – many of which are virtually guaranteed victory – and how you can be a part of the groundswell. The listener-submitted questions include enforcing the state constitution, Universal Basic Income, and subsidized pop music.
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week? How some parents discipline their kids
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Anna Egan Hess of the Drexel University Toastmasters
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag? xx:xx:xx-xx:xx:xx
- Replace the minimum wage with Universal Basic Income? How about replacing it with nothing?
- Past attempts at a Universal Basic Income had no impact, other than making recipients happier.
- Should we be penalizing politicians for breaking their oath to the constitution?
A Conversation with Kevin Gaughen xx:xx
- The successes and challenges of Pennsylvania’s third-largest political party
- Dozens of guaranteed victories in November?
- Land Use issues and an overbearing government.
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? How some parents discipline their kids xx:xx
- Bribery, toothless threats, and the trendy “timeout” vs. the good old spanking – or something else?
- A different approach: Graces and Curses
- Graces: Catching kids doing something right
- Curses: Family-level community service for kids
More Information:
Guests:
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Pennsylvania Has a What??
Ken’s guest is a virtual unknown: The Pennsylvania Constitution. What powers possessed by We The People are lurking within? What powers have those sneaky politicians illegally assumed for themselves? And why hasn’t the Pennsylvania Constitution been (and isn’t it being) taught in our schools? Don’t like the answers to these questions? Then sign the petition! The listener-submitted questions touch on the questionable Deana’s Law, and the question of a co-host.
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week? Dangerous Pennsylvania Education!
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Dodie Preston and her son Josh, of Cerner Toastmasters in Malvern PA
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag? xx:xx:xx-xx:xx:xx
- Even more about Pennsylvania rangers – but this time it’s good news
- Complaints about absurd, unworkable Libertarian solutions and B-movie Sewer People
- Deana’s Law: a correct solution, but not solving the correct problem when it comes to drunk drivers
- A co-host for The Pennsylvania Project?
A Deep Dive into the Pennsylvania Constitution xx:xx
- Pennsylvania has a constitution? Yep.
- Ignored, violated, and gutted? Yep.
- Seventeen provisions blatantly being violated? Yep.
- The right to bear arms shall not be questioned? Yep. Or so it says.
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? Dangerous Government Education
- How do you keep a populace ignorant of their rights? Don’t teach them how their government works.
- How to turn that situation around? Sign our petition!
- https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
More Information:
Guests:
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/Petition to teach the Pennsylvania Constitution to our kids: https://www.pennsylvaniaproject.com/petition-in-support-of-teaching-the-pennsylvania-constitution-to-our-children/
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
The Vexatious Requester of Gregg Township
Ken’s guest is Michelle Grove, a local political activist from Gregg Township near State College. Imagine a local government out of control. Imagine the sparks when it meets a regular citizen, affectionately known colloquially as “the vexatious Right-to-Know requester of Gregg Township”. Then there are the listener-submitted questions regarding forced vaccinations, zoning, and pollution, plus a vignette about one ranger’s reaction to hunting endangered species.
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week? Audiences
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Karen Flam, of the Positively Charged Toastmasters club,
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag? xx:xx:xx-xx:xx:xx
- Don’t force vaccinations on his kid! But force them on his kid’s classmates?
- Zoning and compost heaps
- Dealing with pollution as a trespass
- What happens when you shoot a protected species, and the ranger is standing right there?
A Conversation with Michelle Grove xx:xx
- Whaddaya mean, the township destroys records?
- Whaddaya mean they violate the Sunshine Act?
- Surely they didn’t mean to slander an inquisitive citizen
- Victory in court!!
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? Audiences!
- They stroll in late, walk out early, fall asleep if I’m lucky, and snore if I’m not
- You know at some point someone’s cell phone’s gonna ring....
- All about Ken, Monica Lewinsky, and uppity, arrogant political audiences
- Presenting to an audience of police at a DUI checkpoint!
More Information:
Guest:
Michelle Grove: https://greggtownshipunofficial.org/
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Folkin’ Around in Schwenksville
Ken’s guest is Jon Detweiler, second in command at the nation’s longest running outdoor music event, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, why it still draws thousands for the fifty-eighth consecutive year, and why it’s so much better than Woodstock. And rather than listener-submitted questions, Ken sets up shop in the middle of the Fest campground to interview a steady parade of random Festers.
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week? Why aren’t you here camping at Fest??
Found in this episode:
What’s the buzz on the campground paths? xx:xx:xx-xx:xx:xx
- The constant refrain: Welcome home!
