Liberty Relearned

Popular Pro-abortion arguments and why they fail. By now, you know that Roe v. Wade has been overturned and the abortion question has been remanded back to the states.  There has been predictably, an explosion of posting both pro and against abortion. Here are some of pro-abortion arguments, talking points, and myths you may have heard.  I'll be addressing these and others in the podcast...

A short history of Juneteenth Father's Day Message: Why fathers matter.   Austin's minimum wage hike Austin's plans to infringe gun rights .  Past episodes you might like

Economic Fascism is Fascism When people think of the word “fascism” they think of groups of jackbooted thugs, running around, kicking down doors and rounding up enemies of the state.  They think of book burning, and a mad dictator whipping up his sycophants into a frenzy to terrorize the public.  That is indeed a major part of it.  State sponsored violence is a component of fascism,...

The new war against armed citizens In the wake of several high-profile mass shootings, and chronic gun-violence in cities like Chicago and Philadelphia, both Biden and Trudeau are calling for a raft of new anti-gun legislation. President Biden wants Congress to pass “common sense” gun legislation.  He says it won't infringe on 2nd Amendment rights.  Huh? A June 3rd Article in Fox News ou...

The saying “All gave some; some gave all,” is attributed to Korean War veteran and Purple Heart recipient, Howard William Osterkamp. It was true for the Korean War, and all the wars Americans fought in before and since. This Memorial Day, we honor those who gave all. They all gave their lives for their country, and we enjoy what freedom we have because of them. Even today, some give all, and all w...

Replacement vs. Displacement Critical Race Theory (CRT) came to the forefront of American politics during the height of the pandemic when parents across the country were shocked to find anti-white racism in their children's curriculum.  CRT and its offshoot social-justice phenomena ironically termed “anti-racism” that seeks to cast all inequities in Western Civilization in a racial light. &nb...

Have you seen 2000 Mules yet?  Go see it but listen to my podcast first!  A UPI article dated 5/14/22 states that Jeff Bezos thinks the 'ministry of truth' should investigate...The Biden Administration?  This should be interesting...    The leak heard 'round the world.  Who leaked the SCOTUS decision likely overturning Roe v. Wade and why? ( Someone thinks they know )...

Dinesh D'Souza has a great new movie out about alleged ballot trafficking in during the 2020 election called 2000 Mules . In the film he talks to members of the voter integrity watchdog group True the Vote.  TTV used the technology of geotracking, tracking someone's movements though their cellphones.  TTV alleges that people called "mules" were paid to deliver harvested votes to drop box...

The Ministry of Truth They call it the “Disinformation Governance Board”.  Some of us have another name for it-- The Ministry of Truth. The DHS says its focus will mainly be on false or misleading information getting out, attracting illegal immigrants from places like Haiti to come here.  The Associated Press recently ran a piece on it , giving the official rationale for its inception. T...

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"....