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Gary North
Written by Gary North on August 19, 2013
The NSA bureaucrat in charge of compliance with federal law told reporters on Friday that the 2,700 violations reported by The Washington Post were the result of mistakes. The NSA is having a PR problem with documents provided Edward Snowden before he arrived in Russia. The Post article indicated that the NSA is spying on […]
Continue reading →Posted on August 16, 2013
When sequestration was about to kick in, the Obama administration began a nearly across-the-board campaign to discuss the devastating impact the automatic cuts would have on agency operations. At the center of these warnings stood employee furloughs: mandatory unpaid leave to help each department meet the lower budget caps that took effect March 1. Furloughs, […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 15, 2013
The U.S. Department of Agriculture issues this statistic every year. Reporters dutifully report it. There is no more misleading statistic that the government releases each year. It is clearly preposterous. It is never challenged by the media. No one asks this: “Why should the USDA be gathering these statistics?” Food absorbs less than 20% of […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 12, 2013
What is the solution to the problem of the NSA and the CIA? We know that the two organizations are not limited by their original charters, namely, to monitor the activities only of foreigners who might be a threat to the security of the United States, and never Americans. Every organization in the government wants […]
Continue reading →Posted on August 10, 2013
Hispanics in the U.S. identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party over the Republican Party by about a 2-to-1 margin, regardless of whether they were U.S.-born. Hispanics born outside the U.S. do have slightly less attachment to either party, and are more likely to be politically independent, but these differences do little to alter […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 2, 2013
Yes, my friends, climate change does this. We know this now. Heat does it. Of course, there has been no increase in world temperatures since 1998, but global warming could create violence. Maybe. Possibly. Shifts in climate are strongly linked to increases in violence around the world, a study suggests. US scientists found that even […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 2, 2013
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources sent an armed SWAT team to kill a fawn in an animal shelter. It’s illegal to keep a helpless wild animal in an animal shelter. People at the DNR know their jobs. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it. Nine DNR personnel. Four deputy sheriffs. When […]
Continue reading →Posted on August 1, 2013
Dear Leader Reid and Leader Pelosi: When you and the President sought our support for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), you pledged that if we liked the health plans we have now, we could keep them. Sadly, that promise is under threat. Right now, unless you and the Obama Administration enact an equitable fix, the […]
Continue reading →Posted on July 31, 2013
American voters say 55 – 34 percent that Edward Snowden is a whistle-blower, rather than a traitor, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today. In a massive shift in attitudes, voters say 45 – 40 percent of the government’s anti-terrorism efforts go too far in restricting civil liberties, a reversal from a January […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on July 30, 2013
Senator John McCain is going to tour Congressional districts in the state of Arizona in August, to drum up support for his bill to give a vote to 11 million illegal aliens. He thinks this is a sure-fire vote-getter in the state which borders on Mexico. As he says, Republicans should support this bill because […]
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