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About TPOL Nathan

Follower of Christ Jesus (a christian), Pahasapan (resident of the Black Hills), Westerner, Lover of Liberty, Free-Market Anarchist, Engineer, Army Officer, Husband, Father, Historian, Writer, Evangelist. Successor to Lady Susan (Mama Liberty) at TPOL.

How stupid do you have to be, to be a senator?

A United States Senator, of course. But it no doubt is a question to ask of every Canadian Senator and every Senator of every one of the Fifty States. (Yes, even Nebraska has Senators in their unicameral legislature.) Senator Lindsey … Continue reading

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Hate crime?

Apparently the consensus of “experts” (hmm… political scientists?) and cops is that some people demonstrating with someone else hanging in effigy is a hate crime. In a previous commentary we noted the current effort to make lynching people a “federal … Continue reading

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Can State legislatures be “reformed” or even “restored” to better ways?

From ideas by Ari Armstrong Bad as the US Congress and the House of Commons in London, Ottawa, and Canberra are, many State and provincial legislatures are just as bad. We can argue that some (California and Ontario come to … Continue reading

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We are still here! And the world isn’t ending yet!

Our apologies for a week-long absence, but we are still here and still going strong. As is the planet. The wars and rumors of war meter have spiked the last week or so, but the big missiles aren’t flying, and … Continue reading

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The price of liberty – the cost of freedom – 2022

As I write this on a holiday I am coming more and more to despise – “President’s Day” (bow down and worship!) – the wheels seem to be coming off. Three weeks of the truckers’ Freedom Convoy in the Dominion … Continue reading

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Political “science” and the loss of liberty

Working on a commentary about “silly science” and government, one of the staff here at The Price of Liberty made a crack about “political science” as being an example of silly science and an oxymoron. So let us talk for … Continue reading

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Is this war? Biden again asleep at “helm”?

It’s been at least a dozen hours since Russia recognized the independence of two predominantly-Russian districts of Ukraine and ordered Russian troops to go in and carrying peacekeeping missions. I think we’ve heard this before. No, not the Sudetenland, but … Continue reading

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Domestic terrorists driven off Parliament Hill, disrupt school board meeting in Virginia

The accusation of “domestic terrorist” has become as ubiquitous as the the screamed cries of “fascist” in today’s political world.

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Listening in fear

In yesterday’s commentary, we here at TPOL answered Claire Wolf’s question from years ago, IS IT TIME YET TO START SHOOTING THEM? OUR ANSWER IS YES. Clearly and only in self-defense (including defense of others as appropriate, it is time. … Continue reading

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Taking another look: Is it time yet? Freedom = I won’t

About a year ago, I asked the same questions: How can we, to quote Harry Browne, live free in an unfree world? Is it, to restate Claire Wolfe’s question, time to shoot them?

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