Category Archives: Nathan’s Rants

The extreme nanny state event horizon?

Posted on 2020-01-06 by TPOL Nathan

One of the many marvelous scenes in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is the discussion of the “Shoe Event Horizon.” Emotional depression turns into economic madness. Read about it here. I wonder if we here in 21st Century America, … Continue reading →

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Rewriting history usually has a purpose

Posted on 2020-01-04 by TPOL Nathan

As the son of a historian and a student of history myself, I know that too much of history has been rewritten. It is more than just the old saw, “history is written by the victors.” Often, the rewriting is … Continue reading →

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Collapsing civilization? Electrical power in North America

Posted on 2020-01-03 by TPOL Nathan

Anyone who has perused a survivalist or prepper website or gotten emails from all those people that sell goods and services for that market has probably seen multiple stories and concerns about the vulnerability of the electrical power supply in … Continue reading →

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Welcome to 2020

Posted on 2020-01-01 by TPOL Nathan

May we all have a prosperous, peaceful, and especially free new year and new decade. Feel free to revisit a New Year’s message from three years ago, here.

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Attack in Texas – follow-up

Posted on 2020-01-01 by TPOL Nathan

Robert “Beto” O’Rourke’s comments about the West Freeway Church shooting, as reported by the Daily Caller and others, sticks in my craw: “So saddened to hear about another church shooting in Texas, this one in White Settlement near Fort Worth,” … Continue reading →

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Boy Scouts continue their spiral down… down… down…

Posted on 2019-12-31 by TPOL Nathan

LDS leave BSA today – in accordance with a decision announced more than two years ago, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints officially terminates its century-old relationship with the “Scouts BSA,” formerly the Boy Scouts of America. For … Continue reading →

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A friendly warning – the 20s are upon us!

Posted on 2019-12-30 by TPOL Nathan

The Roaring Twenties, the decade of 1920-1929, was an amazing period in American and world history. Is there any reason to think that 2020-2029 will be much different? Better? Worse?

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Attack in Texas

Posted on 2019-12-30 by TPOL Nathan

The events of Sunday Morning in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, hit close to home. And the lessons learned are, for once, better than usual.

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Upping the Ante – part 2 – the solution?

Posted on 2019-12-28 by TPOL Nathan

(Continued from part 1.) What else? If the General Assembly of Virginia gives their supporters, funders, and governor the victory that they want: disarming their fellow Virginians, what happens? After all, they can pass all the laws that they can. … Continue reading →

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Upping the ante – are Virginia Hoploclasts going for broke?

Posted on 2019-12-27 by TPOL Nathan

The tension in Virginia is growing. The Democratic majority in the General Assembly – apparently virtually all virulently anti-gun (hoploclastic) – is pushing more and more. Led by the two truly disgusting politicians which are the governor and his lieutenant, … Continue reading →

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