Tuesday 4/28/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:35 Steve Bonta, economic expert and Publisher of The New American.
Petrodollar Collapsing, Portending Global Reserve Currency Shift to Chinese Yuan
Recent geopolitical and financial developments from energy market realignments to discussions around de-dollarization among emerging economies—have intensified debate over whether the post–Bretton Woods petrodollar system is entering a period of structural change. Some analysts argue that energy trade dynamics, sanctions regimes, and shifting alliances are accelerating a broader transition toward a more multipolar currency order.
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7:10 Wendi Rees – In a bold and timely new release, The Christian’s Guide to Psychedelics: Finding Hope and Healing Through God’s Creation by Wendi Rees has skyrocketed to #1 in multiple Amazon categories, sparking important conversations at the intersection of faith, trauma recovery, and Biblical discernment.
Written from a distinctly Christian worldview, the book offers a compassionate, Scripture-grounded framework for understanding how certain plant medicines and psychedelic therapies—such as ibogaine, psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine—
The book features a foreword by former Texas Governor Rick Perry, who has publicly championed its message. Governor Perry highlighted the book during a recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, drawing national attention to its faith-centered approach to healing. In addition, Marcus Luttrell, bestselling author of Lone Survivor and host of the Team Never Quit podcast, shared his support and allowed Wendi to include his testimony in the book.
7:35 Former State Senator Herman Baertschiger, a break down of last night’s Candidates Forum in Josephine County and other political news.
8:10 John Schleining, former teacher at SOU is talking about his experience of DEI even back in the 1970’s and early 1980’s. Can SOU be reformed as it is being saved?
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Monday 4/27/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:35 Dr. John R. Lott Jr. – More on John: https://crimeresearch.org/about/
Crime Prevention Research Center was founded by Dr. John R. Lott, Jr., an economist and a world-recognized expert on guns and crime. Dr. Lott and I talk the WHCD shooting.
7:10 Jared Knott, historian and author oTiny Blunders/Big Disasters Book 2: The Many Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever, is the international bestselling author of Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever.
Trump, Iran, and the Art of the Deal: A New Negotiation Strategy?
As tensions with Iran continue to dominate headlines, the central question looms:are we on the brink of conflict or witnessing a high-stakes negotiation strategy unfold?
For timely perspective, I’d like to offer Jared Knott, U.S. Army Veteran, international bestselling author of Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters and his latest release, Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters Book 2. Knott’s work focuses on how small missteps miscommunication, misread intentions, or delayed responses have historically escalated into major geopolitical crises, including war.
In the context of “Trump, Iran, and the Art of the Deal,” Knott can provide a grounded, nonpartisan analysis of how quickly negotiations can spiral when signals are misunderstood or overplayed. His insights are especially relevant now, as rhetoric, timing, and perception may matter as much as policy.
7:35 Landmark Legal Foundation’s Michael O’Neil breaks down the birthright citizenship case.
A Loss for Trump in the Birthright Citizenship Case Doesn’t Have to Be a Loss for America
By Michael O’Neill
Solicitor General John Sauer presented a strong case in defending President Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship before the U.S. Supreme Court in early April. Arguments on both sides primarily focused on what the litigants believed was the “correct” interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship clause — specifically, whether children born to illegal immigrants are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and therefore citizens.
Sauer presented ample evidence to support the administration’s argument that the drafters and ratifiers of the Citizenship Clause never intended to apply to the children of illegal immigrants. It may not be enough, however. Several of the Justices, including Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh, expressed skepticism about the President’s authority and signaled that they would strike down the order.
What remains to be seen, however, is not only whether the order is struck down, but how the Court rules. One path closes the door to any political solution to our birthright citizenship problem. Another path, while a loss for the Trump administration, preserves a process whereby Congress can close loopholes that our adversaries exploit (such as birth tourism) and that most Americans agree are problematic.
In the first scenario, the Court engages in an extensive constitutional analysis and concludes that the Citizenship Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment contains a right to citizenship for any individual born within the territorial confines of the United States. President Trump’s executive order is declared unconstitutional. Any attempt to limit birthright citizenship going forward via law or executive order is presumptively invalid. Thus, a law enacted by Congress limiting birth tourism, for example, would be out of bounds. The door is now open to birth tourism, chain migration, and anchor babies. It would be difficult to stop a Chinese billionaire from having dozens of surrogate children raised abroad, but maintaining American citizenship. Those children could claim citizenship via their territorial birth.
In the second scenario, a controlling plurality (most likely including Chief Justice Roberts) uses the “canon of constitutional avoidance” and declines to interpret the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause. Surprisingly, the justices spent little time at oral arguments on this issue. They acknowledged that Congress passed a law in 1952 that essentially codified birth citizenship based on territorial presence, but they didn’t extensively discuss whether the order violated that law. Not spending a lot of time at oral arguments, however, does not mean that this scenario is less likely to occur.
