“Get out. Now!”

Posted on 2026-07-10 by TPOL Nathan

With the breakdown of negotiations and the loss of patience and control, as we see combat resume in South Asia and the Middle East, does it hurt to talk about the objectives of Muslims? Especially of those we label as “Islamists” today?

One correspondent suggested that we again (as so often we do) look to Europe to see what we can learn.

Let us start with recent events. Just a few days back, a Muslim politician publically proclaimed: “Belgians must leave Belgium.” Saliha Rais said: “If people don’t like seeing hijab and niqabs.. if you don’t want to see us any longer, go elsewhere, get out.”

(In response, Elon Musk says: “If tolerance means the end of our civilization, then we can’t be tolerant. When Europe will regret having bartered its own principles and values for cheap labor, it will be too late.”

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Propaganda is almost impossible to dodge today

Posted on 2026-07-09 by TPOL Nathan

It is not just government agencies and officials, or even “failed” politicians (in other words, those not in office or who are not really in control: the puppets and ne’er-do-wells) who spout the biased, usually twisted and filled with lies, tales that seek to push this or that political or government idea.

Nor is it big (or small) business trying to cozen you into buying X or not buying Y. And trying to convince you of their honesty, their compassion, and their generosity. And it isn’t even your child or grandchild channeling Calvin!

The “academic community” may be the greatest purveyor of propaganda today. And we can show evidence that status may go back centuries. They are (regardless of “public” or “private” status) the natural allies of the powers-that-be: the rulers and would-be rulers in government.

Consider the Smithsonian Institution, and its centuries-long partnership with government. Not just the National Park Service (as you might expect), or the various historical elements of many other agencies. The Smithsonian, like NPS, USFS, BLM, USACE, and many other agencies, is an enormous generator of twisted lies and interpretations. And the source of most is not their political masters in Congress or down at the other end of the Mall in the White House. No, it is academia.

We easily see this in the National Museum of American History (NMAH), perhaps the best known of the Smithsonian’s outlets, with all the historical objects, many of the historical documents, and all in all, a vast treasure store.

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Are we really ‘welded at the hip’ as some claim?

Posted on 2026-07-08 by TPOL Nathan

As we look past 250 years, we wonder. Information like this from last month has caused many people to question what is going on.

Many characterize this as a de facto merger of the FedGov’s and Jerusalem’s military forces. Perhaps this thought is driven by the “success” of the joint US-Israel war on Iran.

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Local governments, even in Wyoming, are evil

Posted on 2026-07-07 by TPOL Nathan

This article is from Cowboy State Daily:

Crook County is a small, ranching, timber, mining, and tourist county in Wyoming’s Black Hills. It is home to one of five Amish communities in the State of Wyoming. They are good neighbors, good people, and of great value to the community (not that the last is a requirement for the first two). It only has about 8,000 residents living in more than 2800 square miles. It is a lovely place, filled with a lot of good people, businesses, and opportunity. The Amish fit in well with the frontier and surprisingly libertarian attitude of most people. Indeed, the community of Hulett, in addition to having Amish, Devil’s Tower, a huge sawmill, and great hunting and fishing, is where Boston T. Party and others established the Wyoming Free State project decades ago.

We at TPOL know and work with some of the officials in Crook County. And we know that sometimes the officials (elected and appointed) demonstrate disturbing signs of stupidity and evil. And we know that their governmental system is corrupt and evil, just as every county in every American State is. Why? Because all too often they fail to praise and honor those who do good and fail to punish those who do evil. Why? All too often, as in this case, the failures come from what the State government (read, Legislature, Judicial Branch, and the Executive Branch) forces the county to do. And of course, much of what the State government does is demanded, dictated by the FedGov, DC (with threat of force if not obeyed).

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6 July 2026, the 251st anniversary of…

Posted on 2026-07-06 by TPOL Nathan

… the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, enacted by the 2nd Continental Congress on 6 July 1775.

This five-page declaration explained why the Colonies believed armed resistance against the Crown (Great Britain) had become necessary. Although the delegates still expressed hope for peace, they made it clear they were prepared to defend their liberties by force—setting the stage for the Declaration of Independence one year later.

Part of that process we discussed earlier this month, it is worth studying by lovers of liberty.

You can find it here.

