Category Archives: Nathan’s Rants

California ups the ante on cars and trucks and their owners and operators

Posted on May 16, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

We know, it is a long headline. Hopefully it attracted your attention. As mentioned several times recently, we seem to always be hammering on California and San Francisco (and other cities and regions in the People’s Democratic Republic). So here … Continue reading →

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Compassionate city providing special assistance for down-and-outers

Posted on May 15, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Editor’s Note: We tend to rail on the City and County of San Francisco. The NY Post reports that the City is spending millions of dollars to provide essential products to the homeless of the city. Given San Francisco’s climate … Continue reading →

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As for me and my house…

Posted on May 14, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

The sign says it all: Tyranny is built on lies and fabrications – including lies which are warping of truth. And as with freeways, where you would find such a sign, the wide gate and the broad way is the … Continue reading →

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What do you think? Are they all wrong? Hamas, Israel, Canaan, and genocide

Posted on May 13, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

We’ve been bombarded with images of protesters chanting “from the river to the sea” in support of Hamas and Palestinians against Israel. We also have seen a deluge of opposition claiming that this chant is literally a call for genocide … Continue reading →

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War on self-defense? Some updates.

Posted on May 11, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Despite recent snows in the High County (the Rockies and Sierras and Black Hills, at least), the summer tourist season is nearly upon us. With that, people are traveling and warm days and cool nights (but not too cool) bring … Continue reading →

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Education – then and now

Posted on May 10, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Let us return to a frequent theme of TPOL. Modern American education is worse than a farce. It is perhaps the single greatest cause of the seeming collapse of American society, the economy, and the hope of many. A century … Continue reading →

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Wartime is fun time – for government

Posted on May 9, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

We were warned a long time ago, weren’t we? It was not, of course, just Madison who told us what might happen. George Washington, yet another Virginian aristocrat, told us to avoid foreign entanglements. Something that we “sorta” did avoid … Continue reading →

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“Battleground States” in 2024 and beyond

Posted on May 8, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Paradigm (formerly Agora) recently discussed dying media: specifically broadcast television (TV). The writer believes that 2024 may be the last gasp of broadcast media as Biden, Trump, and hundreds of candidates flood the old networks and local stations with billions … Continue reading →

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Hope springs eternal

Posted on May 7, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Things continue to get worse and worse. Or so the media – mainstream and other – and the talk shows and the political speechifying and the economics gurus and the warmongers tell us. (Well, dear Camilla and poor old Uncle … Continue reading →

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Protesters, free speech, campuses, and Canaan

Posted on April 30, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Canaan, we are told, was created as the center of this planet – something fairly clear when looking at a globe and the Old World (Eastern Hemisphere). But the conflicts which have been raging for at least 4,000 years create … Continue reading →

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