Category Archives: Nathan’s Rants

The price of silence

Posted on 2022-07-25 by TPOL Nathan

We here at The Price of Liberty, and indeed most people in North America (even Mexico) do not have a gut understanding of what the price of liberty actually can be – actually has been. But even more, we do … Continue reading →

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Our fragile communications and economy

Posted on 2022-07-23 by TPOL Nathan

Over at Agora Financial, a libertarian investment and publishing firm based in Baltimore, their editors and writers have been sounding alarms about the signs of the FedGov (and the EU and others) pushing a “cashless society.” One in which plastic … Continue reading →

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Killing us softly…

Posted on 2022-07-22 by TPOL Nathan

C. S. Lewis may have said it best: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. … Continue reading →

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Moving to the sounds of the guns…

Posted on 2022-07-20 by TPOL Nathan

I am told that the statistics here in the States are pretty clear. When police forces end shooting and killing sprees, the average toll of dead is 14.3 people. When a private, armed citizen is the one who stops the … Continue reading →

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More about Texas and Uvalde – and the American police state

Posted on 2022-07-19 by TPOL Nathan

Yesterday’s commentary was and is a condemnation of the State of the former Republic of Texas. And of the County of Uvalde. And the City of Uvalde. And of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District. But we want to point … Continue reading →

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Is Uvalde the event that brings the whole charade down?

Posted on 2022-07-18 by TPOL Nathan

The charade of how government “protects” us? How “taxes are the price we pay for civilization?” Ever since that murdering madman went into a government-run, tax-funded (“public”) school in Uvalde, Texas, the questions and the revelations have be tumbling out … Continue reading →

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Constitution?

Posted on 2022-07-15 by TPOL Nathan

A recent “news story” on MSN explained why the US Constitution is so bad. And why it, and not SCOTUS should be blamed and hated for recent decisions that partially restored our right to defend ourselves by keeping and bearing … Continue reading →

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Tyranny is a many-hued thing

Posted on 2022-07-14 by TPOL Nathan

In a suburb of Houston, Texas, an elderly couple is being driven from their home. No, not by BLM or the taxman or local “government” but by their local Homeowners Association (HOA). Why? They committed a crime. What? Enslaving someone … Continue reading →

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“Going viral” – more “established law” at risk?

Posted on 2022-07-13 by TPOL Nathan

A long time correspondent and reader alerted me several days to a newly-filed lawsuit which seems to be rapidly promoted and both praised and condemned across the nation. Many of us have long protested that the 1934 National Firearms Act … Continue reading →

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Hard times a-comin’?

Posted on 2022-07-12 by TPOL Nathan

“At the end of our rope.” “The straw that broke the camel’s back.” “Enough is enough.” Do these saying seem to resemble your life today? My life today? The lives of many Americans who are lovers of liberty in this … Continue reading →

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