MAHA Toxic Chemical Demand, Matt Warnock, Ridgecrest Herbals, Botanical Solutions, Calcarea Iodata, Michael Boldin, Tenth Amendment Center, The Evils of Paper Money, Standing Army Tyranny, Boston Massacre Lessons, National Debt Security Threat, and MORE!

Apr 3, 2026 3-5pm ET

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Hour 1

MAHA Leaders Demand EPA Protect Americans From Toxic Chemicals Leaders within the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, including representatives from Children’s Health Defense and allied health freedom organizations, sent a formal letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on March 28, 2026, demanding immediate and aggressive action to protect Americans from exposure to toxic chemicals such as PFAS (“forever chemicals”), glyphosate, atrazine, and other pesticides, heavy metals, and industrial pollutants that are linked to rising rates of cancer, neurodevelopmental disorders, autoimmune conditions, infertility, and metabolic disease, arguing that the EPA has failed for decades to fulfill its statutory mandate under laws like the Toxic Substances Control Act and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act by relying on industry-submitted data, setting inadequate safety thresholds, and delaying or weakening restrictions on known hazardous substances. The letter highlights recent studies showing widespread contamination of drinking water, food supplies, and human blood with PFAS and glyphosate at levels associated with immune suppression, endocrine disruption, and increased cancer risk, while criticizing the agency for slow progress on banning or strictly limiting these chemicals despite mounting independent evidence of harm that often contradicts industry-funded assessments. MAHA advocates urge Zeldin to prioritize independent, long-term safety reviews free from industry influence, lower maximum contaminant levels for PFAS and other toxins based on the latest biomonitoring and epidemiological data, mandate comprehensive testing of food and water supplies, accelerate phase-outs of the most persistent and dangerous pesticides, and restore robust enforcement mechanisms that were reportedly scaled back in previous administrations. The letter emphasizes that protecting Americans from toxic chemical exposure is a core component of the MAHA agenda to reverse the chronic disease epidemic, arguing that environmental toxins interact with poor diet, pharmaceutical overuse, and other factors to drive inflammation, oxidative stress, and metabolic dysfunction across the population. Zeldin has not yet issued a public response, but sources indicate the EPA is reviewing the letter and considering updates to risk assessment methodologies. The article frames the demand as a pivotal moment for the new administration to demonstrate commitment to environmental health reform by prioritizing science-based protections over regulatory capture, while noting that failure to act decisively could undermine public trust in the MAHA movement’s promise to address root causes of chronic illness beyond vaccines and diet alone.

Welcome back to another “Homeopathic Hits” episode on The Robert Scott Bell Show!

Today’s Homeopathic Hit is Calcarea iodata, Iodide of Lime.

Boericke presents this remedy as especially valuable in scrofulous affections, particularly enlarged glands, tonsils, and thyroid enlargement at puberty. It is well suited to flabby children prone to colds, with profuse yellow secretions and chronic catarrhal states.

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Hour 2

Special Guest: Michael Boldin

The Evils of Paper Money: Roger Sherman and a Caveat Against Injustice Roger Sherman, one of only two Founding Fathers to sign all four great founding documents (the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Association, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution), and the primary drafter of the Bill of Rights, wrote a powerful 1752 essay titled “A Caveat Against Injustice” that warned against the dangers of paper money issued by government fiat, arguing that such currency constitutes a form of injustice and theft because it allows debtors to repay creditors with money that has less intrinsic value than the original debt, effectively transferring wealth from savers and lenders to borrowers and speculators without honest labor or mutual consent. Sherman, a deeply religious man and strict constitutionalist, viewed fiat paper money as a moral evil that violates the biblical commandment against stealing and the natural law principle of just weights and measures, asserting that only specie (gold and silver coin) possesses the stability and intrinsic value necessary for honest commerce and the protection of property rights. The essay, written in response to proposals for paper money in colonial Connecticut, predicted that unbacked paper currency would lead to inflation, economic instability, loss of public confidence, and social discord by enabling governments and powerful interests to manipulate the money supply for their benefit at the expense of ordinary citizens. The Tenth Amendment Center article connects Sherman’s warnings to modern monetary policy, arguing that the Federal Reserve’s creation of fiat currency through quantitative easing, debt monetization, and endless money printing represents the very injustice Sherman condemned, eroding the purchasing power of the dollar, penalizing savers, rewarding debtors and speculators, and concentrating wealth in the hands of those closest to the money creation process while ordinary Americans suffer from inflation that acts as a hidden tax. The piece emphasizes that the Founders, including Sherman, explicitly rejected paper money in the Constitution by granting Congress the power to “coin Money” and “regulate the Value thereof” while prohibiting states from making anything but gold and silver coin legal tender, reflecting a deliberate choice for sound money backed by real value rather than government decree. It calls for a return to constitutional money principles through state-level initiatives such as gold and silver depositories, legal tender laws recognizing precious metals, and nullification of unconstitutional federal monetary policies, warning that continued reliance on fiat currency will lead to the economic and moral decay Sherman foresaw. The article positions Sherman’s essay as a timeless reminder that honest money is essential to justice, property rights, and a free society, urging modern Americans to reclaim the Founders’ vision of sound, commodity-backed currency to prevent the “evils” of inflation, debt servitude, and wealth transfer through monetary manipulation.

