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I really enjoyed my wide-ranging discussion with Republican State House Candidate Savvy Wolfson, who is running for the state legislature from a rural, mountainous district there in my home state of Colorado.

Savvy is the real deal. She’s puts her feet to work knocking on doors and puts her phone to her own ears. She has her own views but puts a high priority on listening to her district.

The Republican Professor is a pro-everyday-person-State-House-candidate, pro-having-your-views-but-listening-well podcast.

Therefore, welcome Colorado’s Savvy Wolfson !

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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This is the third of three parts with David Frankel, (JD, NYU School of Law), survivor of a public mass-shooting, or public set of several murders and attempted murders in his office building in San Fransisco in the summer of 1993.

David was a gun control advocate at the time. In fact, many of the attorneys who survived processed the horrific event solely and exclusively through the gun-control lens, founding a gun-control advocacy group that became something well known in gun control circles now.

After the event, David experienced a slow political transformation about the meaning of the event. He describes his conversion from pro-gun control advocate to Second Amendment advocate in his short, substantive book, “Coming to Terms: A Mass Shooting Survivor’s Story.”

The book is available on Amazon.

The Republican Professor is a pro-coming-to-terms-with-vulnernability, pro-coming-to-terms-with-personal-responsibility, pro-Second-Amendment, pro-Constitutional-Law-rightly-understood, pro-lawful-self-defense podcast.

Therefore, welcome Mr. David Frankel (JD, NYU Law School), author of Coming to Terms.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Dr. Mather teaches Constitutional Law and American Politics at Azusa Pacific in Lost Angeles County, California.

This is the second of three parts with David Frankel, (JD, NYU School of Law), survivor of a public mass-shooting, or public set of several murders and attempted murders in his office building in San Fransisco in the summer of 1993.

David was a gun control advocate at the time. In fact, many of the attorneys who survived processed the horrific event solely and exclusively through the gun-control lens, founding a gun-control advocacy group that became something well known in gun control circles now.

After the event, David experienced a slow political transformation about the meaning of the event. He describes his conversion from pro-gun control advocate to Second Amendment advocate in his short, substantive book, “Coming to Terms: A Mass Shooting Survivor’s Story.”

The book is available on Amazon.

The Republican Professor is a pro-coming-to-terms-with-vulnernability, pro-coming-to-terms-with-personal-responsibility, pro-Second-Amendment, pro-Constitutional-Law-rightly-understood, pro-lawful-self-defense podcast.

Therefore, welcome Mr. David Frankel (JD, NYU Law School), author of Coming to Terms.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Dr. Mather teaches Constitutional Law and American Politics at Azusa Pacific in Lost Angeles County, California.

This is the first of three parts with David Frankel, (JD, NYU School of Law), survivor of a public mass-shooting, or public set of several murders and attempted murders in his office building in San Fransisco in the summer of 1993.

David was a gun control advocate at the time. In fact, many of the attorneys who survived processed the horrific event solely and exclusively through the gun-control lens, founding a gun-control advocacy group that became something well known in gun control circles now.

After the event, David experienced a slow political transformation about the meaning of the event. He describes his conversion from pro-gun control advocate to Second Amendment advocate in his short, substantive book, “Coming to Terms: A Mass Shooting Survivor’s Story.”

The book is available on Amazon and through your local book dealer.

The Republican Professor is a pro-coming-to-terms-with-vulnernability, pro-coming-to-terms-with-personal-responsibility, pro-Second-Amendment, pro-Constitutional-Law-rightly-understood, pro-lawful-self-defense podcast.

Therefore, welcome Mr. David Frankel (JD, NYU Law School), author of Coming to Terms.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Dr. Mather teaches Constitutional Law and American Politics at Azusa Pacific in Lost Angeles County, California.

Baylor University Professor Dr. Perry Glanzer, Ph.D., is Editor of Christian Scholars Review and a former student of the late, great Dr. Dallas Willard of University of Southern California.

