Thursday 10/08/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:35 Kenneth Abramowitz, author of The Multifront War: Defending America From Political Islam, China, Russia, Pandemics, and Racial Strife. Ken is the founder of savethewest.com, a website dedicated to saving Western Civilization from itself.
America is fighting a major international war, says the author. Yet, the country does not really know it. Moreover, the war is being waged on a multitude of distinct fronts—both internal and external. The United States is wholly unprepared to fight a unified battle.
FIND HIS WEBSITE HERE: FIND HIS X HERE:
7:10 Kevin Mooney is an investigative reporter and researcher who currently works with Restoration News, a division of Restoration of America. He also writes and reports for The Daily Signal, along with other national outlets based in Washington D.C.
This landmark Supreme Court case argued on Monday Can states recover damages for so-called climate change?
Journalist Kevin Mooney, author of Climate Porn, www.kevinmooney.info
More about his Book, Climate Porn
8:10 Diana Anderson, who I’ve decided to rename “Inspector D” is back for more fall presentations on exposing globalism and communism infiltrating even our Southern Oregon cities and institutions. Friday October 23rd, 6pm at the Central Point Library is her next presentation slideshow, and she’ll also have handouts to study. Pretty deep research and topics, for sure.
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Wednesday 10/07/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:35 Eric Peters, automotive journalist from www.EpAutos.com
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/10/07/you-can-never-have-enough-tools/
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/10/06/ford-takes-a-step-in-the-right-direction/
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/10/04/2027-toyota-bz-woodland/
7:35 Former State Sen. Herman Baertschiger – what is the strategy of Kotek and Drazan?
8:10 Social Science Educator Rob Schlapfer with the Oregon Education Project – www.OregonEd.info and he’s putting on a Thursday night 10/8 event at the Medford Library – “Why are Our Kids Anxious”? Great thinking going on the the project and the website is an amazing hub of information for fixing the public school system.
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Tuesday 10/06/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:35 Pete Hutchison, President of Landmark Legal Foundation, outlines these latest Supreme Court cases of note.
Guns. Voting. Climate. Three Supreme Court cases will make or break originalism
By Richard P. Hutchison
With the Supreme Court’s new term beginning in October, it will hear disputes over semiautomatic rifles, voter registration, and climate change. The subjects have little in common, but each presents a question at the heart of originalism. Will the justices apply the Constitution and laws as written, or reshape them to reach a preferred result?
As a public-interest law firm marking 50 years of advancing an originalist interpretation of the Constitution, Landmark Legal Foundation has seen the issues before the court change many times. The court’s duty has not. Three cases this term will test whether the court does exactly that.
In Viramontes v. Cook County, the court will consider bans on AR-15s and similar semiautomatic rifles. Under District of Columbia v. Heller and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, courts must examine the Second Amendment’s text and the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. If a weapon qualifies as a protected “arm,” the government must demonstrate that its restriction is consistent with that tradition.
The 7th Circuit concluded that AR-15s are not protected “arms,” likening them to military M16s rather than firearms used for individual self-defense. That allowed the court to bypass Bruen’s historical inquiry entirely. Another lower court acknowledged that the rifles are bearable arms but nevertheless found historical support for banning them.
That support included 19th-century restrictions on Bowie knives and trap guns. But those laws generally regulated concealed carry, sales to minors, or criminal misuse, or prohibited rigging a firearm to discharge without anyone present. They are not historical equivalents of a categorical ban on possessing an entire class of commonly owned rifles.
The court should hold that these rifles are protected arms and that the historical record does not justify banning their possession.
Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota presents a different problem. Arizona enacted voter-registration laws requiring applicants who use the state’s registration form to provide documentary proof of citizenship and directing election officials to identify and remove noncitizens from the voter rolls. Challengers contend that the provisions conflict with the federal National Voter Registration Act and a 2018 consent decree involving Arizona election officials.
Those objections rest on two distinct legal claims, neither of which justifies setting aside Arizona’s law. The NVRA does not prohibit Arizona from requiring documentary proof of citizenship from applicants using the state’s own registration form. The court should apply the statute as Congress wrote it and uphold Arizona’s requirement.
The consent decree raises a separate question. A friendly agreement negotiated by state officials should not permanently prevent a legislature from enacting and enforcing a valid superseding law. The earlier agreement cannot preempt legislation or impose a restriction that federal law does not require.
Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County tests a different limit on governmental authority. Can a local government reach beyond its borders and effectively make policy for the nation?
