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Edifice of Trust

Victor C. Bolles

The Edifice of Trust is a podcast that provides discussion and analysis of today"s current events from the perspective of America"s Founding Principles. Based on Enlightenment philosophy as espoused by John Locke and economic freedom as described by Adam Smith, the host, Victor Bolles, provides listeners a path toward understanding current events from these timeless principles. Many Americans believe that the country is moving in the wrong direction, the podcast tries to point out a new course that

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07:50

Open Letter to Sen. John Cornyn

Edifice of Trust ·

2022/06/02

An open letter to Senator John Cornyn regarding his efforts to build a bi-partisan consensus on gun reform amid rising concern that current gun laws provide inadequate protection to the American people and their children.

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11:34

Our Politicians Are Driving Us Crazy

Edifice of Trust ·

2022/05/25

Our Politicians Are Driving Us Crazy. I do not mean this figuratively. I mean this literally. They are driving people crazy and making America a hellish place in which to live. In this podcast, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles looks at what politicians are doing that are literally making people go crazy.

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08:36

More on the High Cost of Free Speech

Edifice of Trust ·

2022/05/20

Tragedy follows upon tragedy and the cause is linked to hate speech, disinformation or fake news. It is a natural instinct to want to suppress these sick ideas and hateful concepts. But these evils thrive in the darkness. Their weakness is exposure to light. Free speech carries a high price, but the lack of free speech has an unbearable cost. In this podcast, the Edifice of trust host, Victor Bolles, continues our investigation into the continual high cost of free speech.

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14:19

The Continual High Cost of Free Speech

Edifice of Trust ·

2022/05/17

I am quite certain that as we get closer to the November off-year elections abortion, inflation and the war in Europe will dominate the campaign rhetoric and the issue of freedom of speech will be pushed to the sidelines (again). But as Elon Musk recently tweeted, “Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy.” We are already being inundated with hackers, trolls, bots, foreign actors, fake news, conspiracy theories and all sorts of nonsense. And now the Biden Administration wants to create a

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15:16

Abortion - A 23rd Century Perspective

Edifice of Trust ·

2022/05/10

A stolen draft Supreme court opinion that might overturn Roe v. Wade has set off a firestorm of tweets, op-eds and protests across the country. The Republicans and Democrats are facing off for a Battle of the Century. However, the American public has held a very durable consensus for many years that would allow abortion in the first trimester with increasing restrictions, thereafter. The political parties ignore this consensus that would be a viable basis for policy in favor of divisive politics. In

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13:21

Joe Biden Didn't Cause Our Inflation

Edifice of Trust ·

2022/04/25

President Biden’s poll numbers are in the tank and a lot of people are blaming record high inflation for the poor numbers. But inflation pressures began building long before he became president, only awaiting a trigger to set them off. We got multiple triggers with the Covid pandemic, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and supply chain problems. But instead of changing course to address inflationary pressures, the Biden administration is doubling down on its imprudent progressive spending plans. In this

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17:20

Slanted Society

Edifice of Trust ·

2022/04/18

What if the differences between central planning, social justice loving progressives and free market, liberty loving conservatives were not ideological but biological? There is mounting evidence that there may be such a link, which means that rational discussion has little chance of changing the minds of those in these two camps. In this podcast, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, investigates some of the evidence pointing in this direction and discusses some of the implications of this

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13:13

What Happened to the Party of JFK?

Edifice of Trust ·

2022/04/05

President Biden has just released his proposed budget for 2023, projecting trillion dollar deficits and mounting public debt far into the future. The rapidly expanding welfare schemes are a far cry from the sentiments President John F. Kennedy expressed in his inaugural address. And to pay for even more entitlements of dubious value, President Biden is proposing a wealth tax on greedy billionaires. In this podcast, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles looks at how far the progressive left has

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11:37

The New Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Edifice of Trust ·

2022/03/18

Eight days after Hitler’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Joachim von Ribbentrop, signed the infamous pact that bears his name along with his Soviet counterpart, Vyacheslav Molotov, Germany invaded Poland, starting World War Two. Twenty days after Russian President Vladimir Putin issued, along with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, a Joint Statement declaring a new era of international relations, he invaded Ukraine. The new era promised by Putin and Xi does not bode well for free people around the

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12:58

Vertical War

Edifice of Trust ·

2022/03/15

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine isn’t going as planned. The reason may lie in the fact the invasion was planned and implemented vertically, from the mind of a single person, Vladimir Putin. The defense of the nation, although inspired by the leadership of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is being fought by everyone from grandmothers giving sunflower seeds to Russian troops (so flowers will grow where their bodies are buried) to students and office workers heaving Molotov cocktails at

