Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Major Hasan has not been convicted of doing anything amiss in 2009. So, he receives his paycheck. But what about his court martial? One of these days, Real Soon Now. Were there witnesses? Lots. Were there dead bodies? Thirteen. Wounded? Over 30. Then what’s the problem? Public relations. There will be witnesses called who will [...]
Continue reading →I call it “blowing off the hand that feeds you.” The family of the accused bombers has received $100,000 in handouts from various government agencies over the years. There are 47 million Americans on food stamps. This family was one of them. I wonder if they still are. (Note: they are not stamps any more. [...]
Continue reading →A shift has taken place since the lockdown of Boston. In two polls, the results are the same: more Americans fear the government more than they fear terrorism. One poll was taken by Fox News. The other was taken by the Washington Post. This is new. Here is the question: “Would you be willing to [...]
Continue reading →A man in Watertown, Massachusetts noticed something odd. It seemed as though his backyard boat had been disturbed. He tipped off the government. The various governments, which had locked down Boston in a vain attempt to find a missing teenager, sent troops into his back yard. They shot up his boat. To see the photos, [...]
Continue reading →This video was shot by a neighbor. None of this did any good. An informant broke the case. He spotted changes in his backyard boat. For this act of patriotism, he was rewarded. The SWATs shot up his boat.
Continue reading →It turns out that the FBI failed to register the fact that the Boston bomber flew to Russia in 2011. Someone misspelled his name when he got on the plane. You mean that the nation’s suspected-terrorist monitoring system is dependent on correctly spelled names? Yes. You mean that billions of dollars in sophisticated equipment can [...]
Continue reading →A runner in the Boston marathon reports that he saw police using explosives-sniffing dogs before the marathon began. There were police spotters on nearby buildings. He said that there was an announcement that this was just a drill. Some drill! He said he has never seen a drill like this in other marathons he has [...]
Continue reading →Sunni Muslims sure do know how to pick their anniversaries and their victims. Thus, we are reminded once again of the outcome of Bush’s war in Iraq — a war not officially declared by the U.S. Congress, in opposition to the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8). But Congress then funded it. What did [...]
Continue reading →This is called biting the hand that feeds you. Mr. Karzai sees the handwriting on the wall. Obama has said he will withdraw the troops. This means the Taliban will once again run Afghanistan. Mr. Karzai will not. That is because Mr. Karzai will be gone, one way or another: either by plane or by [...]
Continue reading →Worried about an Attorney General who defends the idea that the President has the authority to kill an American citizen with a drone — no trial, just “boom”? Uncertain about whether this involves an invasion of your civil rights? Concerned that the President has the unchallenged and unchallengeable power — if you’re dead — to [...]
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