TEA PARTY ECONOMIST

The TEA PARTY ECONOMIST Ron Paul's original staff economist, Dr. Gary North! Monday, March 4, 2013

Senate Republicans Filibuster an Anti-Gun Lawyer. No Judgeship. Obama Throws a Tantrum. In 2011, President Obama nominated an anti-gun activist lawyer for a federal judge position. This woman believes that the courts should hold gun manufacturers liable for crimes committed with guns they made. This is judicial activism on a scale rarely seen. It take 60 votes to stop a filibuster. Democrats could muster only 51 votes ... READ MORE Wall Street Journal Defends Killing Americans With Drones Senator Rand Paul filibustered yesterday for 13 hours against John “Drone Man” Brennan’s nomination to run the CIA. This outraged the Wall Street Journal. Give Rand Paul credit for theatrical timing. As a snow storm descended on Washington, the Kentucky Republican’s old-fashioned filibuster Wednesday filled the attention void on Twitter and cable TV. If only ... READ MORE Socialism in Latin America: Dead and Dying Hugo [OOgowe] has gone. Fidel has retired. Raul says he will retire in a few years. He keeps quiet in the meantime, for which Cubans are happy. He does not give five-hour speeches the way his brother did. Chavez’s hand-picked replacement is a former bus driver. Who speaks for socialism today? North Korea’s Kim may ... READ MORE Time Warner to Jettison Time, as Print Media Continue Sinking Time Warner’s board has at last faced up to reality: print media are dying. They have decided to “spin off” Time Magazine and its paper-based peers. “Spin off” is spin for “dump.” Here is a company that is dumping its first name. No more Time Warner. Just Warner, I guess. It’s about time. The CEO... READ MORE A “Christian” Attack on Walmart and Anyone Who Shops There Gary North’s Reality Check I wrote a critique of Leftist commentator James Howard Kuntsler, who praises local government action to make it illegal to open a Walmart store or any other “big box” store, as he calls them. You can read my critique here: http://www.garynorth.com/public/10717.cfm Kunstler has coined a phrase to describe Tea Party supporters: ... READ MORE Video: The Secret of Success — Really Byron Reese had a goal: to speak at a TED conference. He achieved it. He is an entrepreneur. He has started several companies. One of them, “Expert Village,” he sold to eHow. He had two ideas (pre-YouTube). “First, bandwidth will get cheaper. Second, Americans don’t like to read.” The result: Expert Village. It is a ... READ MORE Video: A 15-Year-Old Invents a Test for Pancreatic Cancer. Cost: 3 cents. It also works for lung cancer. This will revolutionize cancer detection. It can be done in five minutes. It is 90% accurate. Existing procedures are 70% accurate and cost $800. His procedure costs 3 cents. The Internet made this possible. I wonder how long it will take for physicians to adopt it. ... READ MORE Libre Office: Close, But No Cigar We are told by reviews that Libre Office is better than Open Office, which for years has been a free alternative to Microsoft Office. Why is Libre Office better? Because there are more coders working on it. “But when Oracle bought Sun, legions of developers abandoned OpenOffice, and instead threw in with a forked version... READ MORE Can You Answer This Left-Wing Defender of Controlled Local Markets? I wrote an article on a far-Left critic of the free market. His name is James Howard Kunstler. You can read it here: http://www.garynorth.com/public/10717.cfm. He responded in the tried and true way that most Lefties respond when they cannot answer your arguments. He cried “fascist.” Better than that: he cried “corn-pone Nazi.” You can read ... READ MORE The Myth of Telecommuting The vast majority of Americans drive to the office and then drive home. They do not telecommute. Working at home by means of the Internet is not a popular option. Over 80% of Americans do not work at home part time. It turns out that most of the hours worked by telecommuting are put in ... READ MORE