Standing Armies: The Foundation of Tyranny The Founders viewed standing armies in peacetime as one of the greatest threats to liberty and the foundation of tyranny, repeatedly warning that a permanent professional military force under centralized control would inevitably be used by those in power to suppress dissent, enforce unjust laws, and subvert the rights of the people, which is why they embedded strict constitutional limitations on military power and emphasized reliance on a well-regulated militia composed of the citizenry itself. The article draws on extensive quotes from the Founding era, including James Madison in Federalist No. 41, who described standing armies as “instruments of tyranny” that history showed were used to oppress rather than protect the people, and George Mason, who argued during the Virginia ratifying convention that a standing army in peacetime was “one of the greatest mischiefs that can possibly happen.” The Founders’ fear was rooted in their experience with British standing armies stationed in the colonies without consent, which led to abuses, quartering of troops in private homes, and ultimately armed resistance. They designed the Constitution to address this danger by placing the power to raise and support armies firmly in Congress (not the executive), limiting appropriations to no more than two years, and reserving to the states and the people the right to keep and bear arms through the Second Amendment as a check against federal military overreach. The Tenth Amendment Center argues that these safeguards have been largely eroded over time through expansive interpretations of federal power, perpetual “emergency” funding, and the growth of a massive standing military apparatus that operates with minimal congressional restraint, creating the very risk the Founders sought to prevent. The piece warns that a professional standing army, especially when combined with militarized police forces and surveillance capabilities, provides those in power with the physical means to enforce unpopular or unconstitutional policies against the will of the people, as seen historically in tyrannical regimes that used standing forces to crush dissent. It calls for a return to the Founders’ vision through state-level nullification of unconstitutional federal military actions, revitalization of citizen militias as originally understood, strict adherence to constitutional appropriations limits, and public vigilance against the normalization of a large peacetime military establishment. The article concludes that standing armies in peacetime remain a foundational threat to liberty, and that true security comes from an armed and vigilant citizenry rather than reliance on a permanent professional force that can be turned against the people it is meant to protect.

Boston Massacre: Have We Remembered, or Surrendered? The Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers killed five colonists, served as a pivotal catalyst for the American Revolution by exposing the dangers of arbitrary power enforced by a standing army in peacetime, and for thirteen years afterward the Sons and Daughters of Liberty held annual commemorative orations that laid out a clear blueprint for liberty centered on natural rights, resistance to tyranny, the perils of standing armies, the necessity of a citizen militia, the importance of virtue, and the duty to defend freedom, leaving modern Americans with the pointed question of whether they have remembered these lessons or surrendered to the very forms of oppression the Founders opposed. The article by Michael Boldin draws extensively from these orations, including speeches by John Hancock, Joseph Warren, Benjamin Hichborn, and others, to show how the Massacre was not an isolated incident but the inevitable result of British policies such as the Declaratory Act claiming unlimited authority over the colonies and the deployment of troops to enforce taxes and laws without consent, turning Boston into an occupied city where soldiers acted with impunity and provoked the fatal confrontation. Speakers repeatedly warned that standing armies in peacetime endanger liberty by implying a right to exercise arbitrary power, citing historical examples from ancient republics where such forces led to tyranny, and emphasized that a well-regulated militia composed of armed citizens is the natural and proper defense of a free state because those who own the soil are most motivated to protect it. The orations stressed that true liberty flows from natural rights granted by the Creator, not government grant, and that virtue in the people is essential for sustaining freedom, while resistance to lawless power is a duty rather than rebellion. The piece argues that many of these warnings apply directly today through federal overreach, militarized policing, erosion of Second Amendment rights, neglect of state militias, and acceptance of centralized power that the Founders would have viewed as the foundation of tyranny, suggesting that Americans have largely surrendered by tolerating these developments rather than actively remembering and acting on the revolutionary principles. It calls for renewed vigilance, education on founding principles, and a return to constitutional limits on military and governmental power to honor the sacrifices of those who died in the Massacre and the broader struggle for independence, urging readers not to let the country become what Hancock warned against — a “den of thieves” — but to act worthy of their forebears by defending liberty with the same resolve.

The Debt is a National Security Threat The exploding U.S. national debt represents a profound national security threat that weakens the country’s economic strength, erodes public credit, and ultimately undermines the ability to defend against external dangers, echoing dire warnings from the Founding era that excessive public debt is more destructive to liberty and prosperity than foreign enemies, according to an analysis by the Tenth Amendment Center that draws heavily on the writings of key Founders and Anti-Federalists to argue that the problem stems from unchecked federal spending rather than insufficient revenue. The piece notes that the debt has skyrocketed from under $5 trillion in 1995 to $13.6 trillion in 2010 and $26.9 trillion by 2020, with trillions added annually since, and interest payments now ranking as the second-largest federal expenditure after Social Security, consuming resources that could otherwise support genuine national defense and leaving future generations burdened with obligations they cannot realistically discharge. Anti-Federalist writer Brutus warned in the late 18th century that loading the country with a debt exceeding its ability to pay would constitute “a greater calamity” than almost any other misfortune, while James Madison called public debt a “public curse,” and George Washington urged cherishing public credit as “a very important source of strength and security” but using it “as sparingly as possible.” Thomas Jefferson described debt as “an engine so corruptive of the government and so demoralizing of the nation” that it would bring “more ruin at home than all the enemies from abroad,” emphasizing that “freedom from debt is the only genuine source of national strength depending on revenue.” John Taylor of Caroline similarly observed that big government sustained by debt diminishes rather than enhances national strength and credit. The article stresses that federal revenues have continued to grow, making clear that the crisis is driven by excessive spending on an ever-expanding federal apparatus rather than a shortfall in taxes, and that a constitutionally limited government operating within its enumerated powers would require nowhere near the current levels of borrowing or debt. It calls for renewed public education on these founding principles, active opposition to federal overreach, and a return to fiscal restraint grounded in the Constitution to restore sound public credit and true national security, warning that failure to address the debt will leave the nation vulnerable, demoralized, and unable to respond effectively to real threats. The Tenth Amendment Center positions its work as part of this effort to shrink the federal behemoth and reclaim the Founders’ vision of limited government and sound money as essential safeguards against the internal ruin caused by unsustainable debt.

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