Tag Archives: personal responsibility

Writing about liberty… and other thoughts

Posted on April 14, 2021 by TPOL Nathan

My apologies to readers – posting of commentaries has been pretty uneven here recently. A combination of press of work for clients and travel and similar fun (or not so fun) things. But it brings up an interesting thought – … Continue reading →

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Unintended consquences? COVID-19 brings out people’s true beliefs

Posted on April 21, 2020 by TPOL Nathan

Thoughts shared by a retired newspaper publisher and Great Plains farm wife: Evidently, its taking a pandemic to bring out people’s true beliefs. Politicians are fighting each other, citizens are losing their livelihoods, numbers of coronavirus victims are questioned, some … Continue reading →

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Liberty and personal responsibility

Posted on January 25, 2020 by TPOL Nathan

Liberty is impossible without responsibility.  Personal responsibility. This is something that Mama Liberty taught and practiced for her entire life.  It is something that I strive to do, even if I feel sometimes as though I’m failing.  True lovers of … Continue reading →

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Survival of the fittest? Intelligence in the legal profession

Posted on January 7, 2020 by TPOL Nathan

A few weeks back, there were reports that a lawyer was killed in the court room when a shotgun submitted as evidence “went off.” The thing was fully loaded. Addelaid Ferreira-Watt, a prominent South African attorney, was killed after a … Continue reading →

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Kansas Nazgul up the chances for war

Posted on April 28, 2019 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Where does my liberty stop and my fellow humans’ liberty begin? Perhaps the greatest error made by the Founding Fathers way back in the 1770s and 1780s was to cling to immoral evil ideas that liberty was … Continue reading →

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False accusations

Posted on April 11, 2019 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Today, the buzzword is “fake-news” but it isn’t something new. Almost anyone can be branded as evil (or just bad) by fake news. For example, last year, a college football player has been vindicated after being accused … Continue reading →

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Looking back – Knights of Non-Aggression

Posted on March 2, 2019 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton A few readers may, like me, recall the Knights of Non-Aggression, members of the Liberty Round Table, a very informal organization of anarchists and liberty-loving and -keeping people back in the late 1990s and early 2000s. We … Continue reading →

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How are we raising our children?

Posted on February 25, 2019 by TPOL Nathan

A while back, Brandon Aal commented on my commentary about teaching children about knives with an important idea. If we don’t raise out children to bear self-responsibility and ownership, the West is lost. The daily headlines bear out the truth … Continue reading →

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Lead – it’s a serious issue, but…

Posted on February 24, 2019 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton This came across my desk while I’ve been on the road for more than two weeks now. An indoor range in Texas has been fined by OSHA because its employees have been exposed to unsafe levels of … Continue reading →

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Shutdown demonstrates the future

Posted on January 15, 2019 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton As the current partial government shutdown continues and sets a modern record for the Fedgov’s closure, it may be that we are seeing the future. No, it is NOT a future that looks like the National Mall … Continue reading →

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