Monthly Archives: September 2024

Can the courts dismantle the imperial bureaucracy in DC?

Posted on September 30, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

In recent months, the Nine Nazgul (or at least 5 or 6 of them) have seeming delivered major blows to the bureaucratic state and much of its power and practices. At the same time, more and more lower federal people … Continue reading →

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Lo, the poor Indian…

Posted on September 27, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

For more than 150 years, the white regressives (they call themselves progressives and compassionate conservatives and liberals – corrupting the meanings of all the words) of these States and many in Europe and Canada have bemoaned the so-called racism and … Continue reading →

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We’re back!

Posted on September 26, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

An unplanned hiatus in our usual publishing schedule, coupled with a hacking problem and business travel , has put us out of commission for two weeks. But we are back! If you missed the last commentaries we published: be sure … Continue reading →

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Pushing the limit on lies? There’s a limit?

Posted on September 17, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

We all know that politicians lie. We all know that bureaucrats lie. And we all know that the media lies. Consider Springfield, Ohio. According to actual video testimony as assembled and published by an alt-media site (Horn News), Haitian “refugees” … Continue reading →

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Classical liberalism, liberty, and empire

Posted on September 16, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

As lovers of liberty, we are often considered “liberals” or increasingly “classical liberals,” (Like so many other English words, the meaning of “liberalism” has been warped. (One reason that TPOL does not use “liberal” very often and refers to those … Continue reading →

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Government funding of private schools?

Posted on September 14, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Jonah Goldberg once wrote, Government money only pays for the “liberties” the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties into privileges dispensed at the whim of the state. To put … Continue reading →

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Ramping up – attacks nationwide on homeschooling

Posted on September 13, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Editor’s note: The following is a condensation of an article by the Home School Legal Defense Fund recently published. We’ve taken the high points and removed promotional copy. But we consider this a legitimate call to action: ___________________ The Trend … Continue reading →

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Who is to blame?

Posted on September 12, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

This meme was posted recently: Nonsense. No, it is because government is spending us all into poverty: borrowing money ad infinitum, and pumping more and more Federal Reserve Notes (paper and electrons) into the economy while the supply of goods … Continue reading →

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Judicial independence? Really?

Posted on September 11, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

In an interesting development, a “mob” of more than 200 protesters stormed the Senate a few days ago. No, not the US Senate, but the Senate of the United Mexican States, Estados Unitos Mexicanos, in Ciudad Mexico. Why? They were … Continue reading →

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“Are we there yet?” Less than 2 months to go!

Posted on September 6, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

We all know (or were) the child who is constantly asking, from the moment the car pulls out of town on the journey, “are we there yet?” Many of us feel like that when it comes to the 2024 election … Continue reading →

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