Liberty Relearned

Season 2 of the Liberty Relearned Podcast covered a lot of ground, from Bidens expensive and empty promises, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, to Covid, Fascism, and Woke Disney.  Included are clips from previous episodes of the podcast.  

Elon Musk has emerged as a champion of free speech and is trying to buy Twitter so he can reform it to being the world's premier free-speech platform.  The Left of course will have none of it.  They like being able to dictate who and what can be said in the free world's virtual public square.  They are doing everything they can to throw a monkey wrench into Musk's plans to wrest con...

It's not the sexiest of subjects for the conservative or libertarian, but agricultural practices and distribution do have an effect on our everyday life.  It doesn't tend to be a problem in the West, because actually, we're quite good at it.  When war threatens the production and distribution of food worldwide, then it becomes a problem, and we must take notice and immediate action. The...

Don't say Disney... So, of course after Florida Gov Desantis signed the Parental Rights in Education bill, HB 1557 into law, the woke leadership of Disney have gone nuts.  In the media it's been inaccurately portrayed as a 'don't say gay' bill. In reality, it's a 'don't corrupt our children with non-age-appropriate instruction on sexuality, gay, straight, or otherwise' bill. Disney, which spe...

Virtues of the Right: Capitalism  Voluntary exchange of goods and services  Capitalists cannot succeed unless they are offering something of value Life  Conception to natural death Rule of Law/consent of the governed  Free, fair elections, one person, one vote.  Everyone is equal under the law  Free speech  All points of view should be allowed to be heard. ...

What determines what is " left " and what is " right " politically and socially? What are some of the core values of each ideology and how are they manifested in today's society? Essentially, it comes down to collective vs. individual ethics . The left believes in collectivism and the right, individualism. Communism, socialism, and fascism are all examples of collectivist socio-economic societies....

Pork is back on the menu.. Congress just passed an omnibus budget that approves $1.5T in spending, much of it pork-laden. Of course, with a Democrat Congress in the current era, most of that pork is going to fund woke agenda items. Nancy Pelosi decided to use the war in Ukraine as leverage, tying a Ukraine support package to the greater omnibus. There is a good article by Matthew D. Dickerson from...

Here's my hot take on the President's SOTU speech. He started out pretty well by saluting the armed forces and people of Ukraine. It was all pretty much downhill from there. It took a lot of intellectual gymnastics to spin anything he did into a success. He used Covid as an excuse for runaway inflation. Everyone knows that emerging from Covid restrictions played only a part of it. He tried to spin...

It's official, the Russians are back on top as Christiandom's authoritarian villains after briefly being unseated by the upstart Canadians. It feels like some weird cosmic balance has been restored.  Yes, that's flippant, but it does seem that someone's freedom is always being threatened somewhere.  With the Russo-Ukrainian war officially underway we can see how violating some conservati...

Stop me if you heard anything like this before... An avowed socialist ascends to the leadership of his country despite being a member of the minority party. A precipitating event in the nation's capital serves as the pretext for that person to assume extraordinary “emergency powers”. He uses those powers as a blunt instrument to destroy his opposition. A minority group in that country is scapegoat...

In this podcast, I concentrate on what fascism is, and what it isn't. Left-leaning politicians, members of academia, and the mainstream media chronically misuse the terms fascist and fascism. I quote heavily from an article by ANGELO M. CODEVILLA entitled: The Original Fascist, From movement to epithet.   An excerpt from the article: "Today, the adjective “fascist” is an epithet—oft...

The COVID crisis is in its death throws.  As more and more countries relax or end outright their COVID restrictions, other places cling to and even increase theirs.  Leftists are trying to silence Joe Rogan under the pretense that he's spreading COVID disinformation.   Like cornered, wounded animals, these places and institutions are lashing out at the public in a desperate att...

