Category Archives: History of Liberty

America’s history of petticoat rule

Posted on 2023-02-15 by TPOL Nathan

The Western Journal recently published an article about the growing power of Jill Biden, or Aunt Jill, as perhaps we should be calling her. Keeping in mind the journalistic fervor and bias of WND and The Western Journal, let’s look … Continue reading →

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Western civilization is falling. What next?

Posted on 2023-01-30 by TPOL Nathan

Western civilization is falling. Like Roman civilization before it. And Greek civilization before that. There are many reasons. It may still take decades or even centuries, but as with Babylon, the handwriting is on the wall. (And since events seem … Continue reading →

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Origins of the state

Posted on 2023-01-04 by TPOL Nathan

In a recent commentary, Dan Sanchez (originally published in his Substack publication “Letters on Liberty) briefly examined two competing libertarian ideas on how the state (government) began. (He provided a postscript here.) Let us delve a bit deeper into the … Continue reading →

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Why do we have liberty? freedom?

Posted on 2023-01-03 by TPOL Nathan

Liberty, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary online, is “the quality or state of being free: a : the power to do as one pleases, b : freedom from physical restraint, c : freedom from arbitrary or despotic control, d : the positive enjoyment of … Continue reading →

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Guest commentary: Why have an AR-15?

Posted on 2022-12-07 by TPOL Nathan

By Scott Dismukes, with thanks! Editor’s note: Scott answered the title question very well a few months ago and his answer deserves wider distribution. Why do gun owners need AR-15s? If they want to defend themselves, a handgun will be … Continue reading →

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Hey, he has free-speech rights, too!

Posted on 2022-11-04 by TPOL Nathan

Many people will agree that Sen. Dick Durbin, Demo of Illinois, is a royal piece of work. He demonstrated that again with his recent attack on the 1st Amendment and free speech. Demonstrated it so well that regressive news reporters … Continue reading →

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Honor and glory… and regret

Posted on 2022-06-06 by TPOL Nathan

Today is the 78th Anniversary of the best-known D-Day, the Normandy Invasion of France in 1944 by British, Canadian, and American troops. An invasion which killed thousands and thousands of young men and a fair number of old people. Why? … Continue reading →

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Socialist America – History: Rural Electrics

Posted on 2022-05-16 by TPOL Nathan

How did the Rural Electrification Act impact America? The 1936 Act very much sped up the provision of grid electrical power to rural and frontier regions, including AmerInd reservations, across the United States, by providing power where commercial (investor-owned) power … Continue reading →

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The war drums continue to beat

Posted on 2022-05-13 by TPOL Nathan

Somehow (amazing, that), the leaked evil preliminary decision of the nine black-robed Nazgul (the Supreme Court of the US) to jettison that crown jewel of liberty has virtually driven the war in Ukraine off the hourly news, the websites, the … Continue reading →

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Free speech and the arrogance of the “elite”

Posted on 2022-05-11 by TPOL Nathan

While looking at the current challenges to our natural right of free speech, we ran across more nastiness. Consider this recent mainstream media, which said in part, “Tech titans often have a different understanding of speech than the rest of … Continue reading →

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