Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Why does the government use small town streets to train troops for crowd control in Iraq? Why are U.S. troops still in Iraq? In early 2011, an article ran in the local newspaper in Crookston, Minnesota. Bravo Company Minnesota National Guard personnel based at the Crookston Armory will conduct exercise drills in town beginning Friday, [...]
Continue reading →Here is another story about a police officer who did not want a reporter to use what might have been incriminating evidence against him. So, she took the reporter’s video and erased it. That is the contention of the reporter, who is suing. What are the legal issues? The first, fourth, and fourteenth amendments, she [...]
Continue reading →The public has smart phones. Smart phones can record video. The police are beginning to be told by courts that they may not confiscate cell phones and pocket video camcorders. Still, it you have your unit confiscated and erased, your case against the police will be weakened. Once a video is on YouTube, the police [...]
Continue reading →President Obama is running scared. His supreme welfare state law — rammed through by Nancy Pelosi — is going to be struck down, 5 to 4, by the Supreme Court. He is desperately trying to stop them. He is using the only real skill he has: rhetoric. He has a law degree. The old rule [...]
Continue reading →It looks as though Obamacare is going down. Five Supreme Court members will declare it unconstitutional. Anyway, that’s what the pundits think. Why will they do this? Justice Scalia’s broccoli argument. If the government can force us to buy health care, why can’t it force us to eat broccoli? I love this. It shows the [...]
Continue reading →The FBI published a training manual. In it, a bonehead author wrote that the FBI sometimes bends the law. This is obvious. Every bureaucracy bends the law. But the rule is this: “Don’t admit this officially.” This was leaked, as documents usually are these days. Now the FBI is in damage control. Yes, the manual [...]
Continue reading →Private property? Only at Obama’s discretion. He just signed an executive order. Congress can overturn it in 15 days. It won’t. I choose not to comment. Here are highlights. For the full order, click the link at the end of the extracts. * * * * * * * * * * * * * [...]
Continue reading →The Chicago police arrested a pair of NBC journalists in front of a hospital. Their crime? Being there. If the the cops are not afraid of prime time exposure on NBC, they surely are not afraid of ordinary citizens. “What upset me about last night was this was not an active crime scene,” Ponce said [...]
Continue reading →This man claims to have met Barack Obama when Obama was a foreign student in Chicago. He was living with Bill Ayers’ parents. He was an ambitious young man. When the mailman asked him what he planned to do, he answer: “Become the President of the United States.” This impressed the mailman at the time. [...]
Continue reading →My old friend and Constitutional lawyer John Whitehead has written an article on New York City’s police department. He begins with a quotation from Mayor Bloomberg. “I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We [...]
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