Category Archives: Commentary on the News

Our fragile communications and economy

Posted on 2022-07-23 by TPOL Nathan

Over at Agora Financial, a libertarian investment and publishing firm based in Baltimore, their editors and writers have been sounding alarms about the signs of the FedGov (and the EU and others) pushing a “cashless society.” One in which plastic … Continue reading →

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Killing us softly…

Posted on 2022-07-22 by TPOL Nathan

C. S. Lewis may have said it best: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. … Continue reading →

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Moving to the sounds of the guns…

Posted on 2022-07-20 by TPOL Nathan

I am told that the statistics here in the States are pretty clear. When police forces end shooting and killing sprees, the average toll of dead is 14.3 people. When a private, armed citizen is the one who stops the … Continue reading →

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Is Uvalde the event that brings the whole charade down?

Posted on 2022-07-18 by TPOL Nathan

The charade of how government “protects” us? How “taxes are the price we pay for civilization?” Ever since that murdering madman went into a government-run, tax-funded (“public”) school in Uvalde, Texas, the questions and the revelations have be tumbling out … Continue reading →

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Tyranny is a many-hued thing

Posted on 2022-07-14 by TPOL Nathan

In a suburb of Houston, Texas, an elderly couple is being driven from their home. No, not by BLM or the taxman or local “government” but by their local Homeowners Association (HOA). Why? They committed a crime. What? Enslaving someone … Continue reading →

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“Going viral” – more “established law” at risk?

Posted on 2022-07-13 by TPOL Nathan

A long time correspondent and reader alerted me several days to a newly-filed lawsuit which seems to be rapidly promoted and both praised and condemned across the nation. Many of us have long protested that the 1934 National Firearms Act … Continue reading →

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Uncle Joe, democrat officials seek to push secession

Posted on 2022-07-11 by TPOL Nathan

The insane extreme reaction in about 20 states to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade has been demonstrated constantly in the last two weeks. Even while protesters and mobs scream that abortion has been banned across the nation and … Continue reading →

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Don’t worry – be happy? Fear and government.

Posted on 2022-07-09 by TPOL Nathan

Those of us old enough to recall that song and the sentiment behind it are growing fewer, of course. But surely more people know that old hymn “G-d will take care of you.” Or remember Matthew 6:34: “Therefore do not … Continue reading →

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Quaking in fear

Posted on 2022-07-08 by TPOL Nathan

The assassination of FORMER Japanese Prime Minister Abe yesterday by a man with an “undocumented” (homemade) gun without a doubt has a lot of politicians and so-called world leaders in a panic. No matter how calm they present themselves. (No … Continue reading →

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How many battalions…

Posted on 2022-07-07 by TPOL Nathan

… does the pope have? This question is sometimes attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, way back in 1810 or so. Stalin (yes, THAT Uncle Joe) cribbed it in 1945, asking “how many divisions does the Pope of Rome have?” Whether it … Continue reading →

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