Category Archives: Commentary on the News

Goodbye and good riddance

By Nathan Barton We were taught, as we grew up, to respect the dead, to show sympathy for the families suffering the loss, and above all to “speak no ill of the dead.” How naïve we were back then. Of … Continue reading

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Get your children out…

By Nathan Barton A Blaze story points out one of the many evils of government-run, theft-funded schools – so-called “public schools.” The teacher punished the fifth-grader and threatened him for treating her with the respect his parents expected of him towards … Continue reading

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Is it catching? (#3 of 3)

By Nathan Barton Is it in the water?  the air?  Maybe the fog that rolls in through the Golden Gate or from Ocean Beach and Baker Beach?  Or is it some sort of infection that people can get from breathing … Continue reading

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Suitable only for a moral people (#1 of 3)

By Nathan Barton Just what counts as “initiation of force” against someone?  Against a community? When are we justified in using violence to defend ourselves or others against a threat? This are all questions which concern many of us. Those … Continue reading

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Will the ruling on border agent immunity really make a difference?

By Nathan Barton The Washington Times reports that the infamous Nazgul of the 9th Circuit Court have decided that a Border Patrol agent who shot and killed a sixteen-year-old male in Mexico while shooting from Arizona did NOT have immunity, for … Continue reading

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Is more government the solution to attacks on free speech?

By Nathan Barton Alex Jones, the gravel-voiced publisher, owner, editor, and voice of InfoWars and other websites and podcasts, is in the news and the commentaries this week. And he is actually in trouble.  As I understand it, Apple, Facebook, … Continue reading

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Governmental overreach and comeuppance?

By Nathan Barton UPDATE: Apparently a federal court in Washington State, which somehow has “jurisdiction” over the other 49 and territories (and maybe the whole world) has issued a restraining order prohibiting distribution of plans for 3D guns by internet. … Continue reading

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Disestablishment is NOT Abolition

By Nathan Barton People don’t like ICE, or so says The Hill (a pandering journalism-light rag that sucks up to politicians) in an article on polling concerning the FedGov’s “Immigrations and Customs Enforcement” agency which includes the jack-booted thugs of … Continue reading

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In Memoriam – Mama Liberty

By Nathan Barton My very dear friend, mentor, and correspondent, Susan Callaway, has departed this mortal coil. She said her goodbyes to our readers and visitors almost a month ago, and survived her cancer longer than she thought, and perhaps, … Continue reading

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We are all criminals – in the state’s eyes

By Nathan Barton This story happened to pop up on Freedom Net Daily but it is similar to dozens each week.  Some prosecutor (aided and abetted by snitches, do-gooders, Mrs. Grundies, and the like) crows about his (or her) successful … Continue reading

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