Category Archives: Nathan’s Rants

Lessons Learned: Puerto Rico and Maria

Posted on 2017-10-03 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton When I first received this, I didn’t know where it was originally published. I got it from a correspondent who strongly supports local emergency preparedness AND is also a strong advocate of government.  I finally found it … Continue reading →

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Football and freedom

Posted on 2017-10-02 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Although not particularly interesting to me personally, I have watched from the sidelines (pun intended) this entire brouhaha concerning kneeling instead of standing for the national anthem before sports events, especially football games. It seems an incredibly … Continue reading →

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Can we give up?

Posted on 2017-10-02 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton It seems that daily, we get a fresh bout of news about something evil done to people – often by government and those who support more and more government.  Beating and killing and imprisoning people and stealing … Continue reading →

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Are we weird enough yet?

Posted on 2017-10-01 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton As our society further slides into utter confusion and chaos, becoming less and less a society in which liberty can flourish, we keep seeing stranger and stranger events. One of the latest is a proposal highlighted in … Continue reading →

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Foreign aid – the wrong thing for the wrong reasons

Posted on 2017-09-29 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton The libertarian position on foreign aid is straightforward: Foreign aid is unconstitutional. Foreign aid is an illegitimate purpose of government. I am a firm believer in foreign aid.  I have donated to foreign aid projects many times: … Continue reading →

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Do we really need another example?

Posted on 2017-09-28 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Venezuela is a beautiful land and full of good people, rich in natural resources, and once one of the success stories of Latin America. Today, it sounds like the South under Reconstruction, post-WW2 Germany or perhaps Biafra … Continue reading →

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Killer cops? Maybe not?

Posted on 2017-09-24 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Events last week at Georgia Tech are one of several examples of “The Year of the Jackpot” situation we here in the Fifty States (and around the world) find ourselves in. The Blaze’s Matt Walsh had an … Continue reading →

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Where’s government? Where Are the liberals?

Posted on 2017-09-23 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Welcome to West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico.  Most folks who know the area know it as the Permian Basin, named for a geological formation identified as being the same as the original Perm area in Russia. … Continue reading →

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Ensuring an American society in chaos for the next generation?

Posted on 2017-09-22 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton A website recently published some interesting and disturbing data. The “Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights International” or CCHRINT,  provides quite a bit of information on the prescribing of psychiatric drugs to both children and adults in the … Continue reading →

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The Year of the Jackpot – approaching fast, or here at last?

Posted on 2017-09-20 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton The stories seem to come thick and fast. Here are just a few: GQ Magazine reports from Washington, that in Seattle an armband-wearing, ranting neo-Nazi knocked out after being tracked down with Twitter through the streets of … Continue reading →

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