Libertarian Commentary on the News, 26 July 2015, #15-30A: Disappearing Liberty

Posted on 2015-07-26 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

The speed at which liberties of free speech and freedom of religion are disappearing in the Fifty States is rather surprising. World Net Daily reports on a situation in Kentucky in which a Baptist preacher was “fired” from his volunteer work assisting troubled youth in the Department of Juvenile Justice because he refused to sign a pledge that he would not tell anyone that homosexuality was sinful. Yes, he was volunteering in a government-run program, but this still seems to be very much an overreach on the part of the government in prohibiting this. Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 24 July 2015, #15-29D: This and That

Posted on 2015-07-24 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

End of the “work week,” with a few news stories of interest.

Waste Management News explains how the company Waste Management Inc. is suing the City and County of San Francisco over their Recology recycling contract. This is interesting because Recology is a frequent poster child for Tranzi greenies to “prove” that recycling can pay for itself (remembering that “profit” is evil, and with sufficient subsidies by government (using money stolen from taxpayers)).  WMI is making what the professional community knows is pretty much an accurate claim, that San Fransisco is steering the $130 million contract to Recology in violation of competitive processes and any number of laws.  So? It is for Mother Earth, so who cares if it is legal or fair? Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 23 July 2015, #15-29C: The State Fails, and Fails, and Fails

Posted on 2015-07-23 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

The Third Reich is a classic example of a failed state. Now, welcome to the “Fourth Reich” here in the Fifty States.  Personal Liberty discussed this on Monday; A second view is found at “First Look” That most political of political generals, retired NATO commander and former Democrat presidential candidate Wesley Clark, publicly advocated and promoted “reeducation” or “concentration camps” for “disloyal Americans,” seeking to revive the evils perpetrated against German-speaking Americans in the Great War (1917-1918), Japanese-speaking and descendant Americans in 1941-45, and pioneered by the Brits in Sud-Afrika during the Boer Wars (and the US during the Indian Wars).  This thug, a progressive or Tranzi, wants to open the doors to putting someone in an internment camp for such evil crimes as defending the Southern Cross, speaking ill of that squatter in DC, speaking out against SSM (same-sex “marriage”) or speaking out for Arabs, Muslims, or… christians.  No, he did not mention any of these specifically, but what he proposes leads to all these things, already seen as evil or even hate crimes. Continue reading →

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Why I don’t look at the “news”

Posted on 2015-07-22 by MamaLiberty

By MamaLiberty

I happened to look at the “news” today… an increasingly rare thing as the world seems to spiral into more and more insanity. I didn’t click the “more” link on any of them, and found myself responding to most of them this way:

1. Who honestly cares? I do not recognize any other person or entity as having any legitimate authority over my life or property.
2. So what? I do not recognize any obligation not to “offend” or hurt the feelings of others by my honest thoughts and words. I will never willingly harm an innocent person, but I have no obligation to cater to their ideas of politically correct speech or behavior. I am obligated only not to aggress against them… or anyone else.
3. None of my business.
4. I have no idea who this is…   (Obviously a product of not reading the “news” or looking at any “entertainment” sources. I don’t have a TV, and don’t go to movies…)
5. or, again, why would I care what they think or believe? Has nothing to do with me… or at least shouldn’t.
6. I don’t want or need any “president” or other “representative.” I don’t “vote” or engage in any political activities.
7. I have zero interest in anything to do with the “constitution” or any other document pretending to represent the bogus “authority” of government. Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 21 July 2015, #15-29B: Killing… and then important stuff

Posted on 2015-07-21 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

Later in the commentary, I discuss one of those “more important” things, concerning a teenage girl in the UK.  She felt like she was dying.

But, at least, her parents let her live, unlike about 3,000 babies killed EACH DAY in America, often for convenience.  But that is not “good enough” for Singer, the Tranzi at Princeton University in New Jersey, who has publicly opined (as reported in Freedom Outpost) that the FedGov should make sure that ObummerCare is used “properly” to kill disabled infants, such as those with congenital birth defeats, possible mental disorders, and the like. Last week’s revelations, if delayed, about the way Planned Parenthood deals with “fetal parts” (human remains) created a wave of controversy and revulsion in some places.  But in others, such as Princeton, it produced the opposite: a call to use ObummerCare to kill MORE children: “dealing” with disabled infants as less than human.

