NYC and blue states, red states, blue cities, and red cities

Posted on October 31, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

Want to think of something scary for Halloween night? Consider the modern American city.

In 2025, the handwriting is clearly on the wall. New York City is evidence of this, if we needed more. Whatever the results of next week’s election, it is clear that the City – and the entire urban area it anchors – is in serious trouble.

Why? We at TPOL submit that this is exactly what we should expect of parasites. Ultimately, most parasites kill their host/victim. And as a result, die themselves. Government and its officials and employees are those parasites on the American body politic. And stupid.

American cities (at least in their present form) are doomed. The more extreme of us would point out, “the sooner, the better.” The vast megalopoli are ungovernable; their economic systems function (barely) in spite of their governance and society; their societies are decadent and decaying ever more rapidly.

And virtually every action taken by governmental bodies adds to (and even speeds up) that process of decay. Even while they proclaim all the wonderful things they are doing. Are going to do. Have done.

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Is it possible to restore liberty and freedom?

Posted on October 30, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

Consider these quotes:

“But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” – John Adams

 “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” – Ronald Reagan

Whatever we may think, looking back decades or centuries, about these men and their actual understanding of liberty, government, and humankind, these quotes are meaningful to lovers of liberty as we near the end of 2025.

Is Adams’ warning correct? Many people today dream of restoring American constitutional government, as originally intended and perceived by Adams and the men and women of his generation. Are they going to be disappointed? Is true restoration possible? Or even a rough imitation of what the original Thirteen States had?

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Starting week #5 – some humor, perhaps?

Posted on October 29, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

(A BAKER’S DOZEN (TM)) Now we have survived – even thrived! – for four weeks with only “minimum essential” government. How much farther can we go? When will we really see what it is like to have the FedGov really shut down? Are we, should we, heed the warnings about the catastrophe of not having the FedGov “taking care of us?”

Time for a bit of humor. So here is a selection of old WARNING SIGNS from the point of view of lovers of liberty:

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Four weeks…

Posted on October 28, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

The 28th of October, 2025. The FedGov has been shut down for four weeks. Twenty-eight days.

As we all know, the results are catastrophic. The Fifty States have fallen into anarchy and chaos. Jerusalem in AD 70 and Berlin in AD 1945 are pale fore-shadows of New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and DC. The Germanies in the Thirty Years’ War fared better than the Fifty States.

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It isn’t “rogue government,” it is SOP for…

Posted on October 27, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

… government agencies to do things like this. Nor is it madness or just Wokeness or Progressivism or Conservativism. It is human government!

We could fill the pages of this webzine/commentary for years with examples of justice twisted, perverted, and denied. Kiriakou is just one of thousands of people who have suffered from injustice. Even when they were themselves part of the machine that ground them up and spit them out.

American military officers (at least most of them) and even some American politicians and government leaders once understood a basic principle. What? That men and women who stand up for the right, for liberty, for justice, for others, often have to pay a horrible price. It is understood by those who wrote and signed the Declaration of Independence, who realized that they were putting not just their lives and their fortunes on the line, but also their “sacred honor” – that they would be vilified, condemned, and considered “without honor” because they valued certain important matters more than the people around them.

Disobeying a direct order, breaking rules and regulations, revealing deep secrets (sometimes secrets you have sworn to protect) for the right reasons is going to be condemned and punished. It takes moral courage – and a lot of it – to do the right thing.

The following is a commentary by a correspondent, Bob Malone:

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Put not your trust…

Posted on October 26, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

A correspondent writes:

Interestingly, most people believe doctors such as Rebecca Shatsky, [a California oncologist specializing in breast cancer] because we have all been programmed from childhood to trust the good specialist with the white coat that works in a highly respected hospital.  Same with the teacher, the judge, the preacher and many other occupations where trust almost goes with the occupation. In older days it may have been real and justified, but after the collective behavior of all such professions, in response to COVID-19, how is it possible to trust them?

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Engineers and politicians

Posted on October 25, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

As some readers know, The Price of Liberty’s publishers and staff are also part of several other entities and enterprises. One of those is involved in the practice of engineering in various fields.

So we get a chuckle out of tee-shirts and posters like this one:

Though we hasten to point out that sometimes the idiots are engineers themselves. The statement above is an indication that we are deluded if we think that we can solve problems once and for all. And that “this time” we did it right. Thus, it is a never-ending struggle and takes place on multiple fronts. Idiotic engineers do not make things better. Indeed, they can make things worse. And often do.

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Republics, democracies, and the dangers of all human government

Posted on October 24, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

A correspondent shared this graphic with TPOL:

All four of these men make an important point about “democracy.”(And by the way, make Winston Churchill into the liar and propagandist he so often was, claiming that ‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’

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Follow me, boys!

Posted on October 22, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

A correspondent has shared a Prager U five-minute video from a few months back, which pretty accurately summarizes the successful attack on a once-ideal American institution, the former Boy Scouts of America. Please view it and share comments with us.

Prager U: The Girling of the Boy Scouts

We understand that some of our readers will object to our opinion regarding the BSA past and present. It was, in many ways, a direct child of British imperialism and nurtured (as the video points out) by the Progressive agenda of Teddy Roosevelt. But it rose far above those beginnings and overcame many of the faults: it not only made boys into men, it also molded American culture and society for the better.

Our own response to the correspondent who shared it with us is provided below. Your thoughts and comments are appreciated:

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Health ideas #2: “Safe and effective” – the new “science”-worshipping religion

Posted on October 21, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

This comes from Dr. Robert Malone, a maverick in medical circles, who has since been appointed by The Donald and RFKJr to be part of the review process for vaccines. Including the now known and proven to be deadly COVID-19 “vaccines”:

The dominant narrative, repeatedly reinforced via a wide range of channels, marketing, propaganda, and censorship – particularly during the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak- is that all vaccines, including the mRNA and adenovirus genetic therapy-based vaccines, are “safe and effective.” This typically unqualified but oft-repeated phrase has characteristics of a catechism of faith repeated by “true believers” of a vaccine-promoting cult of public health officers, academics dependent on the vaccine industry, industrial vaccinologists, the vast majority of specialist physician guilds (that universally accept funding from vaccine-manufacturing corporations), and their surrogates. Surrogates include corporate media, politicians, and academic journals that almost universally also accept significant direct or indirect funding from vaccine manufacturers. Any who question any aspect of this catechism are typically attacked, censored, and ostracized by cult members.

Call it the “Gospel of the Caduceus” – only the priesthood of qualified and anointed medical personnel and their holy drugs can save lives.

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