TEA PARTY ECONOMIST

The TEA PARTY ECONOMIST Ron Paul's original staff economist, Dr. Gary North! Friday, March 8, 2013

Dumb and Dumber: McCain and Graham Attack Rand Paul’s Filibuster Worried about an Attorney General who defends the idea that the President has the authority to kill an American citizen with a drone — no trial, just “boom”? Uncertain about whether this involves an invasion of your civil rights? Concerned that the President has the unchallenged and unchallengeable power — if you’re dead — to... READ MORE Rev. Jim Wallis’s Little White Lies for Jesus Does the end justify the means? Should we fib for Jesus? Are little white lies for the masses OK, if you are pursuing the Social Gospel? Jim Wallis thinks the correct answers are all “yes.” He was approached by producers of the big budget History Channel series, The Bible. He is proud of that show. ... READ MORE Foxholes, Enemies, and Allies “Politics makes for strange bedfellows.” This slogan has been around for a long time, probably for about as long as there have been politicians. This observation applies outside of politics. One of the strangest developments over the last 50 years has been a growing social and political alliance of left-wing Jews and left-wing Gentiles on ... READ MORE Evernote Shoots Itself in the Foot Over the Attempted Hack Evernote is a useful tool. You can save texts on the Web for free. It has a powerful search engine. With two clicks of a mouse, you can be sure that you will be able to retrieve anything you find on the Web. You can use memory aids: key words. That was then. This is... READ MORE 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