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Written by Gary North on May 24, 2014
This is fun. A 17-year-old girl has defeated a Republican member of the state House of Representatives in West Virginia. She is in a heavily Republican district. She is likely to win in November, when she will be 18. She came out of nowhere. Her classmates, as seniors in high school, were allowed to vote […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 16, 2014
I had not heard of Congressman Gowdy until yesterday. I hope to hear of him again. He made a 3-minute presentation in front of the mainstream media’s agents. I have never seen anything like it. As an example of rhetoric, it is flawless. He ended it exactly right. He took no prisoners. All in all, […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 6, 2014
The Secretary-General of the United Nations — do you know his name? — gave a speech over the weekend. He announced the following. Climate change is the defining issue of our time. If we do not take urgent action, all our plans for increased global prosperity and security will be undone.” http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=47718#.U2c6tCiPNqJ This speech indicates […]
Continue reading →Posted on May 1, 2014
Tal Fortgang, a freshman at Princeton University, says he has been ordered to “check your privilege” by his “moral superiors” several times this year because he happens to be a white male. In a column in the Princeton Tory, Fortgang takes on the ideology he says ”assumes that simply because I belong to a certain […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on April 29, 2014
Well, it finally happened. Secretary of State John Kerry has pulled off a verbal faux pas that makes Joe Biden look like a rank amateur. He publicly said that the State of Israel is bordering on becoming an apartheid state. Now the fun begins. The waffling. The “I meant to says.” The “he meant to […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 24, 2014
With midterm election season in full swing, and coming off of my recent interview with the great Murray Sabrin for the Lions of Liberty Podcast, it seems like an appropriate time to examine the role of political action when it comes to advancing the ideas of liberty. As I see it there are generally three […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 23, 2014
When pressed by Associated Press reporter Matt Lee at a Tuesday press conference, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki was unable to name a single “tangible achievement” from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2010 Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review. In 2009, Clinton announced the State Department would begin conducting routine performance reviews in the QDDR. The […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 22, 2014
During a track-side speech on railway safety Friday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) unintentionally demonstrated just how important railway safety is. Watch what happens as soon as the surprised senator says: “Safety, as you know, is paramount.” Yes it is, senator, yes it is. The video may go viral, but not for the reasons you would […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 22, 2014
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry had a bold suggestion for Democrats she believes lack “swagger” going into November’s midterm elections: tell voters to “just deal” with health care plans canceled due to Obamacare. The hyper-liberal cable news host bemoaned what she views as the Democratic Party’s unwillingness to campaign hard on their “accomplishments.” She likened this […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 19, 2014
Maryland has given up on its Obamacare website, but not before spending $90 million of taxpayer funding on technology, according to a cost breakdown released Friday. Of the $90 million, exchange board Chairman Joshua Sharfstein said that the marketplace spent $55 million on the website itself, The Washington Post reports. Officials opted in late March, […]
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