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Government is not content with normality

Posted on August 1, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

Let us share another guest editorial by Bob Malone. Comments in brackets and below. Please, provide your thoughts! Frankly, “they” [governments and “progressives’] need both parents out of the house and extended family [both physical and spiritual] severed from the … Continue reading →

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Insanity ascendent?

Posted on April 17, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

As we here at TPOL understand it, Karmelo Anthony is the high school student who murdered a fellow student by stabbing him to death, apparently because he was “afraid.” (Excuse me, “person of interest” in the stabbing death.) So far, … Continue reading →

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Preparing for the unexpected

Posted on March 11, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

The uncertainty of life is never more apparent than we find as we approach two months of Trump 2.0. And the end of the winter season. And the fifth anniversary of the Lockdown, the second phase of the Pandemic Panic … Continue reading →

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Anti-MAGA madness?

Posted on February 19, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

In the past we’ve seen “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (TDS), by most Democrats, many Republicans, and a fair number of libertarian (or at least libertarian-leaning) types. But now perhaps we have a new, more virulent version: call it Trump Defiance Disorder … Continue reading →

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Oh, Canada, our neighbor closest friend

Posted on January 8, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

The provinces of Canada face serious challenges as we enter 2025. All of them have potential for impact on the States, directly and indirectly. Over the weekend, it seemed that the present “elected” dictator of FedGov Canada might be tottering … Continue reading →

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Government madness writ large

Posted on October 23, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

Madness in government getting worse? Continue reading →

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Hopelessness, madness, tolerance, and homicide

Posted on September 12, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

In the last few weeks, we’ve seen another surge in killing of people – many so-called “mass murder.” Why? What factors cause these actions? It is not the availability of guns (or other weapons) or opportunity. There is something else.

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Galloping insanity – and it is catching!

Posted on June 27, 2021 by TPOL Nathan

The news headlines – accurate or not – tell us an intriguing (even terrifying) story. Society may or may not be worse – due to the actions of individuals – than in the past. But we certainly know a lot … Continue reading →

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The internet and our perception of national madness

Posted on November 23, 2019 by TPOL Nathan

Gossip columnists Hedda Hopper and Walter Winchell no doubt are envious (to the nth degree) of their modern versions and imitators.  With the internet websites, Twitter, Facebook, and all the rest of our all-pervasive social media, gossip is big, BIG … Continue reading →

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Rats in a cage – national madness and more

Posted on November 22, 2019 by TPOL Nathan

Some of the old science fiction writers explored the entire concept of the decay and collapse of society, as featured in the NIMH or Calhoun experiments with mice and rats back in the 1950s and 1960s. (You can read about … Continue reading →

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