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The TEA PARTY ECONOMIST Ron Paul's original staff economist, Dr. Gary North! Saturday, March 16, 2013

WEEK IN REVIEW: The top stories of the week Feinstein's Assault Weapons Bill: Dead on Arrival California's Diane Feinstein has introduced a bill to ban about 150 types of rifles. There are not machine guns, which are under controls. These are like automatic pistols that let you fire several rounds without physically pulling back the hammer with your thumb. No one speaks of a pistol as an assault weapon, merely because... READ MORE How Americans Can Avoid Capital Gains Taxes Forever They can move to Puerto Rico. That's all there is to it? Yes. Puerto Rico has been a great tax haven for Americans for decades. I had a Puerto Rican official speak at one of my conferences 25 years ago on this. Any firm that employed up to five Puerto Ricans could avoid federal income ... READ MORE Obama Says Iran Will Have a Nuclear Weapon in a Year. Obama will be visiting with the head of the state of Israel next week. He will not visit long. He will be touring the region. He raised the issue of Iran yesterday. He said that Iran is a year away ftom having a nuclear weapon. He did not say what the evidence is for this. ... READ MORE The Search for More Pork on Mars Continues There isn't any life on Mars. There is no evidence that there ever was life on Mars. But there is surely pork on Mars. NASA wants to continue to slice off plenty of it. NASA today is eligible for sequestration, preferably 100% sequestration. NASA does nothing worth financing by the private sector. It never has. ... READ MORE Free Digitized Newspapers for Historical Research Do we want the federal government to continue to spend millions of dollars to digitize old newspapers? Or do we want this guy to do it for free as a hobby? You decide. ... READ MORE