- Playing roadie to a hundred acts
- By the time we got to Woodstock, the Fest was already 8 years old!
- Three generations of Festers here, there, and everywhere
A Conversation with Jon Detweiler xx:xx
- The volunteer-run Philadelphia Folk Festival in it’s 58th year
- Tens of thousands spread out over the hillside at Godshall’s farm in Schwenksville
- Music acts great and small, from folk to Celtic rock to blues to the unclassifiable
- The Fest: The crown jewel of the Philadelphia Folksong Society
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? Why aren’t you camping at Fest??
- Where else do people actually smile at each other?
- Where else are performers camped alongside you?
- Where else can your kids stay out until 3 AM?
- Where else are you a part of an extended family of thousands?
- Where else can you party until dawn and the cops don’t come?
- Where else is the world actually the way you’d like it to be?
More Information:
Guests:
Philadelphia Folk Festival: http://Folkfest.org
Philadelphia Folksong Society: http://pfs.org
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Plumbing the Depths of Over-Regulation
Ken’s guest is Marc Bozzacco, Master Plumber and Journeyman Steamfitter, discussing the high cost of over-regulation of the craft trades, and how the constantly-changing regulatory landscape wastes millions. Then there are the listener-submitted questions about taxes (again), free markets for organ transplants, and Paul’s Law.
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week? Park rangers!
Guest Toastmaster Narrator and acapella singer: Donna Herb of the Educational Testing Service Toastmasters,
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag? xx:xx:xx-xx:xx:xx
- 50 years of rising Pennsylvania taxation (again)
- An overture on fracking
- Paul’s law and autistic patients
- How much better is a free market in human organs?
A Conversation with Marc Bozzacco xx:xx
- Over-regulation of building codes and the high cost passed on to consumers
- How government decided you need to flush twice
- Throw out all my plumbing inventory AGAIN?
- Score a six-figure career without racking up a six-figure student debt!
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? Park Rangers!
- Prohibition: Alive and well in Pennsylvania state parks
- Stranger danger or ranger danger?
- Militant rangers vs. sewer pipe campfires
- “Maneater” parody lyrics: Watch out boys, he’ll chew you out!
More Information:
Guests:
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
Paul’s Law: http://www.senatorsabatina.com/tag/pauls-law/
Maneater, by Hall & Oates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRYFKcMa_Ek
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
It’s Not All in Your Mind
Ken’s guest is Rhea M. Baskerville, an outspoken mental health advocate and a member of the National Alliance for Mental Illness, engaged in a candid conversation about the challenges of life with a mental disorder. Hear first-hand examples coming from the viewpoint of the other side of a stereotypically-misunderstood situation. Then there are the listener-submitted questions about copycat legislation, taxes (again), and an overture about medical freedom.
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week is the restriction of medical freedom in Pennsylvania
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Ariel Vaknin of the Drexel University Toastmasters
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag? 00:02:40-00:00:15:20
- Copycat legislation
- Medical freedom
A Conversation with Rhea M. Baskerville 00:17:30-00:00:45:00
- Life bi-polar – What’s that mean?
- Mental “illness” – The myths and the realities
- Situational or medical?
- All about coming out of the closet – but not in the usual sense!
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? Restricting Medical Freedom 00:47:00-00:57:00
- Vaccines: Optional or mandatory?
- Right to Try? Or Right to Die?
- California shows what happens when religious exemptions are threatened
- Irv Homer’s Laetrile crusade
More Information:
Guests:
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
National Alliance on Mental Illness: https://www.nami.org/
Copycat legislation: https://whyy.org/articles/pa-lawmaker-cited-by-national-investigation-defends-role-as-copycat-legislator/
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
The Separation of Society and State
Ken’s guest is missing in action, so the guest is Ken talking about some of the key concepts in his novel, Atlas Snubbed, a parody sequel to Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. For example, the Separation of Society and State as an effective governor on the runaway welfare state, voluntary business regulations as a more effective and cheaper solution, and a novel approach to the justice system: voluntary sentencing.
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week is fascism in Pennsylvania
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Eric Skoglund of the Drexel University Toastmasters
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag? xx:xx:xx-xx:xx:xx
- Medical Insurance (again)
- Casinos
- Free education (again)
The Separation of Society and State 11:21
- The welfare state is bankrupting Pennsylvania, consuming over 80% of the budget.
- Transition welfare programs out of the government and into a new organization, “Society”
- How would voluntary business regulations work?
- Voluntary courts with voluntary sentencing?
