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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #15-36A: Unions and other insanity

Posted on 2015-09-08 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Unions are “fleecing Texas,” according to the Daily Policy Digest, because of laws and rules that give “release time” to government union members and officials so that they get paid by taxpayers while taking care of union … Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 29 August 2014, #15-34D: Shrinking government to the size of its brain

Posted on 2015-08-29 by TPOL Nathan

by Nathan Barton Ben Carson, the MD turned candidate for Prez, has ticked off veterans groups who aren’t bothering to think very much. As reported in World Net Daily, Carson does not want to do away with medical care and … Continue reading →

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Unemployed? Or Unemployable

Posted on 2015-08-23 by MamaLiberty

By MamaLiberty The role of the non-voluntary government, all of the insane rules and regulations that impede and destroy business, is well known. The cost of these job destroying regulations probably exceeds that of the taxes, fees, licenses and outright … Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 26 July 2015, #15-30A: Disappearing Liberty

Posted on 2015-07-26 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton The speed at which liberties of free speech and freedom of religion are disappearing in the Fifty States is rather surprising. World Net Daily reports on a situation in Kentucky in which a Baptist preacher was “fired” … Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 14 July 2015, #15-28B: Religious government or government religions?

Posted on 2015-07-14 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Happy Bastille Day: anniversary of replacing the tyranny of a monarch and church-state establishment with the worse tyranny of the mob and “democracy.” Suck-up… CNS News tell us that First [Consort Moochelle] said on Thursday at a tribal youth … Continue reading →

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The unalienable right to define words as we want?

Posted on 2015-06-27 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Our unalienable right to define words any way we darn well please? On Friday, 26 June 2015, the United States Supreme Court, on a 5-4 decision, ruled that “same-sex marriage” was legal and mandated in the Fifty … Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 22 June 2015, #15-25A: Lost Freedoms

Posted on 2015-06-22 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton The Organic Prepper has a great “list article” about children, worth reading and sharing (and connecting to the links for things you may not have heard about). “Nurture the rebellion this summer. Boot them outside. Get your kids … Continue reading →

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The True “root of all evil”

Posted on 2015-06-20 by MamaLiberty

By MamaLiberty Just imagine if 1% of the population of each town had the ability to control the weather. You’d hear all of the platitudes connected to environmental pseudo science, and others would be convinced that they were doing what … Continue reading →

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Do we really want to do this?

Posted on 2015-06-14 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Get Rid of Special Operations Units and Troops? Sheldon Richman, in his blog Free Association, calls for the abolition of Special Operations forces (Spec-Ops) stating, “if we didn’t have these units, we wouldn’t need them.” He points … Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 12 June 2015, #15-22C: Liberty is DEAD in Many or Most Places

Posted on 2015-06-12 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Our Liberty to Defend Ourselves is Gone – Liberty is DEAD – in Many (or Most) Places. Here are some examples from recent news of how our “Second Amendment” freedoms are sliding OR HAVE GONE to extinction. … Continue reading →

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