TEA PARTY ECONOMIST

The TEA PARTY ECONOMIST Ron Paul's original staff economist, Dr. Gary North! Saturday, January 26, 2012

WEEK IN REVIEW: The top stories of the week Gun Violence Is Urban, Inner-City Violence We know where gun violence is highest: inner-city districts that vote Democrat. Is there any way to get the guns away from gangs? No. We all know this. Even Congress knows this. Democrats say they want to get guns away from dangerous people. They do not mean people living in their voting districts. They mean... READ MORE Water on Mars: The Endless Search With Our Tax Money Goes On. Two more scientists have said that we — meaning American taxpayers — are close, very close, just-around-the-corner close to discovering water on Mars. Water means life is possible. Life being possible means more money spent to discover life on Mars. Life on Mars means that the the Bible’s version of life has to be wrong. ... READ MORE As I Predicted 13 Months Ago, Apple’s Days of Easy Profits Have Ended. In early December, 2011, I wrote an article on why I thought Apple would lose the smart phone war to Android. Read it here: http://www.garynorth.com/public/8798.cfm Apple’s momentum is now slowing. It suffered a profit decline in the fourth quarter. That has not happened in a decade. It is a great company. It sells music. It... READ MORE A New Site for the Woman Who Owns a Gun (and Plans to Buy Another One) There is a new website that targets what I hope is a large and growing audience: women who own guns. These are women who inwardly cheered when Sandra Bullock warned hooligans in The Blind Side that she was packing. The hooligans wisely left her alone. The site is here: http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com In a time of increasing... READ MORE Rand Paul Sticks It Good and Hard to Hillary He said the obvious: no one got fired for the disaster at Benghazi. “I take responsibility,” she said immediately after the disaster that she had overseen. That meant: “I get a free pass.” Ran Paul took away the free pass. He compared Benghazi with 9-11. No one got fired after 9-11, either. There is no... READ MORE