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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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Government funding of private schools?

Posted on September 14, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Jonah Goldberg once wrote, Government money only pays for the “liberties” the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties into privileges dispensed at the whim of the state. To put … Continue reading →

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It’s for the children…

Posted on September 16, 2018 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Child abuse is a serious, deadly problem in this country.  Consider this: Not long ago, a NINE year old killed himself in Denver. He was bullied because he decided (and announced) that he was homosexual.  (Or maybe … Continue reading →

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A call to liberate children and families

Posted on December 26, 2017 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton In my commentary back in June, entitled “A need to liberate children and family” (and other articles, including many since then: notably my comments yesterday about John W Whitehead’s excellent “Jesus was born in a police state” … Continue reading →

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Stealing to reform or transform – what’s the big diff?

Posted on May 28, 2017 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Jeff Bryant, in Our Future, has an article, “What Betsy DeVos calls “education transformation” is actually public theft.”  Again Steve notes correctly, “Amazing how “public theft” (the basis of ALL government schooling) becomes wrong only when your … Continue reading →

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When are we going to learn?

Posted on March 25, 2017 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton The end of the world is upon us.  A dozen or more children could have been killed, as Columbine 2.0 (or Sandy Hook 2.0) was narrowly avoided by a vigilant and expertly trained and experienced preschool teacher. … Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 09 October 2015, #15-40D: War on free speech

Posted on October 9, 2015 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton The fight AGAINST free speech has a long tradition of evil abuse in the Fifty States, going back to before the Revolution, when the doctrine of jury power to decide both the law and the facts (usually … Continue reading →

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