Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Written by Gary North on December 22, 2014
Central planning by the federal government is officially opposed by conservatives until you show them a marker that says “United States” on one side, and “Mexico” on the other. Then: “Congress needs to build a fence!” The believers in fences offer many arguments. Some of them say this: “Those people want to get free government […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 15, 2014
Boehner suckered a naive Congressman from Indiana into voting to bring the bill to the floor for a vote. Congressman Schmuck has issued a press release to the folks back home. The CROmnibus bill, over 1,600 pages long, does many things but what is most important is what it does not do. It fails to […]
Continue reading →Posted on December 12, 2014
President Barack Obama bailed out House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday night. After the House embarrassed Boehner by almost killing his 1,774-page $1.1 trillion cromnibus bill on a purely procedural vote earlier in the day, House Democrats pitched in to provide the votes to pass it. “My job tonight is to say thank you and […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 24, 2014
Actually, the President has not signed an executive order. It is an executive action. Nobody is quite sure what its legal status is. But at least, after a century, executive orders are finally getting some public attention.
Continue reading →Posted on November 22, 2014
Up to 30,000 missing emails sent by former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner have been recovered by the IRS inspector general, five months after they were deemed lost forever. The U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) informed congressional staffers from several committees on Friday that the emails were found among hundreds of […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 20, 2014
Today, President Obama will announce his plan for giving legal protection against deportation to five million illegal aliens who were not going to be deported anyway. This will hand a huge political chip to the Republican Party. Whoever runs for President in 2016 will run on the promise of reversing today’s executive order. Revocation by […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 19, 2014
Ronald Reagan signed into law the bill that requires local hospitals to provide free emergency medical services to illegal aliens. This was in 1986: the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). Here is a summary. The law was designed to provide patients with access to emergency medical care and to prevent hospitals from […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 17, 2014
I am going to write four words. I want you to memorize them. Every time you read about the debate over amnesty, I want you to think of these four words. They would make a great bumper sticker. They would easily fit on Kim Kardashian’s $65 million behind: two on one cheek, two on the […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 15, 2014
It is not just Target that got hacked. This appears in The Washington Post. Designs for many of the nation’s most sensitive advanced weapons systems have been compromised by Chinese hackers, according to a report prepared for the Pentagon and to officials from government and the defense industry. Among more than two dozen major weapons […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 13, 2014
If you think anything is going to change in Washington, think again. The utter bankruptcy of Republican conservatism can be seen in this brief report on Senator Jeff Sessions from Alabama. Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) called for Republicans to embrace “a humble and honest populism” as they consider changing immigration law and writing a […]
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