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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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Internal war ramping up?

Posted on October 10, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

Joining Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota in the coalition suing the Trump administration over defunding sex education in public schools that includes “gender identity” are Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, New … Continue reading →

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RIP The Donald?

Posted on September 5, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

“If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.” That old saying no doubt has to be updated, “If wishes were Harleys, wannabe bikers would ride.” Or something. Clearly that is what a lot of never-Trumpers (of whatever political allegiance they claim) … Continue reading →

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Olympic flag football and other oddities

Posted on May 31, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

This may not be political, and it may have little to do with liberty. Or does it? The International Olympics Committee has decided that the 2028 Summer Olympics (to be held in Los Angeles) is to feature a number of … Continue reading →

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Judicial perversion

Posted on November 19, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Time and time again, we see American judges – from the Supremes on down – twist the definitions of words to suit their activist, political, and often Woke agenda. Not that so-called “conservative” judges do not act the same way. … Continue reading →

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Irrational fears dominate American politics

Posted on October 2, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Just as “war is the health of the state” so fear facilitates politicians and governments, and drives politics. That has been the case for millennia, but this year we can really see and feel the impact. This is not a … Continue reading →

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Trump assassination attempt – first thoughts

Posted on July 13, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Just minutes ago, we here at TPOL first learned of someone shooting Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania, which apparently had happened about 30 minutes earlier. We saw video and what sounded like 8, maybe 10 shots, heralding the … Continue reading →

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Murder Unlimited

Posted on July 9, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Many readers may recall the tales of the fictionalized “Murder Incorporated” here in the States in the great 20th Century Gangster Era (1929-1941) as the enforcers for the National Crime Syndicate. (Please note that there was no official tie between … Continue reading →

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War on freedom of speech gets hotter

Posted on March 22, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Are we seeing an even more massive, widespread, and even organized attack of freedom of speech that we suspected for the past decade? Certainly in the last few weeks, we see many whom we would never think of attacking this … Continue reading →

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Routine?

Posted on December 1, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Every day, on the news, it seems we hear of another “mass shooting” (3 or more people shot and killed), perpetrated by another insane person or persons. And every day recently, we hear on the news of two or three … Continue reading →

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