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Gary North
Written by Gary North on October 21, 2014
You read it right. If you foul up big time in Washington, you get a paid vacation. O, the pain! O, the humiliation! Well, not much humiliation. Your friends and neighbors just figure you’re on vacation, and your fellow employees want in on the action. This is how the FedGov works. These people are protected […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 16, 2014
Incompetence. We saw it in action in 2005 in New Orleans. We know what it looks like. Futility. We saw it in action in 2005 in New Orleans. We know what it looks like. We see both now. Our only hope is that Ebola is not Katrina, just as New Orleans’ hope was that Katrina […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 14, 2014
Here are today’s headlines from Drudge.Here is the main headline on Google News. This is mid-October 2014. Does anyone think that the second Dallas hospital worker to get Ebola will be the last? Hardly. Already, this is big news. The public wants to read about it. The public is vaguely concerned. The public has adopted […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 8, 2014
Approximately half of all Americans receive government subsidies of one kind or another. This is seen by some conservatives as the demise of the American Republic, the death-knell of resistance to the welfare state. It is nothing of the sort. It is strong evidence of the opposite: the high-water mark of the American welfare state. […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 2, 2014
A story is all over the Web: 39% of older people who could not smell well died within five years. Those who could smell adequately died at a 19% rate. Those who could smell well died at a rate of 10%. As soon as I read that, I knew the report did not pass the […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on September 18, 2014
Congress is impotent. The IRS is revealing this as never before. It is saying, loud and clear, that Congress cannot do anything to Lois Lerner or any other IRS employee. Sorry; no emails. They went bye-bye into cyberspace. There are no digits. There is no smoking gun. But what about the NSA? Doesn’t the NSA […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on September 16, 2014
The American conservative movement is dominated by gravediggers and hustlers. Both groups are Keynesian to the core. This has been true ever since the movement began in the Hiss-Chambers hearings in 1948. The Old Right of the 1930’s was committed to tearing down the New Deal. The Middle Right, 1948-1980, was committed to strengthening the […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on September 9, 2014
National Public Radio did something very useful recently. It investigated who got what in the U.S. government’s program to give military equipment to local police departments. This initial list raised more questions than it answered. The main question is this: “Why? 79,288 assault rifles 205 grenade launchers 11,959 bayonets 3,972 combat knives $124 million worth […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on September 4, 2014
The economic heart of fascism in the 1930’s was the “government-private industry alliance.” It still is. In this alliance, the state provides limited funds and promotion of favored businesses. The businesses provide profits that are taxed. The state’s bureaucrats increase their influence over the economy by way of favored business enterprises. The state is now […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on July 21, 2014
The monstrous euegenics movement, based on the idea of Charles Darwin’s cousin Francis Galton, was dominant in intellectually circles in the United States from 1900 to World War II, and it survived legally until the mid–1970s. The United States passed the first forced sterilization laws before World War I. The Supreme Court case, Buck v. […]
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