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The TEA PARTY ECONOMIST Ron Paul's original staff economist, Dr. Gary North! Monday, April 1, 2013

Video: The Origin of Gun Control in America in 30 Seconds Liberals want gun control. They never mention where they got the idea. In 30 seconds, here’s the “background check” on where they got the idea. READ MORE 71st Anniversary: Roosevelt’s Concentration Camps On April 1, 1942, California announced the order for the arrest and deportation of Japanese citizens in California. They were sent into internment camps — read: concentration camps in Idaho. Here are photos and an accompanying account. Here are other photos. We all know this story. President Roosevelt signed an executive order on February 19, [...] READ MORE Video: When You See This, Think “Blackmail.” Watch this short video. Be patient. At the end, you will find out why you needed to watch it. Then think about some of its implications. READ MORE And the Winner of Bush’s Iraq War Is . . . Iran! Ron Paul voted against the Iraq “not quite a declaration of war, but almost” resolution in 2003. Do you recall how many Republican Congressmen voted “no”? Take a guess. Six. If the media went to the Congressmen and Senators who voted for this resolution, and asked them to explain why they did so, what would [...] READ MORE Gun Control in the Senate: The Filibuster is Back! It has been all over for Feinstein’s gun grab for weeks. Her bill was dead on arrival, as I wrote two weeks ago. But now the Senate Democrats’ softer core version is DOA. There is a group of Republicans ready to imitate Rand Paul’s 13-hour marathon. They see the publicity he got, and they are [...] READ MORE Sequestration Undermines Federal Gun Control. The gun control crowd is facing a setback. Sequestration is going to cut into federal gun control efforts. U.S. News and World Report ran an article on the the federal government’s efforts in this regard. It concluded: “The U.S. court system has said that sequestration will have a major impact on the federal judiciary, including [...] READ MORE Obamacare Hammers Upper Middle Class in California: 30% Premium Hikes If you are a lower income person in California, your ship has come in. If you make over $70,000, your ship has pulled out. You are about to be run over by a freight train. The Los Angeles Times reports: Compared with what individual policies cost now, premiums are expected to rise an average of [...] READ MORE Dead Letter Office: U.S. Government Doesn’t Use the U.S. Postal Service. How bad is the United States Postal Service? In order to get a straight answer on this, ask the federal government. The federal government uses the Postal Service 2% of the time. Here is an agency that is so utterly incompetent that the United States government will not use it. How’s that for a testimonial? [...] READ MORE Biden on Gun Control: Concession in Advance If this were an NBA basketball game, Red Auerbach would be lighting his cigar. Joe Biden has given a concession speech. Listen to his words on next month’s vote in the Senate — not the House, where the bill doesn’t have a chance of passing. “That doesn’t mean this is the end of the process. [...] READ MORE Leno, Out. Lauer, Maybe Out. Will Anyone Who Reads Even Notice? The mainstream media are slowly fading into irrelevance. The World Wide Web gets people under age 35 — the prime audience of prime-time TV. Advertisers quit paying. Movies are on cable. Old TV shows are on Hulu and Hulu-Plus. Oldsters prefer older shows. Youngsters prefer video games, YouTube, and texting. The investment that the Establishment [...] READ MORE