1st Amendment News Podcast

Before entering the Union in 1846, the Republic of Texas had been an independent nation for almost ten years.  The nation was almost as large in land area as the United States, and even had accumulated a sizable foreign debt due to its war with Mexico.  The debt, along with a substantial number of former American citizens with considerable political clout within the borders of Texas, eventually led to the annexation of the Republic...

Over the course of the past two years, the Korean Defense Ministry has quietly recruited, relocated, and assimilated former high level American defense researchers, scientists and engineers into key quality review positions within the Korean military research and development complex in Daejeon, Korea.  The American military experts were brought in to impart their knowledge and expertise with Korean defense technologists.  Knowledge...

Last night at the start of her State of the Union address, President Halima Ahmed formerly announce the decision to flip her national political affiliation from the Social Reform Party over to the Islamic National Party.  And with that surprise public announcement, the President went on to detail how the shift in political parties will require some adjustments in administration policy and agenda.  Ahmed stressed that her Medicare E...

At the Asian Pacific Rim Alliance Winter Meeting; the nations of Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, Cambodia, and Singapore petitioned Korea for official entry into the Hain Tojo Province.  Premier Choe expressed his deep gratitude to the peoples of these brave nations for choosing to be the first to join the unified economic and military alliance of Pacific Rim nations.  Choe added that once the formal document of allegiance were signed and ...

The year was 1792.  And though President Washington opposed them, cautioned of the potential for partisanship, and chose to remain an independent through both his Presidential terms, the emergence of the American two-party political system still managed to germinate and spring forth through philosophical and political differences within Washington’s own inner circle of advisors.   Favoring a strong united central government, a cent...

With the U S dollar making a slow, yet steady, recovery in the foreign currency exchange markets, President Ahmed announced in an afternoon press conference that she felt that over the past few months the U S economy had stabilized sufficiently and the American people had regained confidence in the administration’s vision of providing a national safety net to protect the country’s most vulnerable citizens.  Therefore with that perc...

Last week, leaders of the Asian Pacific Rim of Nations met in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam to discuss an array of proposals on how best to build a more organized and unified structure to serve as the coalition’s guideline. However, Korea’s Premier Choe had already drawn up his own vision of the direction in which the alliance should be headed; and his perception of the region’s future was cemented in a conviction of strength, supremacy...

One week after Japan sold off one trillion dollars’ worth of U S Treasury notes, Beijing announced that China would continue to hold its existing U S Treasury notes as a sign of support for the U S dollar.  Additionally, the Chinese government spokesperson announced that Beijing had bought up all of Japan’s previously owned US treasury notes which the former US ally had dumped unexpectedly on the foreign currency exchange market.  ...

Over the weekend in Seoul, Premier Choe of Korea and Prime Minister Yokoma of Japan met to discuss key economic policies relating to the Hain Toji Alliance.  Outside financial observers believe the two dominant players within the Asian Pacific Rim coalition had major differences relating to the direction the alliance should move, both economically and militarily.  The Yokoma government had expressed a desire to proceed with caution...

With daily skirmishes still popping up along the Indian-Chinese border, Korea’s Supreme Premier Choe called for an emergency session of nations associated with the loosely formed Asian Pacific Rim Conference.  As the meeting began, Choe informed the gathering that the members of the Conference need not cower down to the threat of the Chinese aggression.  The Korean leader assured the group that with a united front the coalition cou...

As Congress reopened for business following their winter recess, the main objective of the Social Reform Party was to reclaim the Speaker’s gavel from Speaker Malloy and the Federal Libertarian Party.  However the task was easier said than done.  Moderate Social Reform members, whom had sided with Malloy in the Speakership revolt, sought assurances that they would not be ostracized or penalized for select committee assignments, as ...

Sunday morning, tensions between China and India reached a new high as Chinese troops cut across the narrow strip of Indian territory separating Bhutan and Bangladesh; and then crossed over the northern Bangladesh border into the city of Kurigram.  The aggression started late Friday night when the Chinese army crossed into Bhutan and swiftly drove through the country to the Indian border.  The Bhutan and Indian military were caught...

Following the resumption of official business in the United States Congress after a fourteen day recess, House Minority Leader Joe Dean Malloy wasted little time in attempting to seize control of the chaotic situation.  From the opening gavel, the disarray within the Social Reform Party ranks was evident.  Assistant Speaker of the House Anglia Conklin opened the session and was immediately challenged in her leadership role.  As the...

At around 11:15 PM  last night, a special charter flight carrying the entire Social Reform Congressional Leadership Caucus crashed in a remote section of the Great Smokey Mountain National Park, killing all of those onboard.  The private aircraft owned by Howard Moorland, one of the Social Reform Party’s biggest private donors, slammed into Mt Guyot; one of the highest points in the national park at 6,621 feet.   The mountain is pa...

Historically, George Washington was the only President to have sworn in six Supreme Court justices within the span of one ceremony.  Washington realized that feat with the inaugural opening of the Supreme Court in 1789.  But this morning, with previous Congressional approval to expand the court to fifteen members; President Ahmed tied the former President’s two hundred and thirty-six year old milestone, and administered the oath of...

Finishing touches have been attended.  Crowd barriers put in place. Potential dissidents rounded up.  And city streets swept to an immaculate tidiness.  So with two very prominent players left sitting on the sidelines, Korea’s financial capital is now ready to showcase its grandeur under the international spotlight as the Choe government prepares to host their first international summit in the city of Seoul.  Leaders from eleven As...

Advocating for the immediate families of elderly members which have been designated as candidates to participate in the nation’s proposed Contributors Together Program; Vice Premier Park and a delegation of leading business and medical professionals, mostly from the southern provinces, met with Premier Choe and senior members of his administration to discuss changes to the country’s voluntary euthanasia program.  The Premier appear...

When the Convention of States proxies representing all fifty states convened last Tuesday morning for a four day assembly in Philadelphia, three “items of concern” were on the agenda for consideration regarding their feasibility as potential amendments to be adapted into the U S Constitution. First, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government.  Second, limit the terms of office for its officials and members of Congre...

One week before the long awaited Assembly of States Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, President Ahmed spoke to an overflow crowd of supporters in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Earlier in the morning, the President had addressed a smaller group of investors and select donors at the US Air Force installation, formerly known as Area 51.  Ahmed announced with the shutdown of most of the facility’s military operations; the majority of th...