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13:05

Putin Has Done Us a Favor

Edifice of Trust ·

2022/03/07

Just as America was wallowing in woke divisiveness and populist conspiracies, and while the other countries of the West sank into self-indulgent complacency, Vladimir Putin has sent a wake-up call. Europe in their desire to save the planet, had put their future in the hands of Russia. Americans, focused on rancorous partisan politics hardly had the time to concentrate on anything outside its borders. Putin has changed all that. In this podcast, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles looks at the

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14:26

Backfire

Edifice of Trust ·

2022/03/01

I never thought Vladimir Putin would invade Ukraine. It didn’t make any sense. It was irrational. I was wrong – but right. He did invade. But I was right because he has not achieved any of his strategic goals and he (and Russia) are in a much worse situation than before the invasion. In this podcast, I analyze Putin’s disastrous military misadventure and look at its implications for the future.

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12:05

My Primary Predicament

Edifice of Trust ·

2022/02/21

Primary elections were intended to improve democracy in America. So was the inclusion of administrative positions such as attorney general or railroad commissioner on the ballot. However, as it often is with good intentions, the unintended consequences are often worse than the problem and increasing democracy has resulted in increasing divisiveness. In this podcast, the Edifice of Trust hoist, Victor Bolles examines some of the problems presented by upcoming primary elections and makes some

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13:12

In Vlad's Shoes

Edifice of Trust ·

2022/02/14

To our Western eyes, the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin are not just dangerous, they are incomprehensible, which only makes them more dangerous. But he is not a madman. There are reasons behind his recent provocative actions. In this podcast, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles engages in some thought experiments to try and better understand Mr. Putin’s motives and use those insights to guide future measures to preserve our security.

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16:32

The Algorithm of Decline

Edifice of Trust ·

2022/02/02

Ray Dalio, billionaire hedge fund manager and author, has written a new book describing his theory of why nations succeed and fail. He has used artificial intelligence and big data to identify the key determinants in the rise and fall of great powers and his theory reveals why the United States is a declining power and China is a rising one. But the real utility of his theory is as a roadmap of how America can avoid, or at least delay, such a fate. In this podcast, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor

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12:47

The Real RINO

Edifice of Trust ·

2022/01/17

In a recent letter, former president Trump implies that Democrats are not real Americans and urges fellow patriots (his words) to elect Trump Republicans. Not Republicans but Trump Republicans whose loyalty is to Donald Trump and not the Republican Party. Not to be out done, President Biden accuses those opposed to his legislation of being on the side of rebels and slavers like Jefferson Davis. In this podcast, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, examines the reasons for this hyperbolic

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10:06

Plessy v. Progressives

Edifice of Trust ·

2022/01/12

On January 5, 2022, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards pardoned Homer Plessy for committing the crime of riding in a whites-only railcar in 1892. The U.S. Supreme Court had rejected Plessy’s appeal of his conviction in the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson decision that set the stage for “separate but equal” treatment under Jim Crow laws. But that decision had placed public opinion over the intent of the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The progressive left objects to an

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25:09

Urgent Priorities

Edifice of Trust ·

2021/12/30

In the year 2022 the United States will be challenged to address urgent priorities of national importance, but our political leaders will be distracted by political priorities as we approach the upcoming off-year elections. As citizens, we need to make sure that our elected representative focus on issues of national importance and not on ideological agendas or the egos of political leaders. In this podcast, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, identifies some of these urgent national priorities

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12:01

Thanks for Nothing, Joe

Edifice of Trust ·

2021/12/23

Joe Manchin’s decision to vote no on President Biden’s Build Back Better plan has earned him the enmity of progressives across the country who are calling him every sort of vile and hateful name they can think of. They accuse him of endangering American democracy by his disloyalty to their progressive agenda. But in a democracy, unlike a totalitarian state, a person can vote their conscience and not be held in contempt. In this podcast, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, looks at the reaction

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13:03

Ethical Gymnastics

Edifice of Trust ·

2021/12/13

Proponents and opponents of a Mississippi law banning abortion after fifteen weeks recently argued before the Supreme Court. Many fear, or alternatively hope, that the Court will overturn the infamous Roe v. Wade decision that has governed abortions since 1973. The court will not announce its decision until the middle of 2022. But whatever the Court decides will not end the controversy surrounding abortion. In this podcast, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, looks at the ethical issues that

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