Murder most foul

One of the many recent (21 July 2025) revelations from the FedGov’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reveals yet another evil way in which the FedGov (and State and local governments and Big Pharma and other Big Business) treat humans from conception to death (and their castoffs beyond that!). We know many medical care providers understand and practice good medical ethics. But that is not the case among government and “private” entities that control the systems. Once again, RFK Jr. has delivered a blow against the medical establishment. This one strikes at the very heart of morality.

“Our findings show that hospitals allowed the organ procurement process to begin when patients showed signs of life, and this is horrifying,” Kennedy said. “The organ procurement organizations that coordinate access to transplants will be held accountable. The entire system must be fixed to ensure that every potential donor’s life is treated with the sanctity it deserves.”

The tone of this DHS announcement and many of the commenters, (both “public servants,” including elected officials, and many “independent” observers) is “reassuring.” It was misguided zeal (to save lives) and benign, unintentional negligence, they say. The attitude seems to be, “Now that they realize what was wrong, we will fix the system.”

Hogwash.

We have deliberately planned and implemented evil. It degrades western civilization, divorcing society and its institutions still more from the biblical values and morality on which it was (at least partially) built. It takes away voluntary consent, individual dignity (honor, to use an old-fashioned term), and respect for the human body.

Why? Obviously, for many, profit is the motive. Unencumbered by questions of ethics, morality, or human rights. But we submit it is more: it is a deliberate, callous, planned effort to destroy society and therefore our nations, as part of the effort to replace them with something. Something, in our eyes, evil, monstrous.

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Canada is trespassing on the States

One principle of environmental science and engineering is that air and water pollution are a form of trespass. When you intentionally or accidentally allow contaminants in the air or water that leaves your property to cross into someone else’s property. You are committing a trespass, and can be held legally liable for the consequences. Just like you could if your dog pooped on the neighbor’s lawn, or that same dog pulled over your trash can and scattered trash into the street and your neighbor’s yards.

US (and international) law even goes so far as to say you are trespassing if that happens not because you intentionally or accidentally released the pollutants, but if you fail to take action to prevent those contaminants from going into the air or water (both surface and groundwater). Of course, a government agency with jurisdiction can issue you a permit that allows you to pollute your neighbor’s air and water – or even that of folks miles away from you – if you pay your fee, obey their draconian orders, and are nice to the inspectors and other officials.

(It’s a wonderful scheme to increase government power, isn’t it?)

Now, let us look at August 2025 and the Dominion of Canada. In fact, here is a map:

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Incredible arrogance – Fedgov and more: the Swastika Lake saga continues

Once a quiet alpine lake hidden in Wyoming’s rugged backcountry west of Laramie, “Swastika Lake” is now at the center of a heated national debate. While its recent name change was supposed to address the symbol’s disturbing modern associations, many people are not happy—and tourists should pay attention. Here are some reasons this scenic spot is making headlines:

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Authoritarianism and the trained Marxist

This is a guest commentary written by a beloved friend and brother of the TPOL community. It is just as applicable today as it was four years ago. [TPOL editor comments in brackets.]

The Trained Marxist…

Authoritarianism is the belief that people must obey the government completely and not be allowed freedom to act as they wish. Authoritarianism is opposed to individual freedom of thought and action. Authoritarian governments rule via mandates and compliance to state or political party desires and dictates. It is a government absent of bipartisan involvement.

These dictatorial forms of government will concentrate their power with a certain political or critical theory of rule.

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The sickening state of modern media

Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, American media was dominated by the Big Three television networks, and a few national magazines.

ABC, NBC, and CBS are still with us. Most of the old national magazines are gone or bizarrely changed into odd parodies of their original incarnation: Time, Life, Newsweek, US News and World Report, Saturday Evening Post, and a few others. Some would add Grit, The New Yorker, National Geographic, and even Playboy. One major one, though, was Reader’s Digest.

(We realize that younger readers may not recognize many of these.)

All these magazines had a very profound impact on American culture, society, and politics in the quarter-century after World War Two. It is claimed that they influenced public opinion and policy, and that they “reflected the cultural and social changes” of the era. The reality seems to be darker: yes, they influenced opinion and policy, but the publications actually created many (or most) of the changes in society and culture.

