Tag Archives: corrupt government

Les Miserables – 21st Century, American style

Posted on December 23, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

Which is worse: a horrific sentence for a relatively minor crime, or being wrongly convicted of a crime? Horrible as a sentence of years in prison for, example, stealing a loaf of bread is? We suggest that wrongly being convicted … Continue reading →

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It isn’t “rogue government,” it is SOP for…

Posted on October 27, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

… government agencies to do things like this. Nor is it madness or just Wokeness or Progressivism or Conservativism. It is human government! We could fill the pages of this webzine/commentary for years with examples of justice twisted, perverted, and … Continue reading →

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The corrupt nature of mainstream media

Posted on April 23, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

TPOL tends to be very hard on so-called “legacy” or mainstream media (MSM). That is, the television and radio networks and their local affiliated TV and radio stations, together with the newspapers (chains or independents and especially the “national” press) … Continue reading →

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Guest commentary: USAID

Posted on February 6, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

For thousands of years, human governments have been corrupt. Whatever their claimed form of government. (Or even if the organizations had a system which they actually followed.) From absolute monarchies of all flavors to so-called democracies and all kinds of … Continue reading →

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Examples of the corrupt nature of government

Posted on April 25, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Javier Milei of Argentina spoke a while back at Davos, Switzerland to a rather hostile crowd at the World Economic Forum (WEF). View it here (the actual talking starts about 4 minutes into the recording.) We understand that some people … Continue reading →

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Theft and corruption in American local governments

Posted on February 23, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

As we look at corruption – at government corruption, we must always remember that corruption is not limited to the White House, the Capitol in DC, and the Supreme Court. Nor to the fifty State Capitols. No, local government is … Continue reading →

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Cost-benefit analysis, environmental assessment, and politics

Posted on April 28, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

Engineers, especially civil and mineral and environmental engineers like myself, have to keep this important principle in mind in doing our work of designing and building the stuff we need for life, liberty, and prosperity. NOT the government excuse for … Continue reading →

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Corrupt government: bribery in America

Posted on December 6, 2021 by TPOL Nathan

For decades, the FedGov – Congress – has instigated one of the most corrupt practices of American government in general.  That is the constant and wholesale bribery of state and local governments through federal funding tied to “voluntary standard” – … Continue reading →

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Abusing the English language

Posted on January 11, 2020 by TPOL Nathan

A common crime (in the broad sense) of the Regressivists (Progressives, Liberals, etc.) is their frequent abuse of common English. (Conservative and right-wingers do the same, just in different ways than the Regressivists. But for now, let’s belabor the poor … Continue reading →

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Ramping up and strawmen

Posted on February 2, 2017 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton A few weeks ago, Freedom News Daily, which touts itself as the “freedom movement’s daily newspaper” featured these two articles in the “news” and “commentary” sections. Trump to launch “major investigation” of his voter fraud fantasy : … Continue reading →

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