Category Archives: Commentary on the News

Hate crime?

Posted on 2022-03-04 by TPOL Nathan

Apparently the consensus of “experts” (hmm… political scientists?) and cops is that some people demonstrating with someone else hanging in effigy is a hate crime. In a previous commentary we noted the current effort to make lynching people a “federal … Continue reading →

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We are still here! And the world isn’t ending yet!

Posted on 2022-03-02 by TPOL Nathan

Our apologies for a week-long absence, but we are still here and still going strong. As is the planet. The wars and rumors of war meter have spiked the last week or so, but the big missiles aren’t flying, and … Continue reading →

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The price of liberty – the cost of freedom – 2022

Posted on 2022-02-23 by TPOL Nathan

As I write this on a holiday I am coming more and more to despise – “President’s Day” (bow down and worship!) – the wheels seem to be coming off. Three weeks of the truckers’ Freedom Convoy in the Dominion … Continue reading →

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Is this war? Biden again asleep at “helm”?

Posted on 2022-02-21 by TPOL Nathan

It’s been at least a dozen hours since Russia recognized the independence of two predominantly-Russian districts of Ukraine and ordered Russian troops to go in and carrying peacekeeping missions. I think we’ve heard this before. No, not the Sudetenland, but … Continue reading →

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Domestic terrorists driven off Parliament Hill, disrupt school board meeting in Virginia

Posted on 2022-02-21 by TPOL Nathan

The accusation of “domestic terrorist” has become as ubiquitous as the the screamed cries of “fascist” in today’s political world.

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Listening in fear

Posted on 2022-02-20 by TPOL Nathan

In yesterday’s commentary, we here at TPOL answered Claire Wolf’s question from years ago, IS IT TIME YET TO START SHOOTING THEM? OUR ANSWER IS YES. Clearly and only in self-defense (including defense of others as appropriate, it is time. … Continue reading →

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Taking another look: Is it time yet? Freedom = I won’t

Posted on 2022-02-19 by TPOL Nathan

About a year ago, I asked the same questions: How can we, to quote Harry Browne, live free in an unfree world? Is it, to restate Claire Wolfe’s question, time to shoot them?

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The red threat to our American north

Posted on 2022-02-17 by TPOL Nathan

With Trudeau’s alliance with banks and financial institutions – authorizing them to freeze and suspend bank accounts of SUSPECTS – we here at TPOL believe that the little weasel has crossed the line officially into Fascism. The financial institutions have … Continue reading →

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Big government, big profits

Posted on 2022-02-16 by TPOL Nathan

As we have passed the first year of Uncle Joe’s regime, one thing should surprise us. Federal taxes have not yet increased. At least not directly. This certainly cannot be wholly blamed on just plain Joe, of course. Unless we … Continue reading →

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Poor, poor New Mexico

Posted on 2022-02-15 by TPOL Nathan

Because of work, friends, and family, I pay attention to New Mexico a lot. That includes almost daily listening to a Farmington radio station’s state/local news. KENN, like Farmington itself, is an anomaly in New Mexico: it is a diverse … Continue reading →

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