Eternal vigilance

Posted on 2019-10-15 by TPOL Nathan

The Price of Liberty is… Eternal Vigilance

The name of Mama Liberty’s webzine is of course taken from this well-known (and often misattributed) quote, but she always looked at it as having many levels of meaning.  
The earliest known citation is found in a biography of Major General James Jackson published in 1809, where author Thomas Charlton wrote that that one of the obligations of biographers of famous people is “fastening upon the minds of the American people the belief, that ‘the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.’”  
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Liberty and the environment

Posted on 2019-10-13 by TPOL Nathan

I’ve been asked this question more than once over the years, as an environmental engineer: “If business is not regulated by government, wouldn’t the environment be destroyed?”

Here is a compendium of my answers, over time.

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A scenario for impeachment and more

Posted on 2019-10-10 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

The more I hear the rhetoric of the Democratic candidates for Massa (POTUS), the Congressional Democrats, and the mainstream media, the more convinced I am that they are indeed pushing for a coup.

Yes, The Donald is a disaster as POTUS.  He is immoral, mercurial, and a loose cannon. He terrifies people.  Including a good many foreigners.

But…

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Pay for play – on our dime

Posted on 2019-10-09 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

California has allowed, and Colorado is considering, how college and university sports players can profit from their playing games.  Well, at least some of them.  I think, from the point of view of taxpayers and lovers of liberty, that is a bad idea.

A commentary published on our sister, temporary website on recent efforts to let college athletes be paid for their sports playing has not received much in the way of visitors, so please read it here: The New Price of Liberty: Pay for Play and share your thoughts with us here.

 

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Cop guilty of murder in Dallas – afterword

Posted on 2019-10-08 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

I had posted most of this commentary in “The New Price of Liberty” temporary website, on 1st October, but since there is little traffic to that website now that we are back online here, I think it worth posting here (updated, of course).

The policewoman (carefully referred to in the news as an “ex-cop” as though she killed Botham Jean as a “civilian”) was convicted and sentenced to just 10 years in prison. In open court, her victim’s brother forgave the obviously repentant woman, hugging her (with the judge’s permission).  And the judge also spoke kindly to the convict and gave her a Bible – the actions have made a large splash in the media.

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A free market, a free society

Posted on 2019-10-07 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

Once upon a time, a customer walked into a grocery store, went to the counter, and told a clerk what she wanted.  The clerk would rush hither and yon, gather the goods, weigh and tag them, then use a pencil and pad to calculate the bill. The customer would pay in coins or bills. Then she more than likely would then go to a meat market, a dairy, a bakery, vegetable and fruit stands, a drygoods store, and a drugstore, to buy the other things she wanted.   Those other businesses were similarly run.

But we humans just can’t leave things alone!

An example of a recent innovation in sales and marketing – ammo by the pound.

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Abortion and liberty

Posted on 2019-10-06 by TPOL Nathan

The news was horrifying.

“More than 2,200 preserved fetal remains have been found on the Illinois property of a recently deceased doctor who performed abortions, the Will County sheriff’s office said in a statement. The family and attorney of Ulrich Klopfer, who died on Sept. 3, discovered 2,246 medically preserved fetal remains on Thursday while going through the deceased doctor’s personal property and alerted the local coroner’s office, the sheriff’s office said. ‘The family is cooperating fully with this investigation. There is no evidence that any medical procedures were conducted at the property,’ the statement, issued on Friday, said. Will County is located about 45 miles (72 km) southwest of Chicago. The Will County Sheriff and Coroner’s office could not immediately be reached for comment on Saturday.” (09/15/19)
One thing that the 20th and 21st Centuries have given mankind is the ability to commit mass murder on a retail scale.  This is nearly as sickening as the evil actions of abortionist Kermit Gosnell of Philadelphia, perhaps because we don’t know all the details of just how more than 2,000 dead babies ended up in pickle jars in this man’s basement.
What we do know is that each of these bodies is a dead child.

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Hope for liberty in the 21st Century

Posted on 2019-10-05 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

You didn’t hear it on the hourly news, the daily or weekly news roundups, or the newspapers. (Or at least I couldn’t find it.)

But the gang of murderous thugs and tyrants who rule most of the Arabian Peninsula and hold much of the world at their mercy for oil got their hats handed to them recently.

You CAN read about it at Lew Rockwell, reposted from Strategic Culture, fortunately. The Yemeni, on the receiving end of Saudi rage for years, launched a successful raid deep into Saudi territory at a port and provincial capital (Jizan or Jazan) on the Red Sea coast.  This incursion into the far Southwest corner of the Saudi Kingdom chewed up three brigades of the Saudi Army.

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CalExit heating up

Posted on 2019-10-04 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

As political conditions turn more and more sour across the Fifty States, it appears that some folks are working hard at opting out.

Not giving up on electoral and other traditional politics as so many of us have.  But in essence, saying “a pox on ALL your houses.”

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Hong Kong and liberty

Posted on 2019-10-04 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

In July, the Heritage Foundation rated Hong Kong as the MOST economically-free nation in the world, giving it 89.9 out of a possible 100.  Not  politically free, but economically-free.  They (and we) recognize that the two DO go together.

Since then, the protests over the Red Chinese (Communist) regime to extradite accused persons to the mainland have dominated world news.

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