Category Archives: Commentary on the News

Panic, panic everywhere – Middle East flareup

Posted on 2020-01-09 by TPOL Nathan

There is panic in the air … airwaves, that is. And in the ether and the worldwide web. Panic in the boardroom. Panic in the media prep rooms. Panic in the lobbies of Congress (and their office palaces). Panic in … Continue reading →

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Revolution spreading?

Posted on 2020-01-08 by TPOL Nathan

Back in the 1770s, the tax revolt against Parliament and King George did not instantly flare up in even half-a-dozen colonies, but rather started in a few places and spread from there. That was not entirely due to poor communications … Continue reading →

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Survival of the fittest? Intelligence in the legal profession

Posted on 2020-01-07 by TPOL Nathan

A few weeks back, there were reports that a lawyer was killed in the court room when a shotgun submitted as evidence “went off.” The thing was fully loaded. Addelaid Ferreira-Watt, a prominent South African attorney, was killed after a … Continue reading →

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The extreme nanny state event horizon?

Posted on 2020-01-06 by TPOL Nathan

One of the many marvelous scenes in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is the discussion of the “Shoe Event Horizon.” Emotional depression turns into economic madness. Read about it here. I wonder if we here in 21st Century America, … Continue reading →

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Not the Onion – HRC appointed to royal British post

Posted on 2020-01-05 by TPOL Nathan

At first, I thought this was a spoofing article, but it appears to be legit. So then I had my stomach turn. Hillary Clinton appointed chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast, reports the BBC News (reposted by Freedom News Daily)“Hillary Clinton … Continue reading →

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The hoploclasts just don’t give up on their insanity

Posted on 2020-01-02 by TPOL Nathan

Compare the two – and recall that Lizzy Warren (Fauxahaunus, with (maybe) 1/128th AmerInd blood) claims that she is that “wise Native American woman” we need so much in the White House.

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Attack in Texas – follow-up

Posted on 2020-01-01 by TPOL Nathan

Robert “Beto” O’Rourke’s comments about the West Freeway Church shooting, as reported by the Daily Caller and others, sticks in my craw: “So saddened to hear about another church shooting in Texas, this one in White Settlement near Fort Worth,” … Continue reading →

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Boy Scouts continue their spiral down… down… down…

Posted on 2019-12-31 by TPOL Nathan

LDS leave BSA today – in accordance with a decision announced more than two years ago, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints officially terminates its century-old relationship with the “Scouts BSA,” formerly the Boy Scouts of America. For … Continue reading →

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A friendly warning – the 20s are upon us!

Posted on 2019-12-30 by TPOL Nathan

The Roaring Twenties, the decade of 1920-1929, was an amazing period in American and world history. Is there any reason to think that 2020-2029 will be much different? Better? Worse?

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Attack in Texas

Posted on 2019-12-30 by TPOL Nathan

The events of Sunday Morning in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, hit close to home. And the lessons learned are, for once, better than usual.

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