Following the regrettable death of a woman who used her car to knock down an ICE agent in Minneapolis, the Minnesota governor’s remarks raise an ugly specter.
He states that the Minnesota National Guard is being trained and is being prepared to be deployed to oppose federal forces. “”I said this yesterday, we’ve never been at war with our federal government,” the governor said during a media briefing.
This implies that Minnesota now is, or soon will be, at war with the FedGov. The governor and former candidate for VPOTUS made these statements in a telling location: the Minnesota State Emergency Operations Center.
This would seem to us to be a de-facto declaration that Minnesota is leaving the Union. His remarks seem to support the profane cry of the mayor of Minneapolis, for ICE to leave the city.
Well, my oh my! We applaud this bold effort. We urge this guy to immediately convene a secession convention in St. Paul to vote on immediately leaving the Union. Or just go straight to a general referendum. The question: “Should the State of Minnesota immediately leave the United States of America? Yes or No.” Hurrah and Huzzah for the Free State of Minnesota!
True North! Land of Ten Thousand Lakes. And Ten Billion Mosquitoes. And a Hundred Billion in fraud waste and corruption!
We know that there are many misconceptions and errors promoted by government, at all levels, and through various means. Public schools (government-run tax-funded institutions) are of course a major avenue of attack on the truth. To that, we can add many more ways we are taught lies by government, supporters of government, beneficiaries of government, and in general, slimeballs.
The media is of course a major tool for false teaching. And social media is one of the most effective in 2026. This was recently posted on one website:
This, strangely enough (and most ironically) was posted to challenge several wrong ideas, as regarding jurisdiction of the FedGov, and many related issues. But it is based on a false premise, and therefore teaches something just as wrong. And thus as dangerous to liberty.
That false teaching is something that is believed by millions of Americans. And indeed by billions of people around the world.
Way back in 1972, your publisher and editor heard and listened to a fellow high school student in Colorado give an “original oratory” speech at a speech meet proclaiming the need for a “Pax Americana.”
What’s that? A recreation from the District of Criminals of the Pax Romana, which supposedly established peace and prosperity inside the frontiers of the SPQR – the badly but morally misnamed “Senate and People of Rome.” That is, the Roman Empire.
He also compared it to the Pax Britannica, established by the United Kingdom’s British Empire from about 1815 to 1914.
Today, much of what that young man spoke of has been accomplished: not all, of course. The Soviets are gone, true. And American troops garrison many of the old Soviet Union’s Republics. And most of the former European part of the former “Second World” – the Soviet Bloc. 75 years after Soviet-backed Korean Communists started a war to reunite the peninsula, American troops still “keep the peace” in Korea. American legions garrison more than half of the world’s nations, and somewhat control the high ground: the orbitals. There are many other features that demonstrate that the American Empire is alive. And militarily stronger than ever.
This commentary could also be entitled “Just ’cause it’s legal doesn’t mean it is right.” That is, morally right. First we discuss the new NYC regime. Then we touch on the raid into Venezuela. Both are examples of what is politically acceptable (and condemned) as contrasted to what is right, proper, and wise.
Of course, since government is fundamentally not right morally, that comes as no surprise.
Today, we see that the evils of government are more obvious than ever.
For one, consider the new Mayor of New York City, the “democratic socialist” Zohran Mamdani and his plan to implement wide-scale types of extreme socialism in the former bastion of the free market. (Two notes: first, the Communist Party in Germany and several other European nations changed its name to the Democratic Socialist Party after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Secondly, much of what the City of New York government has implemented over decades (if not centuries) are examples of milder versions of socialism. If we dare consider any forms to be milder.)
“Every socialist is a disguised dictator.” –Ludwig von Mises
That question, of course, is meant less literally than morally.
To answer it, we must first understand who Jesus Christ was—the revered preacher, teacher, radical, prophet and (to those of us who follow Him) the Son of God—born into a police state not unlike the growing menace of America’s own police state. Born into a world at war. A multilayered government including the Judean Sanhedrin, a semi-constitutional monarchy (the Herodian client kings/tetrarchs), and an empire pretending to still be a republic. Does that sound familiar?
Back in 2020, the State of California no longer required the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or any alternatives for students to get into California’s government-run, tax-funded universities and colleges.
