Speaking of fraud …

Posted on 2024-10-09 by TPOL Nathan

Yesterday, we wrote about the sickness of scamsters and con artists that ply their disgusting profession for and in the government. Especially the FedGov, but even at the State, local, and tribal level.

The exemplar of these fedgov fraudsters is, of course, the Congress itself. (It is no wonder that the greatest POTUS con artists in recent history have been trained and practiced in Congress: Uncle Joe, Obummer, Bush I, Ford, Tricky Dick, and LBJ, to name a few.

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Beware of fraudsters

Posted on 2024-10-08 by TPOL Nathan

Now, we all hear the various PSAs and see the billboards – often paid for by government agencies – that warn us against scams and scamsters, against con-artists and all those evil folks. Whether it is utility frauds or Nigerian scam letters (emails), or people going around selling counterfeit goods, it seems to be a mission of governments at all levels to warn us against them.

Why?

Well, we need to remember: government hates competition. And two, seeks to distract us from the real pro practitioners of the art of the fraud and scams.

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Truth from a liar?

Posted on 2024-10-07 by TPOL Nathan

To be tactful, John Kerry is a real piece of work. He is right up there with the Clintons, the Bushes, the Obamas, Uncle Joe (at least when he was mentally competent), and dear Kammie when it comes to political parasites feeding on the body politic.

But sometimes even people like Nixon or Kerry or your local scummy politicians speak the truth. As part of their word salad and self-serving rhetoric.

So while this recent tirade of his is what we would expect, it has some surprising truth in it:

I think the dislike of and anguish over social media is just growing and growing and growing. And it’s part of our problem, particularly in democracies, in terms of building consensus around any issue.

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Warning – be on the lookout (humor!)

Posted on 2024-10-05 by TPOL Nathan

Just don’t say we did not warn you. 31 more days to … who knows what?

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The Sunset Clause

Posted on 2024-10-04 by TPOL Nathan

For the last several decades, a lot of legislation in DC and the State capitols has included a “sunset clause,” also called a sunset rule or a sunset provision. The sunset clause is a measure within a statute, regulation or other law that provides for the law to cease to be effective after a specified date, unless further legislative action is taken to extend it.

A sunset clause is kinda like an expiration date on a product – except (supposedly) binding. We have two general types of expiration dates on food and drugs: “sell by” dates and “use by” dates. To put it another way, the manufacturer or distributor strongly urges the retailer and the buyer (consumer) to pay attention. (As does the government which often mandates that.)

Of course, there is a difference in sunset clauses. For one thing, Congress, legislatures, and the White House don’t want “consumers” (citizens and residents) to pay attention. They want the adulation of the voters and public, not the close attention. They do not want their laws, the imperial decrees we give the euphemistic name “executive order,” and various government regulations and “guidance” to expire.

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Put not your trust in princes… or presidents… or congresscritturs… or bureaucrats

Posted on 2024-10-03 by TPOL Nathan

Rob Morse, writing from (and about) the Helene-hit hinderland of the Old South:

Why are people in North Carolina suffering after the latest storm? The answers are both obvious and unusual. We are responding to both acts of nature and acts of human nature. Both are predictable. Getting re-elected was more important than helping US citizens in need.

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Irrational fears dominate American politics

Posted on 2024-10-02 by TPOL Nathan

Just as “war is the health of the state” so fear facilitates politicians and governments, and drives politics.

That has been the case for millennia, but this year we can really see and feel the impact. This is not a Democratic or a Republican tactic: this is a fundamental strategy for ALL politicians of all political persuasions. (Including Libertarians.)

Why?

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Can the courts dismantle the imperial bureaucracy in DC?

Posted on 2024-09-30 by TPOL Nathan

In recent months, the Nine Nazgul (or at least 5 or 6 of them) have seeming delivered major blows to the bureaucratic state and much of its power and practices. At the same time, more and more lower federal people in black robes have also been picking away at the foundations – and the powers – of the FedGov of 2024.

In doing so, they are seen by many as attacking both the Executive and the Legislative Branches. That in turn is condemned as being anti-democratic. We here at TPOL disagree somewhat. First, the Judicial Branch is just as corrupt as the other two. Second, most of the black-robes believe in “democracy” and therefore, by definition, not a republic. But we are very much in the minority.

(At the same time, we take hope: when the FedGov starts eating itself – or even threatening to, that is a good thing for the usual victims of government. People, families, companies, and of course the environment, peace, and prosperity.)

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Lo, the poor Indian…

Posted on 2024-09-27 by TPOL Nathan

For more than 150 years, the white regressives (they call themselves progressives and compassionate conservatives and liberals – corrupting the meanings of all the words) of these States and many in Europe and Canada have bemoaned the so-called racism and oppression of the AmerInd people in North America.

And have sucked up to the “Tonto”-like leaders of the various nations (tribes) and demanded more and more government welfare to people based on how much of their ancestry (“blood quantum”) supposedly came from ancestors who migrated to this land before the magic date of AD 1492.

A recent example of this was featured in the Rapid City Journal, with this headline and picture:

There are a lot of things wrong, which can be seen just in this picture. And more if you know a bit about the West, the Paha Sapa (Black Hills), and politics.

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We’re back!

Posted on 2024-09-26 by TPOL Nathan

An unplanned hiatus in our usual publishing schedule, coupled with a hacking problem and business travel , has put us out of commission for two weeks.

But we are back! If you missed the last commentaries we published: be sure to visit below or at these links: Most were unable to connect to the last four commentaries:

13 SEP 2024: Ramping up – attacks nationwide on home-schooling

14 SEP 2024 Government funding of private schools?

16 SEP 2024 Classical liberalism, liberty, and empire

17 SEP 2024 Pushing the limit on lies? There‘s a limit?

For the next several weeks, due to workload, we will likely only have 2-4 commentaries per week. We are trying not to focus on the 2024 election insanity but can’t help but touch on it.

Welcome to the curse of “living in interesting times” – and as always, remember The Price of Liberty we must all pay!

Nathan, Debby, Gareth, Matthias, and the entire TPOL family

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