Category Archives: Commentary on the News

Fascism – hard to define, perhaps, but easy to spot?

Posted on 2022-12-20 by TPOL Nathan

Publisher’s note: As has already happened, combination of work and family and weather is slowing down publishing commentaries, and we expect that to continue the last few days of December and the beginning of January. Now on to commentary: There … Continue reading →

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NOT a free market, is it? Licensing and permitting

Posted on 2022-12-14 by TPOL Nathan

What could we all do with less of? Government, of course. Specifically government meddling (“intervention”) in our daily lives, in the activities of our businesses, our institutions (like churches), and everything else.

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Free trade? Free speech? Of course, but…

Posted on 2022-12-12 by TPOL Nathan

Remember when Americans were sold on all the “free trade” agreements like NAFTA and the TPP and how the European Union would be a vast free-trade zone to increase prosperity and increase freedom? Oh, provided that we all followed hundreds … Continue reading →

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Resisting tyranny in our northern neighbor!

Posted on 2022-12-09 by TPOL Nathan

Breitbart reports that at least four of the provinces to our north have made it clear to the guy who hides in basements in Ottawa that they will NOT cooperate in his gun grab. The provinces so far include Alberta, … Continue reading →

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Smoking guns – and preserving the status quo

Posted on 2022-12-08 by TPOL Nathan

The partial release of Twitter internal correspondence burying the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop in the days before the 2020 presidential election is viewed by many as a smoking gun. Although Musk and Taibbi have only released some of the … Continue reading →

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Is election reform possible?

Posted on 2022-12-03 by TPOL Nathan

There have been more and more claims, particularly over the last election cycles (2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, and now 2022), of massive fraud and corruption. Both old parties claimed that happened several times before 2016, but that year it … Continue reading →

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Erasing history

Posted on 2022-11-28 by TPOL Nathan

Recently, we here at TPOL were told that the Department of Defense will begin one of the more stupid actions dictated by the so-called “progressives” of Congress and their co-conspirators in the GOP. “The Defense Department has accepted recommendations from … Continue reading →

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Republican garbage piled deeper and higher

Posted on 2022-11-12 by TPOL Nathan

Meanwhile, the garbage trucks keep rolling in, the illegal dumpers are not slowing down, and GOP landfill operators continue to pretend that they know what they are doing. Enough of a metaphor? Read on. The 2022 election was the GOP’s … Continue reading →

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The election that doesn’t end?

Posted on 2022-11-11 by TPOL Nathan

The 2022 American elections were Tuesday, right? And now it is Friday, the 11th, and Veterans Day. And we still don’t know which of the old political parties (which wing of the Boot on your Neck (BOYN) Party) will control … Continue reading →

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First responders

Posted on 2022-11-09 by TPOL Nathan

Bob Morse publishes a commentary called “Slow Facts” on WordPress, discussing various aspects of our right to keep and bear arms, and related topics. The day before Election Day 2022, he wrote about a nurse who saved wounded police officers … Continue reading →

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