Category Archives: Commentary on the News

Public school corruption and charter schools

Posted on 2025-05-22 by TPOL Nathan

The failure of SCOTUS to make a decision on the Oklahoma Catholic charter school case is another reason that we must separate schools – education – from the state – government. And in doing so, liberate millions of Americans – … Continue reading →

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“Scientific” fraud – carbon and climate

Posted on 2025-05-21 by TPOL Nathan

The climate crusade – the idea that manmade global warming, or the current buzzword “manmade climate change,” – is at its heart a fraud. Just as the claim a half-century ago of “manmade global cooling” was false. While claiming to … Continue reading →

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Government-run, tax-funded schools

Posted on 2025-05-20 by TPOL Nathan

We here at TPOL have recently been taken to task by several people because we oppose public (government-run, tax-supported) schools and try to point out the dangers of entrusting children to those institutions. A recent news story explains part of … Continue reading →

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Five years on – the lies continue

Posted on 2025-05-16 by TPOL Nathan

The following was an anonymous posting on a social media site. The (P)-labeled italics are the comments of a good friend and correspondent of The Price of Liberty; the (L)-labeled italics are our (usually sarcastic) response to P’s comments. Reader … 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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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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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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Patriotic Evil?

Posted on 2025-04-22 by TPOL Nathan

The Rapid City (South Dakota) recently had this top-of-front-page headline. Of course, this is not “news” – it is opinion, and indeed, the vilest of propaganda. Even more evil than the government propaganda (the “patriotic” indoctrination) that this editorial (disguised … Continue reading →

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