Category Archives: Nathan’s Rants

The deadly war on some drugs

Posted on 2022-03-08 by TPOL Nathan

The last several weeks in South Dakota have seen jockeying back and forth as the legislature wrestled internally on whether to follow “the will of the people” in the 2020 elections to legalize both medical and recreational use of that … Continue reading →

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DC or… can we hope, “Jericho?”

Posted on 2022-03-07 by TPOL Nathan

This Sunday, the first elements of the 2022 Freedom Convoy of truckers, friends, family, supporters – and no doubt a dozen “friends of Jesus in a microbus” made their first orbit on the Beltway (I-95 and I-495) around the District … Continue reading →

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Lines more clearly drawn?

Posted on 2022-03-06 by TPOL Nathan

Things continued to heat up in Ukraine for weeks. And now we are at the tenth day of war. Please understand: we here at TPOL condemn Russian aggression. And we were wrong thinking that Putin was putting pressure on Ukraine … Continue reading →

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How stupid do you have to be, to be a senator?

Posted on 2022-03-05 by TPOL Nathan

A United States Senator, of course. But it no doubt is a question to ask of every Canadian Senator and every Senator of every one of the Fifty States. (Yes, even Nebraska has Senators in their unicameral legislature.) Senator Lindsey … Continue reading →

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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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Can State legislatures be “reformed” or even “restored” to better ways?

Posted on 2022-03-03 by TPOL Nathan

From ideas by Ari Armstrong Bad as the US Congress and the House of Commons in London, Ottawa, and Canberra are, many State and provincial legislatures are just as bad. We can argue that some (California and Ontario come to … 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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Political “science” and the loss of liberty

Posted on 2022-02-22 by TPOL Nathan

Working on a commentary about “silly science” and government, one of the staff here at The Price of Liberty made a crack about “political science” as being an example of silly science and an oxymoron. So let us talk for … 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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