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Home schooling – enemy of government?

Posted on December 5, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

Fifty-sixty years ago, no one had ever heard of home schooling here in the States. It wasn’t necessarily nonexistent, but incredibly rare. You might find the occasional rancher or forest ranger or other remote family teaching their own children, but … Continue reading →

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Homeschooling and virtual schooling 2025

Posted on August 5, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

All around we see the signs and ads telling us that the government-run, tax-funded schools are gearing up to start the 2025-2026 school year. Some very early in August, others (as in Rapid City, SD and its colonial possessions in … Continue reading →

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Guest editorial: the evils of educational central planning

Posted on July 25, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

Kerry McDonald recently published this commentary in her email newsletter. It is worth pondering: In an article earlier this week in the large education news site, The 74, 7th grade teacher Ronak Shah laments that today’s school-choice programs enable families to switch schools … Continue reading →

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The coming Golden Age of homeschooling?

Posted on August 10, 2020 by TPOL Nathan

We are seeing more evidence that the future of homeschooling in these Fifty States is one of massive expansion. It is no surprise to those who are familiar with the concept and may nave even done homeschooling.  It is, I … Continue reading →

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A call to liberate children and families

Posted on December 26, 2017 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton In my commentary back in June, entitled “A need to liberate children and family” (and other articles, including many since then: notably my comments yesterday about John W Whitehead’s excellent “Jesus was born in a police state” … Continue reading →

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Dealing with the 21st century police state

Posted on December 23, 2017 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) recently sent an email, describing a really bad situation they are trying to help. Here is an edited version of what they published. (With comments by Mama Liberty and me.): … Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 10 December 2015, #15-49B: Are you kidding?

Posted on December 10, 2015 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton I suppose it is old news now, after the shootings in Colorado Springs and San Bernadino, but even Fox News is pointing out (together with JPFO) that the squatter is totally wrong in his televised claim that … Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 27 Nov 2015, #15-47C: Black Friday, Mobs and More

Posted on November 27, 2015 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton It is “Black Friday,” once a quaint event that turned into an activity of epic proportions and supposedly a key economic indicator, that has now expanded into a “Black Friday Week” or more and which has gotten … Continue reading →

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Home front – schools and government (Libertarian Commentary on the News, #13-34B)

Posted on September 6, 2013 by TPOL Nathan

Schools – antidote to government-run, tax-funded (GRTF) schools Home schooling continues to grow in US (HSLDA) The new [NGO-published] report concludes that approximately 1,770,000 students are homeschooled in the United States—3.4% of the school-age population. NCES said that among children … Continue reading →

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