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Gary North
Written by Gary North on May 15, 2013
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 →Written by Gary North on May 14, 2013
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 →Written by Gary North on May 8, 2013
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 →Written by Gary North on May 3, 2013
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 →Written by Gary North on May 2, 2013
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 →Written by Gary North on April 30, 2013
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 →Written by Gary North on April 30, 2013
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 […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on April 26, 2013
An Associated Press story describes a political war in the State of Israel. A new political party is now in second place. This is in a nation in which no political party has ever gained a majority vote. It is a nation of coalition politics. The new party is opposed to what is called ultra-Orthodox […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on April 25, 2013
A Gallup poll asked Americans what their views were of Pelosi, Reid, Boehner, and McConnell. The public responded: unfavorable. But, in this quartet of leaders, Pelosi won out: by far the most unfavorable. She continues to plummet. More Americans (79%) knew who she was than the other three, and of those who had heard of […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on April 25, 2013
The staff photographer for President Bush took a million photos. The President kept all of them. This week, the GWB Presidential library opens in Dallas. If someone wants to view a million photos of Bush, he can. I don’t know who goes to a Presidential library. There are 13 of these libraries. Bush’s cost $250 […]
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