Category Archives: Nathan’s Rants

This and that – freedom or tyranny? Explaining ourselves

Posted on 2025-05-05 by TPOL Nathan

“The Price of Liberty” is a news and commentary website, a series of articles (we just call them all “commentaries”). These are posted on-line and often shared individually with people by electronic or hardcopy means. And sometimes in person. We … Continue reading →

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Living with the aftermath

Posted on 2025-05-02 by TPOL Nathan

The various news outlets are babbling about a half-ton half-century-old Soviet spacecraft is going to fall from the sky sometime this month. No one knows exactly when or where it will fall – given the orbit, population, and the ratio … Continue reading →

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May Day + Labor Day? Really…

Posted on 2025-05-01 by TPOL Nathan

There are just a few nations that do not consider May Day – the First Day of May – to be Labor Day, or “International Workers’ Day.” Most of these nations which do not recognize it are English-speaking: Old Commonwealth … Continue reading →

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Trust, political leaders, and learned pessimism

Posted on 2025-04-30 by TPOL Nathan

The Holman Christian Standard Bible translates Pslam 146:3 as “Do not trust in nobles, in man, who cannot save.” Most who are familiar with the Scriptures (both Hebrew: the Tanakh, and the New Testament) know this verse as warning against … Continue reading →

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The Train to Auschwitz: A guest commentary

Posted on 2025-04-28 by TPOL Nathan

The people at The Price of Liberty have known Don Underwood for many years. Given the situations around the world today in 2025, and the various claims, this commentary and poem are worth reading and thinking about. When we yield … Continue reading →

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The corrupt nature of mainstream media

Posted on 2025-04-23 by TPOL Nathan

TPOL tends to be very hard on so-called “legacy” or mainstream media (MSM). That is, the television and radio networks and their local affiliated TV and radio stations, together with the newspapers (chains or independents and especially the “national” press) … Continue reading →

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Patriotic Evil?

Posted on 2025-04-22 by TPOL Nathan

The Rapid City (South Dakota) recently had this top-of-front-page headline. Of course, this is not “news” – it is opinion, and indeed, the vilest of propaganda. Even more evil than the government propaganda (the “patriotic” indoctrination) that this editorial (disguised … Continue reading →

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The arrogance of government agencies again demonstrated

Posted on 2025-04-21 by TPOL Nathan

A few months ago, an Oregon driver hit a National Park Service (NPS) ranger serving as a flagger in a highway work zone in Yellowstone National Park, in Wyoming. Cowboy State Daily, a Wyoming online newspaper, recently published an article … Continue reading →

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The shot heard ’round the world – a quarter-millenium ago

Posted on 2025-04-19 by TPOL Nathan

Today, of course, is 19 April 2025. On Wednesday, 19 April 1775, in the British colony, the Province of Massachusetts Bay, several small groups of farmers, tradesmen (and probably ne’er-do-wells) stood up to and fought several units of British regulars. … Continue reading →

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Insanity ascendent?

Posted on 2025-04-17 by TPOL Nathan

As we here at TPOL understand it, Karmelo Anthony is the high school student who murdered a fellow student by stabbing him to death, apparently because he was “afraid.” (Excuse me, “person of interest” in the stabbing death.) So far, … Continue reading →

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