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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.

Capitalism in today’s world

Posted on 2025-05-13 by TPOL Nathan

Students for Liberty has recently posted a cool video, showing the impact of capitalism on our world over the past decades. The many statistics that show the way capitalism has improved our lives and those of billions of people across … Continue reading →

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Exclusion – dealing with people who cannot be tolerated in society

Posted on 2025-05-12 by TPOL Nathan

A recent comment (thanks, Steve) triggered some thoughts which we’d like to share. And explore. Coventry is an idea proposed many times but perhaps best known in Heinlein’s version. The basic concept is similar to penal colonies in general: particularly … Continue reading →

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Principles of liberty

Posted on 2025-05-11 by TPOL Nathan

Dr. Robert Malone recently posted this as a “funny.” It is, of course, but it is also deadly serious. I equate it to that fine statement coined by science fiction writer Eric Frank Russell in his story “And then there … Continue reading →

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The intersection of politics and religion today

Posted on 2025-05-10 by TPOL Nathan

From The Western Journal: Democratic California Rep. Ted Lieu is slightly more Catholic than Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran. We will spot him that. (And as we write this, we have no idea what Ted Lieu’s opinion of … Continue reading →

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The capricious and irrational nature of American governments

Posted on 2025-05-09 by TPOL Nathan

The following ad (from Cowboy State Daily, a Wyoming on-line daily newspaper) is not a joke. Yes, you are reading that right. State Departments of Transportation and their various State cops (Highway or State Patrols, State Police, etc.) supposedly close … Continue reading →

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A Baker’s Dozen : The first thirteen inmates to go to Alcatraz

Posted on 2025-05-08 by TPOL Nathan

NOTE: Please, please, readers! Send us YOUR suggestions as who should go in the first Baker’s Dozen. This is fun, and sarcastic, but it needs YOUR participation! See why at the end. Now that The Donald has announced that the … Continue reading →

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This and that – freedom or tyranny? Explaining ourselves

Posted on 2025-05-05 by TPOL Nathan

“The Price of Liberty” is a news and commentary website, a series of articles (we just call them all “commentaries”). These are posted on-line and often shared individually with people by electronic or hardcopy means. And sometimes in person. We … Continue reading →

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Living with the aftermath

Posted on 2025-05-02 by TPOL Nathan

The various news outlets are babbling about a half-ton half-century-old Soviet spacecraft is going to fall from the sky sometime this month. No one knows exactly when or where it will fall – given the orbit, population, and the ratio … Continue reading →

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May Day + Labor Day? Really…

Posted on 2025-05-01 by TPOL Nathan

There are just a few nations that do not consider May Day – the First Day of May – to be Labor Day, or “International Workers’ Day.” Most of these nations which do not recognize it are English-speaking: Old Commonwealth … Continue reading →

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Trust, political leaders, and learned pessimism

Posted on 2025-04-30 by TPOL Nathan

The Holman Christian Standard Bible translates Pslam 146:3 as “Do not trust in nobles, in man, who cannot save.” Most who are familiar with the Scriptures (both Hebrew: the Tanakh, and the New Testament) know this verse as warning against … Continue reading →

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