Disarmament 101

Posted on 2026-06-18 by TPOL Nathan

A neat, short guest commentary by Ryan Stubblefield

Ryan was asked this question, by a hoplophobe: Since there are more people who don’t own guns than there are people who do own guns here in the States, why don’t those non-gunowners disarm their “fearful neighbors?” That way, “we can live in a safe society free from firearms…” right?

Brian’s response is classic:

We’ll make this simple. 1/3 of the population of the U.S owns guns.

That leaves a 2 to 1 ratio of people taking their guns, Yes?

Should be plenty, normally is.

None of you are armed. I am.

Come to my door, tell me you’re taking my guns.

I instantly shoot your neighbor in the face. This fast. Say, “Bam Bam!”

I let you walk away. Now, it’s 1 on 1.

Not good odds. Right?

Don’t forget, you came onto my property and threatened to steal my guns. I don’t go to prison when I shoot your neighbor in self defense.

You go to prison for a few years for trespassing and attempted larceny of a firearm.

I’m out, free. You’re in. Your neighbor is dead.

Now it’s none to 1.

How’s your plan working out?

A quick edit. Are you afraid of not being safe because of guns? Seems like you’re the fearful neighbor here.

I’m not afraid of anyone. Simply because I can better control my situations, guaranteeing my own safety. You possibly could not. Your post already has marked you as a victim of sorts.

Count our blessings! At least some God-given liberties are recognized in the US Constitution and are not subject to the popular votes of democracy. At least in most of the States.

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Limits of power, limits on corruption?

Posted on 2026-06-12 by TPOL Nathan

A correspondent shared this piece of reporting and his thoughts on it recently:

Senate bill would force POTUS to share intel with Israel.

His thoughts: A few years into the future, breast beating Christians and others will be wondering how things have gotten so much worse economically and with respect to security and liberty in this country. Just as they do now about [many such political and moral] problems that they ignored at the very time that called for opposition.

As we have seen now for 50+ years, Libertarians in particular have tried to use the political election process to bring sanity to public affairs and restore at least some liberty. This “solution” has failed.

Others, including libertarians (lovers of liberty), at times, have tried the protest and petition route to get changes made. Once again, that “solution” has failed.

Our thoughts, here at TPOL, on P’s comments:

You are right; we can expect more of this in the near future. It is not just people like the man who is likely to replace Maine’s Collins in the Senate. (She’s bad, but he appears to be even worse.) It is people in both old parties who continue to demonstrate the truth of Acton’s Dictum. As a calculus equation, the upper limit of power is infinity, so the corruption is also unlimited.

We have surrendered power for more than a century and a half to the parasites (elected and appointed) in DC and fifty State capitols and thousands of local jurisdictions. We have given them power over our minute-to-minute lives that I think it is safe to say that few nations and societies in history have ever held.

Yet we continue to claim that we are free, in this Anno Libertatus 250.

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One more word about elections

Posted on 2026-06-11 by TPOL Nathan

Caitlin Johnstone now and then has a really neat meme.

This week’s primaries (as was the case with last several weeks) demonstrate the accuracy of her observation. Money is at the heart of multiple primary elections, as both those vying for the GOP and Demo nominations for November general elections try to convince the voters that their plan is the best way to finance government operations. (Oh, and for readers of the untitled commentary a few days ago, that guy of course won the Dem primary in Maine. Surprise, surprise!)

Of course, the pickpockets are actually partners with the puppet masters of both of the puppets. Indeed, the puppet master may have the donkey on one hand and the elephant on the other. (Yeah, we understand, most readers will have already understood that point!)

But what we find the victors of the primaries have in common? True, they want to spend the money in different ways. But they want more of your money. (And your children’s and grandchildren’s money.) Regardless of just what the money that government steals from us is used for, they will continue to pick our pockets. And almost always, up the amount they steal.

In an aside: we understand that the California primary ballots are still being counted, nine or ten days after the actual election.

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Cowards?

Posted on 2026-06-10 by TPOL Nathan

Life Site News reports that the Canadian Confederation Senate passed Bill C-9 (“Combating Hate Act”) by a 45-13 vote. To make it worse, two Senators abstained and a shocking 35 were not even present in the chambers to vote one way or another.