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? Fascism in Pennsylvania 44:00
- Definitions of fascism by Benito Mussolini, FDR, and George Orwell
- Two dimensional political spectrum: Left, Right, Libertarian, and Fascist
- Fascist organizations in Pennsylvania: cigarette sales, the Milk Marketing Board, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association, among others
- Lawyers poisoning the Pennsylvania Constitution in 21 different places!
More Information:
Guests:
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
Atlas Snubbed: http://AtlasSnubbed.com
Pennsylvania Bar Association: https://www.pabar.org
Fascism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism
Political Spectrum: https://www.theadvocates.org/
Higher Education, by Charles Sheffield and Jerry Pournelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_Education_(novel)
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Wallace Automotive: https://www.wallaceautoservice.com
The Courage of Your Convictions
Ken’s guest is Bob Lankin, a mass incarceration expert, talking about the incredible number of Pennsylvanians in prison, the real cost to taxpayers, and alternative approaches to probation and bail that can dramatically reduce the size of Pennsylvania’s prison industrial complex.
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week is another facet of the Quote-Unquote “Justice” System, namely, the Courts.
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Margaret Susuni
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag? 00:03:30-00:14:00
- The crushing weight of student debt
- Uncommon education with Common Core
- Tenth Amendment nullification of unconstitutional federal law
- More on state-sponsored marriage
A Conversation with Rob Lankin 00:16:10-00:46:00
- Only 47,000 Pennsylvanians in prison? No, it’s many, many more.
- Only $40,000 a year to keep them there? No, it’s much, much more.
- Bail as an unnecessary, regressive burden on the lower classes? Yep.
- Should government be your agent for revenge?
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? The Courts 00:48:30-00:00:56:40
- Contempt of court and those men in dresses with their cruel, mumbo-jumbo legal process
- Do YOU understand the charges against you? Sure ya do. NOT!
- The judge is under no obligation to help you – but does help lawyers stack the jury
- Get judges out of the judging business!
More Information:
Guests:
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
ACLU Smart Justice: https://www.aclupa.org
Decarcerate Pennsylvania: https://decarceratepa.info
Pennsylvania Prison Society: https://www.prisonsociety.org
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Wallace Automotive: https://www.wallaceautoservice.com
Squashing the Competition
Ken’s guest is Tim Runkle, treasurer for the Green Party of Pennsylvania discussing ballot access, flat-out incorrect “official” information, voting reforms, and pork-barrel Primaries. What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week: Using the law and economic extortion to diss, fine, and crush challenger political parties.
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag? 00:03:20-00:14:20
- Be a guest on The Pennsylvania Project!
- Unlimited sheriffs
- Race-conscious sheriffs
- More about reducing the size of the Pennsylvania legislature
A Conversation with Tim Runkle 16:45-45:55
- Ending straight ticket voting
- Ending hacked elections
- Pork barrel primaries
- Challenging a candidate’s right to be on the ballot
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? Economic Extortion at the Ballot Box 48:00-58:00
- Calling challenger political parties rude names – by law!
- Stifling the competition – by law!
- Economic extortion to stop competition – by law!
- Hear the text of the Republicans’ extortion letter
More Information:
Guests:
Green Party of Pennsylvania: http://GPofPA.org
The Republican’s Economic Extortion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJB7bt-grmU
Pennsylvania Ballot Access Coalition: http://PaBallotAccess.org
“Open” Primaries, SB 300: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/billinfo.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=S&type=B&bn=300
Reducing signature requirements: https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/pa-third-party-ballot-access-signature-requirements-20180209.html
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Green Party of Pennsylvania: http://GPofPA.org
Do-It-Yourself Government
Ken’s guest is Michael Heise, political activist in Montgomery County, discussing what it takes to change government, whether it’s peace with police, legal psychedelics, named guns, or marching in the streets. What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week: What no one votes Libertarian.
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag? 00:03:05-00:00:14:30
- Grammar police meet The Pennsylvania Project
- Antimetaboles vs. Chiasmeses, and who really cares?
- Killing criminals humanely
- Robert A. Heinlein’s “Coventry”
A Conversation with Michael Heise 00:16:40-00:45:40
- Making peace with police
- What is the Mises PAC?
- Passing pro-cannabis ordinances locally
- Today cannabis, tomorrow psychedelics?
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? Voting Libertarian 00:47:45-00:56:40
- What’s a Libertarian?
- What’s a Democrat? A Republican? Who knows!
