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Gary North
Written by Gary North on January 7, 2017
In October, I published an article about Angelo Codevilla’s article, “After the Republic.” http://www.garynorth.com/public/15733.cfmHe has done it again. I have worked with him for over 40 years, when we were both on Capitol Hill as researchers. I regard him as the smartest guy in the conservative movement. His specialty is foreign policy, but in recent […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 24, 2016
“If you take the government’s nickel, you also take its noose.” — Gary North.A GaryNorth.com site member posted this: One of the policies Betsy DeVos is talking about is a form of voucherisation at all levels including university. It will be an up hill fight but if it occurred it would cut the ground out […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 17, 2016
Passive voice: “Something should be done about this.” Active voice: “Give me a badge and a gun, and I will do it.” A GaryNorth.com site member spotted this article. A simple test at the age of three can determine whether children will grow up to be a burden on society, needing excessive welfare, ending up […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 3, 2016
On Friday evening, I went with my daughter, who lives in Nashville, and my wife to see the Roland White Band. I took with me a CD of White’s 1967 performance in the week that he joined Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys. I intended to give it to him. I had been sent a copy […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on September 17, 2016
If you’re not smart by 20, married by 30, or rich by 40, you won’t be. David Graves told me this slogan many years ago, and the more I think about it, the more accurate I think it is. We need milestones as we go through life. It helps if we know whether we are […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on September 10, 2016
Someone came across a review of the Ron Paul Curriculum. It got forwarded to me. This tool isn’t free, but it has been a life-saver for me over the past year and is really inexpensive compared to other programs available online. The Ron Paul Curriculum has online classes for all of the core subjects including […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 27, 2016
Trophy wives are ornaments for husbands. Men marry them because they want to be high-visibility winners among other men. “He is a winner. He got her.” They also hope for this reaction: “I didn’t get a trophy wife. I’m not a winner.” A trophy wife is a status good: limited availability, heavy demand. Spectacularly good […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 14, 2016
A friend sent me this. It applies to my generation only vaguely. It does apply to the one born a decade before mine. Children of the 1930’s & 1940’s “The Last Ones” A Short MemoirBorn in the 1930’s and early 1940’s, we exist as a very special age cohort. We are the “last ones.” We […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on January 2, 2016
I devoted the May/June, 1982 issue of Tentmakers, to the subject of health insurance. I discussed the problem facing all covenantally obligated churches, namely, the threat of a catastrophically expensive illness or injury, which strikes a member of the church who is not covered by medical insurance. The church has obligations to care for that […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 14, 2015
I wrote the following on December 15, 2008. That was my mother’s 91st birthday. I posted it the next day. On November 8, 2015, my mother died. She did not make it to 98. Here, I reprint what I wrote in 2008. * * * * * * * * * * * * * […]
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