Tag Archives: Stupid government tricks

Ramping up – tensions and liberty

Posted on 2023-03-13 by TPOL Nathan

The decline of liberty often seems to be a matter of increasing provocations, responses, and especially more and more extreme rhetoric. Which in turn escalates more physical actions: more cracking down on dissidents and perceived enemies, more small acts of … Continue reading →

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Guest Commentary: Morton sues the WHO

Posted on 2023-03-01 by TPOL Nathan

A Seussian Poem About The Plight Of A Vaccinated Man In Covid, shared by our reader Scott. By Jenna McCarthy The 15th of March seemed a nondescript day,although something was festering far, far away.It may or may not have escaped … Continue reading →

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Uncle Joe’s excellent Ukraine adventure!

Posted on 2023-02-20 by TPOL Nathan

The West seems to have dodged a bullet as I write this on the morning of Monday, 20 February 2022. I am, of course, referring to illustrious leader Uncle Joe being bundled off by his nannies to Ukraine. Into uncontrolled … Continue reading →

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Paying the piper: the failure of local government in the Fifty States.

Posted on 2023-01-09 by TPOL Nathan

Local government in these States is, at best, a failure.  2022 demonstrated that once more. Indeed, it is far, far worse than the vicious horror that was State and Federal government in 2021 (and again in 2022). And those levels … Continue reading →

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Happy Christmas! Not everywhere.

Posted on 2022-12-25 by TPOL Nathan

Editor’s note: Those of us at The Price of Liberty do not celebrate Christmas as a religious holiday, but as a family gathering and time for giving gifts and enjoying our time. And all too often, over the years, we’ve … Continue reading →

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Too much government

Posted on 2022-10-22 by TPOL Nathan

Every day, there are incidents where some government goon (excuse me, “kind and gentle, loving, helpful polite public servant”) does something incredibly stupid to someone. Sometimes they do it of their own initiative. (Including “we need more tickets, people, need … Continue reading →

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“Too much government”

Posted on 2022-09-29 by TPOL Nathan

Listening to part of the Glenn Beck show on Thursday the 29th, we were amazed to hear a guest refer multiple times to what he saw as the reason for the current crash and burn of the stock market, the … Continue reading →

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The “Faucet” – is he really going away?

Posted on 2022-08-23 by TPOL Nathan

On Monday, 22 AUG 2022, Dr. Anthony Fauci announced he is resigning (“retiring”) effective 31 DEC 2022. (At least according to Tom Woods and NPR. CNN didn’t seem (as of 2300 hrs ET) fit to publish it.) Various cheers could … Continue reading →

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Government evils: Inflation

Posted on 2022-08-04 by TPOL Nathan

What a couple of years! Ouch. Even though prices are (slowly) dropping. Even the Rally in the Black Hills is showing signs of a drop in attendance and not just because it isn’t a zero- or five-year. Five-dollar Diesel and … Continue reading →

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Booze and liberty

Posted on 2022-07-31 by TPOL Nathan

The connections (for many people) between beverage alcohol (booze! – beer, wine, hard liquor, and all the other stuff) and liberty is close. Not so much for ALL lovers of liberty – including those of us here at The Price … Continue reading →

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