Our wide-ranging conversation covers issues ranging from Communism to Title IX Due Process violations to what it was like to be a student of Dallas Willard at USC to the possibilities and prospects of quality Christian Higher Education.

The Republican Professor is a pro-student-of-Dallas-Willard, pro-discerning-what-Christian-Higher-Education is podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. Perry Glanzer, Ph.D., former student of Willard, Editor of Christian Scholars Review, of Baylor University, Texas !

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

I really enjoyed my time with the young artist and budding business woman Ysabeth Sweet. Although I am much older (27)(I turn 27 again every year)(I’m special), I am better grounded by listening to the young and hearing what they’re dealing with, how they see the world.

The Republican Professor is a pro-young-people-who-give-you-hope podcast.

Therefore, welcome Ms. Ysabeth Sweet.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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Dr. Chris Kaczor, Ph.D. is the author of “The Ethics of Abortion: Women’s Rights, Human Life, and the Question of Justice” published by a standard academic publisher, Routledge Press, recently out in its 3rd edition (Sept 2022).

Dr. Kaczor joins TRP podcast from his office at Loyola Marymount University, Lost Angeles, California, to walk us through prominent scholarly arguments for abortion choice, finding them wanting. Without resorting to religion as a basis for argument, Professor Kaczor presents a case for fetal personhood based on evidence, reasons, and considerations that are available to pretty much anyone.

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned at the US Supreme Court, the issue has remained relevant to local and state legislative debate throughout the country.

The Republican Professor is a pro-thinking-carefully-through-the-abortion-debate podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. Christopher Kaczor, Ph.D., of Loyola Marymount University’s Philosophy Department in LA.

The Republican Professor Podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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There’s no one quite like Jonalyn Fincher.

The New England water colorist, follower of Jesus, and Second Amendment advocate is also an author, a popular public speaker, a mother, and wife. She can skin an elk, defend her kids from bears, and knock out a simple and elegant greeting card line, and write about some of the most interesting and compelling controversial topics in America. And she listens carefully and observes. It’s part of what makes her a great artist.

For a long time, Jonalyn ran a non-profit with her husband, Dale. They wrote books and did public speaking all around the country to large and small audiences. They ran several blogs.

One day, she began painting seriously. After years of discipline, sacrifice of everyone in her family, and dedicated hard, smart, careful work, she has a line of impressive water color greeting cards selling in stores.She also does commissions for pieces.

Each one is a gripping, elegant study of some aspect of our world.

And, as you’ll see, she wants the legal right to carry a gun for self-defense. She’s humble, but not shy about it.

Though she has had mountain lion, bear, moose and elk on her property, including bear cubs who have snuck up on her children, she wants the legal right to carry a firearm for self-defense in the city. Some of the most dangerous parts of creation are found there, as well.

Though this need for effective self-defense, she emphasizes, is a cause for sadness, not celebration.

View her artwork, books and blog at : https://jonalynfincher.com/

Enjoy !

The Republican Professor is a pro-art-done-well, pro-lawful-self-defense, pro-Jesus-follower, pro-dedicated-hard-smart-disciplined-work-pays-off, pro-gripping-and-elegant-studies-of-our-world-through-art podcast.

Therefore, welcome dearest Jonalyn Fincher, otherwise known simply as Jonalyn.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

Ugly Art magazine just ranked TRP podcast the worst podcast in the entire world.

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Dr. Justin Capes, Ph.D., teaches Philosophy at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida, and has for a long time pondered questions about Free Will from every conceivable angle.

Here, Dr. Capes dialogues with us about the field of metaphysics within contemporary philosophy, and specifically, the metaphysics of the human person and of human agency.

Commonsensically, this brings up questions about moral responsibility and free will, namely, what is Free Will ? Given a correct definition, do we have Free Will ? How is Free Will properly and accurately defined ?

