Category Archives: Nathan’s Rants

The opium pages

Once upon a time, I am told that the letters-to-the-editor, opinion pages, and comments pages actually did have an impact on public discourse. If such a time existed, of course, it is long past. Recently reading a local daily newspaper’s … Continue reading

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Keeping up appearances – DC style

The United States Army has, in the brass-hats’ infinite wisdom, converted US Army Alaska (USARAK) into the latest reincarnation of the 11th Airborne Division. This is, we are told, because the Arctic Strategy is very important. But it won’t add … Continue reading

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COVID-19 and the pandemic panic still with us

A reader shared a shocking compilation with TPOL a couple of days ago, an incredible listing of young athletes who have suddenly been hit with cardiac problems. See it here at Brighteon. It appears to cite all original sources from … Continue reading

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Whoops! Publication error

For some reason, although the last commentary (Some more thoughts about lies and history) was “theoretically published” yesterday (15 JUN 2022) at 0600 hours (Mountain Daylight Time), it apparently did not really publish until about 1226 hours today (the 16th). … Continue reading

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Some more thoughts about lies and history

Darkwing’s comments earlier this week trigger additional thoughts on the general subject of lies and history and liberty. Darkwing commented on Lies about our history support enemies of liberty. “When I was in school, in the 50’s, I use to … Continue reading

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Distractions and their effect

Last week, we saw a common political phenomenon. The use of distractions to keep the electorate and the mob quiet. In some cases, just SPECIFIC parts of the two groups. How’s that? In the past six months, fuel prices have … Continue reading

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Lies about our history support enemies of liberty

Recently, I found out that RACISM was the reason for the Salem Witch Trials, way back in the early 1600s. Or so it is claimed today. According to several prominent black (African-American) religious leaders and influencers, that is. The only … Continue reading

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Concentration camps – a brief review

In the era of the Dritte Reich (Third Reich), the German governments and their puppets and slaves spent billions of grams of gold building elaborate concentration camps (Konzentrationslager) (and extermination camps (Tötungszentren: killing centers)). Together with the urban ghettos, these … Continue reading

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A justified nanny state? Part 2

Read part 1 here: a commentary by Margaret Figert. Over the past weekend, I drove though one of the emptier parts of Wyoming and Utah, passing by Flaming Gorge Reservoir, a spectacular area built decades ago under the jurisdiction of … Continue reading

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The trashing of free speech

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