Category Archives: Nathan’s Rants

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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Be eaten… or shoot… or be?

Posted on 2025-07-24 by TPOL Nathan

Government stupidity is always with us: An incredibly strong argument for why human, mandatory government is dangerous, immoral, and to be avoided. Or put down. Consider Yellowstone National Park. And visit this story in Cowboy State Daily. To put it … Continue reading →

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Trump, Epstein, Sacramento, LA fires, and more

Posted on 2025-07-21 by TPOL Nathan

Blood in the water? A TPOL correspondent has shared information from several sources regarding two current scandals: the here-today, gone-today Epstein files, and the California People’s “Republic” legislature plan to steal the land of those burned out in the Pacific … Continue reading →

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Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Josef Stalin, and Adolf Hitler: democracy in action

Posted on 2025-07-18 by TPOL Nathan

In a recent commentary, we noted the famous quote about democracy usually attributed to Sir Winston. In November 1947 Winston Churchill delivered a speech to the U.K. House of Commons. He made a memorable remark about democracy, but he employed … Continue reading →

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Rule by black robes – an American epidemic

Posted on 2025-07-17 by TPOL Nathan

Returning to a subject we have touched on more and more, we see more evidence across all Fifty States and especially in the District of Criminals that the black robed judges – at all levels – consider themselves to be … Continue reading →

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Real world problems: floods and droughts, hurricanes and blizzards, tornadoes and hail #3 Floods and hurricanes

Posted on 2025-07-16 by TPOL Nathan

Politics and political troubles, like other forms of war, distract us from real-world problems that can and do harm and even kill us. While many are man-made entirely, others are natural events. Natural? Yes, but influenced and modified (made worse) … Continue reading →

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Goodbye, California?

Posted on 2025-07-15 by TPOL Nathan

Newsweek, one of the pitiful remnants of the print mainstream media, just before Independence Day published an article telling us that polls show that more Californians than ever (44% of those polled) want independence from the United States. Here at … Continue reading →

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France – hope lost?

Posted on 2025-07-14 by TPOL Nathan

Today is Bastille Day. On this day, in 1789 (235 years back), a mob stormed the prison in Paris, the Bastille, to liberate a grand total of seven prisoners, none of them actually there for significant political reasons. Another “crowd” … Continue reading →

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