- Economic, social, personal, and moral reasons to vote Libertarian
- The ”wasted vote” syndrome
More Information:
Guests:
MisesPAC: Libertarian Party Mises Caucus: https://lpmisescaucus.com/pac/
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
National Libertarian Party: http://lp.org
Truth, Freedom, Prosperity: https://truthfreedomprosperity.com/
Robert Heinlein’s Coventry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_(short_story)
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Wallace Automotive: https://www.wallaceautoservice.com
The Right to Keep and Bear Plants
Ken’s guest is Jeff Zick, co-founder of the Pennsylvania Cannabis Festival in Scranton, discussing the state of legalization locally and nationally, the successful Cannabis Festival, and why Pennsylvania law persecutes sick people. What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week is yet another one of no one’s favorites: The Quote-Unquote “Justice” System.
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag? 00:02:45-00:14:15
- Don’t censor the Council of Censors!
- Eating our young with minimum wage laws
- Parole on trial, found guilty of aiding and abetting
- Handguns are a girl’s best friend
A Conversation with Jeff Zick 00:16:20-00:00:45:30
- Legalized recreational cannabis on the near horizon?
- Cannabis Festival outgrowing its Nay Aug roots
- Medical cannabis cards available
- Privatization options – state vs. private
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? The Quote-Unquote “Justice” System 00:48:00-00:55:45
- Who can afford $500-an-hour lawyers? Taxpayers!
- Cruel, mumbo-jumbo legal process
- “He who represents himself has a fool for a client” – or so says Abraham Lincoln!
- The new slavery, or revolution?
More Information:
Guests:
Pennsylvania Cannabis Festival: http://www.penncannafest.com/
Big Yield Hydroponics: https://www.facebook.com/bigyield/
Medical Marijuana Cards: https://www.pa.gov/guides/pennsylvania-medical-marijuana-program/
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Wallace Automotive: https://www.wallaceautoservice.com
No Justice, Just Us
Ken’s guest is Attorney Dan Wassmer, former Bucks County assistant Solicitor, dodging discussing why lawyers are so damn expensive, the evils of corporate personhood, blatantly racist courts, or how they’ve effectively monopolized the “justice” system and excluded regular people. What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week is another one of no one’s favorite: Inept drivers
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag? 00:02:30-00:13:00
- Don’t lower the drinking age – eliminate it!
- Is capital punishment murder?
- The evils of the Convention of States
- Sanctuary cities: support, oppose – or neither?
A Conversation with attorney Dan Wassmer 00:15:15-00:44:45
- Why are lawyers so damn expensive?
- Why form a corporation – and why not?
- Eliminate corporate personhood?
- Are our courts racist?
- Why don’t attorneys answer questions on radio shows?
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? Inept Drivers 00:48:00-00:55:45
- Standard complaints: tailgating, no signals, blowing lights
- Why “good” drivers get rear-ended, cause accidents, and are otherwise a pain
- Cars full of poisons and “dirty energy”, an ecological disaster on wheels
- How to psych out self-driving cars before they take the fun out of driving
More Information:
Guests:
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
Bucks County Solicitor's Office: http://www.buckscounty.org/government/administration/Solicitor
Tesla Motors: http://tesla.com
Racial disparities in drug arrests: https://www.naacp.org/criminal-justice-fact-sheet/
Incorporating in Pennsylvania: https://www.dos.pa.gov/BusinessCharities/Business/Documents/FEB2018%2021460%20Guide%20to%20Business%20Registration.pdf
BP Deepwater oil spill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
Exxon Valdez oil spill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill
Dirty Energy: https://www.pennfuture.org/dirty-energy
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Wallace Automotive: https://www.wallaceautoservice.com
Who Guards the Guardians?
Ken’s guest is a captain in the Pennsylvania National Guard. But what is the Guard? What do they do? Where do they serve? Who commands them, Washington, Harrisburg, or the headlines? Most importantly, who pays for them? The answer to these and many more questions all start out with the same two words: “It depends”. What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week is no one’s favorite, but it should be: Jury Duty.
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag? xx:xx:xx-xx:xx:xx
- Reducing the size of the state house
- Racist cops on Facebook
- A new “police tax” in Pennsylvania’s hinterlands?
- Feeling ignored, violated, and gutted? So is Pennsylvania’s constitution.
A Conversation with Captain Jim xx:xx:xx-xx:xx:xx
- What does the Guard do?
- Inefficiencies galore, one after the other
- Deployments galore: Iraq, New Orleans, and New Jersey
- The fiscal dangers behind states of emergency
- The bigger the budget, the better!
- The Guard as cop
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? Jury Duty xx:xx:xx-xx:xx:xx
- Why it gets a well-deserved bad rap – but is that deliberate?