Just before Christmas, the Wall Street Journal tells us, “Now arrives the dispiriting result: Many freshmen at one of its top public universities can’t do middle-school math.”
Oh, dear. The WSJ is talking about the University of California at San Diego, supposedly one of the top six universities in the Fifty States. (We very much have our doubts about that claim, here at TPOL.) And it is not “that bad” according to a very recent Forbes report. Only one in eight freshmen lack high school math skills. That means that 87.5% of freshmen DO have “high school math skills.” (We calculated that in our head, but then, we went to trade schools; one ag and one engineering.)
In just five years, the number of freshmen “below the high school level” increased nearly thirtyfold. (Assuming that the MSM writers can do math, that means that only about one in 240 incoming students could not do it. But what is not discussed is how ridiculously low California’s standards for high school math are: only two math classes are required to get a diploma: and only one has to be “equivalent” to Algebra I. Apparently, the other class can be a remedial class to overcome deficiencies in learning grade school and middle school math. That, in our opinion, is an incredibly low standard.
This is an old meme, but it’s definitely one way of looking at things at the beginning of 2026.
Too many Americans, too many christians, too many people around the planet are in this situation.
TPOL tends to dwell on the evils of government, for good reason. But we also recognize that our lives, our liberty, and our property are at risk due to many hazards. Hazards that are created and sustained not just by government, but by big and even small government. By religious hierarchies. By non-governmental organizations, both “beneficial” and criminal. By lone-wolf and small-gang predators.
In 2026, we can expect to see the same things over and over again. The same lies, the same propaganda, the same false and exaggerated claims. The same accusations and condemnation.
We must not only ignore what we are hearing much of the time. We must also help teach others to do the same. We must pay careful attention to what we and others are told. We must challenge constantly.
For many years, Mama Liberty and the present publishers and staff of The Price of Liberty commensurated with each other over the understanding that we often will never learn (at least not this side of Heaven) the real facts about so many things. About events, about battles, about scandals, and legislation. So we have to go on some assumptions.
Things that can go wrong, will go wrong. (Murphy’s law)
Don’t believe everything you hear.
Remember there are three common ways to lie: don’t tell the truth, don’t tell all the truth, and tell the truth but make it sound like a lie.
Follow the money.
Put not your trust in princes. Or lawyers. Or politicians. Or “pastors.” Or civil servants.
Yes, the conspiracy theory of history is true. People and families and businesses and governments have been conspiring for all of human history to gain power, take control, gain wealth, and many other things.
But… the accidental theory of history is also true: the conspiracies seldom are completely, or even partially, successful. The wild geese fly, the weather intervenes, earthquakes and volcanoes and droughts all impact what happens. But most important, sometimes people rise up and try to defeat the conspiracies, the powers that be, the parasites.
We’ve seen it in recent years. Someone invents something new, someone markets that invention. Someone stands firm when they realize that “this can’t go on.”
We think we’ll see more of that in 2026. Be part of that bunch of lemmings who chose NOT to go over the cliff just because everyone else is.
Be free, live free, and help others become more free in 2026.
Back in 2015, the Houston Press, an “alternative news source,” and not apparently part of mainstream media, published 10 Facts About America That Show We’re Not Really Free. It is an interesting list, but one that makes us wonder just whether the Houston Press is not just another arm of mainstream media. Why? It is full of misstatements and misunderstandings of what freedom and liberty are, and what constitutes a lack of freedom. At the same time, some of these points are dead-on, or at least very close to the truth. Now here we are, and after ten-plus years, it is fun and educational to take a look at the Houston paper’s ideas.
What we write below draws the inevitable conclusion. If we were not really free in 2015 (for their reasons or others), we are less free today in 2026.
Recalling the Wounded Knee massacre this 235th anniversary saw Congress establish a special status for the land on which that occurred, and where the victims are buried. At the same time, it triggered afresh demands by “tribal leaders” to take away all combat decorations awarded to the soldiers who were involved. This is little more than yet another attempt to erase history. The rightness (or wrongness) of the cause in which they fought does not negate the courage that those men displayed.
The same thing applies to the tens of thousands of AmerInd warriors who fought wars against the United States, Texas, California, and even Mexico (and many of the States and communities) from 1776 to about 1925 or so. Even those who committed atrocities against enemy troops and even civilians. It is done, it is over, and no one has a time machine to go back and prevent or mitigate the evils.