So much for “democracy.” Apparently a quorum was present, but that meant that only 58 of 93 Senators were present. Is it not reasonable to assume that those 35 missing Senators were afraid to say anything?

The bill passed 186-137 in the House of Commons in March, as the result of a nasty (our opinion) brokered deal between the “liberty-loving” Liberal Party and the Bloc Québécois (“we won’t secede from Canada as long as we get our way and the other provinces (especially Alberta) give us the welfare we demand”). As we understand it, the victorious Senators and the advocates of hate in the galleries applauded and cheered this “victory.”

That is disgusting.

But the point of this commentary is that more than a third of Canadian Senators apparently are too cowardly to state what they believe about such things. Whether they support this egregious assault on the fundamental freedoms of Canadians or not, do not the people they claim to serve and represent have some right to know where they stand? And, keeping in mind anti-liberty nonsense as seen in the US, UK, and the Weimar Republic, how many of the 45 who voted for it were suborned, bought off, or fearful for their lives and those of their families?

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Maine, tattoos, and elections

Posted on 2026-06-09 by TPOL Nathan

WARNING: Disgusting cropped photo can be seen when you click on “read more” bar.

Once upon a time, the State of Maine, and most of its people, were a nation of liberty, freedom, kindness, politeness, and civility.

In the second quarter of the 21st Century, this is clearly no longer true. Today, like the rest of New England, the Pine Tree State seems to have reverted to a land in which liberty is scorned, freedom is debased, and a lot of disgusting people are prominent.

Not that historic Maine has much to offer, we admit. Yes, it is a lovely place with vast forests, a fascinating coast line, and many picturesque towns. We here at TPOL have only been to Maine a time or two and we find the land interesting, if without the many eye-catching landscapes and iconic monuments of most states.

Maine gained its independence from Massachusetts in 1820 as a result of the Missouri Compromise of that year. Congress (and apparently, the Maine legislature) agreed that Maine, separated from the rest of the Bay State by the short coast of New Hampshire, could secede and be admitted to the Union to balance the admission of Missouri as a slave State. (Massachusetts (and therefore Maine) had enslaved people (AmerInd and African) from 1637 to 1790 (officially legalized slavery in 1641, abolished by its courts in 1783).

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An interesting thought about RINOs

Posted on 2026-06-03 by TPOL Nathan

To be a RINO is a frequent accusation in today’s atmosphere, generally by those GOP types who claim to be “true conservatives.” Or “real conservatives.” Or “classical conservatives.” Or even Trumpistas and MAGA types.

The Donald was able to ensure (or at least claim to have ensured) that Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky was “primaried” out last week. MAGA and The Donald demonstrate a number of things. First, the viciousness of internal party politics. Second, the tendency to exaggerate. To paraphrase any number of politicians, “If y’all ain’t with me 100%, y’all are mah enemy!”

So we share this little meme from a correspondent.

Of course, we don’t fully or even 90% agree with Tommy Massie. Or the person who shared this with us. About Massie, at least.

Massie, like 99.995% of federal-level elected politicians, demonstrates signs of corruption by power and association with the lowlife types of Congress, their staff, and the Fedocracy (bureaucrats, deep state). DC is indeed “a wretched hive of scum and villainy.” He no doubt was cautious, but sometimes that is not enough.

But back to the quote. That last sentence? Right on, brother, right on. GOP “values” are pretty much the same as those of Democrats (or Socialists) or many other political groups: win elections, rake in the dollars, enjoy the power over others. Republicans are nearly as much a threat to liberty as Democrats. (We realize that readers may disagree and don’t mind a “pox on both their houses” idea.)

We also note that not all those values listed above are those of minarchists. We small-mouthed pacifist, anarchist, free-market, private enterprise types believe that we can depend on any government-based values.

Massie was better than 99% of congress-critters, without a doubt. But that doesn’t mean he truly supports liberty and freedom.

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This and that: SD primary election day is today! (Whew!)

