Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Matt Drudge knows what his readers like to read. Today’s headlines are all on one theme: the federal government’s domestic spying. He was just getting warmed up. This was choice. This will in no way reverse the process. The cost of monitoring everyone continues to fall. Economics teaches that when the price of anything falls, [...]
Continue reading →A principal suspended a student for saying “gun” on a school bus. The boy had the nerve to tell other students that he thought it would have been a good idea to have had a gun in the Sandy Hook school where the madman shot students. That did it. No more Mr. Nice Guy. The [...]
Continue reading →The new head of the IRS is going through a Punch and Judy show with Congress. He has to look tough. He has to make it look like he is doing something to change the culture at the IRS. There is only one thing that can change the culture in any bureaucracy: cut its funding. [...]
Continue reading →The IRS official who took the fifth this week to avoid talking about her leadership in the scandal has been put on administrative leave. Fully-paid, of course. Oh, the shame of it all! So, the lady gets a paid vacation. She oversaw the scandal, pleaded the fifth amendment, refused to answer questions, and then gets [...]
Continue reading →The IRS lady who was in charge of the program to screen non-profit 501(c)(4) applications has taken the fifth amendment. She refused to testify on the grounds that her testimony may tend to incriminate her: the fifth amendment of the Constitution. Good for her. Every IRS official should do the same. They should all be [...]
Continue reading →The FBI arrested a man because he posted inflammatory material on Facebook. They say he is crazy. They put him in a mental institution. On whose word? A psychologist, who spent 15 minutes with him. That is all it takes in America for the FBI to get you. His mother started posting on Facebook about [...]
Continue reading →Major Hasan has not been convicted of doing anything amiss in 2009. So, he receives his paycheck. But what about his court martial? One of these days, Real Soon Now. Were there witnesses? Lots. Were there dead bodies? Thirteen. Wounded? Over 30. Then what’s the problem? Public relations. There will be witnesses called who will [...]
Continue reading →Tea Party groups are organizing a national rally to protest the IRS’s invasive tactics against conservative organizations. An interactive map of where the meetings will be held is here. This has been great publicity for the Tea Party movement. It is likely to grow. Here is why this is important. Bureaucracies fear three things, and [...]
Continue reading →The business editor for the Huffington Post says that IRS was right in treating Tea Party groups differently. (The phrase “business editor” for the Huffington Post is an oxymoron.) I love liberals. They make such great targets! What about the rule of law? Ignore it whenever you can inflict damage on your ideological opponents! FDR [...]
Continue reading →Detroit is bankrupt. Everyone knows this. Everyone has known it for months. It is not official, but it’s close. The pension holders are going to see their dreams blown to dust. They are the cause. They will be the solution. The state has sent in The Terminator. He can shut the city down. He can [...]
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