Category Archives: Commentary on the News

Is California a bad neighbor?

Posted on 2023-05-10 by TPOL Nathan

A recent news story featured in Freedom’s Phoenix tells how people along the lower Colorado River in western Arizona are angry about Californians dumping hazardous waste in a couple of their landfills, instead of disposing of the waste in California … Continue reading →

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Too bad: you’re Dutch

Posted on 2023-05-09 by TPOL Nathan

A few years back, several of us here at TPOL had the opportunity to work with a number of Boer farmers. In Eastern Colorado, of all places. The Boers, of course, are descendants of Dutch settlers in what is now … Continue reading →

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Texan hypocrisy on display

Posted on 2023-05-08 by TPOL Nathan

I happened across the MSN news story this afternoon. Even MSN called it shocking news: a Texan House committee passed a bill on an 8-5 vote that will raise the age in which people are “allowed” to purchase “AR15-style” semi-automatic … Continue reading →

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Too many jobs? Too few people?

Posted on 2023-05-05 by TPOL Nathan

This came across our screen desktop from a correspondent, and seems to match what was broadcast on various shows on 2 May 2023. We cleaned it up some, but otherwise verbatim: ‘You’re telling me we’ve got too many jobs in … Continue reading →

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Transgender, now transabled?

Posted on 2023-05-04 by TPOL Nathan

As lovers of liberty, we do very much support the God-given (if not God-approved) right for people to do whatever they want with their lives. And that includes their bodies. It is their choice, so long as they do not … Continue reading →

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Economic turmoil? Is there a “liberty” solution?

Posted on 2023-05-03 by TPOL Nathan

In the last five weeks we have four of the nation’s (and world’s) largest banks collapse. It doesn’t matter what terms the governments and the financial communities use – they collapsed. Every year – every month – there are bank … Continue reading →

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Foolishness and the one-party state

Posted on 2023-05-02 by TPOL Nathan

As a rule, politicians exhibit a large amount of foolishness. The only thing more foolish than the politicians (at least, the successful politicians)? The people who believe them, who believe in them, and vote them into power. Or to put … Continue reading →

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Killer cops – scum and villainy

Posted on 2023-04-18 by TPOL Nathan

Most people are familiar with a quote from Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi regarding Mos Eisley and its spaceport:“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.” Indeed, we must be cautious. In more and … Continue reading →

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Defending the border? Oh, right!

Posted on 2023-04-17 by TPOL Nathan

Invasion? Breitbart News reports that Border Patrol found 39 “migrants” 19 miles north of the Arizona border a few days back. Just to make it clear, that is Arizona’s border with Sonora, not the border with Utah. Or the Dineh … Continue reading →

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Population? Who is speaking the truth?

Posted on 2023-04-12 by TPOL Nathan

The UN has been drumming the alarm about world population for about as long as it has been around. As recently as November 2022, an official UN publication stated: The world’s population is projected to reach 8 billion on 15 … Continue reading →

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