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Gary North
Written by Gary North on May 10, 2012
North’s first law of bureaucracy: “There is no law that will not eventually be enforced by some bureaucrat to the point of insanity.” A fine example of the universality of this law is the decision by the Alabama Department of Transportation to prohibit a county from placing signs on the highways directing drivers to a […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 10, 2012
You must read it to believe it. * * * * * * * * * * * * Following up on a recent state auditor’s report, the U.S. Department of Energy released a report February 23 showing that despite receiving $93 million in federal stimulus money to weatherize homes, California has finished weatherizing just […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 10, 2012
The National Institutes of Health spend $2.6 million to persuade prostitutes in China to drink less alcohol. You may think this was not what the Framers of the Constitution had in mind back in 1787. You may think the Constitution was designed to limit government power. Well, that’s all ancient history. No one in the […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 9, 2012
We have read about this for 25 years: citizens with embedded microchips. The warnings were premature. The technology did not permit it. Now it does. The U.S. military plans to implant soldiers with medical devices, making them harder to kill with disease. The military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, announced plans to create […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 9, 2012
The U.S. Army is making headway in identifying pre-crime behavior. Anyway, that’s what The Army Times thinks. This was triggered by Wikileak’s release of documents collected by Bradley Manning. The Army wants to know what soldiers are doing on their computers. So, it is looking at their keystrokes, web searches, and downloads. The Army wants […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 9, 2012
The food police never sleep. They are on the alert 24×7. In their cross hairs are school bake sales. They understand the threat to the children. Bake sales center around high-calories, sugar-laden temptation. This has got to be stopped. Beginning on August 1, 2012, it will be stopped in Massachusetts. Massachusetts Puritans burned witches. Little […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 8, 2012
It may seem incredible, but the U.S. government has spent $120 million over the last five years to pay dead federal employees. Yet the government insists it is running a fiscally tight ship. Congress cannot seem to find ways to cut spending. In one case, a man died in 1971. His son collected his paychecks […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 8, 2012
Agenda 21 was formally announced by the United Nations at the 1992 Rio summit on the environment. It has been the operating agenda for world economic control ever since. The USA never ratified the Kyoto Accord. Officially, the government does not hold to the land-use planning program of Agenda 21. But this is a cover. […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 7, 2012
The National Endowment of the Arts announced in 2011 that it will henceforth hand out grants up to $200,000 to designers of video games. You may have missed this. I thought you ought to know. I’ll be you did no know that the United States and the world need artistically certified video games. I’ll bet […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 3, 2012
The Environmental Protection Agency never sleeps in its quest for environmentally friendly energy. So, it awarded $90,000 to students at Vanderbilt University to work on a project. The students think they can get net energy out of spinach. The students know a good thing when it comes along. The good thing is $90,000. The students […]
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