Tag Archives: Politics

“Constitutional” rights?

Posted on March 25, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

(A Baker’s Dozen: our rights) How many times have you heard the claim “our rights are ‘given’ to us by the Constitution”? Or “government gives us our rights”? We were recently told by a pundit of some sort that anyone … 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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Does Uncle Joe envy Vlad Putin?

Posted on March 18, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Election results might result in that. It really is a transparently obvious contrast that highlights how far the west has fallen. Russia holds transparent elections and Vladimir Putin wins 87% of the vote, resoundingly being reelected; yet Uncle Joe (Biden) … Continue reading →

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North Dakota seeks monetary damages from FedGov

Posted on February 15, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Longtime readers of TPOL may recall the nasty fuss over the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in which thousands of Lakota and their allies launched massive protests in rural and frontier North Dakota (and adjacent parts of other States) to keep … Continue reading →

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Chaos? Breaking news: Colorado Supremes keep Trump off primary ballot

Posted on December 19, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

Colorado denies Trump the right to be on the primary ballot in that State. Continue reading →

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Politicization of everyday life

Posted on November 3, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

A curious incident a few days ago points out the odd (and somewhat frightful) condition of modern American society. A customer service representative recently received a call from a borrower. He was upset because his payment was late and therefore … Continue reading →

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Hated ideas: The evils of democracy

Posted on October 14, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Local, State, federal, world… today, and for a century-plus, we have been told that “democracy” is a good thing – and the only legitimate form of government. We are being treated (and threatened) with that today, both with the upcoming … Continue reading →

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Guest column: The five universal laws of human stupidity

Posted on April 22, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

The Five Universal Laws of Human Stupidity Note from TPOL: One of the strongest arguments against mandatory, coercive human government is the existence of stupid people. Especially since the synergy of stupidity is a factor of multiplication and not merely … Continue reading →

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Political “science” and the loss of liberty

Posted on February 22, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Working on a commentary about “silly science” and government, one of the staff here at The Price of Liberty made a crack about “political science” as being an example of silly science and an oxymoron. So let us talk for … Continue reading →

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Politicians’ disease

Posted on October 16, 2021 by TPOL Nathan

Politics is dirty. At the same time, to many people, politics seems as essential to human life as taking a poop. Which is pretty dirty, after all. Or having sex, which all things considered (and however big a deal people … Continue reading →

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