Europe melting down

Posted on 2026-04-06 by TPOL Nathan

Conditions in Europe, particularly in the EU, seem to be deteriorating rapidly.

We have, of course, the impact of the Russo-Ukraine War. And added to that is the American war against Iran, and the resulting severing of oil and gas (and fertilizer) life-streams. We have The Donald screaming out at NATO, jerking the rest of the alliance back and forth, together with the Greenland issue and others. We continue to see massive immigration into multiple EU states from Muslim and Christian Africa and Asia. American tariffs are freaking out European politicians and industrialists (and the tourist industry), especially given the on-off nature.

But not all the problems are external. One of the latest is very internal indeed. That is the growing instability of the central organs of what more and more people (inside and outside of Europe) are calling a tyranny. A very complex one, at that.

Continue reading →
Posted in Commentary on the News, Nathan's Rants | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Cops and AI – enabling more tyranny

Posted on 2026-04-04 by TPOL Nathan

[Here is a truly evil example of jack-booted thugs abusing information technology. A guest commentary from Matt Insley with our own added comments. A warning for us all.]

It’s a July 2025 morning in rural Tennessee. Fifty-year-old grandmother Angela Lipps is babysitting four young children at her home.

Then the U.S. Marshals arrive.

They’ve come to arrest her — at gunpoint — not for anything she’s done in Tennessee, but for bank fraud allegedly committed in North Dakota. A state she’s never once visited. Ms. Lipps would spend the next 108 days in a Tennessee jail cell before being extradited to North Dakota, held there without bail.

Continue reading →
Posted in Nathan's Rants | Leave a comment

Alberta – shall be free?

Posted on 2026-04-03 by TPOL Nathan

According to Canada’s National Observer, the Alberta independence movement has enough signatures on a petition to force the Province to vote on succession on 19 October 2026, with 10%+ of the voters in the last general election. The “Stay Free Alberta” group that has circulated the petition is cautiously optimistic, both about getting on the ballot and having a majority vote for independence. It must be submitted to a government agency, Elections Alberta, to be counted by the 2nd of May.

We at The Price of Liberty support and encourage this election and a YES vote in October. Obviously, the political parasites in Ottawa and many of the provinces, and of course, the mainstream media (both in and out of Canada) are strongly opposed to this. The supporters, backers, and of course the 170,000+ people who have signed so far are condemned as right-wing extremists, conspiracy nuts, and of course the usual accusations of racism, fascism, and christian nationalism. No surprise there, of course.

Continue reading →
Posted in Commentary on the News, Nathan's Rants | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Canadian government accelerates religious persecution

Posted on 2026-04-02 by TPOL Nathan

In Ottawa, Liberal Party and Bloc Québécois MPs, in a 186–137 vote, passed Bill C-9, known as the “Combatting [sic] Hate Act.” Conservative, NDP, and Green Party MPs voted against the bill, a rare display of unity among the parties who normally oppose not the the Liberals and BQ, but each other.

Among other things, it is believed that this legislation, now going to the Canadian Senate (generally known for rubberstamping everything passed by Commons), will criminalize merely reading out loud or quoting many passages in the Bible and other religious books. All that is needed is for a single person to file a complaint. (We’ve seen this happen in the UK.)

Two stories from the website LifeSiteNews.com detail this story. The passage of the House of Commons bill C-9 rightly alarms many people. Conservatives and others in Parliament have condemned the bill as destroying the rights of Canadians and visitors, calling it a dark day for Canada. We strongly agree.

Continue reading →
Posted in Commentary on the News, Nathan's Rants | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

April fool’s day – for sure?

Posted on 2026-04-01 by TPOL Nathan

This year, we have a plethora of ripe (and stinky) jokes to make each other miserable on this wonderful day.

(As I write this, it is still Tuesday, 31 March; no definite evidence that all of this really is just a series of really tasteless April fool pranks.

Start with an easy one: Has there been a regime change in Iran? Is the Islamic Republic a goner, or just shaking things up a bit? Or is it just more hype from the likes of The Donald and Vance?

Will Congress really make everyone start showing ID? Assuming that is really what the much-vaunted and much maligned Safe Act is really doing. And of course, the real joke will be on how many poll workers will be shown (and accept) an ID “card” with a really nice portrait on the green side of Alexander Hamilton?

Is the price of oil really going to drop back down to 2025 levels? Panicked as everyone is about the price of gasoline, fertilizer, and airplane tickets, it really isn’t much different than a mere 3-4 years ago under dear old dottering Uncle Joe, is it? It is as much the inflation as the closing of the seaways that is pushing fuel and other prices up.

Have the producers and all of the Star Trek franchise really really woken up to realize what a hash they’ve made of it with the latest offerings? Ditto for the Star Wars mega effort? (Oh, and is Firefly really coming back?)

But let us move on to other things:

Continue reading →
Posted in Commentary on the News, Humor, Nathan's Rants | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Democracies and their engines of corruption

Posted on 2026-03-31 by TPOL Nathan

Modified guest commentary. The position of The Price of Liberty, under Mama Liberty and now the current proprietors, is unchanged. Democracy is an evil and degenerate successor to republics, and soon slide into mob rule and then tyranny (an autocracy of some type). We do not say that democracies are not tyrannical: it is still the old libertarian parable of the lamb and two wolves voting on what to eat for lunch.

