Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Tea Party groups are organizing a national rally to protest the IRS’s invasive tactics against conservative organizations. An interactive map of where the meetings will be held is here. This has been great publicity for the Tea Party movement. It is likely to grow. Here is why this is important. Bureaucracies fear three things, and [...]
Continue reading →Gary North’s Reality Check I wrote a critique of Leftist commentator James Howard Kuntsler, who praises local government action to make it illegal to open a Walmart store or any other “big box” store, as he calls them. You can read my critique here: http://www.garynorth.com/public/10717.cfm Kunstler has coined a phrase to describe Tea Party supporters: [...]
Continue reading →The 2011 budget bill established automatic spending cuts. These will begin on March 1 unless Congress and the President agree on a way to kick the can and run up the on-budget deficit. The whole thing is a charade. The cuts are always cuts in the expected increase in spending, not actual reductions in today’s [...]
Continue reading →Jim Wallis is the most terminally naïve public figure I have seen over the last 45 years. Nobody else comes close. Every year, he gets invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It is the annual meeting of the richest and most powerful people on earth. Why do they invite Wallis? Wallis is [...]
Continue reading →Gary North’s Reality Check (Jan. 3, 2013) This evening, Ron Paul will no longer be a member of Congress. It has happened before. At the end of this day in January 1977 he was no longer a member of Congress. He had lost by 268 votes out of over 180,000. At the end of this [...]
Continue reading →The Tea Party is in the process of replacing the Republican Establishment. It will take a few Presidential elections, but it’s happening. The Establishment can see it: Democrat and Republican. There is nothing it can do about this. Leftist New York Times columnist Frank Rich sees it and explains it from the liberal point of [...]
Continue reading →Gary North’s Reality Check I have just read the best article in National Review that I can remember in the last 40 years. Of course, this is not saying a great deal, because I stopped reading National Review about 40 years ago. I used to write for it occasionally. My introduction to the magazine was in the [...]
Continue reading →U. S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz defeated the Establishment candidate by 12 percentage points: 56% to 44.% Yet he had lost in the primary in late May. But a runoff was required. The Establishment candidate did not get a majority in May. This is a huge turnaround. It sent a message to the Good Republican [...]
Continue reading →Americans are learning how to beat the system, cheat the system, and outfox the system. As the bureaucrats tighten their many nooses, Americans are finding ways to slip the noose. An article in Forbes offers examples. They are everywhere. Businesses are just ignoring the rules. They hire lawyers to help them avoid the law. They [...]
Continue reading →The Tea Party Economist is now #9 in the rankings for libertarian sites. It has moved up fast. The site went online last October. All of the other sites in the top ten have been in operation for years. This means that some of you are posting the articles on Facebook and Twitter. This helps [...]
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