What is the opposite of secession?

Posted on 2022-04-10 by TPOL Nathan

Have you ever given that much thought?

Some will say that “annexation” is an opposite, others will be more negative and limit it to conquest. After all, that is what happened to the Southron States that seceded back in the 1960s. The website thesaurus.com has a ridiculous, even brain-dead list of antonyms. And frankly, some of their synonyms don’t make sense, either. Some political scientists (I know, more brain-dead people) and historians suggest “accession” as the opposite. Eugene Kontorovich even wrote an article about that about a decade ago in The Volokh Conspiracy.

We would like to suggest another few, based on world and American history: admission: as in a being admitted to the Union as a State. Federation or even Confederation might be considered as well. Union or amalgamation might work.

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Regime change on the table? Ukrainian edition

Posted on 2022-04-09 by TPOL Nathan

A couple of days ago, TPOL discussed the reasons we need regime change given the current world situation right here in the Fifty States. (Well, in the FedGov: we KNOW there are many, many States that could ALSO use some regime change here and there.)

But although we identified the Ukraine as needing a change in rulers, we didn’t really discuss the why and how. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (how does he REALLY spell his last name, anyhow?) is firmly in charge. The darling of the mainstream (and most alternative) media. The favorite son of the West (Well, so the media says.) The hero of the day. Churchill reborn – or is he Lincoln?

But the truth? Ukraine has proven to be just as corrupt a society and government as any of the other former Soviet “republics” with the oligarchs running things. The big difference in the Ukraine is the intense interest in Ukraine shown during the American Obummer regime, and of course, now the corrupt and incompetent regime with Uncle Joe as its figurehead.

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Our cultural heritage – or theft?

Posted on 2022-04-08 by TPOL Nathan

Please consider this quote.

Ms. Allen was a liberal, mixed-blood (Asian, Scots, various AmerInd) in the late 20th Century and early 21st Century.
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Regime change on the table?

Posted on 2022-04-07 by TPOL Nathan

Two major themes seem to be spouted more and more on both mainstream and alternative press pages these days. One is “we are closer to nuclear war than ever before.” The other is urgent need for regime change in certain countries.

We here at TPOL think the one meme is overblown. While nuclear war is always a possibility, we believe that history shows several things. First, we are far below the levels of tension and fear that created the conditions for near-nuclear confrontations in the past: such as confrontations over Berlin, Cuba, and even Vietnam and Israel. The claims today are hype – fear intended to ramp up support for DC’s crazy policies and Ukraine as this paragon of democracy and courage.

But the other one? Absolutely. There IS an urgent and critical need for regime change in several countries. It is just that we don’t agree with WHICH countries need regime change. The American and British Commonwealth and European media is fixated and oddly united on the need for President Putin to be removed. An action demanded by Uncle Joe and the British and German premiers. And even the Pope! And a number of them (as Jim Bell reminded me with his recent comment on AP – Assassination Politics) have blatantly called for Vladimir Putin to be murdered.

But we here at TPOL do NOT believe that Russia needs regime change. Nor that Russian regime change will improve conditions in Russia and the world.

So where?

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What a horrible person I am! Are you?

Posted on 2022-04-06 by TPOL Nathan

I understand that cognitive dissonance is perception of contradictory information. It is typical of politicians and other parasites on human society, I am told. It is a matter of believing two (or more) different “facts” or beliefs or values that contradict each other. Like believing it is wrong to hunt (and so kill animals for food) while chowing down daily on a hamburger.

It was, so history tells us, fairly common among slaveholders, as far back at least as Philemon, the man who owned the slave Onesimus. And among people in the Deep South, teaching and apparently believing that black people were not really human, and so just smarter domestic animals, even while preaching them the Gospel so that they could be saved eternally.

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A principled stand – freedom of speech

Posted on 2022-04-05 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

Since Mama Liberty (Susan Callaway – Lady Susan) began publishing, this publication has had a few very solid principles.  As her successor (not replacement: I cannot replace her), I hold to these same principles.

One of these is the God-given right of freedom of expression. Including freedom of speech.

What does that mean? Let me do some preaching to the choir.

This is one of the natural, unalienable rights which are spoken of in the Declaration of Independence and which is (theoretically) protected by the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution and every Constitution of every member of the Federal Union. Every State.

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Scenes of a future fifty States?

Posted on 2022-04-04 by TPOL Nathan

The New York Post has recently posted a series of video recordings, from a suburb of Kiev, showing the aftermath of modern urban combat. It is “graphic content” according to modern standards, so consider yourself warned. It shows dead people littering the streets with their bodies, while nearby living people are going about their business. It shows burned out armored vehicles, ruins of buildings, patrols on foot and mounted, and what is purported to be a mass grave with 280 dead – reportedly civilians.

We must ask, can this happen elsewhere? Here in the Fifty States?

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Inducing insanity as a solution to world problems

Posted on 2022-04-02 by TPOL Nathan

Editor’s note: TPOL might have published this yesterday, Friday 01 April 2022, but too many folks may have thought it was some kind of joke.

In the last few days, various members and leaders of the EU have joined DC’s cry of more and more, longer and longer sanctions on Russia. Even if Russia and Ukraine end their war. Even if Russia withdraws troops from Ukraine.

Russia, we are told, must be punished. They must be isolated, quarantined, put into Coventry. Why? To force them to “grow up” and become a peaceful and useful member of the world community. To make them overthrow Putin and his kind. To gain sanity.

Okay, to a lot of people, that makes sense.

But…

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Are some societies and people better than others?

Posted on 2022-04-01 by TPOL Nathan

Humans are, well, weird. We can blame it all on the Creator, of course. He gave us free will: the ability to decide for ourselves what to think, say, and do. Well, some of us think so. Others say we should consider that all of us were ‘primitive primates’ at one juncture in our long history. We may agree that many people like to think we are morally or otherwise superior to our brothers and sisters. And are usually the first to stumble.

But too many people state, flat-out, “no person or civilization is better than another.”

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Vaccines – hot potato for teaching children

Posted on 2022-03-30 by TPOL Nathan

Vaccines are back in the news, with the federal Food and Drug Administration announcing a “second booster” for people over 50 – and continuing fights in school districts across the Fifty States.

Vaccines have always been a hot potato. These days, vaccination seems to be more of a red-hot, blister-burning coal than a hand-warming, foil-wrapped spud. With all the slinging of mud and stirring up of fear and claims in the last 24 months, most of us have done some research on vaccines in the last few months. So hopefully we all know a lot more than we did in 2019 or 202. So, what have we learned? Or what should we have learned?

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