It ain’t gonna go away. As the recent proposals of the Biden regime, and actions by various local governments shows, the entire idea of reparations for 350+ years of black slavery and 150- years of racism, segregation, etc. is NOT going to go away. But where are we going to get the $51 Trillion that Miz Kamala said needs to be shelled out?
A national lottery.
Continue readingFor many years, you probably heard the claim that anyone able to win election as President of the United States is unfit to actually serve. Well, to serve well: actually PERFORM the work in a satisfactory manner based on any reasonable standard.
Actually, history does support that claim, more often than not. And not just in the White House. Let us look at this a bit.
Continue readingI got asked an interesting question the other day.
I reworded it slightly. I suspect that the questioner is not an American, or not one for very long, and really doesn’t understand rural areas. Especially not American rural areas, or Western American ones.
Q: Why is it that people don’t riot in rural areas? Not in the fields or desert, but place with more trees. Places with gas stations, malls, car dealerships, etc.?
Continue readingMany libertarians think that all people who claim to be “Christians” or even religious in general reject the libertarian, or free-market anarchist, worldview. This quote from 1867 or 1868 is worth thinking about:
Typically a lot of us poke fun, if in a very serious vein, at California.
Not just today’s California, but going back to the 1980s. The People’s Republic, we call it. Or the Democratic (Communist) Republic. In Iowa, we have Idiots Out Wandering Around, but in California? The idiots are in charge of the asylum. And worse. Writer Robert Heinlein, himself long a resident of California, often took aim at it, and its people. In one twisted story, all of the inhabitants were granted college degrees automatically at age 18. Mark Twain, too, loved to make fun. But it isn’t funny any more.
Continue readingYou got a mask? For 99% of Americans, the answer is yes. Stores and websites are selling them like hotcakes. It seems like every other store (especially the big-box and small-box stores and the supermarket and convenience store chains) has a dozen signs warning, begging, demanding (and once in a while asking) you to wear masks. And sometimes threatening you if you don’t.
Consider New Mexico.
Continue readingAuthor’s note: As I sit writing this, our home outside Rapid City in the Black Hills sits under 15-18 inches of fresh, wet, spring snow, courtesy of the vast Storm Xylia that engulfed much of the Rockies and Great Plains. Including our beloved Paha Sapa. As reported in The Blaze and elsewhere.
Moisture is a variable thing in this territory, but people have lived with it for a good 147 years – (and some of us for a lot longer than that). Lack of moisture is once again an excuse to do (or not do) something. Officially, probably even with this massive snow, the Black Hills is in “severe drought” but last year, during the first week of July, the Hills were in “moderate drought.” Just one step lower. It was the POLITICAL climate that was different.
Continue readingStupidity to the point of insanity is increasingly a “occupational disease” of politicians – especially those elected to state legislatures. Consider this. It is not a joke from the Onion or the Babylon Bee. It is Oregon House Bill 3305:
I do not know how much of a chance there is that the Oregon legislature will pass this bill, but based on the stupidity and arrogance demonstrated by the State’s governor, she (Kate Brown) is very likely to sign it.
Continue readingAfter an unexpected and unplanned hiatus of two weeks, The Price of Liberty returns.
Following a whirlwind tour of seven states, at least three still in the throes of the evils of the Lockdown, TPOL is back up this week.
With, we might add, a lot of ammo to use in proclaiming liberty unto the land, and all the inhabitants thereof. Safe passage through and out of the domains of the evil Emperadora (Empress) Lujan Gresham of New Mexico and the wicked Warlord Polis of Colorado (“Greater Denver”).
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The Fall of the United Kingdom
For decades, the Berlin Wall and the Inner-German Border (IGB) stood as often loud (and fatal) declarations that the subject population – the people – of East Germany were forbidden from leaving or escaping their land without government permission. We know some people who escaped from the Soviet-dominated, German-Communist tyranny of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik. A government that controlled 16 million people: and from which escape was only done through great trial and difficulty. We know of others who died trying to escape. And of still others who suffered, unable to escape (well, deciding not to) because of family or other ties. It was a hideous condition that existed for almost 30 years (1961-1990) in absolute form and had actually begun in 1945 with the conquest of Germany by the Soviets and the occupation of the Ost Zone.
Although there were collaborators (of course) in East Germany, it was a terror implemented and enforced by the occupation of 42,000 square miles by the Red Army.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland of 2021 has no such excuse or reason for what they are now doing. What Boris Johnson and the House of Commons, aided by a lickspittle House of Lords and a corrupt, putrid, Royal Family, have done. Turned the UK into a conquered, occupied nation of serfs.
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