Tag Archives: Free Speech

FedGov good at micromanagement – but…

Posted on May 17, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

An MSN story appeared on 15 MAY 2023, explaining how Uncle Joe’s Regime is coming out in favor of religious freedom in public schools. Now, we here at TPOL are as always highly critical of ANY presidential regime, as we … Continue reading →

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Fascism – hard to define, perhaps, but easy to spot?

Posted on December 20, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Publisher’s note: As has already happened, combination of work and family and weather is slowing down publishing commentaries, and we expect that to continue the last few days of December and the beginning of January. Now on to commentary: There … Continue reading →

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Free trade? Free speech? Of course, but…

Posted on December 12, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Remember when Americans were sold on all the “free trade” agreements like NAFTA and the TPP and how the European Union would be a vast free-trade zone to increase prosperity and increase freedom? Oh, provided that we all followed hundreds … Continue reading →

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Hey, he has free-speech rights, too!

Posted on November 4, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Many people will agree that Sen. Dick Durbin, Demo of Illinois, is a royal piece of work. He demonstrated that again with his recent attack on the 1st Amendment and free speech. Demonstrated it so well that regressive news reporters … Continue reading →

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The trashing of free speech

Posted on June 7, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

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Free speech and the arrogance of the “elite”

Posted on May 11, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

While looking at the current challenges to our natural right of free speech, we ran across more nastiness. Consider this recent mainstream media, which said in part, “Tech titans often have a different understanding of speech than the rest of … Continue reading →

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2021: In defense of free speech

Posted on May 4, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

The recent creation of the Disinformation Governance Board should prompt us to again consider this basic and essential human right. Was this prompted by Musk’s terrorizing the world by buying Twitter? Was it caused by more and more people calling … Continue reading →

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A principled stand – freedom of speech

Posted on April 5, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Since Mama Liberty (Susan Callaway – Lady Susan) began publishing, this publication has had a few very solid principles.  As her successor (not replacement: I cannot replace her), I hold to these same principles. One of these … Continue reading →

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The robotic censor – a reality at last?

Posted on November 17, 2021 by TPOL Nathan

The Daily Mail reports on a new device called Themis, which apparently lets rip a loud obnoxious two-minute alarm sound when “Through the use of speech recognition and sound sensors we were able to program Themis to detect offensive terms … Continue reading →

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Those who forget their history …

Posted on June 17, 2021 by TPOL Nathan

… are doomed to repeat it. The original version of this statement is attributed to George Santayana, an American philosopher. The exact quote is “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” from his work, The Life of Reason: … Continue reading →

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