Leftism on Catholic Campuses and the Battle for Property Rights

On Wednesday, June 10, 2026, Kim Monson examines the foundational truths that hold a free society together, and the forces working against them. Gregory LaPoint of the Center for Natural Law explains the philosophy spreading through Catholic universities, rancher Trent Loos details the Wyoming wind wall and its toll on golden eagles, engaged citizen Mike Rawluk tracks local water and surveillance decisions, Carlton Jones of Radiance Power weighs home backup power, and mortgage specialist Lorne Levy reads the latest inflation data.

Backup Power as Colorado’s Brownouts Increase

Start listening at 06:14 – Hour 1

Carlton Jones, owner of Radiance Power, opened the morning with a practical look at home backup power as brownouts grow more frequent across Colorado. Kim Monson raised the case of friends who depend on oxygen and need uninterrupted electricity, and Jones explained that customers with medical devices usually choose an automatic standby system that switches on by itself during an outage.

He laid out the cost range so listeners could weigh their options. A whole-home generator runs about $20,000 on average, while a portable setup wired through a manual transfer switch lands in the $3,000 to $5,000 range and covers essentials like a refrigerator, a computer, or a bathroom. Jones said backup power has followed the same path as electric-vehicle chargers, moving from a feature of higher-end homes toward a common request.

He also pointed out that some electric vehicles can feed power back into a home, though the trade-off is a drained battery and no way to drive once the charge is gone. Jones encouraged anyone weighing a generator to use the information form on the company’s website so the team can match a system to a household’s specific electrical needs.

“A typical home generator with the cost of the generator on average runs about $20,000, maybe a little bit more, maybe a little bit less.”

Carlton Jones, Owner, Radiance Power

Local Government, Surveillance, and a Creek Slated for Poison

Start listening at 13:38 – Hour 1

Mike Rawluk, an engaged citizen who tracks decisions at the local level, reported that the Denver Water board postponed a vote tied to the Gross Reservoir expansion after failing to reach a quorum. The proposal would treat a Grand County creek with a fish poison to remove an unwanted species, a step Rawluk said could leave the water unusable for a couple of years during an ongoing drought. He cited studies linking the chemical’s buildup in the body to Parkinson’s-like effects and urged residents to attend the board’s meetings, noting that of its 1.5 million customers, almost no one shows up.

Rawluk then turned to a New York measure that would require blocking technology on home 3D printers to stop the printing of firearm parts, with penalties for sellers and felony exposure for users. He warned that the law treats information itself as contraband while exempting government agencies, and questioned how prosecutors would ever prove criminal intent.

He closed with a federal court ruling out of Norfolk, Virginia, that upheld automated license-plate cameras for now while signaling that mass surveillance could cross a constitutional line as the technology spreads. Rawluk cautioned listeners against reading the decision as a settled win for the cameras.

“We’re talking about making information illegal and having tracking devices in your home to make sure that you only look at the approved blueprints on a 3D printer.”

Mike Rawluk, Engaged citizen

Natural Law and the Anti-Realism Taught on Catholic Campuses

Start listening at 32:12 – Hour 1

Gregory LaPoint, founder of the Center for Natural Law, argued that Catholic universities have become a force for leftism, socialism, and progressivism, ideologies he said run against the religion the schools claim to uphold. He traced the shift to the 1967 Land O’Lakes conference, where Catholic educators opened their campuses to every secular subject and dropped the older practice of weighing authors against church teaching.

The result, LaPoint said, is a curriculum dominated by anti-realist philosophers, from Kant and Nietzsche to Marx and Bertrand Russell, while metaphysical realism and natural law have nearly vanished from course lists. He defined metaphysical realism as the acknowledgment of a world that exists outside the mind, the created order a person reasons from to reach logic, ethics, and ultimately civilization. Reject that foundation, he warned, and a student drifts into idealism or materialism, schools of thought he called dangerous and, in the case of materialism, historically bloody.

A practicing Catholic, LaPoint said he is ashamed of the universities and faulted bishops for lacking the courage to intervene where the faith is being corrupted. He connected the classroom problem to the anxiety Kim Monson and Producer Joe described among young people, saying children taught that reality is manufactured in their own minds are left without firm ground to stand on. He predicts the church will one day apologize for decades of what he called poisonous philosophy.

“Catholic universities are a definite force for leftism, socialism, communism, and progressivism.”

Gregory LaPoint, Founder, Center for Natural Law

The Fed, Inflation Data, and the New Normal of Higher Rates

Start listening at 65:32 – Hour 2

Mortgage specialist Lorne Levy reported that the latest producer price data came in hot, with the core index rising to 4.2 percent from 3.8 percent, the highest reading in several years and driven largely by fuel and energy costs working their way through the economy. The number landed roughly where forecasters expected, but Levy said it dims hopes that the Federal Reserve will cut rates anytime soon.

The data arrives ahead of the first Federal Reserve meeting under a new chairman, and Levy used the moment to correct a common assumption. The chairman leads the discussion, he explained, while a twelve-member committee votes at each meeting, with most decisions landing 10 to 2, 11 to 1, or unanimous after extensive deliberation. A single dissenting governor, he said, rarely changes an outcome.

For homeowners and buyers, Levy’s advice centered on readiness. Rates can drop briefly on a single piece of data and recover within a week, so he urged listeners to get pre-qualified and stay in touch with a lender to act when an opening appears. He framed the current environment as a new normal of higher rates that rewards preparation over waiting for a return to the low rates of past years.

“There’s a sort of a misconception out there that the Federal Reserve Chairman is a one-man show that just makes decisions, and he’s not.”

Lorne Levy, Mortgage specialist

Wind Turbines, Golden Eagles, and the Fight to Control Land

Start listening at 75:37 – Hour 2

Sixth-generation rancher Trent Loos, who joined Kim Monson at last week’s Wind Wall Rally in Cheyenne, pointed to a number that stunned the crowd: roughly 47 percent of golden eagles that interact with a wind turbine are killed. He contrasted the federal government’s treatment of the eagle, a protected species, with the way the Endangered Species Act is used to tie up private land, noting that a government-subsidized wind project on deeded property draws a pass that an ordinary landowner would never receive.

Loos argued that the common thread behind endangered-species rules, wind and solar leases, and CO2 pipelines is control of land. He pointed to wind turbines that never come down, citing a Nebraska county that issued 44 conditions on a permit three years ago for a project that has yet to break ground, and to developers who collect tax credits, sell them, and file bankruptcy before decommissioning. He credited organizer Wendy Volk with exposing the coordinated push behind Wyoming’s wind wall by reading the documents county by county.

He closed with a warning from his own industry, describing a new USDA response to the screwworm that releases sterile flies by the hundreds of millions while quietly halting horse shipments to Mexico. Loos framed all of it as a single fight over control of land and food, and offered a direct remedy: end the tax credits, subsidies, and grants that make industrial energy projects possible in the first place.

“Get rid of tax credits, get rid of subsidies, and get rid of economic development grants, and we the people will once again regain control of this country.”

Trent Loos, Sixth-generation rancher