- The secret power of the jury, a present from William Penn to us
- “Troublemaker Penn” repeatedly arrested for preaching in the streets
- Guilty as all hell, but the jury refused to convict, disobeying judge and king
- The result? A new, unstoppable right: Jury Nullification
- It helped defeat slavery, Prohibition, and other tyrannical acts of government
More Information:
Guests:
Pennsylvania National Guard: https://www.png.pa.gov
Reducing the size of the state legislature: https://ballotpedia.org/Pennsylvania_Size_of_Legislature_Reduction_Amendment_(2018)
Injustice Watch: https://www.injusticewatch.org/
Cops racist Facebook posts: https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-police-facebook-scandal-racist-plain-view-project-richard-ross-20190619.html
Gov. Wolf’s Police Tax: https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylvania/mc-nws-wolf-budget-state-police-fee-20190205-story.html
Jury Nullification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
Troublemaker William Penn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penn#Persecutions_and_imprisonments
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/00/00.HTM
Mark Twain: https://simple.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Wallace Automotive: https://www.wallaceautoservice.com
Addiction is Not a Crime
Ken’s guest is Chris Dreisbach, a very different sort of drug warrior. Chris is CEO of Blueprints for Addiction Recovery, Inc., a multi-site drug and alcohol treatment provider, and co-founder of Second Chance PA, a pre-arrest diversionary program offering individuals opportunities for treatment instead of incarceration. What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week is “Laws that kill citizens”.
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag? 00:02:30-00:14:00
• Why would anyone want to be a politician?
• Spiderman’s advice for police officers
• Davy Crockett on housing affordability issues
• A fracking severance tax and “blood for oil”
A Conversation with Chris Dreisbach 00:16:15-00:45:00
- Providing a second chance for those with addiction problems
- Being at the right place at the right time
- Addiction - a brain disease
- Treatment center or a jail bed?
- Working with local law enforcement to help get people the proper treatment
- The steps to recovery
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? Laws Killing Citizens 00:47:15-00:56:00
• Every 2.5 hours another Pennsylvanian dies because of the Opioid Crisis
• More citizens die from opioids than were killed in the Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq Wars combined, more than are now lost to guns and car accidents.
• The Opioid Crisis is a direct result of the War on Drugs.
• Portugal's solution: They ended their insane War on Drugs.
• According to Portuguese Health Ministry:
- ``` Reduced opioid use by 75%
2.
Reduced opioid deaths by 85%
3.
Reduced HIV infections by more than 90%
```
• It boggles the mind that some Pennsylvania politicians are doubling down on their insane War on Drugs
More Information:
Guests:
Blueprints for Addiction Recovery http://www.blueprintsrecovery.com
Second Chance Pa www.secondchancepa.com
A New Life Kitchens www.anlkitchensandbaths.com
American Society of Addiction Medicine http://asam.org/docs/default-source/advocacy/opioid-addiction-disease-facts-figures.pdf?sfvrsn=100c76c2_12#search=%222016%20facts%22
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Opioid statistics: http://pa.gov/guides/opioid-epidemic/
Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths: http://mass.gov/files/documents/2017/08/31/data-brief-overdose-deaths-may-2017.pdf
Scientific American Opioid Study: http://scientificamerican.com/article/people-are-dying-because-of-ignorance-not-because-of-opioids/
NY Times on Portugal:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/opinion/sunday/portugal-drug-decriminalization.html
National Institute of Health on Overdoses: https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Wallace Automotive: https://www.wallaceautoservice.com
Discommoded Bathrooms
Ken’s guest was flushed away by the storms raging across eastern Pennsylvania, so the Them portion of the show is spent in the bathroom. But is it single sex, multi-sex, state controlled replete with bathroom police, moderated by the Moral Majority, or what? Then there’s that unmitigated disaster known as DUI Checkpoints.
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag? 00:02:30-00:14:30
- Net Neutrality and Government control of Social Media. Or is it Not Neutrality?
- More about legalizing cannabis. Is it really racist?
- How to afford affordable healthcare. It sure ain’t Obamacare!
- Welfare work requirements. Enough to make you sick (er)
- Pennsylvania’s biggest problem! Can you guess?
About that Bathroom 00:16:30-00:39:30
- Introduction: Ken as a Gypsy Woman.
*Regulating YOUR bathroom, your business’ bathroom
*What about schools, courtrooms, other government buildings?
*Gender identity: Amenity or Obscenity? Or neither?