Boulder County, Colorado, seeks damages from energy companies for alleged local harm connected to global climate change. The question is not whether Boulder faces costs or whether climate change matters. It is whether state-law claims may be used to seek relief for the alleged effects of interstate and international greenhouse-gas emissions.
Assuming the court determines it has jurisdiction to hear the case in the first place, it should rule that they may not. Energy production, emissions, and their alleged effects extend far beyond Colorado. The energy products at issue were extracted, produced, sold, and consumed across the country and around the world. The resulting emissions did not stop at state lines.
Allowing localities to impose damages for that activity would invite courts to establish climate and energy policy. A patchwork of judgments and settlements could regulate lawful conduct far beyond the jurisdiction in which a lawsuit was filed. The Constitution’s limited grant of authority leaves states substantial room to address genuinely local concerns. It does not permit one locality to govern economic activity throughout the country.
Justice Antonin Scalia explained that originalism gives the Constitution “the meaning that its words were understood to bear at the time they were promulgated.” That same commitment to the text constrains the judicial role. Judges must apply statutes as written and respect the limits the Constitution places on government power.
That discipline connects these cases. A constitutional right cannot be narrowed because judges regard its exercise as dangerous. An agreement with executive officials cannot assume the force of legislation. An alleged harm felt in one community cannot give a local lawsuit nationwide reach. This term gives the court three opportunities to enforce the Constitution and the law wherever its text and structure lead.
7:35 State Representative Dwayne Yunker joins the show.
Oregon State Rep. Dwayne Yunker of Grants Pass is raising questions as to why a legally required report on a proposed state healthcare plan has been delayed. Yunker argues that the governor and legislative leaders don’t have the authority to extend the report’s deadline, which was due September 15th. The report is supposed to talk about how to pay for universal healthcare in Oregon, and by most accounts it will mean a huge tax increase for most Oregonians. Yunker’s calling for the report to be put out to the public before the November 3rd election. There is an emergency meeting Thursday – Dwayne’s FB Post has the info
8:10 Will T. Wilkinson joins me today to talk about his biography and Legacy of William Happer, entitled STANDING UP FOR SCIENCE. Happer is a distinguished physicist who has spent decades at Princeton, served in the U.S. Department of Energy, advised the White House and is currently in the middle of one of the most contentious scientific and political debates of our time. (Happer, btw, is the founder of the CO2 Coalition)
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Monday 10/05/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:35 , Hans von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow at Advancing American Freedom (AAF),
A Biden-appointed federal judge just ruled that federal law criminalizing non-citizen voting is unconstitutional, dismissing a case against an illegal alien who voted in the 2020 election.
In response
This decision comes just days after the Department of Justice charged 12 individuals, including three illegal aliens, for election crimes.
Hans von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow at AAF:
“Judge David Leibowitz’s opinion that the federal law barring aliens from voting is unconstitutional is patently wrong. It is true that states have the constitutional authority to set the qualifications of citizens who are eligible as voters in federal elections. But he ignores the fact that in Article I, Section 8, Congress is given 100% authority over naturalization. In other words, Congress has plenary authority over the admittance of aliens and the standards under which they are allowed to be in the U.S. That gives the federal government the authority to ban aliens from voting or otherwise in any way participating in the democratic process. In 2011, two aliens sued over the federal law banning aliens from making contributions to, or expenditures for, candidates for office, claiming that violated their First Amendment rights. In Bluman v. FEC, their case was thrown out. As then Judge Kavanaugh said in the opinion, ‘The Supreme Court has long held that the government…may exclude foreign citizens from activities that are part of democratic self-government.’ This is an obviously wrong decision that will be squashed by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.”
7:10 Rep. Randy Hultgren, Executive Director, Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries (The Alliance, AHCSM.org).
Topic: Regulate AI? Start with health care
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- The Alliance’s Mission:
- To protect the liberty of our member ministries to practice their religious convictions in health care.
- To provide real choice for those exiting the established health care system.
- Inform legislators of the important work and benefit of health care sharing ministries.
- Seek exemptions from mandates requiring our members to purchase health insurance, in that they are already served in this area by the ministries which in which they participate.
- Seek parity with other health care solutions with respect to federal and state tax codes.
- The Alliance’s Mission:
7:35 Lauren Trantham, director of DisruptorsOrg www.WeAreDisruptors.org
(It is based in southern Oregon)
Her organization is ALL OVER the illicit massage parlor shutdown of the other week and they fight to identify and help victims caught up in the sex trafficking trades.
