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Gary North
Written by Gary North on May 31, 2014
That pesky First Amendment had to be ignored this week. A candidate for governor in Minnesota was caught red-handed trying to collect signatures in a park. They were trying to get onto the ballot. The police saw what was going on: actions not allowed without a permit. Ever alert, they told the man and his […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 25, 2014
If you commit the crime, then you better be ready to serve the time. Not many people would object to this statement. Especially when it references the charge of murder. Most people would agree if an individual is proven in the court of law to be guilty of murder, then they should be forced to […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 17, 2014
Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) has introduced a bill called the “Contempt Act,” which would prevent current and future federal employees from collecting their taxpayer-funded salaries as long as they’re being held in contempt of Congress. The bill, which has no chance of becoming law in a divided Congress, currently would apply to one man — […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 16, 2014
I’ve discussed before the trouble with relying on the Constitution when making arguments for this or that policy, particularly among libertarians. There is a great irony in seeing those that deride “statism” stand side-by-side with a document that created one of the largest, most overreaching states in the history of the world. Before the Constitution, […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 14, 2014
A border patrol officer who crashed his van into a civilian car blamed the accident on the other driver–but little did he know, the civilian had a secret camera installed in his vehicle. The video evidence makes it quite clear that the border cop caused the crash and lied about the details in subsequent reports. […]
Continue reading →Posted on March 21, 2014
By signing on the dotted line, or agreeing to those endless terms of service, some customers are unwittingly giving away their right to free speech. Specifically, the right to write negative online reviews. Experts say that more companies from wedding photographers to dentists are slipping non-disparagement clauses (and other language that prevents consumers from writing […]
Continue reading →Posted on February 14, 2014
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) made a bold prediction about the remaining presidential elections in his lifetime during an interview with Glenn Beck that aired Thursday. “I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime … unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party,” Paul said evenly. “And it has to be a […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on January 30, 2014
This takes apart the message. It shows what Obama is planning to get away with, if he can.
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on January 18, 2014
The case was McCulloch v. Maryland (1819). The legal issue: Could the state of Maryland tax the Second Bank of the United States? It was a private bank. The issue, as stated by Chief Justice Marshall in a long, detailed decision, was this: Does the Constitution allow Congress to charter a bank? That was what […]
Continue reading →Posted on January 14, 2014
Egyptians began voting on a draft for their country’s constitution Tuesday morning, a vote that is expected to give the judiciary expanded authority at a time when judges have been at the center of a crackdown on Islamists. The referendum’s opening was marred by an explosion outside a courthouse in the Cairo suburb of Imbaba, […]
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