United States, Canada, Czech Republic, Australia, Austria, Belgium, etc.  These demonstrations are now global, and common. This has to be the biggest political/human rights movement since the massive anti-communist movements of the early 1990s. Perhaps nothing in Western Civilization today is more hated than vaccine mandates and passports. Justice Stephen Breyer will be retiring from the Supr...

Coverage and summary of the Defeat the Mandates DC march. The rally was organized primarily by outspoken critics of the mandates, Doctors Robert Malone and Peter McCullah.  It was MC'd by J.P. Sears, a very funny libertarian comedian.  Some of the main themes of the rally were:  The freedom to choose how best to prevent, treat, and overcome a potentially serious disease. Censorship...

LR Podcast notes: A Tale of Two Leaders A Quinnipiac poll released on January 12th showed President Biden’s Approval rating at just 33%. His approval ratings have been plummeting since the Afghanistan pullout debacle. Meanwhile, on Saturday, Glenn Youngkin was sworn in as Virginia’s 74th governor. He won on a platform in many ways diametrically opposed to that of the President’s party. Biden’s top...

In part one of the 2021 year in review, we covered a lot of ground including: The Jan 6th Riot and its fallout, the resulting escalations in the war on free speech, and the inflation bomb.  In this part, we're going to cover more major topics covered by Liberty Relearned online and on the podcast including: The Biden agenda aka "We the Government" or "Build Back Broker" or "Buy Votes Better"....

At the end of 2020, we had high hopes that 2021 would be a darn sight better.  In some ways it was, but in many ways it wasn't and often things went sideways. This podcast covers many of the major events of 2021.  We had the unfortunate events of January 6th that have been used to justify the marginalization and sometimes downright persecution of Republicans, conservatives, and just abou...

Last year in my Christmas message, I wrote these words: “These are dark times, both literally and figuratively ... Jesus is the light, brought into a dark world, and as they say, it's always darkest before the dawn. It's certainly dark in the world and in our country today. We have an epidemic, which has brought not just the death of people, but the death of liberty as well. Our Republic is in per...

When we think of good, we have to consider the question of Good for Whom?  Society today, especially the left thinks in terms of the collective good.  Where the theist bases what's “good” as what's pleasing to God, the secular philosophers have tended to replace God with society.  Asking what is good for society.  This moral framework, based upon altruism (refer to Ayn Rand for additional insights...

“Some of the time...” has ended. “ I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.” ― Abraham Lincoln Ah, the timeless wisdom of Abe Lincoln!  (That does put a new perspective on the Latin phrase:  “In vino veritas,” but I digress.) The American people haven't been gi...

Examining the data from worldometers.info showing the patterns and general trajectory of the COVID 19 pandemic. Which strategies worked? Which ones didn't? Where does Omicron fit into all of this?

Its name is " Omicron ". It's the reason you'll still need to wear a mask at work and in school in 2022.  It will be the desperate need cited for getting small children vaccinated.  It's the reason you have to stay home for Christmas again this year (and don't even think of New Year's). It's the reason why you'll be getting a fourth shot in about five months. It's the reason your complia...

Last week, I read and then discussed an excerpt from a Victor Davis Hanson piece, "Trickle-down Bidenism".  In it he talks about the many crises occurring in the United States during the ancient Biden Administration. He wonders if the Democrats and just inept or if the damage being done is intentional. Unfortunately, the audio quality of last week's podcast was not that great (gremlins!). &nb...

Evil or just plain bad? In an article for The Independent Institute, Victor Davis Hanson blasts the Democrats and especially President Biden for the growing number of crises in America since he and his fellow Democrats took power in Washington in January. In it, Hanson asks the rhetorical question-- “Does the Biden socialist cadre who engineered these self-induced calamities have any clue about th...

This past Tuesday, Americans across the nation said “no” to the divisive progressive Democrat agenda.  Most notably, Governor-elect  Glenn Youngkin, who ran a race focused on education and the economy defeated one-time governor, Terry McAuliffe.  The election turned on one issue primary, the question of who should decide what Virginia kids get taught in school, teachers or parents....