*The solution, in three parts:
- Bathroom Suffrage
- Don’t ask, can’t tell
- Pushing out the Pusher
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? DUI Checkpoints! 00:42:00-00:55:00
- The truth revealed: Cops LOVE donuts! (And soft pretzels.)
- What goes on behind the scenes at a DUI checkpoint?
-
The victims:
-
Not drunk, but hauled away in irons
- Drunk, not hauled away in irons
-
The unaffordable price of free donuts
-
Waddaya mean, there are better ways to catch drunks.
- The FBI really said that?
More Information:
Guests:
Racial disparities in drug arrests: https://www.naacp.org/criminal-justice-fact-sheet/
FBI says roving DIU patrols more effective than checkpoints: https://www2.fbi.gov/publications/leb/2003/jan2003/jan03leb.htm
Pennsylvania bathroom bill: http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2015&sessInd=0&billBody=S&billTyp=B&billNbr=1306&pn=1908
Liberty Health Share: https://www.libertyhealthshare.org/
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/00/00.HTM
Abington Citizens Police Academy: https://www.abingtonpd.org/register-now-for-abington-township-police-departments-2019-citizens-police-academy/
Donuts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnut
Tom Lehrer, “The Old Dope Peddler”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNWvdtt5sxs
Federal Title IX on Discrimination: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/tix_dis.html
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Wallace Automotive: https://www.wallaceautoservice.com
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag? 00:02:00-00:13:30
- Loose cannon government officials shooting off their mouth.
- Arming teachers? A good idea?
- Police brutality? NOT a good idea?
- Free college for all! But who pays?
A Conversation with Shawn Patrick House 00:15:45-00:45:00
- History of hemp
- Food uses?
- Industrial uses!
- Organizing farmers against cross-pollination
- Importing hemp from Canada?
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? Police Killing Citizens! 00:47:30-00:56:30
More information:
Topics:
PA Title 18 Section 508: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/18/00.005.008.000..HTM
College enrollments dropping, Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereknewton/2019/05/31/the-new-college-enrollment-numbers-explained/#6b2f023d6942
NYC Subway Vigilante, Bernie Goetz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_New_York_City_Subway_shooting
RT.com article on loose cannon minister: https://www.rt.com/news/458746-norway-listhaug-cigarettes-alcohol/
East Pittsburgh police shooting: https://archive.triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/police-fatally-shoot-17-year-old-in-east-pittsburgh/
Wildwood NJ police brutality: https://www.nj.com/opinion/2018/06/get_dropped_predictably_escalated_wildwood_beach_t.html
Police shootings in Pennsylvania: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/watchdog/2017/11/13/these-57-people-have-been-killed-police-shootings-pennsylvania-since-2015/837876001/
Chuck Taylor hemp sneakers: https://www.amazon.com/Converse-Star-Chuck-Taylor-Womens/dp/B000FYZ22W/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
Guests:
Shawn House 1-800-USE HEMP
Hempzels: https://www.hempzels.com/
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Hempzels: https://www.hempzels.com/
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Wallace Automotive: https://www.wallaceautoservice.com
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag? 00:02:00-00:13:30
- Plurality voting: how to choose several of the least of several evils?
- Should government fund basic research, despite its awful track record?
- What is the appeal of government schools?
- What’s the reach of WWDB 860 AM, host of The Pennsylvania Project?
A conversation with Joseph Basrawi 00:15:30-00:45:30
- Primaries?
- Can one sentence capture what Republicans stand for? Apparently not.
- Does todays the Left stand for personal freedom?
- Government permits vs. “Can’t License” sentencing; Mommy vs. Liberty
- Another excuse for that theft known as taxation.
- Pro-Life? Pro-Choice? Pro-Option?
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? The two old parties!00:48:00-00:00:56:00
- Who represents the Democratic philosophy, John Kennedy or Bernie Sanders?
- Who represents the Republican philosophy, Ronald Regan or Donald Trump?
- Their philosophy changes almost daily
- P.J O’Rourke on the difference
- George Washington on the difference
- How to reduce the damage the two old parties do
More Information:
Guests:
Joe Basrawi: https://www.facebook.com/JosephBasrawi/
Can’t Licenses: Atlas Snubbed: http://AtlasSnubbed.com
P.J. O’Rourke: http://www.pjorourke.com/
Libertarian Party: http://lp.org
Republican Party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)
Washington’s Farewell Address: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Atlas Snubbed: http://AtlasSnubbed.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Wallace Automotive: https://www.wallaceautoservice.com
Can’t We All Just Get along? with Carmina Taylor
Ken’s guest is Carmina Taylor, Branch President of the Ambler NAACP. They discuss solutions to improve human relations. Their conversation stretches from the courts to the schools to lawn chairs and a potluck lunch behind an 18th century log house hosting a necessary conversation.
