Tag Archives: corruption

“Most trusted” but impossible to verify: the American military

Posted on December 19, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

The US military is the most trusted of public institutions, but that trust is declining constantly. With good reason. Like so much else, the military is tainted and damaged by government. Continue reading →

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A world of corruption

Posted on August 25, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

A well-known (or at least well-advertised) pundit has been beating the drums for weeks about the BRICS summit being held today (22 August 2023) as I write this. The beginning of the end of the American dollar, the American economy … Continue reading →

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Falling asleep at the wheel

Posted on August 24, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

Katie Pavlich, in a recent posting on Townhall, wrote: “President Joe Biden appeared to fall asleep during an event Monday honoring the victims of the horrific fire that ripped through Lahaina, Maui last week — potentially killing thousands of people.” … Continue reading →

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Corruption, democracy, and courts

Posted on May 20, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

Readers know that we here at The Price of Liberty have little truck with those who believe that democracy is the only acceptable form of government. Shucks, we don’t believe in human mandatory government. Similarly we have serious problems with … Continue reading →

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Open season on political corruption? Or corrupt politicos?

Posted on March 19, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

Looking at headlines in the last several weeks, there seem to be multiple situations in which action may finally be underway to address political corruption. Even to tackle various politicians who are generally assumed (or loudly claimed) to be corrupt. … Continue reading →

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Paying the piper: the failure of local government in the Fifty States.

Posted on January 9, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

Local government in these States is, at best, a failure.  2022 demonstrated that once more. Indeed, it is far, far worse than the vicious horror that was State and Federal government in 2021 (and again in 2022). And those levels … Continue reading →

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Smoking guns – and preserving the status quo

Posted on December 8, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

The partial release of Twitter internal correspondence burying the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop in the days before the 2020 presidential election is viewed by many as a smoking gun. Although Musk and Taibbi have only released some of the … Continue reading →

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Is election reform possible?

Posted on December 3, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

There have been more and more claims, particularly over the last election cycles (2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, and now 2022), of massive fraud and corruption. Both old parties claimed that happened several times before 2016, but that year it … Continue reading →

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Corruption unlimited – DOJ and FBI

Posted on October 10, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Back in the 1980s, it took decades for the evils of J. Edgar Hoover to be revealed. And oddly enough (from the point of view of so-called conservatives and right-leaning libertarians (minarchists, at least), one of the least corrupt of … Continue reading →

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Moving to the sounds of the guns…

Posted on July 20, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

I am told that the statistics here in the States are pretty clear. When police forces end shooting and killing sprees, the average toll of dead is 14.3 people. When a private, armed citizen is the one who stops the … Continue reading →

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