Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
We are afflicted as a nation with terrible risks. Despite OSHA, despite workplace education, Americans are becoming disabled. The Social Security Administration has released the grim statistics: over 8.7 million Americans are disabled. That is one out of 16 working Americans. In 1967, this figure was one out of 65. This increase tells us either [...]
Continue reading →The Department of Homeland Security has launched its “If You See Something, Say Something” Campaign. It encourages us to call 911 when we see something like a 9-11 attack brewing. Think back to 9-11. What did any of the alleged perpetrators do that would have given any indication that they are about to hijack four [...]
Continue reading →Adopting the policy of tactical genius P. X. Kelley, the Marine Corps’ Commandant at the time of the Lebanon suicide bombing in 1983, the American Ambassador in Cairo refused to let the Marines have access to ammo. General Kelley did not let the sentries carry loaded rifles, because they might accidentally shoot someone. But he [...]
Continue reading →On July 6, 2012, President Obama signed a new law regulating the ecology of the Gulf. That law opened the door to the creation of new layers of bureaucracy. President Obama has just signed an executive order. As with all EO’s, this one is written in bureaucratic gibberish. This is what lawyers in the Executive [...]
Continue reading →Some people trust the U.S. government to protect their interests rather than the government’s interests. This is a very risky position to take. A family found ten 1933 gold coins in their father’s safety deposit box. The coins were produced after the May 1 deadline to turn in all gold. The family did not pay [...]
Continue reading →Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He personally launched the first Web site on Christmas day, 1990. This week, he told the media in England than the idea that a government could somehow switch off the Web is mythical. To do this would require coordination of all governments. “The way the internet [...]
Continue reading →There was a mini-showdown in Tampa this week. A group called Free Thinkers sent a camera crew to film the sights. (Note: we have no verb to replace the verb “film.” It’s a real challenge. “Shoot” doesn’t do it. We don’t try to shoot the Department of Homeland Security.) Here is a report from the [...]
Continue reading →A professor who has invented vaccines wants the civil government to outlaw all religious exemptions from laws mandating vaccinations of children. He writes: I also would argue that it does not make sense to say, “It is my religious belief that a child not get a vaccine,” and therefore a child should be left with [...]
Continue reading →When you work for the TSA (Transportation Safety Agency), you worry about terrorists. Day and night, you worry about terrorists. There is no terrorist as dangerous as a Congressmen who wants to eliminate the TSA. Cut its budget. Replace it with airline security funded by . . . airlines. Then what happens to the TSA’s [...]
Continue reading →A toddler, age three-and-a-half, crossed the line. He went too far. He had to be stopped. His hand sign for his name looks suspiciously like the sign for “gun.” Yes, my friends, gun. At school. Do you understand? At school! A tax-supported school. You know: where there are defenseless children. Well, this could not be [...]
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