Category Archives: Nathan’s Rants

“Scientific” fraud – carbon and climate

Posted on 2025-05-21 by TPOL Nathan

The climate crusade – the idea that manmade global warming, or the current buzzword “manmade climate change,” – is at its heart a fraud. Just as the claim a half-century ago of “manmade global cooling” was false. While claiming to … Continue reading →

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Government-run, tax-funded schools

Posted on 2025-05-20 by TPOL Nathan

We here at TPOL have recently been taken to task by several people because we oppose public (government-run, tax-supported) schools and try to point out the dangers of entrusting children to those institutions. A recent news story explains part of … Continue reading →

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Is rule by judges acceptable? Tolerable?

Posted on 2025-05-18 by TPOL Nathan

Paul Craig Roberts, always an irascible writer and prone to calling a spade a spade, recently used an unfamiliar political term in a commentary. Kritarchy is a system of government in which judges hold the primary ruling authority. The term … Continue reading →

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The missionary enterprises of Libertarian movements

Posted on 2025-05-17 by TPOL Nathan

Go over and visit Liberty International now and then. It’s an interesting website full of information about the wonderful things going on in the Balkans, Nepal, Russia, Ukraine, and Israel as people seek to spread the gospel (“good news”) of … Continue reading →

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Five years on – the lies continue

Posted on 2025-05-16 by TPOL Nathan

The following was an anonymous posting on a social media site. The (P)-labeled italics are the comments of a good friend and correspondent of The Price of Liberty; the (L)-labeled italics are our (usually sarcastic) response to P’s comments. Reader … Continue reading →

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Capitalism in today’s world

Posted on 2025-05-13 by TPOL Nathan

Students for Liberty has recently posted a cool video, showing the impact of capitalism on our world over the past decades. The many statistics that show the way capitalism has improved our lives and those of billions of people across … Continue reading →

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Exclusion – dealing with people who cannot be tolerated in society

Posted on 2025-05-12 by TPOL Nathan

A recent comment (thanks, Steve) triggered some thoughts which we’d like to share. And explore. Coventry is an idea proposed many times but perhaps best known in Heinlein’s version. The basic concept is similar to penal colonies in general: particularly … Continue reading →

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Principles of liberty

Posted on 2025-05-11 by TPOL Nathan

Dr. Robert Malone recently posted this as a “funny.” It is, of course, but it is also deadly serious. I equate it to that fine statement coined by science fiction writer Eric Frank Russell in his story “And then there … Continue reading →

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The intersection of politics and religion today

Posted on 2025-05-10 by TPOL Nathan

From The Western Journal: Democratic California Rep. Ted Lieu is slightly more Catholic than Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran. We will spot him that. (And as we write this, we have no idea what Ted Lieu’s opinion of … Continue reading →

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A Baker’s Dozen : The first thirteen inmates to go to Alcatraz

Posted on 2025-05-08 by TPOL Nathan

NOTE: Please, please, readers! Send us YOUR suggestions as who should go in the first Baker’s Dozen. This is fun, and sarcastic, but it needs YOUR participation! See why at the end. Now that The Donald has announced that the … Continue reading →

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