President Biden has emulated Obama's penchant for ruling by executive order. He's used executive orders to continue with President Obama's war on fossil fuel. He's also abused his executive order power do create vaccine mandates and forgive student loan debt. Only a few things stand between him and Trudeau levels of tyranny, our Supreme Court, our currently GOP held House, and a few red state governors.
COVID-19 Bill of Rights
LR Podcast, S2, E23: A trip to the grocery store
The immunized gets to keep their job, no problems. The other must submit to weekly COVID tests or lose their job, despite having natural immunity.
There will always be another variant.
We must recognize that COVD, while it should be taken seriously, the fear of it should not rule us, or cause us to turn on each other.
LR Podcast, S2E16: The Lessons So Far, Pt 3
We must eventually choose between mask mandates, lockdowns, and other disruptive measures in perpetuity, or learn to live with COVID as we have myriad other potentially dangerous diseases.
LR Podcast #50: The Historic 50th Episode!
For the life so far of the podcast, our liberties have been under threat, particularly since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis. It was surprising in some cases, just how easily some of our Constitutional rights such as the freedom of religion were lost.
LR Podcast Episode 36: DIY Best of 2020
Which back episodes should you listen to? Here's a shortlist based upon the most listened to in 2020. Everything from Gen Flynn being freed, to the civil unrest, to COVID-19 are covered.
LR Podcast #32: Who ‘topia? U-topia!
St. Thomas Moore had his Utopia, Marx and Engels had their Communist Manifesto. Though the latter is better known for the destructive nature of its implementation in this and the last century, it has a commonality with the other books mentioned: the necessity of authoritarianism. It is this need for an authoritarian form of government and a ruling class, either explicit as in the Republic or implicit as with Marx and Engels that binds most, if not all Utopian systems with each other.
This Week’s LR Podcast Episode
Or, maybe I'll talk about something completely different. Maybe I'll talk about something you suggest! Whatever it is, I'll make sure to do my best to connect the stories to conservative/libertarian principles.
LR Podcast Episode 21: Life and Death
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died leaving a huge vacancy in the Supreme Court. How does her loss affect the balance of the Court? What does each side want to happen?
LR Podcast #10: Is America free?
Now under the scourge of COVID-19, it is painfully apparent that we don't have many of the freedoms we thought were guaranteed us, and the celebration of Independence Day, 2020, served as an uncomfortable reminder that freedom is not free and is not guaranteed.