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Blunt Force Truth

State of the Union - w/ Dr. Bonner Cohen

Blunt Force Truth

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4.6959 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

On Today’s Episode –

Mark and Matt are joined by Bonner Cohen again, and the fellas talk about this week’s past State of the Union address by Pres. Trump.

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Bonner R. Cohen is a senior policy analyst with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, where he concentrates on energy, natural resources, and international relations. He also serves as a senior policy adviser with the Heartland Institute, senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, and as adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Articles by Dr. Cohen have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily, New York Post, Washington Times, National Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, Detroit News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Miami Herald, and dozens of other newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. He has been interviewed on Fox News, CNN, Fox Business Channel, BBC, BBC Worldwide Television, NBC, NPR, N 24 (German language news channel), Voice of Russia, and scores of radio stations in the U.S. Dr. Cohen has testified before the U.S. Senate committees on Energy & Natural Resources and Environment & Public Works as well as the U.S. House committees on Natural Resources and Judiciary. He has spoken at conferences in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Bangladesh. Dr. Cohen is the author of two books, The Green Wave: Environmentalism and its Consequences (Washington: Capital Research Center, 2006) and Marshall, Mao und Chiang: Die amerikanischen Vermittlungsbemuehungen im chinesischen Buergerkrieg (Marshall, Mao and Chiang: The American Mediations Effort in the Chinese Civil War) (Munich: Tuduv Verlag, 1984). Dr. Cohen received his B.A. from the University of Georgia and his Ph.D. – summa cum laude – from the University of Munich.

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0:00.0

It's showtime.

0:02.6

People should not be afraid of their governments.

0:05.6

Government should be afraid of their people.

0:08.6

You know, the right to bear arms is because that's the last form of defense against tyranny.

0:14.8

Washington is fundamentally corrupt.

0:16.7

There are more words in the IRS code than there are in the Bible.

0:24.8

Thank you. there are more words in the IRS code than there are in the Bible. Made in America heard around the world.

0:26.9

You're listening to Blunt Force Truth.

0:28.5

I'm your host, Mark Young, Matt Umbarger,

0:31.8

and our dear friend and great companion here on Blunt Force Truth,

0:36.7

Dr. Bonner Cohen.

0:38.6

Matt, did you watch the State of the Union address?

0:42.1

I did. It was long, but it was fun.

0:45.1

It was, it was epically long. It was the longest in history, 109 minutes.

0:50.9

I wish they had a version without the standing and clapping. I would be all four watching.

0:55.6

They'll just let him talk. So, this is unique here. So Bonner, I'm going to tell everybody,

1:04.5

I'm going to spill the tea on Bonner. So Bonner was at another event last night and has not seen the state of the union

1:12.4

address. So be able to feed him some of the things that happened over there and get some of his

1:17.1

input. Now, here's the first thing. I would say it in advance, it looks as if his role model is

1:23.1

Fidel Castro. Castro was famous for holding these speeches that would go on for hours. And so

1:31.1

it's an interesting role model, particularly in light of what Trump may have in store for the

1:36.6

government, the current government in Cuba. Now, I will tell you, being a 109- state of the union address, I don't feel, as someone who watched it, I don't feel that it was dragging on.

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