Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Did you know that Janet Napolitano, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, has issued a rule prohibiting American border patrol officers from firing the first shot at illegal immigrants? They must fire a bean bag first. It has cost one border patrol officer his life this year. Larry Pratt, the head of Gun [...]
Continue reading →North’s first law of bureaucracy: “Some bureaucrat will eventually enforce the letter of a law to the point of utter foolishness.” Here is an example. Dear Mr. DeVries: It has come to the attention of the Department of Environmental Quality that there has been recent unauthorized activity on the above referenced parcel of property. You [...]
Continue reading →Some bureaucrat who polices a retirement center that was built with HUD funding is making sure there is no public Bible reading going on. She told Ruth Sweats to stop reading her Bible and discussing it with another resident. To read the Bible and then discuss it — yes, my friends, actually discuss it . [...]
Continue reading →Free food given away in driveways is no laughing matter in Arizona, where it until this month was also illegal to give bottled water to people at a public religious festival. It took the threat of legal action, coupled with a public relations campaign by the Rutherford Institute, to persuade the Phoenix city council to [...]
Continue reading →If you are a CIA “asset,” and you torture a suspect, you will be officially transferred from your specialty if you get exposed. It would be bad PR to continue the policy. The person whose testimony leads to your identification will go to jail. The only question is: for how long? The whistleblower on waterboarding [...]
Continue reading →Think of the cell phone as unleashing a million Rodney King videos. As citizens grab their cell phones to make YouTube-ready copies of bureaucrats’ unconstitutional imposition of force, the bureaucrats are going on the defensive. There is a kind of cold war going on. Every time the bureaucrats impose new restrictions on cell phones, cell [...]
Continue reading →The Missouri Milk Board does not like unpasteurized milk. Milk boards never do. Neither do public health departments. Why not? Because pasteurization reduces the risk of milk-borne disease. Such a disease threatens the independence of the regulators. They get blamed. And, as a secondary effect, people get sick. But the key to understanding the war [...]
Continue reading →The state of Minnesota has discovered a fiendish plot against the residents of the state. Thirty-three major universities are offering free courses online. The state has warned its residents not to take these courses. Why not? Because the law says that no out-of-state university can sell education in Minnesota unless it is registered. But the [...]
Continue reading →The Department of Transportation, a federal agency, has just given $275,000 each to the governments of Massachusetts and Connecticut to study drivers who text while driving. Why don’t those two governments fund their own studies? Why does the federal government get involved? Because the feds plan to get all of the states involved in anti-texting [...]
Continue reading →The state of Minnesota created a mandatory data base. The state collected the DNA of every newborn infant. In the name of the privacy rights of infants, a small group of nine Minnesota families sued the state. They won the case. The state Supreme Court decided that state law does not authorize state health agencies [...]
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