Monthly Archives: June 2024

“Uniform educational standards” government-controlled homeschooling

Posted on June 30, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Have you heard about a recent article over at Scientific American? Children Deserve Uniform Standards in Homeschooling is the title. The push in the article is a list of claims about how bad homeschooling is. We are told (with little … Continue reading →

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Screaming their heads off?

Posted on June 29, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

The recent Supreme Court decision taking away the power of administrative law judges seems to have everyone on both sides of the traditional political aisle screaming. Are they really that upset and fearful or is it an act? This term, … Continue reading →

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Really? The Constitution?

Posted on June 27, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

A while back, I got a missive from Hillsdale College. It triggers some thoughts about the US Constitution, about liberty and human government, and about what we need to defend liberty and our rights. Read it for yourself: _______________ In … Continue reading →

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Do we need an American President?

Posted on June 26, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

What does an addict need more than anything else? “The biggest and most important job in America” is how a talk show host recently described the position of POTUS. While wondering how someone who is too mentally incompetent to be … Continue reading →

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Tyranny in the world today

Posted on June 22, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

C.S. Lewis said it well: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s … Continue reading →

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Share and enjoy!

Posted on June 21, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Courtesy of Conner Boyack: Connor shared this a couple of months back, and one unthinking response had this: “Nobody wants a society like this, Connor, that’s why Libertarians don’t get votes.” Connor had not attached this directly to libertarianism, or … Continue reading →

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They just don’t see it. Free markets promote freedom.

Posted on June 20, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Celebrating his (sometimes labeled dubious) victory over a Republican who seems chosen to fail miserably 15 years ago, Barack (Barry) Obama continued to preach his anti-liberty, anti-free-market gospel in Chicago a while back. He is obviously still very active politically. … Continue reading →

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Zelenskyy and liberty and freedom

Posted on June 19, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Supposedly we are spending billions and billions arming training and supplying the poor, desperate people of Ukraine to help their democracy. To preserve or restore their liberty as individuals and people. And their freedom as a nation. Protecting them from … Continue reading →

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People’s Republic rip-off scheme(s)

Posted on June 18, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

As mentioned recently, we here at TPOL are bashing California a lot these days. Here is another: a “parks and recreation” district in Southern California is apparently illegally issuing “tickets” for those idiots who do a “rolling stop” or “California … Continue reading →

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Do we have a “good cop” in DC?

Posted on June 17, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

A “good cop” in DC? Really? Or are we just being insanely optimistic? I got a smile about the headline of one news story – “Biden… greasing its [Ukraine’s] path to NATO membership.” This was Uncle Joe touting his “security … Continue reading →

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