It’s ending words are striking:

Lest this  declaration  should  disquiet  the  minds  of  our  friends  and  fellow-­‐subjects   in  any  part  of  the  empire,  we  assure  them  that  we  mean  not  to  dissolve  that  union   which  has  so  long  and  so  happily  subsisted  between  us,  and  which  we  sincerely  wish  to   see  restored. Necessity  has  not  yet  driven  us  into  that  desperate  measure,  or  induced   us  to  excite  any  other  nation  to  war  against  them.  We  have  not  raised  armies  with   ambitious  designs  of  separating  from  Great-Britain,  and  establishing  independent  states.   We  fight  not  for  glory  or  for  conquest.  We  exhibit  to  mankind  the  remarkable  spectacle   of  a  people  attacked  by  unprovoked  enemies,  without  any  imputation  or  even  suspicion   of  offence.  They  boast  of  their  privileges  and  civilization,  and  yet  proffer  no  milder   conditions  than  servitude  or  death.    

In  our  own  native  land,  in  defence  of  the  freedom  that  is  our  birthright,  and   which  we  ever  enjoyed  till  the  late  violation  of  it for  the  protection  of  our  property,   acquired  solely  by  the  honest  industry  of  our  fore-­‐fathers  and  ourselves,  against   violence  actually  offered,  we  have  taken  up  arms.  We  shall  lay  them  down  when   hostilities  shall  cease  on  the  part  of  the  aggressors,  and  all  danger  of  their  being   renewed  shall  be  removed,  and  not  before.     

With  an  humble  confidence  in  the  mercies  of  the  supreme  and  impartial  Judge   and  Ruler  of  the  Universe,  we  most  devoutly  implore  his  divine  goodness  to  protect  us   happily through  this  great  conflict,  to  dispose  our  adversaries  to  reconciliation  on   reasonable  terms,  and  thereby  to  relieve  the  empire  from  the  calamities  of  civil  war.

Can we have the same attitude those men and women had 251 years ago today?

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Gerrymandering battles: the Colorado front

Posted on 2026-07-05 by TPOL Nathan

A guest editorial by M.A. Rothman, with comments from TPOL

Mr. Rothman published this on Monday, 29 June: (our comments in italics)

𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐎 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐓 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐒 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐓 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐒 — 𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝟒𝐑-𝟒𝐃

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled today that Democrats cannot use ballot initiatives to gerrymander the state’s congressional map and deliver themselves a permanent supermajority. The ruling is a clean win for election integrity.

At best, it is a clean win for procedure and practice, and leaves the question open in the longer term. This is something that Colorado and other “Blue States” have done and faced in the past. We predict that they will in the future. We note that the 4R-4D headline is very optimistic: Colorado is as rife with election fraud (and punishing those who seek to fight against it) as any other State. And the very recent SCOTUS Nazgul decision ensures Colorado continues to enjoy a license to do so: several of those GOP seats are far from safe!

Three ballot initiatives — numbered 240, 241, and 242, backed by a group called “Coloradans for a Level Playing Field” — would have redrawn Colorado’s congressional map to give Democrats seven of the state’s eight seats in Congress. The current delegation sits at 4R-4D. The plan was to flip three Republican seats for 2028 and 2030, 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 through rigged redistricting.

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Gaining independence, gaining liberty: a process not an event in human society

Posted on 2026-07-04 by TPOL Nathan

On July 4, Americans celebrate the Union’s 250th birthday. (TPOL notes that the actual vote was on the 2nd, in the Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia that hot summer.)

The Founding Fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor against the greatest empire on earth. They created a republic based on the radical proposition that rights come from God, not government. They built a constitutional system designed to restrain power because they understood, better than today’s experts, that human beings are fallen and governments are dangerous.

That act of creation, of building something for the future did not happen on a single day, or even weeks of discussion: it was a key milestone in a long process. But one of significance. While tending to focus on a precise date, what Americans actually are celebrating is a 30-year-long transformation, from about 1760 to 1790. A transformation in a small group of countries that had a massive historical impact on the entire world for the last two and a half centuries. 

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Anno Libertatus 250 – lost liberties

Posted on 2026-07-03 by TPOL Nathan

As we touched on in yesterday’s column, most of the liberty which we celebrated then (and even now) has not made it this far. We have not truly had 250 years of liberty.

