MSM and others report that Democratic Senator Ben Cardin is “furious” that his aide made and spread a video of himself having sex in a Senate hearing room.
As one of us here at TPOL immediately noted, why? It’s nothing new: that Senate hearing room and every other one has been the scene of Senators busy screwing the American taxpayers, citizens, and probably every person in the world. Multiple times over the decades.
Continue readingIt seems that a lot of people are scratching their heads over the NYC mayor’s recent summary of how his city fared in 2023. His comment makes you think that part of the things happening to NYC includes something that caused brain damage.
As reported by various outlets, Adams says that the city is “complicated” and you can go out your front door on any given day to face anything from another contact on “their” [World] Trade Center to a new business opening across the street.
Continue readingThe lies and exaggerations of environists dovetail with the lies of politicians and the global elite. And ignore reality. But claims that environism (green politics) is losing ground are wrong: hype that ignores the growing pressure by government and their greenie shills.
A recent article about the chimera of offshore windpower generation explains a lot of basic truths about the myths of affordable green energy in the 2023-24 world. The Telegraph story gives a point by point list of failed and failing projects in Europe and North America. The gist? Not enough subsidies, too many regulations, and too costly. The results: mandates for green energy are expensive and likely to be unmet, but still cost consumers of energy trillions in additional fees and rates. While making even privately-owned utilities more dependent on and more under the thumb of governments.
Continue readingThe AUSA (Association of the United States Army – a pro-military and military voluntary organization) recently published:
“A new survey by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute found that 46% of Americans have “a great deal of confidence in the U.S. military.”
“What to Watch: While that figure has declined by almost 25% since 2018, the military remains the most trusted public institution in the U.S., ahead of the police and law enforcement, the president, the Supreme Court, news organizations and Congress, the survey found.“
We here at TPOL are unsure of just how low in the ratings any of these other organizations are, but sadly most surveys do not allow negative numbers to be used.
The amazing thing is not that the military has lost 25% in 5 years, but that it has not lost much more. Still, as compared to the rest of government, we old soldiers can experience (and express) a sigh of relief. Things could be worse. Much worse.
But as TPOL has pointed out numerous times, especially in the last three years, no one can really trust the military anymore. And what verification is possible indicates the rot is well advanced and continuing. The military is a close-knit community, and we hear much about how things are going inside the services: active, reserve, Natoional Guard, civilian employees, and retired.
Overall, matters are not going well. More and more political correctness and being used as guinea pigs for social experiments is driving many off . The same actions are creating major problems in readiness: training and finance, testing, exercises, deployment, and even care for family members. This is made worse by an attitude in the White House and senior appointed officials – even in the Pentagon itself – that reminds us highly of the attitude in the Obummer regime: disdain, even contempt, and at the same time more and more demands for action and results.
This and other issues are not unique to this and the last Democratic control of the White House. GOP regimes also mistreat the military personnel and take actions that have greatly damaged the capability of the armed services to serve the nations of the federal union. While more “respect” was shown, and while both Dem and GOP continue to shovel money “at the military” the demands and actions of both old parties have weakened and damaged the military. The incredible expenditure of money is itself a corruptive influence. And of course, most of that money goes to welfare queens such as private corporations and local governments. Often producing products that cannot perform the mission: electric vehicles being a prime example.
The very military virtues which are the bedrock of effective and trustworthy armed forces for a free people seem to be targeted for eradication by the politicians and bureaucrats. With the enthusiastic participation of industry, commerce, political and social activists and politicians. Ignoring the lessons of history, they seek to emasculate the military and turn it into something disgusting in its immorality while being effective only as a tool for politicians to exercise control and provide profits to themselves and those they front for.
Yet Americans still trust the soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, guardians, and Coasters more than the politicians and bureaucrats who use those military personnel and their weapons and control them under our system of government.
There is something deadly wrong here. Ultimately, these States will pay the penalty for what has been and is being done.
Just heard on the radio: In a 4-3 decision the Colorado State Supreme Court has decided that The Donald cannot be on the primary ballot in Colorado because of the US 14th Amendment. Specifically Section 3.
What impact? This is different than what the district court decided regarding jurisdiction but did uphold that courts’ “decision” that Trump had engaged in insurrection and that what happened on 6 January 2021 was an insurrection. The person announcing this explained that he and many others expected just this: as a Blue State, Colorado and its Nazgul see The Donald as a monstrous evil.
To us here at The Price of Liberty, The Donald may be a monstrous evil indeed, but then, so is Uncle Joe. And they both seem to be guilty of a lot of crimes, constitutional, legal, and moral.
Several of us at TPOL seriously are worried that this may be the death knell of the present American system of government. (We cannot, in good conscience, call this mess a republic and the idea of a democracy is more of a joke than ever.)
