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Gary North
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, […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 14, 2014
When you pay by credit card, take a close look at the slot you’re sticking your plastic inside: Transit officials in New York found a credit card skimmer inside a subway fare card vending machine Wednesday night. A customer discovered the skimmer and pulled it from the machine at the 59th St.-Columbus Circle station. ATM-style […]
Continue reading →Written by John Odermatt on March 28, 2014
Another state senator bites the dust. The unearthing of criminal activity involving state level politicians is becoming a recurring theme in the weekly news cycle. Yet people continue to tune in to hear politician’s ideas, they continue to vote, and they continue to pay their salaries. Two weeks ago we reported on a PA state […]
Continue reading →Posted on March 27, 2014
President Barack Obama has spent more time traveling abroad than other U.S. president in history at this point in their presidencies, according to a forthcoming study from the National Taxpayer Union Foundation (NTUF) provided exclusively to Breitbart News ahead of its public release. “The most internationally well-traveled President, through five years, is also flying the […]
Continue reading →Posted on March 19, 2014
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie engaged in a tense debate with an Obamacare advocate during a town hall in South River, N.J., on Tuesday, telling her the state won’t invest taxpayer dollars in a “failed federal program.” Maura Collinsgru, of New Jersey Citizen Action, accused Christie of failing to facilitate Medicaid expansion, thus getting in […]
Continue reading →Posted on March 18, 2014
As reported by the Washington Free Beacon, the State Department is spending U.S. tax dollars on some interesting titles to stock the library of the American Embassy in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The library, which specializes in “U.S foreign Policy, U.S. social and cultural issues, Art, Management, U.S. history, geography, the Economy, Human Rights, Press and […]
Continue reading →Posted on February 14, 2014
I know what you’re thinking when you read the headline to this post: “How in the world can Obamacare and the Sochi Olympics have anything in common?” Well, from a practical standpoint, they don’t. However, when you look at them as ego-driven political maneuvers that have cost billions and backfired somewhat spectacularly, we start to […]
Continue reading →Posted on August 29, 2013
The latest boondoggle: They’re at it again! The government wants to bring back a zombie. Originally created by Congress in 2007, the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program provided low-cost government loans that were subsidized, guaranteed, and then in part eaten, as we now know, by hapless and strung-out American taxpayers. Ford was the top beneficiary. […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on April 25, 2013
What does this look like to you? Yes, it does, doesn’t it? This is why the image has received media attention. How is it that the two rovers, which cost about $800 million to build, have found nothing of value in 18 months, and whose only media-worth performance has been the creation of this image? […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on April 19, 2013
Gary North’s Reality Check Recently, I wrote an article in which I argued that there are three political foundations of modern warfare: high graduated tax rates, a central bank, and the abolition of the gold coin standard. I called it “The Triumvirate of Modern Warfare.” From the day that Ron Paul was sworn in as […]
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