The Freedom Report

If You Like Your Health Care Plan, You Can't Keep it

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris got some pushback from some of her party leadership when she floated the proposal of eliminating the private health insurance market entirely in a CNN town hall this week. Harris came out in favor of Bernie Sanders' Medicare-For-All plan, as well as the "Green New Deal" which would eliminate not just the entire coal and gas industry, but also gas burning vehicles. 

Are they nuts? 

Freedom Report host Austin Petersen breaks down the news with pieces from Reason Magazine and Ben Shapiro. 

Will Justin Amash run LP in 2020?

Michigan Congressman Justin Amash took to the stage at LibertyCon last weekend to discuss potential future presidential aspirations. When asked about who the LP should nominate, Amash responded with a jab ostensibly at former Massachusetts Governor and 2020 potential Bill Weld. Weld responded with the grass of a Boston Brahmin. 

Former LP presidential candidate himself Austin Petersen discusses the news. 

Please, Don't Kill Baby Hitler

Ben Shapiro is under fire from the leftwing press over comments he made at the pro-life march in Washington D.C. Shapiro mentioned a common thought experiment whereby a time traveler would be faced with the question of whether or not to kill an infant Adolf Hitler. As usual, the media's lies, distortions, and ignorance come into full display.

The Freedom Report's host Austin Petersen breaks down the story where a podcast advertiser at the Daily Wire loses a sponsorship over the ordeal, as well as the philosophical questions involved.

Why Not Just Let People Buy Green Cards?

Austin Petersen of the Freedom Report podcast breaks down the current news on the government shutdown. Petersen reads from the Daily Mail and floats an immigration proposal which would allow people to avoid the hassle of paying lawyers and waiting years to become American citizens. Let's just let people buy citizenship directly instead. 

Yes, They Are Coming For Our Guns

Freedom Report host Austin Petersen summarizes some of the new gun laws coming down in 2019, and goes on an epic tirade against right-wing collaborators with the social democrats. 

Source: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/new-gun-laws-in-2019-what-to-know

Republican Foreign Policy Apocalypse

Jim Antle at the Washington Examiner writes of the "end days" on the foreign policy establishment in the Republican Party. Antle's piece reflects on the changing attitudes towards war during the Trump administration, and how Senators Lindsey Graham and Rand Paul are warring for the president's favor for their policies. 

Austin Petersen's Freedom Report podcast is a preview for an interview with Antle, which will occur on 93.9 The Eagle radio in Columbia Missouri on December 31st. 

Facebook's Crackdown on Politics and Sex

Kristen Thomas of Open the Doors coaching joins Austin Petersen again for another super spicy episode of the Freedom Report podcast. Petersen and Thomas discuss Facebook's new rules regarding the discussion of sex and sex related topics on the platform. They also delve into the Tumblr porn ban, and chat about what this means for sex workers, and how politics gets involved.

The Death and Rebirth of American Conservatism

Austin Petersen and Jack Stocker host the Freedom Report podcast to discuss the death and rebirth of American Conservatism. An article shared by Senator Rand Paul triggered an angry response from neoconservatives, and adulation from libertarians and Trump supporters. The article, read by Petersen in entirety, chronicles the change in policies from the Reagan/Bush years to the new Republican Party under Trump. 

Many libertarian victories have been had since the end of neoconservative dominance, but not all policies within Trumpism are libertarian. 

Movie Review: Peter Jackson's - They Shall Not Grow Old

A documentary by a non-historian for non-historians. 

This special episode of the Freedom Report podcast is a movie review of director Peter Jackson's documentary about the Great War. Host Austin Petersen is joined by guests Jack Stocker and Camellia Plosser who attended the screening in Kansas City on December 17th, 2018. 

November of 2018 marks the 100 year anniversary of the armistice, signaling the end of global conflict and the rise of a new post war world order. Jackson takes footage from World War one and restores it to the extreme, mixing audio and research in a way to paint the conflict in a more human light. Jackson's work comes alive in the voices of surviving veterans of the conflict, recorded by the BBC in the 1960's, and presented here as part of an aesthetically pleasing whole. You'll hear things you've never heard, feel things you've never felt, and see things you've never seen. 

Jackson's documentary makes excellent use of his vast cinematic talent, while working within the confines of only using authentic footage available to him. The director was prohibited from using historic reenactments to fill in for space. 

Petersen, Plosser, and Stocker review Peter Jackson's "They Shall Not Grow Old" in this episode of the Freedom Report podcast. 

 

Ghosts of Liberty's Past, Present... and Future.

Libertarian podcast host Bob Zadek joins Austin Petersen on the Freedom Report to discuss the ghosts of liberty's past, present, and future. Zadek responds to Petersen's recent criticisms of the direction the liberty movement is taking, and offers his unique perspective on where we've been, where we are, and where we might be going.