Modern democracies have a very distinct engine driving corruption within them, and it’s not what you’d expect. There are many drivers of government corruption, of course, but this one empowers corruption in ways that others do not and cannot.

Democracies and democratic republics, (always just a slightly more tolerable flavor of evil government) especially now, involve professional politicians. An even greater evil than many alternatives.

And politicians, to put it very directly, are the winners of popularity contests. In fact, if we’re to be honest about it, modern elections might best be described as a type of beauty pageant, or a “popularity pageant.” Actually, it might be interesting to have a fancy Greek name for that, turning democracy into something corresponding to pageant-ocracy. (Rule by the most popular, the most personable!)

(So, does that turn your stomach like it does ours?)

Be that as it may, our modern rule-of-pageant-winners affects even the political parties which control the various contestants (by providing or denying the funding they need to win). The party overlords prefer winners to losers, after all. (Regardless of what these overlords, the men and women behind the curtain, want.)

Continue reading →
Posted in Commentary on the News, Ideas for liberty, Nathan's Rants | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The dawn of a new hope for England

Posted on 2026-03-30 by TPOL Nathan

Amelia Purple Reign. Amelia Goth. The voice and face of the rising tide longing for liberty, for freedom, from the Woke Socialism of all the old parties in the United Kingdom. A constant voice for England, for traditions, for freedom from oppression and cancellation!

Meet an AI heroine, who is proud to be called that – feminine, not gender neutral or neutered!

Continue reading →
Posted in Commentary on the News, Ideas for liberty, Nathan's Rants | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

The latest secession “crisis” – New Mexico

Posted on 2026-03-28 by TPOL Nathan

No, her Imperial Highness is not seeking to become the 32d State of the United Mexican States.

The proposed secession from New Mexico by Lea and Roosevelt Counties is a topic of significant interest and debate. The legislation (NM House Joint Resolution 10) would give voters in three or more contiguous counties the option to secede from New Mexico. (Curry would likely be the third county, but Eddy, Otero, and Chaves are possible joiners.) This proposal was introduced by Republican Reps. Randall Pettigrew and Jimmy Mason. It would require a special election with two-thirds of the population’s support, followed by approval from the county commissioners, the U.S. Congress, and the president. Both local residents and political opponents (read, sycophants of her Imperial Highness and Democrats in general) are criticizing the resolution. They argue argue that secession is not practical and should be addressed by other means.

Of course, secession ideas are not exclusive to New Mexico. TPOL has discussed many over the years. Current active proposals or movements have been considered in other states.

Continue reading →
Posted in Commentary on the News, Ideas for liberty, Nathan's Rants | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Facing a final judgment – monster in human form dies

Posted on 2026-03-27 by TPOL Nathan

We must recognize that the death toll of the 20th century is one of the stains on our so-called civilization, and upon the people and institutions of the Fifty States. Acts of commission and omission, especially by government officials, are tainted – indeed, blackened – by the deaths that they have caused, allowed, and even encouraged. From boarding school deaths and the victims of the “Spanish flu” to the needless involvement in WW1 and the planned and secretive involvement in WW2 and all the wars since, government has much to answer for.

This month, a medical doctor in Philadelphia remind us that it is not just government officials – those in power, or “serial killers” skulking through the streets that are to blame for innocent blood shed, for lives tragically shortened by government action, inaction, and stupidity.

Kermit Gosnell is dead. In 2013 he was convicted merely of killing three newborn infants, victims of “botched” abortions of children of his patients. A wicked judge dismissed four of the murder charges, although the evidence was obvious that Gosnell and his staff had killed tens of thousands of infants, both unborn by “legal” and “illegal” abortions, but hundreds by what he called a “snip.” Cutting their spinal cord after the child was born. As well as killing multiple women by his abominably-poor medical practices in his apparently popular abortion mill in inner-city Philadelphia.

Continue reading →
Posted in Commentary on the News, Nathan's Rants | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Heroes in blue?

Posted on 2026-03-26 by TPOL Nathan

In Detroit, a 30-year veteran of the Detroit Police Force, a sergeant (now retired in South Carolina) has been implicated in at least five rapes of women between 1999 and 2003, and is suspected in many more. The charges come from previously-untested rape kits. Kept but unanalyzed for 27 or more years, by the police. This kind of thing explains why many Americans support a death penalty, why many more Americans support and practice keeping and bearing arms for their defense and that of others, and look with disgust and anger at government. Especially the police.

People like to worship (exault, praise, glorify, and serve in various ways) police. They are “first responders” who daily “risk their lives for those they serve.” Most people buy into the common cop vehicle motto “to serve and protect.” Serving them includes the well-worn meme of free donuts, free coffee, free soda (at least, free fountain soda), and discounts. More and more people allow the cops access to and use of their doorbell cameras (internet-connected).

Continue reading →
Posted in Commentary on the News, Nathan's Rants | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment