Category Archives: Commentary on the News

Put not your trust in princes… or presidents… or congresscritturs… or bureaucrats

Posted on 2024-10-03 by TPOL Nathan

Rob Morse, writing from (and about) the Helene-hit hinderland of the Old South: Why are people in North Carolina suffering after the latest storm? The answers are both obvious and unusual. We are responding to both acts of nature and … Continue reading →

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Irrational fears dominate American politics

Posted on 2024-10-02 by TPOL Nathan

Just as “war is the health of the state” so fear facilitates politicians and governments, and drives politics. That has been the case for millennia, but this year we can really see and feel the impact. This is not a … Continue reading →

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Lo, the poor Indian…

Posted on 2024-09-27 by TPOL Nathan

For more than 150 years, the white regressives (they call themselves progressives and compassionate conservatives and liberals – corrupting the meanings of all the words) of these States and many in Europe and Canada have bemoaned the so-called racism and … Continue reading →

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Pushing the limit on lies? There’s a limit?

Posted on 2024-09-17 by TPOL Nathan

We all know that politicians lie. We all know that bureaucrats lie. And we all know that the media lies. Consider Springfield, Ohio. According to actual video testimony as assembled and published by an alt-media site (Horn News), Haitian “refugees” … Continue reading →

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Government funding of private schools?

Posted on 2024-09-14 by TPOL Nathan

Jonah Goldberg once wrote, Government money only pays for the “liberties” the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties into privileges dispensed at the whim of the state. To put … Continue reading →

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Who is to blame?

Posted on 2024-09-12 by TPOL Nathan

This meme was posted recently: Nonsense. No, it is because government is spending us all into poverty: borrowing money ad infinitum, and pumping more and more Federal Reserve Notes (paper and electrons) into the economy while the supply of goods … Continue reading →

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Judicial independence? Really?

Posted on 2024-09-11 by TPOL Nathan

In an interesting development, a “mob” of more than 200 protesters stormed the Senate a few days ago. No, not the US Senate, but the Senate of the United Mexican States, Estados Unitos Mexicanos, in Ciudad Mexico. Why? They were … Continue reading →

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“Are we there yet?” Less than 2 months to go!

Posted on 2024-09-06 by TPOL Nathan

We all know (or were) the child who is constantly asking, from the moment the car pulls out of town on the journey, “are we there yet?” Many of us feel like that when it comes to the 2024 election … Continue reading →

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“I don’t want to hear it…”

Posted on 2024-09-02 by TPOL Nathan

No doubt we have all laughed over the situation where someone being told something puts their hands over their ears and tells the speaker, “Nah, nah, nah, TMI.” Too much information! Well, we are seeing that among politicians around the … Continue reading →

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Iran nearing the breaking point?

Posted on 2024-08-29 by TPOL Nathan

There is a constant drumbeat in the media about certain members of the ever-growing Axis of Evil (TM Pending) nearing collapse. Not always the mainstream media, either. And we here at TPOL admit that some of this info might be … Continue reading →

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