Based on reading the decision, Colorado State Government has determined that even if the other 49 States vote for Trump, Colorado will not accept Trump as president. That is, de jure, secession, even if not de facto.
Obviously, more to follow! Be prepared.
… who argue that we have police and sheriff’s officers to protect us.
“… a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen…”
The above case involved two women who were upstairs in a townhouse when they heard their roommate, a third woman, being attacked downstairs by intruders. They phoned the police several times and were assured that officers were on the way. After about 30 minutes, when their roommate’s screams had stopped, they assumed the police had finally arrived. When the two women went downstairs they saw that in fact the police never came, but the intruders were still there. As the Warren court graphically states in the opinion: “For the next fourteen hours the women were held captive, raped, robbed, beaten, forced to commit sexual acts upon each other, and made to submit to the sexual demands of their attackers.”
Continue readingThe latest National Defense Authorization Act, being herded through Congress months later than it is supposed to be, has a nasty little item buried in it.
It is not just a reauthorization of an expiring provision of FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) – Section 702. It is an expansion of a seriously-abused part of that post-Bloody Tuesday (9-11) legislation. Hundreds if not thousands of American citizens have been targets of surveillance by government agencies under that section. Now, the power of those agencies to spy on American citizens is to be vastly increased. Feebes and other government agencies will now be able to demand private, personal information (including apparently financial and medical data) from virtually any business, institution, or government agency about any American. Without such niceties and due process like warrants, subpoenas or such outdated and silly limits. After all, government agencies exist only to help us, right?
And except for congresscritturs, the various agencies won’t have to tell us they are gathering data about us.
This warrantless search power was one of the great evils of FISA, from 2001: 22 years of tyranny. Now, the police state is expanded.
So why did this pass through the House of Representatives with a 2/3+ majority? With only about 70 Republicans and 70 Democrats voting against it?
Propaganda. By being attached to NDAA, all kinds of pressure was put on legislators to pass the entire package and send to Uncle Joe: otherwise, we’d have Russian and Chinese troops occupying the States because all our military would walk off the job because they weren’t getting paid! And the arms merchants would sell all their weapons to North Korea and Iran because the US military wouldn’t be able to buy them because Congress didn’t give the Pentagon most of a trillion dollars for the budget (fiscal) year that started on 1 October of this year!
Pressure, propaganda, and of course, the promise of pork to their States and districts. And a lust for more and more power.
As Sean Ring mentioned in a conference call on Wednesday, lovers of liberty have vastly underestimated the strength and resolve of the state. And had over-confidence in the love of any liberty by most Americans.
Do we deserve the tightened chains around our ankles and wrist? Perhaps.
Ain’t government wonderful?
Friday, 15 December, is Bill of Rights Day as established by Congress. Just as 15 September is Constitution Day.
Like too many people (and religions) who celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth on 25 December and His resurrection (on Easter) but do not follow His teachings, many people (and government agencies) “honor” the Constitution and especially the Bill of Rights while ignoring and perverting its provisions and guarantees of God-given rights.
In 2023, it seems that such violations (of what is supposed to be the fundamental law of the lands we call the States) are expanded weekly. And at the same time, there are more and more calls for further violations. And for outright repeal of some – much – of the Bill of Rights.
Continue readingThe campus security force is a common feature at more and more public (government-run, tax-funded) schools. And for that matter, at more and more businesses. Internal threats to peace and external dangers from growing numbers of people who see an opportunity to do nasty things in what are often free-fire zones with no defenses except signs telling all this is a “gun-free zone.”
Security guards are generally a low-pay occupation, often part-time with few if any benefits, and therefore those men and women who do such work have various problems: mental, social, and physical. Although some States and many government agencies and businesses have some requirements, such as training, drug testing, and background checks, many do not.
And it is not uncommon for those rules to be ignored.
Maybe that was the problem at one high school where the security force supervisor had gone into business with a student at the school. Now, entrepreneurship is a good thing, right? Except that their business was making and selling explosive devices. Or so BATFE and the FBI claim.
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Need more reasons not to trust mainstream media?
Most readers of TPOL do not trust media. Not the mainstream media (MSM), the so-called right-wing (“conservative”) media, the alternative (usually “left-wing”) media. Nor, for that matter, much of the libertarian-leaning media.
For good reasons: not just their clear bias. Not just the evidence that many of these outlets are controlled by government or worship government. Not just that many of the writers, editors, and publishers show significant signs of low IQ, lower common sense, and a degree of sociopathy that they may share with muggers and jack-booted thugs in history around the world. Not just the outright lies they write and publish, but the inability to accurately hear, question, write, and verify basic facts.
Many – most – seem to be unable to recognize normality and causality. In the engineering word, we say that they cannot see “ROMCO” -things readily obvious to the most casual observer.” And it seems to be getting worse.
Want a few examples?
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