Category Archives: Nathan’s Rants

RIP The Donald?

“If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.” That old saying no doubt has to be updated, “If wishes were Harleys, wannabe bikers would ride.” Or something. Clearly that is what a lot of never-Trumpers (of whatever political allegiance they claim) … Continue reading

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Political correctness – fighting crime? really?

With these last four unacceptable (“banned”) words from the highly intelligent and very wise folks at ThirdWay.org, we conclude our series on Political correctness. (We are being, of course sarcastic. Really.) Third Way itself tells us, these words say: “The … Continue reading

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The tragedy of our British cousins’ loss of liberty

We first learned about Graham Lineham’s arrest from Tom Woods. A detailed discussion of his ordeal on his return from the United States can be found at The Blaze. He was met at Heathrow Airport on deplaning by five – … Continue reading

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Political correctness – weirdness, sex, and “gender”

As we continue to look at ThirdWay and their encouragement of the Woke, social justice warriors, and Democratic politicians and activists to clean up their language, we come to this next set of eight. It seems that the reason ThirdWay … Continue reading

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A blow against local tyranny?

From Florida comes word that a State legislator is attempting to outlaw HOAs – Home Owners Associations. Juan Porras, a Miami Republican, is pushing to liberate nearly half the population of Florida who live in communities with HOAs. Over the … Continue reading

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Political correctness – the human race (not)

TPOL continues to look at, comment (and make fun of) the ThirdWay’s list of verboten words for the Woke, SJW, and regressives when that gang of enemies of liberty try to cozen people. Today, we have five bad words for … Continue reading

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Political correctness – groupthink at risk?

We continue to look at the 45 “no speaker” words proposed by the left-wing ThirdWay. They want the Woke and social justice warriors to self-censor. Now, we come to a third group. We looked at eleven on Friday, eight on … Continue reading

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Flag burning

We will put off continuing our discussion of Woke-banned words and all the fun with that to comment on The Donald’s latest assault on the public peace. Of course, we are speaking of his imperial decree (executive order) signed Monday … Continue reading

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Cursing? No, cursive writing is not for cursing – nor a curse

A few months back, a lady asked an interesting question. Why don’t the schools (at least, the “public schools” – government-run, tax-funded) teach children to write in cursive anymore? She had some good thoughts – definitely answers that could be … Continue reading

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Political correctness – more words the Woke aren’t supposed to use

In the last commentary, we looked at 11 of the words that the Third Way website/group says that the leftists/Woke/so-called Progressives should stop using. As we pointed out at the end, at least one reason for the advocates of that … Continue reading

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