The Brion McClanahan Show Podcast

A friend of mine has been knee deep in local political activism for the last several months. The government in his State has only recently seen the light and started opening the economy. In other words, they were living in the dark ages while those of us in real America had long ago been able to do just about anything we want. He has formed …more

The “Righteous Cause Myth” folks would like you to think that it’s “settled science” that the War was “about slavery.” No other explanation is acceptable. These neo-revisionists spill a lot of ink beating back “neo-Confederate” bogeymen who amount to very few mainstream academics, if any. It’s almost as if they are trying to convince themselves that the war was “about slavery.” Because if it wasn’t, …more

A year goes by fast when you’re having fun. It’s been almost one year to the day since I released Southern Scribblings. I’m pleased to announce that my newest book, The Jeffersonian Tradition, is now ready for you to purchase, read, and digest. Like Southern Scribblings, The Jeffersonian Tradition is a collection of essays aimed at the heart of the righteous cause myth. But this …more

Yankees are having their revenge on the rest of America. Michael Lind argues that the modern mess of wokism is blowback from Southern dominance the general government from the New Deal through the 1980s. Lind correctly shows that Southerners used the government against powerful Yankees for about fifty years. It’s payback time. He might have a point. We live in Yankee America with the political …more

Americans need myths. The left and the neoconservatives will tell you that Southerners believe in a “lost cause myth” of honorable Southerners fighting for independence and not for slavery. The left also likes to slap down the neoconservatives for their belief in an anti-slavery and anti-racist founding generation. Some were anti-slavery, yes, but you really can’t find many–or any–that were anti-racism. Neoconservatives also believe in …more

If you’re over 50, you probably don’t get the joke in this subject line. Let me explain. Several years ago, a video game manufacturer attempted to translate some content for English speaking gamers. In one hilarious gaffe, the translators wrote, “All you base are belong to us.” The empire had spoken (broken English). This phrase has now been used as a joke when the establishment …more

Justice Kagan doesn’t like it when her colleagues ignore precedent, at least a particular type of precedent. She wants the decisions of the Warren Court to be set in stone. Almost anything else is fair game. I have long argued that progressives are the modern conservatives. They seek to conserve the leftist revolution of the middle 20th century. I once told one of my feminist …more

Seven Oregon counties have voted to secede from the State and join a “Greater Idaho.” One historian called this “Secession 2.0” on social media. Not quite, but it’s a start. Of course, the people of Oregon should just elect a new government and start acting like they are independent. This would create a constitutional crisis, to be sure, and it would take A LOT of …more

I tuned into talk radio on my drive home the other day for the first time in months. Sean Hannity had Bill O’Reilly on to talk about Joe Biden. O’Reilly wasn’t killing anyone and neither praised Lincoln, at least during the time I listened. That’s a start. But they did talk about three things Biden has accomplished since taking office: inflation, a gas crisis, and …more

In our woke era, people have to take some “time off” after someone discovers they said something or did something offensive at any point in their life. Corporations and the press have to do the same thing. Sometimes, they think by owning up to their “mistakes,” people will just forgive them. For what? What someone said or did a century ago? Bowing before the gods …more