Still, as we wrote yesterday, we join in remembering the important parts of life: faith, family, freedom, and the folks who made it possible for us to have these. (And who will work to regain those lost liberties.) Who must work to regain the liberty lost, voluntarily or not.

Therefore, here on the 3rd, let us share some thoughts on lost liberties from Tom Evans from several years ago, and add our own, in bold italics.

The United States government claims that the United States of America, is a single sovereign nation;  while likewise claiming that it was always a national union, from 1776 onward. But this was indeed never true; as every state was always a separate sovereign nation unto itself. In reality, the American Revolution established the states as thirteen sovereign nations, by law, as originally declared in 1776.

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My oh my, it’s the 2nd of July!

Posted on 2026-07-02 by TPOL Nathan

TODAY, 2 JULY, is the 250th anniversary of when the Continental Congress voted to secede from the British Empire. That is, in our opinion, neat. Very neat!

Some of us here at TPOL remember the 200th birthday of these United States, both the real birthday (2nd of July) and the official and traditional 4th of July Independence Day celebration. Do not recall if we ever expected to make it to the 250th year, back then. But here we are.

Unfortunately, while we are here, most of the liberty which we celebrated then (and even now) has not made it this far.

Still, we join in remembering the important parts of life: faith, family, freedom, and the folks who made it possible for us to have and remember. And the folks who will work to regain those lost liberties.

As the now-retired Liberty Round Table and deceased Mama Liberty constantly pushed, the real Independence Day, the start of the Anno Libertatus (Years of Liberty) is not the Fourth of July. (Did you know that even Canada and Mexico have a Fourth of July? Seriously!) It was on the second, two days earlier, that the critical votes were taken and the colonies all agreed to become States. Free, independent, sovereign nations.

Free at least from the tyranny of King and Parliament (both Lords and Commons) in London, at least. Not permanently free from tyranny, then or now.

We invite our readers to share their thoughts on liberty, independence, and 250 years of history.

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Oh, Canada – how sad

Posted on 2026-07-01 by TPOL Nathan

A secondary note regarding liberty, freedom, and independence on this day.

Canada Day is the Dominion’s national day and a statuatory federal holiday. It celebrates, not freedom from rule by the British Crown, but the anniversary of the Confederation of Canada. (On 1 July, 1867), merging the “United Canadas” (Ontario and Quebec), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. The Confederation remained within the British Empire.

Until 1982, when Canada got its own Constitution (by the Canada Act) and severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the UK Parliament in London, it was called Dominion Day.

Although it is often informally referred to as “Canada’s birthday” (parroting US ideas of Independence Day), it is not: Instead of an eight-year war and a peace treaty, it took a long time to reach the country’s full sovereignty. Today, Canada is a “kingdom in its own right” within the Empire (Commonwealth).

What it did not do was guarantee the liberty of Canadians, then or now. Although many Canadians will claim otherwise, the “rights” stated under the 1982 Constitution are limited and subject even more to the power of the federal and provincial governments than even in the decayed Union of their neighbor to the South. Canadians are constantly bombarded with instructions to “bear the white man’s guilt” when it comes to “First Nations” (Canada’s equivalent to AmerInd nations down South).

In recent years more and more Canadians have been disarmed, had their rights of free speech, association, and even freedom of worship reduced. At the same time, their federal government has gone to desperate lengths to keep Quebec in the Confederation, which has meant stealing even more from Peter to pay Paul. It is not a pretty picture, especially to the Canadian subjects of the Prairie Provinces (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and especially Alberta). (One of the great differences between the USA and Canada is that their Constitution explicitly states that the provinces have the power to leave the Dominion; to secede. Theoretically.)

In recent decades, as in the United Kingdom itself, and Europe, Canada is flooded with immigrants, not just from other Commonwealth nations but from around the world. With this mass migration has come the same problems as seen elsewhere, including the Fifty States. And solutions have not been all that good, when we get down to it.

Any time we look north, Americans and lovers of liberty everywhere can and should learn lessons from the history of a lovely and productive country.

But in the meantime, as votes are being scheduled on at least one attempt to secede (in Alberta), we at TPOL wish our neighbors, friends, and especially lovers of liberty up North, a good Canada Day.

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