Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Posted on April 10, 2014
If you’ve paid even a modicum of attention to the House Oversight Committee hearings on the IRS scandal, you know that Ranking Member Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) has insisted from the beginning that the Republican-led investigation has been little more than a witch hunt. Cummings has been accused of virtually running cover for the White […]
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A family says they continue to be haunted after they were pulled over and held at gunpoint by military police following a Friday visit to an Ohio Air Force museum. According to Alice Hill, her grandson was studying the Wright brothers at school and wanted to see the plane on display at the National Museum […]
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Federal Reserve officials had a secret video conference call in early March and reached a general consensus that the 6.5% unemployment rate threshold for the first rate hike was outdated, the central bank said Wednesday. A summary of the video conference was included in the minutes of the Fed’s March 18-19 meeting released by the […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on April 9, 2014
Open entry is a powerful force. We see it in the free market. But we see it even more clearly in sports. Numbers trump color in sports: points on the scoreboard. In the free market, only two colors matter: black ink and red ink. Here, everyone wants black. THREE PHOTOS This is from the 1965-66 […]
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Union membership is declining across the board, across America. Check out this graph to see which areas are most affected and how the labor market is doing away with unionization.
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The number of Americans who were enrolled in Medicaid at any time during fiscal 2013 exceeded the entire population of the United Kingdom, according to new data published by the federal government’s Medicaid and CHIP Payment Access Commission (MACPAC). Were Medicaid a nation instead of a U.S. entitlement program it would be the 20th most […]
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According to the gun-grabbing left, no American needs a gun for self-defense ever, but one 83-year-old man is very happy he had a weapon to ward off an intruder to his Huntsville, Alabama home. From Alabama Media: According to a police report, the 83-year-old man said someone in a hooded sweatshirt came to his home […]
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Whether or not the European Central Bank will take the quantitative-easing plunge is on the minds of investors around the world, including in the U.S. But in the end, the decision, or at least it’s timing, could revolve around German holiday-makers and the prices they pay for their spring vacations, argues Standard Bank’s Steven Barrow. […]
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As shown in a viral video that flew through social media, California teacher and wrestling coach Mark Black took advantage of his takedown prowess during a classroom brawl to subdue a student he suspected was selling drugs. Black was put on temporary leave by Santa Monica High School pending the completion of an investigation. The […]
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Anti-government protesters calling for closer ties with Moscow seized regional government headquarters in two cities in Ukraine’s east on Sunday, in the most serious unrest there in the past month. Around 200 pro-Russian demonstrators broke into the government building in the industrial city of Donetsk, raising a Russian flag and demanding the local council call […]
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