Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Last Thursday afternoon, the Senate was briefed in a closed hearing by the NSA, CIA, FBI, and assorted spying agencies. Only 47 of the 100 Senators showed up. They flew home instead. It was Father’s Day weekend. The Senate is not all that concerned. It puts up the money for these agencies. The CIA and [...]
Continue reading →Back in 1977, Lew Rockwell, who was then editor of Private Practice, assembled three teams of physicians from Great Britain, Canada, and Australia, plus some economists, and sent them on a two-week tour. I was one of them. We spoke in 12 cities in 14 days. Our target audience was physicians. Our message: to get [...]
Continue reading →President Obama has promised to send military aid to the rebel forces in Syria. Senator McCain and ex-President Clinton both had publicly chastised Obama for hesitating. On Tuesday evening, Clinton warned Obama that he risked looking like a “total wuss” and a “total fool” if he continued to sit to the sidelines. On Wednesday, Obama [...]
Continue reading →On January 1, Capitol Hill will lose its 75% health insurance subsidy. The members and staffers will be thrown overboard into the shark-infested waters of Obamacare — the health care exchanges (which still do not exist). If they get out before January 1, they can save jobs in private industry that cover them. The exodus [...]
Continue reading →New accounting standards are being applied by Moody’s to cities. It turns out that the two biggest cities in California — Los Angeles and San Francisco — are way deeper in the hole than previously admitted. But wait! There’s more! San Jose will be downgraded. So will Inglewood (“The Hood”). So will Azusa. The total [...]
Continue reading →Senator Rand Paul spoke at a meeting of Faith and Freedom, an evangelical Protestant activist organization. Highlights: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Americans are seen by Pakistanis as infidels and invaders. We will not in a thousand years bring enlightenment to Pakistan, [...]
Continue reading →So, you don’t want plastic guns made on a 3-D printer? You want a metal gun. You don’t care about metal detectors at an airport. You are concerned about gun registration. It looks as though your answer is almost here. Possibly by the end of summer, you will be able to buy a computer-driven desktop [...]
Continue reading →A recent Pew Research poll reveals that a majority of Americans don’t care that the NSA spies on them. Or do they? A Gallup poll says a little over half are concerned. The voters are split down the middle: as this nation has been for a decade, which is why we got two terms for [...]
Continue reading →Al Franken is the U.S. Senator from Minnesota. He recently gave a local TV interview. He is the chairman of — get this — the Senate subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law. He said this. “As chairman of the Privacy, Technology and Law subcommittee, probably no one looks at the right to privacy more [...]
Continue reading →Sorry to break it to you, but your personal information is barely worth paying for. At most, it’s worth $1. That is the estimate of the Financial Times. Private companies have data files on most of us. The files let them target our buying interests. The firms don’t monitor our phone calls. But they do [...]
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