Tag Archives: Stupid people

Trashing presidents (well, their statues)

Posted on December 9, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

The City of Rapid City, the eastern gateway to the beautiful Black Hills, likes to style itself the “City of Presidents.” For years, private donations have been paying for statues of US Presidents (you know, POTUS) to be put on … Continue reading →

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The stupidity of Woke culture – and companies

Posted on October 23, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

A recent news story tells of a Marine ordered off her Delta airline flight because she was wearing the teeshirt below – which a “flight attendant” (a steward, not a stewardess) said was “threatening.” We are told, he said, ‘I … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Greta Thunberg World (TM)

Posted on November 23, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

As many of us give thanks to God for the blessings of another year – and some give thanks to something, we should spend a few seconds thinking about how we are blessed. Whether by God or nature or the … Continue reading →

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Texan hypocrisy on display

Posted on May 8, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

I happened across the MSN news story this afternoon. Even MSN called it shocking news: a Texan House committee passed a bill on an 8-5 vote that will raise the age in which people are “allowed” to purchase “AR15-style” semi-automatic … Continue reading →

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The deadly war on some drugs

Posted on March 8, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

The last several weeks in South Dakota have seen jockeying back and forth as the legislature wrestled internally on whether to follow “the will of the people” in the 2020 elections to legalize both medical and recreational use of that … Continue reading →

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Stupid people OR stupid government?

Posted on May 14, 2021 by TPOL Nathan

Readers know TPOL frequently points out stupid government tricks at all levels in all lands. But it is not only governments who are stupid. American societies (like the rest of the world) have our share of stupid people. As this … Continue reading →

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Peak oil or Peak stupidity? Concluded

Posted on February 9, 2021 by TPOL Nathan

In the last commentary, we discussed how various people are claiming that we are at or past “Peak Oil” – when the world can no longer produce more oil and meet energy needs because oil is more and more scarce … Continue reading →

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Should libertarians support “New California?”

Posted on March 17, 2018 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Eagle Rising, a conservative website, has an article discussing and applauded efforts of “rural” California attempting to secede from the core urban areas of the Golden State. A lessening in the size and power of the People’s … Continue reading →

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The terror of liberty

Posted on January 4, 2018 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton This popped up on my desktop this morning. That evil state legislature of Oregon, once such a bastion of compassionate concern and care by government, has terrorized its people in this new year of 2018. As reported … Continue reading →

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Arrogance and evil

Posted on December 21, 2017 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton The new TrumpTax now seems a done deal, but on Tuesday the 19th of December, it was a bizarre sort of public spectacle as the House and Senate debated it, voted on it, traded back and forth, … Continue reading →

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