Some would invariably consider the second scenario emblematic of the recent Supreme Court decisions to punt on making tough decisions. Not so fast. Employing constitutional avoidance has its merits. Namely, it preserves the ability of the politically accountable branches, specifically Congress, to address issues and doesn’t foreclose legal remedies for solving problems with birthright citizenship.
Simply concluding that President Trump’s executive order is illegal (not unconstitutional) preserves congressional authority to regulate birth citizenship. It means that Congress can pass a law requiring an individual to maintain a domicile in the United States before their American-born children can be citizens. It means that Congress can recognize the obvious national security interests at stake and outlaw birth tourism. A decision from the Supreme Court declining to rule on the constitutionality of the Order but concluding that it is illegal will be a loss for the President (and the American people), but the damage will be limited. It will be incumbent upon Congress to fix the issue.
Michael O’Neill is Vice President of Legal Affairs at Landmark Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm in Leesburg, VA, and Kansas City, MO.
8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers, “Where Past Meets Present” – www.DennisPowersBooks.com
The Golden Rhoten Family of Giants
By Dennis Powers
John and Elizabeth Rhoten homesteaded on Kane Creek in 1860, near what would later become the town of Gold Hill. When their children were born, they grew tall–very tall–and became known as the “family of giants.” Although mother Elizabeth was a mere 4-feet, 9-inches (but weighing 250 pounds), father John was 6-feet, 8-inches, or one of the tallest men in the Pacific Northwest–and lean. They had ten children, five women and five men. All were over 6 feet, ranging from the tallest, Enos Rhoten, who was 6-feet, 11-3/4th (really 7-feet), to the shortest, Cynthia Ann, who was a mere 6-feet, 1-inch.
But the tall-giant, Rhoten brothers (Enos, Ed, and Al) were as well known in Southern Oregon for their ability to “sniff out” gold, no matter where it was located. From Sardine, Galls, Foots, Kane, and Graves Creek to entire sections of the Applegate and Rogue Rivers, they pocket-mined every river, stream, and area that was around.
Led by Enos in 1905, the brothers discovered the famous Alice Group, or Revenue Pocket, a few miles south of Gold Hill above Kane Creek. Knowing that the highly producing Braden Mine was nearby, they used pick, pan, and shovel to find “some color, dig a little hole, and then follow it up the hill ‘till coming to the pocket.” Looking down on Gold Hill at 2,600 feet, they found it; in less than two days, they dug out 5000 ounces of gold, worth millions at today’s values. All was quickly blown in wild spending sprees.
This wasn’t all luck, however. Enos Rhoten used a system–kept secret for years–to find the pockets. After coming across a sprinkling of gold particles, or nuggets, on (or under) a slope and knowing that the trail led from above, he’d take sample after sample on both sides as he worked his way up. Numbering where each had been precisely found, Enos stored them in jars and assayed out how much gold was in each one. Once he worked up the trail and ran out of particles to analyze, he headed back down. Figuring where the strike was, he would dig deep until the gold pocket “magically” appeared.
With their new-found wealth, the brothers lived extravagantly until they had spent their find. One night, they were partying in a Medford saloon. When the tired owner said he was closing down, they tossed gold nuggets onto the bar and bought it. When morning finally came, the Rhotens handed the bar back to the shocked owner.
At one time, Enow was reported to have owned three saloons in Jackson County. Free whiskey was passed over the bar to “good” drinkers, but never to be taken through the swinging doors of the saloon. Another time while nursing a bad hangover, he threw all of his gold nuggets over a Gold Hill dirt street, saying that the town folks needed it more than he did. Enow was known as a generous man.
When a Rhoten needed money, he’d head away, search for a week or two, and return with gold nuggets in his backpack. They used the gold as money–disdaining any conversion into cash or depositing at banks–and Enos carried his around in a glass jar. After another spending spree, they would leave again for the wilds and search for another find. When the surface gold pockets became harder to locate and their luck ran out, Ed and Al worked in a local cement plant and later on an uncle’s hayfields.
Enos was the best of all at locating the gold, starting at age seven when he uncovered $150 worth. After making and losing several fortunes by the 1910s, he tried farming on 160 acres in the Applegate and running a general store. Losing interest, in 1915 he headed back to gold hunting until the late 1920s. After lying sick in a crude bed for three years in his old Kane Creek cabin, Enos died from a stroke at the age of 70 in 1931. Although his last days had been spent in poverty, he reportedly died with a smile on his face, having enjoyed the life he had lived.
Sources: “Enos M. Rhoten, Pioneer Miner of Rogue, Dies,” Medford Mail Tribune, December 13, 1931, at Enos Rhoten Obituary; Dennis M. Powers, “Rhoten Brothers Follow Gold Trails to Source,” Jefferson Public Radio: At It Was, May 10, 2012; Linda Morehouse Genaw, Gold Hill and Its Neighbors along the River, Central Point, Oregon: 1988, pp. 18-21; Gold Hill Historical Society, Nuggets of News, December 1992, pp. 1-4.