Category Archives: Commentary on the News

Are we eating GRAS?

Posted on 2026-07-23 by TPOL Nathan

Professional organizations in league with government agencies cannot be trusted to do what is right, or tell us the truth about anything. Continue reading →

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The data center controversy

Posted on 2026-07-22 by TPOL Nathan

Is the Data Center Controversy as artificial as the artificial intelligence that supposedly is pushing it? Or is there something else going on? Continue reading →

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Our right to defend ourselves – anywhere and against anything

Posted on 2026-07-20 by TPOL Nathan

An innocent man was attacked by a maddened bison bull in Yellowstone National Park recently. Although he lived, we think it appropriate to ask what right he had to defend himself. Continue reading →

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Why China is failing and the States may, too

Posted on 2026-07-19 by TPOL Nathan

Continuing to look at power production and the relative situations of China and the USA, we see that it is not just a matter of technology.
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Is China really so much more advanced than the States?

Posted on 2026-07-18 by TPOL Nathan

A new “hybrid solar plant” in the Gobi Desert has people claiming that the Chinese are more advanced than the evil Americans and Western Powers. But is that really the case? Continue reading →

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This and that – commenting on commentaries

Posted on 2026-07-17 by TPOL Nathan

Professors and other staff and faculty at government-run, tax-funded educational institutions have little leg to stand on to complain about a lack of academic freedom. And the States’ current homegrown Communists (aka Democratic Socialists of America) are also both somewhat honest about their politics _and_ still a fringe group. Continue reading →

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Wrong and right: the two great “revolutions” of the 1700s

Posted on 2026-07-14 by TPOL Nathan

The contrast between the States’ Independence Day and France’s Bastille Day is often not clear to either Americans or the French. It is, however, as important to the future as we can imagine. Continue reading →

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“Get out. Now!”

Posted on 2026-07-10 by TPOL Nathan

Do descendants of displaced and abused peoples of the past have legitimate power to force other people (some of whom may be descended from the abusers) of different “origins” by claiming “stolen labor” or other justification? Continue reading →

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Are we really ‘welded at the hip’ as some claim?

Posted on 2026-07-08 by TPOL Nathan

Are the US and Israeli military establishments actually merging? Or is it more or less? Continue reading →

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Local governments, even in Wyoming, are evil

Posted on 2026-07-07 by TPOL Nathan

Even frontier, “liberty-loving” counties in Western States must be recognized as enemies of liberty. They are indeed evil. Here is a recent example. Continue reading →

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