Honor Survivors – We follow their lead, uplift their expertise, and recognize them as the driving force for change.
Focus on Demand – Exploitation exists because buyers create it. Through our partnership with Epik Project, we tackle the root, not just the symptoms.
Educate Communities – Trafficking isn’t “somewhere else.” It’s here, in our neighborhoods. Awareness sparks change.
Lead with Hope – Our work is rooted in possibility, resilience, and building pathways toward hopeful futures.
8:15 Dr. Dennis Powers – www.DennisPowersBooks.com with today’s “Where Past Meets Present”.
Southern Oregon’s Bigfoot
By Dennis Powers
Bigfoot is commonly referred to as Sasquatch: a large, hairy creature (even mythical) said to inhabit forests in North America, particularly the Pacific Northwest. Bigfoot is featured internationally and has grown into a cultural icon, as well as the subject of countless TV, movies (i.e. Harry and the Hendersons–1987), newspapers, books, and magazine articles. A few of the countries with similar beings–and sightings–is the: Amomongo (Philippines), Barmanou (Pakistan), Ebu gogo (Indonesia), Hibagon (Japan), Sisimito (Central America), Yeren (China), Yeti (Asia), Yowie (Australia), and others.
Estimated at a height of roughly 6–9 feet, some 10-feet-plus, with broad shoulders, long arms, a large ape-like appearance, smell (at times) like a skunk, and very large footprints, the arguments continue over its existence. Even with the argued fake versus “I’ve seen them,” outdoorsmen experiences seem to outweigh those of the doubting scientists and city-dwellers.
European folklore has traditional stories of the “wild man of the woods”. Native American lore holds the same with depicting petroglyphs. The Cherokee tell of the Tsul ‘Kalu, described as “sloping-eyed giants” in the Appalachians. The Iroquois share about a hair-covered giant with rock-hard skin known as the “Ot-nea-yar-heh” or “Stone Giant”; the Alutiiq in Alaska on the Kenai Peninsula tell of the Nantinaq, a Bigfoot-like creature featured in a Discovery documentary.
Scientists typically attribute sightings to hoaxes or known animals and their tracks, particularly black bears. While upright, adult black bears stand roughly 5-plus feet and grizzly bears roughly 8-plus feet. Other explanations range from escaped apes to lost hikers, recluses, and the like. Sightings, smells, and sounds can be misinterpreted; however, like UFOs, one does find actual sightings or experiences that are only explained by what was seen.
It’s believed that the human-like beings are 8-foot-plus in height, primate-like, and the surviving descendants of the species named Gigantopithecus–the tall, ape-like creature from the Pleistocene epoch (a long period that ended 11,700 years ago)–that migrated from Southeast Asia across the Bering land bridge to the Americas. Although fossils haven’t been discovered in the Americas, these have been found in Asia. Some suggest Neanderthal man or Homo Erectus to be the creature, but no fossils have yet been discovered in the Americas (but have been in Africa, Asia, and Europe).
Of over 10,000 reported Bigfoot sightings over time in the continental United States, some one-third are located in the Pacific Northwest–predominantly in Washington, Oregon, Northern California, and British Columbia. The remaining reports are spread throughout the rest of North America, from Texas, Florida, and the Mid-West to the East Coast.
Experts believe Bigfoots are omnivores (eating both plants and meat)–from nuts, leaves, berries, and fruit to salmon, rabbit, and even deer. Two Pacific Northwest NBA basketball teams used Bigfoot as a mascot: “Squatch” of the Seattle SuperSonics (1993 to 2008) and Douglas Fur of the Portland Trail Blazers. “Legend the Bigfoot” was selected as the official mascot for the 2022 World Athletic Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.
From Grants Pass and Ashland to Cave Junction and Prospect, Bigfoot sightings have been numerous over the years; state and federal parks are also noteworthy as around Crater Lake or the Oregon Caves. Given the widespread, thick forests and remote areas in our region, it isn’t too much of a stretch to see that we have had more than our share of these sightings.
With Southern Oregon, it’s difficult to pick the best ones, as all are interesting and certainly important to whosever’s making the report. In 1976, the Chief Park Naturalist at Crater Lake observed a Sasquatch-like creature crossing the South Road at dusk. Two years later, two park rangers reported seeing “something large in the forest with a foul odor” that threw a pinecone at them.
