Category Archives: Nathan’s Rants

A liberty-lover’s guide to Trump bashing

Posted on 2019-05-14 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton The Democrats and many Republicans in Congress and elsewhere have set aside the “people’s business” of such things as passing laws and budgets and carrying out their “normal duties.”  Instead, they have jumped on the social-media and … Continue reading →

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Living free – first responders?

Posted on 2019-05-13 by TPOL Nathan

by Nathan Barton Do we know what it means to live free?  Are do we depend on government and other institutions too much? The term “first responders” is commonly understood today and frequently used to describe the various services (usually … Continue reading →

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X kills…

Posted on 2019-05-10 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Once again, a person goes off the deep end and breaks a dozen laws, stealing weapons, and goes off to attack fellow students and teachers at a government-run, tax-funded school. It is a regular feature of our … Continue reading →

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Democracy = Liberty’s end

Posted on 2019-05-09 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton I never grow accepting of people who refer to “our democracy” when talking about one of the Fifty States, let along the FedGov (the federal government of these formerly United States). It constantly grates on my ears … Continue reading →

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Citizen Disarmament

Posted on 2019-05-07 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton One by one, the twenty-two (or more) contestants for the Democratic beauty pageant 2020 seek desperately for ways to distance themselves from the pack. Like beauty queens getting themselves into skimpier and skimpier bikinis, the contenders strip … Continue reading →

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The growing insanity of government

Posted on 2019-05-02 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton For years Mama Liberty, Claire Wolf, Boston T Party, and many others have been teaching (and warning) us about the evil of mandatory human government. Not just totalitarian or fascist or authoritarian government.  All government which is … Continue reading →

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It’s May, it’s May, the Merry Month of May

Posted on 2019-05-01 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton No doubt I date myself by quoting from the Lerner and Loewe musical Camelot, from 1960 and made incredibly popular both as a big-name movie in 1967.  It has been related, in popular myth, with the Kennedy … Continue reading →

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Demonizing the “Anti-Vaxxers” in America

Posted on 2019-04-30 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton There are many ways to fight your opponents.  You can face them squarely and counter their claims, show that they are wrong by presenting the facts.  Or you can make them objects of fear and even objects … Continue reading →

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Public schooling is fading fast – but there is hope

Posted on 2019-04-29 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton As we read, day after day, how public (government-run, tax-funded) schools spiral downhill more and more rapidly here in the Fifty States, we find that the alternatives are alive, well, and growing more and more important. Around … Continue reading →

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Kansas Nazgul up the chances for war

Posted on 2019-04-28 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Where does my liberty stop and my fellow humans’ liberty begin? Perhaps the greatest error made by the Founding Fathers way back in the 1770s and 1780s was to cling to immoral evil ideas that liberty was … Continue reading →

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