Even asking these questions seems to presuppose that we have it, because otherwise we wouldn’t freely ponder such things in the first place. If we are freely pondering, what are we doing ? (Can one ponder unfreely ?)

Is there a point to asking such questions ? And could we do (or have done) otherwise ? Does that matter ? Why ?

Justin takes us through some thorny issues in neuroscience and philosophy, trying to move the ball forward in coming to terms with what Free Will is, and what difference it makes to understand this and to be able to articulate it well.

These discussions also help us to try our hand at these questions if for no other reason than to realize just how hard some of these issues are to master well, as well as how inescapable they are if you’re paying attention.

The Republican Professor is a pro-coming-to-terms-with-basic-metaphysics, pro-hearing-philosophers-speak-to-scientists, pro-free-will-understood-well, pro-getting-precursors-to-moral-responsibility-right podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. Justin Capes, Ph.D., of Flagler College in Florida.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D., who couldn’t help but do this episode. He couldn’t not do it.

Share this episode with a friend if it’s interesting to you.

If not, you’ll share it anyway if you don’t have free will because you were just destined to do so. Or, maybe you won’t even when you really wanted to. Or…

Be sure to subscribe. It makes you feel like you could have done otherwise, which is a great feeling to have.

Sometimes, people subscribe because they just can’t not subscribe.

TRP Podcast offices downtown just heard: We were just last week ranked #1 in the entire Western Hemisphere by Losing Friends Quickly Magazine’s October 2022 issue. We are very proud, me and the one friend I have left who will listen to all the questions I have.

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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This is the US Navy’s birthday. Retired Navy Command Master Chief Larry Wilkse joins The Republican Professor Podcast to talk about his 30 year Navy career, which took him from the Navy’s wrestling team to OS A-School to Surface Warfare qualification on the way to BUDS to a host of commands and deployments after becoming Special Warfare Sea Air and Land (SEAL) qualified. He deployed 14 times, had a couple changes of ratings, including multiple combat deployments where he was awarded multiple Bronze Stars and many other Navy and Joint service citations. He ended his career with the rating of Command Master Chief, having been a Plank Owner and Command Master Chief of the then-new SEAL Team 7 (new at the time 20 years ago).

Our discussion is wide-ranging, covering everything from combat to his view on teaching firearms to inner city youth and women to what he thinks about the so-called “assault weapon” ban for civilians to one of my favorites, the art and science of taking naps (Larry can time his naps exactly to the minute, ahead of time, and wake spontaneously) (lots of suffering in order to get to that point). He has also run for office, getting 43% of the vote in a +29 D district in California. Dude.

Larry is a fascinating individual and an absolute delight to shoot the bull with. He’s a man’s man with a heart of gold. He clearly wants to leave the world a better place than how he found it and is willing to sacrifice to see that happen.

Master Chief Wilkse (who would rather be called just “Larry”) spent 30 years in the United States Naval Service, rising to the top of the enlisted ranks as well as to the apex of the operational capacities of the naval service, but Larry is still serving America.

Now he does so in a private capacity as president of Vanguard Training and Consulting, a firearms training group that brings quality small arms and situational awareness training to civilians, especially women, with appropriate sensitivity and effectiveness.

Check out https://femalefirearmsinstructor.com/about/ for more information.

Happy birthday, United States Navy.

The Republican Professor is a pro-Navy, pro-serving-America, pro-getting-the-bad-guys, pro-let-me-tell-you-what-I-really-think-about-the-“assault-weapon”-ban, pro-man’s-man, pro-female-firearm-instructor, pro-let’s-reach-the-inner-city-youth, pro-art-and-science-of-taking-naps podcast.

Therefore, welcome Command Master Chief Larry Wilkse (SEAL, SW, AW), USN (ret.), 30 year combat veteran and now president of Vanguard Training and Consulting (bringing situational awareness and firearms instruction to women across the country) or in other words, welcome Larry.

The Republican Professor is produced and by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

Happy birthday, United States Navy.

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