By Nathan Barton
If you do not know the name “Keith Ellison,” see the end of this commentary.
This lowlife, now with the authority of being Attorney General for a major liberal midwestern state, sent us an email recently. Filled with lies and intended to twang the heartstrings of the reader. Typical of politicians of all types.
By Nathan Barton
Insanity is sometimes defined as doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result.
All of us have been that way more than once, of course. “Why won’t that delete key work!?!” and “Maybe THIS time Joe will do what he’s told…”
But government is the real example of this madness. Particularly in one serious way. “The solution to ANY problem is to throw more stolen money at it.”
A while back, Brandon Aal commented on my commentary about teaching children about knives with an important idea.
If we don’t raise out children to bear self-responsibility and ownership, the West is lost.
The daily headlines bear out the truth of his observation.
The West is spiraling downward into a morass, and perhaps even oblivion. Each generation seems to go a step further down that path (or two or three). It is not just the recent generations, but we can see it all the way back to the war baby generation of the early 1940s and the baby boomers of the 1940s and 1950s (My own generation).
I do not mean everyone in those cohorts, but perhaps a majority.
By Nathan Barton
This came across my desk while I’ve been on the road for more than two weeks now.
An indoor range in Texas has been fined by OSHA because its employees have been exposed to unsafe levels of lead.
By Nathan Barton
Perhaps the most loathed company on the planet? Its stock lost 40+% of its value in the last half of 2018. Its users regularly have data stolen about them, are subject to massive propaganda pushes by various and sundry, and have less and less freedom of speech as to what they post – and advertise – on the site.
Yet, according to our comrades over at Laissez Faire, their latest quarterly report shows that FB is alive, well, and growing. And people (savvy traders) are making good money on grabbing up their now under-valued shares.
By Nathan Barton
Last time I checked my calendar or my clock, this was February of 2019. That means the next election here in the Fifty States for Massa (better known as POTUS), in November of 2020 is about 21 months away.
At the rate they are going, by the time of the major primaries starting in March (13 months away), the Democratic Party here in the US will everyone in the party who is in office, has been in office, or previously run for office, running for Prez to replace The Donald. Right down to the Dogcatcher in Washmacarr Parish, Louisiana.
By Nathan Barton
We see more and more evidence of growing divides in American society, on multiple issues.
Not only are the factions more separated and more entrenched than ever, but rhetoric and actions are ramping up on nearly a daily basis. Despite attempts to reduce some of the stress on the body politic, it may be at the point where compromise is impossible. So stronger actions may soon result.
Including violence – either to force compliance with certain requirements, or in defense against your opponents who force compliance.
The result? Another conflict, not just between the States but within many States. Not just a person beaten or killed or silenced, but with many casualties, including deaths. Not unlike Syria, Libya, the various Balkan states, or Columbia and Mexico.
By Nathan Barton
What can I say? Tom Paine warned us. And today, we see our much-vaunted FedGov (to say nothing of tribal and state and local governments) in the control of insane idiots. People who cannot reason, cannot use logic, cannot understand the difference between reality and their fantasies.
For too many politicians, trying to argue with them has no more success than trying to argue with a two-year-old (if not younger).
Because we have given so much power to governments, we suffer daily because of their mad behavior.
Posted by Nathan Barton
These are lengthy reading but important, and worth once more seeking to apply to a FedGov gone wild and certain to get worse. I am providing these to spark discussion and encourage people to follow again the lead of Jefferson in fighting to restore liberty. I have underlined portions I consider very important.
The Price of Liberty 
Crumbling government
By Nathan Barton
Space.com recently reported that NASA has approved SpaceX sending a Dragon passenger-carrying spacecraft (capsule, really) with a dummy on a test flight to the International Space Station, scheduled for 2 March – just a few days from now.
Assuming the test drive is successful, NASA will begin using the Dragon to take its astronauts to and from the ISS. Space.com reports this would be the first time that NASA uses a private spacecraft for its employees.
This is, of course, an oversimplification. NASA does not, and never has had, a workforce and its own factories to build its spacecraft, not even back in the days of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. These manned spacecraft, and their launch vehicles, have always been built by private industry. Using parts and materials produced by private business. There are very few (if any) government OPERATED mines or manufacturing plants or anything else.
I know this is a small thing, but a sign of hope for those who love liberty.
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