Category Archives: Commentary on the News

Election end-game nears? (Not hardly)

By Nathan Barton As Wikileaks and others release more and more information about one of the four pieces of work running nationwide for Massa in 2016, and as more and more people chime in on issues and potential outcomes, it … Continue reading

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Naive or just making a point?

By Nathan Barton For the past several weeks, many of us have been watching events on Standing Rock Reservation, homeland of one of the modern Lakota nations in the Dakotas, as a “grassroots” coalition fights against the Dakota Access Pipeline … Continue reading

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The vote is NOT rigged. Right.

By Nathan Barton As we near the 2016 elections, we continue to hear politicians and bureaucrats across these Fifty States insist that the popular vote is not rigged, and indeed, cannot be rigged. That our vote is sacred and protected. … Continue reading

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Does it matter? Does it make any difference?

By Nathan Barton We’ve now had a few days to digest the first 2016 debate of “two of the four” candidates to be Massa of the FedGov and all its denizens and dependents. It is indigestible. No question at all. … Continue reading

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Any excuse

By Nathan Barton Actually I am sure that some people are surprised. The US Ninth Circuit is known as the most progressive of the Federal Nazgul, and this seems counter to their usual attitude towards cannabis. Of course, given their … Continue reading

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A EpiPen Cost Crisis

By Nathan Barton The crisis de jour. Epinephrine injection pens, brand and popular name “EpiPens” are valuable and life-saving ways to limit allergic reactions which can kill people. They seem to be a matter of LIFE AND DEATH. (Mama Liberty … Continue reading

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Government’s results on display again

By Nathan Barton The recent swarms of tornadoes across the eastern Great Plains and the record-setting flooding in Louisiana have once again showcased the benefits of depending on government for assistance in times of disaster and emergency. And at the … Continue reading

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Government and essential services and utilities – Yes or No?

By Nathan Barton There are a number of utilities that we all take for granted, as long as we live in a town here in Anglo-America: Water supply and distribution – domestic, potable, uncontaminated irrigation fire-fighting Sanitary sewage collection and … Continue reading

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The net is being gathered – Do you know where YOUR liberty is?

By Nathan Barton Watch them circle around the drain and go down. Despite many claims to the contrary, our liberties are vanishing like moths consumed by a torch. One of the latest regards the Gadsden Flag. The Volokh Conspiracy reports … Continue reading

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Mike Vanderboegh – Rest in Peace

We heard the sad news this morning from Claire Wolfe, and David Codrea, that Mike Vanderboegh has died. He fought a long and difficult battle with cancer for the last year or so, but never gave up his fight for … Continue reading

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