Found in this episode:
What’s in the mail bag? 00:02:00-00:12:45
- Libertarian electoral success
- High gas prices
- Pennsylvania minting silver
- State police claiming most of the gas tax
- Cannabis legalization
A conversation with Carmina Taylor 00:15:00-00:46:00
- Introduction
- NAACP Ambler Chapter
- Organizing Lieutenant Governor Candidate Forum
- Middle Way Tour - Morgan Log House
- Assisting those treated unfairly by law enforcement
- Navigating the court system
What sticks in Ken’s craw? 00:48:50-00:57:00
- Second class citizenship, mandated by law, that’s what!
- A plethora of protected classes abound: gays, women, minorities, businesses, politicians, married couples, and more.
- But what of the unprotected, the second-class citizens created by law?
- Whatever happened to equality?
- What’s good for the goose and gander also good for the goose and goose, and the gander and gander?
More information:
Topics:
Morgan Log House: http://www.morganloghouse.org
Pennsylvania NAACP: https://pastatenaacp.org
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
League of Women Voters: https://www.lwv.org/
Black Guns Matter: https://www.facebook.com/blackgunsmattermajtoure/
Northeastern University: https://www.northeastern.edu/
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tatoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Wallace Automotive: https://www.wallaceautoservice.com
Insuring Trouble from the State, with Mike Bruckner
Ken’s guest is Mike Bruckner, activist and long-time critic of the Pennsylvania insurance industry.
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag? 00:02:00-00:00:15:45
• The late great Evil Irv Homer
• Educating voters about Libertarianism
• Do we really need a state amphibian?
• How to get people to become politically involved.
• More complaints about the roads!
A Conversation with Mike Bruckner 00:17:45-00:44:00
• Introduction
• Insurance companies allowed to ignore appraisals.
• Lobbying the state to reform insurance regulations
• The Pennsylvania Insurance Commission runs amok.
• Be careful what you wish for with insurance reform
• Direct political action against individual regulators?
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? The Primary Elections! 00:46:30-00:56:30
• Quick history of primaries
• Who understands them?
• The problem with open primaries
• Atheists setting standards for priests?
• The two old parties acting as their own special interest
• $20,000,000 down the drain, year after year
• Zeroing out funding for primaries
More Information:
Guests:
Direct political action against regulators (eminent domain example): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elRMTTftXIE (part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPfy3pafj5A (part 2)
Irv Homer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irv_Homer
Pennsylvania Insurance Commission: https://www.insurance.pa.gov/Pages/default.aspx
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Wallace Automotive: https://www.wallaceautoservice.com
Gunning for a Solution with Maj Toure
Ken’s Guest is Maj Toure, Libertarian candidate for Philadelphia City Council and founder of Black Guns Matter, an organization teaching gun safety and self-defense in the inner city.
Found in this episode:
What’s in the mail bag? 00:02:00-00:16:00
- What can we do about gerrymandering?
- What do you think about MAGA?
- Is there a plan to repair old bridges?
- Could you address recent gun control legislation in Harrisburg?
A Conversation with Maj Toure 00:19:00-00:45:00
- Introduction
- Touring with Black Guns Matter, teaching gun safety in inner cities
- Lack of education in urban areas a conspiracy?
- Why is Maj running as a Libertarian?
- Marijuana “The Gateway Drug”
- Maj’s Platform: Criminal Justice Reform, Marijuana Decriminalization, and Education
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? Gun Laws! 00:47:00-00:57:00
- How do we save the most lives?
- Gun violence statistics
- Are guns the right thing to ban?
- CDC gun violence study
- Pennsylvania Constitution, Article 1 Section 21
More Information:
Guests:
Maj Toure for Phila. City Council: https://maj4philly.com
Black Guns Matter:https://facebook.com/blackgunsmattermajtoure
CDC Gun Study: https://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/1#vii
Front Sight Firearms Academy: https://frontsight.com
John Lott: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lott
Max’s Steaks: https://facebook.com/pages/Maxs-Cheese-Steak/160017100703581
Northeastern University study: https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/02/26/schools-are-still-one-of-the-safest-places-for-children-researcher-says
Pennsylvania Constitution: https://legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/00/00.HTM
Rising Sun Pizza: https://risingsunpizzamenu.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Wallace Automotive: https://www.wallaceautoservice.com
Torturing Sex Workers, with Melanie
Ken’s guest is Melanie, a self-identified active consensual adult sex worker, discussing various issues surrounding the sex trades, badly needed decriminalization, and holes in the law that create “viminals”, i.e., making criminals out of victims of sexual abuse.
