Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
The White House’s story is that rogue agents at the IRS’s office in Cincinnati were responsible for intimidating Tea Party political education organizations in 2011 and 2012. The phrase “rogue agents” means independent agents. That means “who could have foreseen this?” agents. The White House wants us to think of these rogue agents as the [...]
Continue reading →A White House nobody went on all five TV news commentating shows yesterday to declare that Obama knew nothing . . . nothing. His name is Dan Pfeiffer. If you are not a political wonk, you have never heard of him. When the White House sends out anyone this obscure to represent Obama to the [...]
Continue reading →The business editor for the Huffington Post says that IRS was right in treating Tea Party groups differently. (The phrase “business editor” for the Huffington Post is an oxymoron.) I love liberals. They make such great targets! What about the rule of law? Ignore it whenever you can inflict damage on your ideological opponents! FDR [...]
Continue reading →It has been a bad week for Obama. First, some mid-level bureaucrat at the IRS broke the universal rule and admitted that the IRS had pressured Tea Party groups in 2012. Here is the rule: “Never admit anything until you’re plea bargaining.” Using the IRS to threaten political enemies? Shocking! This led to an invidious [...]
Continue reading →President Obama says that he only learned of the IRS’ persecution of Tea Party groups late last week. For those of us who were big fans of the TV sitcom about a German POW camp, Hogan’s Heroes, this sounds strangely familiar. It sounds like Sergeant Schultz. He says that the accusation, if true, is “outrageous.” [...]
Continue reading →Mark Sanford, who became famous for hiking the Appalachian Trail in 2009, was elected to the House of Representatives yesterday. He defeated the sister of political comic Stephen Colbert by a vote of 54% to 46%. The election was not close. I normally pay little attention to political races, but this one revealed the extent [...]
Continue reading →A recent poll by Farleigh Dickenson University reveals that 44% of Republicans think that an armed revolution may be necessary someday soon to defend American liberties. This indicates two things: (1) loss of faith in Constitutional politics; (2) an inability to count the costs. If you take this position, you have adopted the view of [...]
Continue reading →Jay Leno has an idea. President Obama, now in his fifth year as President, thinks that someone should close Gitmo. It would have happened in 2009, except that something or other has kept this from happening. Leno has a solution: “President Obama held a press conference earlier today, and he said he still wants to [...]
Continue reading →Robert Nisbet was a sociologist. Beginning in 1953, he established his intellectual leadership in the American conservative movement. Yet he was opposed to modern warfare, with its messianic claims and gigantic budgets. While conservative Republicans usually favor Pentagon spending, this is because they do not understand how military spending expands the state and reduces our [...]
Continue reading →President Obama prefers golfing and vacationing to spending time in economics meetings. I regard this as good news for the nation. If the President wants to get his golf score down and his bowling score up, I say more power to him. If we could get Congress out on the links instead of in hearings [...]
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