But this leads to another thought or two, regarding the fate of people and of nations.
Consider the modern AmerInd nations (or tribes). The BIA, a federal agency, recognizes 574 such entities. More than ten for every State on average. In addition, there are dozens (if not hundreds) of non-recognized tribes that have some sort of historical and cultural heritage. Many (recognized or not), if not most, of these nations fought against the United States, individual States, and in accordance with their culture and upbringing, committed what today are considered unspeakable atrocities. But each of those AmerInd nations has a heritage that goes back hundreds of years, if not thosands.
Preserving that heritage is a prime concern to many members of those nations, to their leaders, and to the advocates and activists for them. (Keeping in mind that many of those advocates and activists are not themselves with any AmerInd ancestry and not enrolled in any nation.)
There is a strong and often well-funded collection of cooperative efforts to preserve the culture, customs, language, and spiritual beliefs and practices of these groups of people. Sometimes this cultural heritage dates from long before the large-scale interaction with Europeans initiated by Admiral of the Seas Christopher Columbus. In many tribes/nations, the heritage they are now trying to preserve developed in their last days before full defeat and submersion in the “conquering” culture of Western Civilization. (That is, so-called “Settlers” or “Colonists” or “American” society – according to some, the source of all evils on 21st Century Earth.)
These 574 nations have an enrollment (citizenship, in essence) of more than 9.1 million American citizens: people who are also citizens of a State, the Union, as well as one or more AmerInd nations (tribes).
No doubt some of the tribes do not have some kind of advocacy group and/or some project trying to preserve their culture. But each year, hundreds of millions (probably billions) of dollars are spent in efforts to preserve their ancestral languages, rituals, rituals and rites, traditional arts and crafts, and even their ancestral organizations. While some of that money comes from taxes on, and donations by, those 9+ million enrolled members. Or from non-AmerInd sympathizers and fans, religious groups, civic organizations, and even tourists. Most of that money comes from Americans who are not enrolled. Who do not live in or near, or visit or travel through AmerInd lands. (Primarily, reservations.) Through taxes taken from the general American people and their businesses, either directly by State, local, and Federal government threats of force, or indirectly and voluntarily through “stupid taxes” on gambling and similar ways of getting fools to part with their money. That is, subsidies. That money is furnished in addition to welfare payments and services, and in addition to money dedicated to honoring treaty obligations.
A long-time friend and correspondent wrote this monologue which we are pleased to share with our readers today. He remains anonymous for many reasons. We at TPOL have edited somewhat, and his writings do not always adhere to our practices. But we felt it worth sharing on this 135th Anniversary. We see the value of his warning even better in 2025 than when D**** wrote this in 2013.
In remembrance of the massacre at Wounded Knee by the United States government, I had written the following poem titled “They Came For Our Guns.”
This massacre of American citizens took place on December 29, 1890. At that time, my great-grandmother (whom I would spend summers with) was 18 years old. She would teach me the native ways, and I would learn from her not to trust our government because of the betrayal that had been shown towards the “American Native.”
Also, our first President of these United States did not trust the government but revolted against the English.
The Price of Liberty 
Secession in the mix? Minnesota “True North”
Following the regrettable death of a woman who used her car to knock down an ICE agent in Minneapolis, the Minnesota governor’s remarks raise an ugly specter.
He states that the Minnesota National Guard is being trained and is being prepared to be deployed to oppose federal forces. “”I said this yesterday, we’ve never been at war with our federal government,” the governor said during a media briefing.
This implies that Minnesota now is, or soon will be, at war with the FedGov. The governor and former candidate for VPOTUS made these statements in a telling location: the Minnesota State Emergency Operations Center.
This would seem to us to be a de-facto declaration that Minnesota is leaving the Union. His remarks seem to support the profane cry of the mayor of Minneapolis, for ICE to leave the city.
Well, my oh my! We applaud this bold effort. We urge this guy to immediately convene a secession convention in St. Paul to vote on immediately leaving the Union. Or just go straight to a general referendum. The question: “Should the State of Minnesota immediately leave the United States of America? Yes or No.” Hurrah and Huzzah for the Free State of Minnesota!
True North! Land of Ten Thousand Lakes. And Ten Billion Mosquitoes. And a Hundred Billion in fraud waste and corruption!
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