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag? 00:03:00-00:16:45
• Illogical education for Millennials
• Gell-Mann amnesia when reading the news
• Saving Glen Onoko Falls near Jim Thorpe
• The decline of youth
• More problems with the roads
• Game Commission and Sunday hunting
A Conversation with Melanie 00:19:00-00:45:10
• Introduction
• Definition of “sex workers”
• Sex Workers’ Outreach Project (SWOP)
• SWOP Behind Bars, championing incarcerated sex workers
• Decriminalizing sex work
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? The Abortion Debate! 00:47:00-00:57:30
• Both sides deeply entrenched
• Defuse the abortion debate with Pre-Natal Adoption
• Simultaneously Pro-Life and Pro-Choice:
• Saves babies while preserving a woman’s right to choose
• Worst case: defaults to what we have now
More Information:
Guests:
Abortion and Pre-Natal Adoption: https://www.kenk4pa.com/issues/abortion/
Fetters Mill Bridge: https://www.lowermoreland.org/images/Fetters_Mill_Road_Bridge_Closure_PR.pdf
Gell-Mann amnesia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
Glen Onoko Falls: https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-glen-onoko-trail-20190416-iqnee4cukfahjnjcoceodapleq-story.html
Pennsylvania Game Commission: https://www.pgc.pa.gov/Pages/default.aspx Pennsylvania Survivors Workers Community Clearinghouse: https://sexualpolitixxx.blog
Teedyuscung, the magnificent Lenni Lenape Indian: https://www.fow.org/archives-indian-statue-wissahickon/
Commercials:
Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.com
Freedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Wallace Automotive: https://www.wallaceautoservice.com
A Taxing Situation, with Gary St. Fleur
Ken’s guest is Gary St. Fleur, Libertarian candidate for Mayor of Scranton in 2017, discussing the city’s tax woes, population decline, and imminent bankruptcy.
Found in this episode:
What’s in the Mail Bag? 00:02:00-00:14:00
• Cannabis decriminalization
• Libertarian solutions to protecting the environment
• Problems with potholes!
• What is Toastmasters?
A Conversation with Gary St. Fleur 00:16:40-00:44:30
• Introduction
• Successfully suing to stop over taxation
• Act 511 of 1965: Are all local taxes unconstitutional?
• More than half the police and firefighters on disability – and working for the county!
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? Traffic laws! 00:46:00-00:57:00
• Nobody stops for stop signs – eliminate them!
• Nobody does the speed limit – no more speed limit signs!
• No drivers licenses??
More Information:
Guests:
• Act 511 of 1965: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/LEGIS/LI/uconsCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&yr=1965&sessInd=0&smthLwInd=0&act=0511.&CFID=278874295&CFTOKEN=94706836
• Gary St. Fleur: https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Politician/Gary-St-Fleur-1916768191893586/
• Pollution: https://www.kenk4pa.com/issues/environment/
• Scranton lawsuit win: https://www.lp.org/libertarian-mayoral-candidate-gary-st-fleur-scores-major-win-scranton-taxpayers/
• Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Commercials:
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.org
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club
Steven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.com
Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
Wallace Automotive: https://www.wallaceautoservice.com
Liberal vs. Libertarian, with Siddharth Paratkar
Ken’s guest is Siddharth Paratkar, 17-year-old founder of the popular liberal blog, Parties and Policies on Wordpress, discussing Libertarian solutions to the liberal agenda.
Found in this episode:
An Introduction to the Pennsylvania Project 00:00:00-00:05:00*
• Why a Pennsylvania Project?
• Who is Ken Krawchuk?
• Rationale for the show’s format
• The vision, mission, and motto of The Pennsylvania Project
A Conversation with Siddharth Paratkar 00:07:40-00:44:00*
• Introduction
• What is a Libertarian?
• Who pays for your school district’s Taj Mahal?
• Homeschooling, apprentice programs, and that boxy building on the corner
• Is taxation theft?
What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? Talk Radio! 00:46:45-00:56:45
• Talk radio sucks!
• Callers suck!
• Mainstream Media sucks!
• The solution? The Pennsylvania Project.
More Information:
Guests:
• Ken Krawchuk: https://www.kenk4pa.com/
• Siddharth Paratkar: https://partiesandpolicies.wordpress.com/
• Toastmasters International: http://toastmasters.org
• Tom Lehrer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer
Commercials:
Iron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.club