Category Archives: Nathan’s Rants

The sickening state of modern media

Posted on 2025-08-06 by TPOL Nathan

Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, American media was dominated by the Big Three television networks, and a few national magazines. ABC, NBC, and CBS are still with us. Most of the old national magazines are gone or bizarrely … Continue reading →

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Homeschooling and virtual schooling 2025

Posted on 2025-08-05 by TPOL Nathan

All around we see the signs and ads telling us that the government-run, tax-funded schools are gearing up to start the 2025-2026 school year. Some very early in August, others (as in Rapid City, SD and its colonial possessions in … Continue reading →

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Motorcycles and liberty – Sturgis 85 (2025)

Posted on 2025-08-04 by TPOL Nathan

We last touched on several points about why TPOL sees the annual Black Hills Rally as tied to liberty. Let us continue our look at liberty, bikes, and bikers. This 2025 85th Rally seems to be off to a great … Continue reading →

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Liberty and tolerance at 85th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally

Posted on 2025-08-02 by TPOL Nathan

Today, the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming are filled with the roar of big bikes of all types. Actually, the last week has seen a rapid increase in the number of bikers flowing into and through the Pahasapa … Continue reading →

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Government is not content with normality

Posted on 2025-08-01 by TPOL Nathan

Let us share another guest editorial by Bob Malone. Comments in brackets and below. Please, provide your thoughts! Frankly, “they” [governments and “progressives’] need both parents out of the house and extended family [both physical and spiritual] severed from the … Continue reading →

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MAFIOSI? GOVERNMENT GOONS? 2025

Posted on 2025-07-31 by TPOL Nathan

A recently seen cartoon (no doubt reposted): This is “funny” of course, but at the same time it is an astute observation. First, government, like crime syndicates, uses force and the threat of force to get people to do their … Continue reading →

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The Obummer Legacy, part 1

Posted on 2025-07-29 by TPOL Nathan

As we are treated to revelations of exactly what that 8-year occupant of 1600 PA did, both during and after he “served” in office, let us look back on that time. Is Trump any better? He is certainly different, but … Continue reading →

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The Price of Liberty: revisited

Posted on 2025-07-28 by TPOL Nathan

“Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never … Continue reading →

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Colbert, O’Donnell, and The Donald

Posted on 2025-07-27 by TPOL Nathan

We here at The Price of Liberty are sometimes accused of going overboard by blaming the government(s) for so much and so many things that make people miserable, angry, and poorer. Well, we guess we’re just pikers. Dear, dear, infected … Continue reading →

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Seventy years of decay or improvement?

Posted on 2025-07-26 by TPOL Nathan

In 1955, the Fifty States – and the world – were far different places than the States here in 2025 or the world today. As freedom goes, as liberty is found or lost, we sometimes think everything is worse today … Continue reading →

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