If reports from rangers are doubtful, then the experiences of a Grants Pass clinical psychologist in 2000 at the Oregon Caves is noteworthy. Matthew Johnson was on a summer walk on the Big Tree Loop Trail, when he left his wife and children to “answer nature’s call.” He previously had heard strange “whoa, whoa, whoa” sounds and smelled a skunk-like stench.
While off the trail, the 6-foot/9-inch, 300-pound man had the scare of his life. Seeing movement to one side, Johnson turned to watch a 9-foot-tall Bigfoot—huge and hairy—who then disappeared back into the brush. The psychologist ran to his family and herded them back to the caves. A long-time park ranger there accompanied Johnson the next day to investigate the site. Although the ranger didn’t believe then in Sasquatch, he said that without any question, Johnson had not made up the story. After finding a large Bigfoot track in the area of the sighting, the ranger (John Roth) became a believer.
Matthew Johnson told about this on television and newspaper interviews around the country. He established the Southern Oregon Bigfoot Society (“SOBS”) so that others could join him in finding the creature. With different expeditions into the forests near Grants Pass, the SOBS reported discovering hair samples, handprints, footprints, teeth imprints (with a 3-1/2 inch gap between them), and boulders tossed around that were too heavy for any man to lift.
In the 1970s, three men built a Bigfoot trap west of Applegate Lake. Led by reports that an old miner had discovered 18-inch human-like tracks (indicating a 6-foot stride) in his garden near the upper reaches of the Applegate River, Ron Olson and two others decided to build a trap near the location. The constructed wooden box was 10-feet by 10-feet and built of 2-inch thick planks. A metal grate was the trap door and to be triggered by a Bigfoot reaching for a deer or rabbit carcass hung at the rear.
Built with a special forestry permit, this cage is most likely the only official Bigfoot trap in the world. Located 1/2 mile west of Applegate Lake on the Collings Mountain Trail, telephone poles anchor it to the ground. Although the structure is in disrepair owing to the elements, it is a testimonial to the belief that these creatures do exist.
A Native-American, radio production assistant told me (and on KMED) several times about his grandmother, who lived in Northern California. Raised there, she lived in a small town and told how she would wait until the spring to trek to a small clearing in the mountains. This was a distance from the town of Weed, north of Mt. Shasta. There, she watched a Bigfoot family appear, look for berries and small animals, and then lumber back into the forests.
An experienced gold-seeker and mushroom hunter told me recently that Bigfoot was real with two stories–both in the Grave Creek, high mountain area. The first time, Thomas was parked in his large Ford Ranger asleep at night, waiting for a friend to join him early that morning. A violent shaking of his heavy truck suddenly awaken him. Bouncing around inside, he finally grabbed a shotgun and popped open the back. Showing the gun, clad only in his underwear, he jumped out to hear crashing thru the nearby brush. He later found huge footprints in the soft ground that were five-inches larger than his size-14 boot step.
Another time, a few years ago, he and four friends were camping–Thomas would spend up to one month in these remote areas scouting for gold mines, silver veins, and even wild mushrooms. One early morning, he spotted a large figure duck into the surrounding brush and decided to give chase, as his friends followed behind. He raced up a rough timber-access road as the large figure ran ahead: The crashing, large hairy figure left a path thru the brush with loud “whoa, whoa, whoa” sounds echoing back.
A few minutes later, Bigfoot was quite ahead but suddenly stopped and with a ripped, large tree trunk began smacking loudly a nearby tree with sharp cracks. As Thomas caught up, the figure threw it away and disappeared down a sharp ravine; he said later that the sounds were obviously one of warning. The next day, the group came across what was a nest off to the side of the ravine and heavy brush. Inside, large supple trees had been bent down to form a canopy from the rain. Large footprints were inside. Thomas is a believer.
Although the arguments continue as to whether Sasquatch is a fact or only a myth, some academics and anthropologists have written books and articles supporting Bigfoot’s reality. Even so, your belief might depend on whether you’re reading this article in a home study or camping out in the remote wilderness at night.
Sources: Dennis Powers, Where Past Meets Present, Hellgate Press: Ashland, 2017, Pp. 422-423, “Southern Oregon’s Bigfoot”; See Oregonbigfoot.com at its website; Jeff Duewel, “Encounter at the Caves,” Daily Courier (Grants Pass), August 5, 2006; Susan Specht, “On the Trail of Bigfoot,” Mail Tribune, December 30, 2010; see also, “YouTube: Bigfoot Trap, Applegate Lake, Southern Oregon, June 2009”; “Wikipedia: Bigfoot” at its website.