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 20 July 2015, #15-29A: Drums of War

Posted on 2015-07-20 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

War came back to the Homeland again last week. Constantly on Friday, I heard the statement reported over and over that the investigators were unable to “determine the motive” of the young man who killed four Marines, wounded another and a Navy NCO and a cop, and was killed in Chattanooga.  Determine the motive?  He was Muslim, immigrated (and became a naturalized US citizen), but in recent years has traveled extensively in Jordan and Yemen.  And a tweet claimed to be posted by the Caliphate (ISIS), at almost the same time that he first opened fire at the recruiting station, praising the attack.  With hundreds and thousands of Islamists in the Fifty States, and with constant harping by the Caliphate in more and more of the world, the motive is pretty clear, even if we can’t confirm it for certain because the guy is dead.  Whatever the exact motive for him attacking these specific targets, the overall motive was to attack the Great Satan.  Continue reading →

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Flags and Honor, Part II

Posted on 2015-07-18 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

Racism in the Southern Cross?  Personal Liberty reports on a national poll. The CNN/ORC poll claims that 57 percent of Americans say that the Southern Cross flag is a symbol of Southern pride. That’s compared to just 33 percent who feel the flag is a symbol of racism. When broken down along racial lines, however, it’s apparent that black and white Americans have very different views about the flag. Among whites, just 28 percent feel that the flag has racial undertones. Seventy-two percent of black Americans, meanwhile, say the flag is racist.  Funny, huh?  In their bigoted little minds, Tranzis (and pandering politicians of both the old parties) would rather run roughshod over the liberties of 2 of 3 Americans when it comes to the flag (just as they want to run over the liberties of millions concerning ramming “same sex marriage” (SSM) down our throats), than stand up for free speech. Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 17 July 2015, #15-28F

Posted on 2015-07-17 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

A short column, due to some lengthy rants starting HERE.  Have a great weekend!

Another mass killing, and this time with some suspicion of Islamist terrorism on American soil, although CNN and other news sources are being coy. According to reports right now (2 PM on Thursday the 16th), four MARINES are dead at a reserve center and a recruiting office in Memphis, all supposedly killed by a now-dead perp, who may have been killed by cops or killed himself.  The facilities, incredibly, were GUN-FREE ZONES so we can directly blame Congress and the White House and Pentagon for these dead Marines, who were not allowed to adequately defend themselves, right in the heart of a major American (and Southern) city.  When will we learn?  Enough is enough! Continue reading →

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Flags and honor, Part I

Posted on 2015-07-17 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

The Southern Cross Flag is (according to millions of people) a symbol of hate and racism.  (This is NOT the “Stars and Bars” which was the original national flag of the Confederate States of America, nor any of the other national flags of the Southron Confederacy, but was used as one of the Naval Ensigns and (in the standard heraldic square form) as the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia (which is what was flown by the South Carolina statehouse.)  What was painted on the top of the General Lee (Dukes of Hazard) and waved at NASCAR and Country music concerts is the Confederate States Navy’s Naval Ensign.  Whatever it really is, the rectangular flag is inevitably called the CSA Flag or Confederate Flag.  In this essay, I shall call it the “Southern Cross.” Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 16 July 2015, #15-28E: War and blood

Posted on 2015-07-16 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

WAR?  The US DoD said that they are ready to exercise the “military option” against Iran, despite the “agreement” (the bad deal, better than no deal) reached on Tuesday.  Israel’s PM emphasized that the State of Israel is “not bound” by any agreement.

Of course, this actually isn’t a “new war” but just an expansion of the continuous war that may indeed be the “Long War” talked about a decade or so ago (but it still has a ways to go to rival that war that started in August 1914 and ended (maybe) in 1991.  (Actually, some people have told me that we are still IN that same war, as shown by events in Ukraine and the Balkans.) But things do move faster today than a century ago:  the mapmakers did overtime work for decades trying to keep up with the changes, and the blood almost literally could have coated the planet. Continue reading →

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