Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
What if your name is placed on a n-fly list after you are in the air? You will return home by car, bus, or train. “Take the bus, and leave the driving to us!” Exception: you are already on board a flight to Hawaii. Then you will return by cruise ship. Or maybe a freighter. [...]
Continue reading →Obama’s Adiministration requires school districts to serve veggies and fruit in school lunches. Kids do what we would expect: they refuse to eat their veggies. So, they toss them into the trash. A local school wants to have proof that this is happening. It does not want to supply hated food. It needs proof, supervisors [...]
Continue reading →The story is all over the Web. Valerie Jarrett, who has no position in the national security apparatus, has Secret Service protection. Why? Not to protect her from terrorists. Maybe to protect her from the Chicago Mafia. Here is her job, according to the White House. “Valerie B. Jarrett is a Senior Advisor to President [...]
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 →California’s governor, Jerry Brown, is expected to sign a recently passed bill which will, if he signs it, allow illegal aliens to get driver’s licenses. On what basis? Simple: Obama’s executive order to restrict the deportation of the teenage children of illegal aliens. I have written about this executive order here. Once a person gets [...]
Continue reading →The federal government pays high wages. A terrific article lists 16 really outrageous job classifications, pay scales, and deals. Here, I list eight of them. #1 Nearly 500,000 federal employees now make at least $100,000 a year. #2 In 2006, only 12 percent of all federal workers made $100,000 or more per year. Now, approximately [...]
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 →President Obama described his 2009 stimulus law as providing jobs – shovel-ready jobs. He was right. There were some jobs. They were a tad expensive, however. The Department of Transportation awarded some of these jobs. Cost to taxpayers: $738,000 per job. The Secretary of Transportation says he thinks these were a good deal for America. [...]
Continue reading →High school dropouts who find jobs with the federal government are paid 36% more than high school dropouts in the private sector. This was the finding of a recent study by the Congressional Research Service. This is good news for defenders of liberty. It means that the Federal government will absorb these short-sighted people who [...]
Continue reading →A woman in Chester township in Philadelphia gives a free meal to children in her neighborhood every day. She does this from her home. The town council found out about this. It ordered her to stop this assault on the integrity of her neighborhood. This must be nipped in the bud. If she is allowed [...]
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