Monthly Archives: October 2014

Situational Awareness Part 2

Posted on October 12, 2014 by MamaLiberty

By MamaLiberty In part 1, long ago now, I covered the basics of situational awareness in some specific situations, along with some simple drills to help people practice this highly important skill. If you have not seen the first article … Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #14-40E: Home Front

Posted on October 11, 2014 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Good morning.  Again a raft of cop abuse and school abuse from across the nation.  Dream of a land where peace officers are limited to night watchmen and private firms hired to investigate real crimes, and schools … Continue reading →

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Public Health? Private Health? (was: Libertarian Commentary on the News, #14-40D)

Posted on October 9, 2014 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Public health is in the news, dominated by Ebola, but with lots of other things.  In the last twenty-four hours, thousands of articles and hundreds of thousands of words have been produced about what is happening.  Fear … Continue reading →

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The New Economy? Unlimited Energy

Posted on October 9, 2014 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton On Friday the 3rd, Greg Guenthner over at Daily Reckoning published a good article, “You’ll Never Believe How Low the Price of Oil Can Go…” which I actually didn’t get to read until late Monday, when his … Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #14-40C: Stupid epidemic worse than “disease?”

Posted on October 9, 2014 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Today, the natural theme of the stories that are catching my eye seem to be stupidity on the part of government officials and policies, various and sundry people, on a wide variety of topics.  Bad as things … Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #14-40B: Human life – any value?

Posted on October 8, 2014 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Good morning!  Sometimes, the news just seems to be dull and boring, and today is one of those:  the news and the talk shows all seem to be Ebola and the Caliphate.  Oh, and the Supreme Court … Continue reading →

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Future Death of Government? A look back from 2020

Posted on October 8, 2014 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Looking back from 2020, what mistakes did the US make in 2000-2015? Could we have done something to avoid the catastrophic collapse of the last five years?  Thirteen items come to mind.

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No Guns?

Posted on October 7, 2014 by MamaLiberty

By MamaLiberty The anti-gun people often tell us that a criminal would simply take a gun away from you and, probably, use it to kill you instead.

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #14-40A: Hypocrisy in Government? Surely not!

Posted on October 6, 2014 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Good morning.  Is government just lying? (Again?) Or being hypocritical?  Or just being stupid?  Or all of the above? Anger at president reaches new high as faith in government falls according to the WaPo. New polling data … Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #14-39E: Weekend fears and follies

Posted on October 4, 2014 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Good morning!  On this lovely Saturday, the Home Front is just really going through convulsions, as people are really upset and worried. We aren’t supposed to, of course: guvmint will take care of us really, really nicely, … Continue reading →

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