For most values of liberty and freedom, many changes were for the worse. And for bad, not good, a lot of what these hardcopy publications (with circulation numbers in the millions) was false. Lies and twisted truth that pushed those changes.

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Homeschooling and virtual schooling 2025

All around we see the signs and ads telling us that the government-run, tax-funded schools are gearing up to start the 2025-2026 school year. Some very early in August, others (as in Rapid City, SD and its colonial possessions in the “Area School District”) the middle of August (at least, after Rally if not after the summer heat breaks). Well before the traditional post-Labor Day seasonal schools.

The Blaze and other news (yes, and gossip) outlets are looking back to pre-Beer Flu Pandemic Panic days and note a very good trend. At least from the point of view of lovers of liberty.

According to the National Home Education Research Institute, there were 3.1 million homeschooled K-12 students in the 2021-2022 school year, up from 2.5 million in spring 2019. Forbes indicated last year that estimates put the number of American homeschooled students at nearly 4 million kids nationwide. As multiple states do not require notification when parents decide to educate their children at home, the number might be much higher.

Today, there is good evidence that home schooling and virtual schooling numbers are double the pre-Panic numbers: as many as 5 million. Especially when you look at micro-schools and even forms of “unschooling” across the nation.

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Motorcycles and liberty – Sturgis 85 (2025)

We last touched on several points about why TPOL sees the annual Black Hills Rally as tied to liberty. Let us continue our look at liberty, bikes, and bikers.

This 2025 85th Rally seems to be off to a great start: lots and lots and LOTS of bikers – and RVs and pickups and even semi-trucks hauling bikes – are filling the Black Hills. Not just Sturgis, but Spearfish and Lead-Deadwood, Rapid City, Sundance, Newcastle, even remoter places like Hulett (near Devils Tower) and Custer City and Hot Springs. The air vibrates with the roar of bikes. Even when storm winds and rain briefly floods streets, parking areas, and vendors (to say nothing of tents and bivy sheets), people pick up and go on. You don’t see many sour faces, either. Except for those Mrs. Grundies and Karens that every community has too many of (1 being defined by many people as “too many”).

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Liberty and tolerance at 85th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally

Today, the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming are filled with the roar of big bikes of all types. Actually, the last week has seen a rapid increase in the number of bikers flowing into and through the Pahasapa (the old Lakota name for the Black Hills).

It is the 85th such rally, and events ending in 0 and 5 are big draws. Numbers of visitors and vendors and dollars are already up significantly over the last seven-eight years. Though the event was not cancelled (to the fear and horror of the nanny-staters) of 2020, numbers were down as people were brainwashed into fearing the Beer Flu. It will not be a surprise if a million or more people (and the same number of Harleys, Hondas, Indians, Triumphs and more) show up in 2025.

So what does this have to do with liberty, freedom, and the price of liberty?

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Government is not content with normality

Let us share another guest editorial by Bob Malone. Comments in brackets and below. Please, provide your thoughts!

Frankly, “they” [governments and “progressives’] need both parents out of the house and extended family [both physical and spiritual] severed from the daily lives of nuclear families. This is by design. Industrialized societies rely on and promote a workforce that is willing and able to relocate, both geographically and socially, to adapt to the constantly changing demands of technology, the market, and the broader economy.

This mobility is considered crucial for economic resilience, innovation, and ongoing growth. In industrial societies, more functions such as childcare, elder care, and education shift from the extended family to the state, and the nuclear family becomes increasingly isolated from their extended family. [Frequently this is instigated and enforced by courts and agencies which supposedly “serve” the families and “protect” children. One more set of lies.]

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MAFIOSI? GOVERNMENT GOONS? 2025

A recently seen cartoon (no doubt reposted):

This is “funny” of course, but at the same time it is an astute observation.

First, government, like crime syndicates, uses force and the threat of force to get people to do their bidding.

Second, in many ways, both entities are nothing more than parasites. Both promise “protection” of you, your family, your business, and your property. But much of what these organizations do for your “protection money” (taxes and fees) is not threaten or steal or destroy your property. Doubt this? Put up a statue or let your grass grow too high on your front yard and watch what local government code enforcement does.

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