Posted on 2026-06-02 by TPOL Nathan

We have to share this cartoon, with deepfelt gratitude that the primary election season is over here in the Sunshine State.

The campaign signs are every 25 feet or so in the usual places on the main streets through the area. The radio advertisements (we don’t watch television) for the candidates are about 9 out of 10. In some cases, because of who is running, the adverts are both for their business and their candidacy for office X. Even our cell phone conversations are preceeded and followed instantly by campaign ads. The mailboxes are full of political junk mail, not just the usual home handyman and real estate junk mail.

But there is more to it than this frustration and nuisance value.

South Dakota is a “red state.” (Ironic, isn’t it, that the standard color for the GOP is “red” – which inadvertantly reflects its origin in the Socialist immigrants who escaped from the failed revolutions across Europe in 1848.) Which means that for most offices up for reelection in 2026, it is the primary election that counts. Like Wyoming, there is a tiny minority of Democrats in the legislature or in most other offices. (The exceptions, as always, are the Reservations and the university towns.) But many people who align more with the left-liberal claimed tenets of the modern Democratic Party therefore register and run as Republicans. A LOT of “RINO” types.

So for those registered as Libertarians, Constitutionalists, Natural Rights, or Pink Flamingo party members, we have to watch and cringe. And in many places, we don’t even get to see much in the way of Democratic candidate signs!

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Government works so well!

Posted on 2026-06-01 by TPOL Nathan

As we are in the heat of the binneal Primary Season, while the “soft” ceasefire in the Ami-Iran War staggers on, while there are rumors of a ceasefire in this phase of the Lebanese Conflict, our minds of course turn to the wonders and benefits of government.

If we are honest (and love God and/or liberty), it is a pretty short list. And nothing on the list is anywhere close to balancing the immense cost and negative attributes that government enjoys.

Government is great at making people miserable. It is great at making a few people very powerful, and very rich. And a large, much larger number, of people poor to very poor, and with so little power over their own lives that society treats them as the monsters if they dare do anything that isn’t approved, stamped “acceptable” and (of course) generates money and more power for that tiny minority.

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Liberty and freedom – so easily lost

Posted on 2026-05-27 by TPOL Nathan

A frequent subject of our commentaries is the sad state of our British cousins under King Charles III and his ministers (remembering that “minister” is supposed to mean “servant”).

Yet another example of how far the United Kingdom has succeeded in destroying the liberties of their King’s subjects recently crossed our desks here.

The headline is pretty accurate, for once: “A pastor preached John 3:16: The government called it a crime.” (MSN.com of course used the common, not biblical definition of “pastor” of course: the “criminal” was an evangelist, literally a street preacher.) He was within the “Safe Access Zone” of a hospital in Northern Ireland when he was arrested for preaching the Gospel. A hospital which has abortions performed in it. He was arrested for unlawful “interference” under the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act. Not because he was preaching against abortion – he was preaching about God’s love for humans!

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Casualties of war

Posted on 2026-05-26 by TPOL Nathan

Yesterday, we commemorated those men and women of the United States who lost their lives prematurely in the various wars fought by and in the United States of America. But it is important to remember, and commemorate (mourn) those other than the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines – and their civilian support forces – who died.

There is no war, whether declared or not, whether internal or external, that does not have many more casualties. And almost always, in external wars, it is the enemy who suffers the greater number of dead. And the civilians, not the support forces, but the ordinary civilians.

Let us also pause to remember those, of whatever nation, with whatever stake in the outcome of the war or whatever the conflict is called.

Let us remember, not just this week but every week, those other casualties of war. Consider again, the words that Mark Twain ascribed to a messenger of God in his short story, The War Prayer:

“O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle-be Thou near them! With them, in spirit, we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it-for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

(After a pause)

“Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits.”

Think not just of those who died in war, but of those who suffered because those men (and some women) died. Remember that war is a default setting of human society, but that peace is still to be sought and (as much as possible) achieved. True liberty from the evil men and women who control almost all governments, at all levels, is a way of limiting war and extending peace.

“Peace on earth, good will towards men” is exactly the opposite of what human governments accomplish.

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