Slippery slope – for real?

Science Fiction is full of it – and sadly, so is human history.

What? Treating humans like animals. “Other animals” in the beliefs of many, including those we think would never act on it.

World Net Daily recently featured a story about medical doctors who support the idea of suicide to provide organs for donation and transplant. It was prompted by an article in Psychology Today. “Should you be able to give your heart away, literally?”

Really?

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Wiping out the memory of an “evil man”

Paul Craig Roberts recently posted his commentary on the erasing of history. He correctly points out that erasing a country’s history is erasing the country. And he attributes to people who want to do just that.

He uses the American Confederacy – the Confederate States of America – as an example, as a warning to what is happening to every State in the “Federal Union” cum Federal Empire of 2023. Please take time to read it. His example is an excellent one for us to remember in 2023.

It may make readers angry, just as this commentary may do the same. Among other things, Roberts points out the honor and gallantry and truth about Robert E. Lee, who even by most rational modern standards was NOT the evil racist he is proclaimed to have been, today.

Like any man, Lee was fallible and far from perfect. But for generations of American soldiers, black, white, and other colors, he was held up as an example of how a soldier, an officer, should behave. How he should live up to his oath, how he should treat his troops, his commander-in-chief, and his enemy troops and warriors. Even bloody-handed terrorists. (Lee fought AmerInd in the West, as well as Mexican troops and outlaw insurrectionists, and then, finally Union troops. All of these contained some men who would be labeled as terrorists today – and indeed may have been.)

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Worshipping God or the state (human government)

A recent news story reports about a controversial member of the Lutheran Church, specifically the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, a “conservative” Lutheran denomination with 2 million members in the Fifty States and 6,000 congregations across the land. It seems that an “alt-right fascist” who has unacceptable views about Adolf Hitler is disrupting worship assemblies of Lutheran churches in Tennessee.

Now, whatever the beliefs of this man and the beliefs of the Missouri Synod, these congregations have the right to assemble – and NOT assemble – with people. They can choose whom to worship with, study with, and whom to chose to lead them. According to God-given fundamental rights, even if what they are doing is contrary to the Bible (which they claim to follow) or their own creed.

As we understand it, the man was not committing any act of violence, or threatening any human action at all. But he riled up the good Lutheran folks. His teachings seem pretty nasty, at least by current standards. He advocates a lot of things that the people he was trying to teach are disgusted by.

So they called the cops. The story says he was was removed from church grounds for causing what his pastor called “harm and division to the body of Christ.” By the cops.

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Islands in the sea of reality

We used to refer to Boulder, Colorado that way.

Today, unfortunately, the water levels in the sea of reality aren’t rising. Apparently, they are dropping.

The latest example of this is a bogus “scientific” study featured by MSN, explaining how manmade global warming – the earth heating up – is to blame for increased gun-caused deaths. Thousands die, we are told, when the weather gets hotter. And we are reminded that temperatures are supposed to rise 3 to 12 degrees nationwide by the end of the century, and gun violence (not just gun deaths) will rise alarmingly as well.

Of course, even the limited data provided in the article (found online courtesy of Microsoft) doesn’t support the hysterical claims of the headline and opening sentences.

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GOP disconnected from reality more and more

Recent headlines are telling.

Toelling a story of the way the “conservative” Republicans in Congress and too many State legislatures are showing signs of serious mental instability. Specifically the idea that they can actually get some of Uncle Joe’s policies and actions reversed. And the idea that somehow, there are sufficient Democrats who have not gone over to the Dark Side of wokeism and radical progressivism to be willing to side with the GOP in either house to make anything they blather on about veto-proof.

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The ministry of truth – heart and soul of government

The recent news of how the US Department of Energy has figured out that the SARS virus was developed from and escaped from a Chinese government “health” lab in Wuhan is bouncing back and forth.

The FBI claims that they told us that a year or more ago.

Various government agencies at all levels still claim this is false. And some even claim that the reason for people NOT believing it came from a Chinese lab is The Donald. Surprised they don’t blame W (George W Bush) also.

But one thing we must learn (again) from this: GOVERNMENT LIES.

Indeed, every part of modern government seems like it is just another agency of MINITRUE.

As we pointed out in a commentary a few months ago, once more, we see the evil hand of government in causing and prolonging human suffering – and in killing people. Last time, we talked about Alzheimer’s disease. But although we’ve being pointing out that was the case with the COVID-19 pandemic for several years, that scourge is still with us.

But where are the lynch mobs? The post-apocalyptic mob lynching the poor, innocent, knowledge-seeking scientists because it was science (particularly government scientists and their idiotic political master) that created the situation which is busy destroying our world.

They seem to be too busy going after the likes of Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert) to destroy his business. (The screenshot from WLEX touts the Herald-Leader, a newspaper, proclaiming its dedication to fighting hatred and bigotry, which Mr. Adams too was speaking out against. Just on the part of the wrong, protected people. Well, the paper was at least partly right: their readers deserve better. From the Herald-Leader.)

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The price of government

This shows it, in a neat graphic way:

(The shirt, by the way, comes from Libertas Institute, and sells for $9.99. No endorsement implied, and TPOL won’t make a dime on it if you buy one. But we do ask you tell them you learned about it from the Bartons at ThePriceofLiberty.org!)

But simply put: THE PRICE OF GOVERNMENT IS LIBERTY.

Our liberty. Your liberty, my liberty. Our children’s liberty, our grandchildren’s liberty. Our neighbors and our loved ones’ liberty.

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Guest Commentary: Morton sues the WHO

A Seussian Poem About The Plight Of A Vaccinated Man In Covid, shared by our reader Scott.


By Jenna McCarthy

The 15th of March seemed a nondescript day,
although something was festering far, far away.
It may or may not have escaped from a lab,
(but make no mistake; it would end in a jab).

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Where did the homeless come from?

(Apologies: this should have been published on Saturday, but got caught in the computer – our fault!)

American cities – even smaller ones – seem to be submerging beneath a massive tide of homeless.

The above shows a street in Phoenix, Arizona, called “The Zone” which has a floating population of more than 1,000 people, with some claiming 10,000.

In the last few weeks, crossing the Western States on business, we here at TPOL have again seen for ourselves the problems of homelessness and poverty in towns and cities in states like Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.

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End of the world? Or just civilization?

Are the headlines scary right now? Economy? War? Sickness? More? Are things really crashing down?

Consider:

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