Gary Gibson is the managing editor for Whiskey and Gunpowder. He joins the Whiskey staff as a long-time fan and reader of both Whiskey and Gunpowder and the Daily Reckoning. A graduate of Fordham University, Gary now spends his days reading about and writing on limited government, sound money, personal responsibility and resource investing.
As soon as the noose was around his neck, Guy Fawkes broke free from the hangman and leaped off the scaffolding — guaranteeing a quick drop with a stop sharp enough to break his neck cleanly...
It seems like an odd result for a man to be in such a hurry ...read more
Obama sure loves killing people with his drones.
GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. investigator has called on the Obama administration to justify its policy of assassinating rather than capturing al Qaeda or Taliban suspects, increasingly with the use of unmanned drone aircraft that also take civilian lives.
Christof Heyns, U.N. special rapporteur ...read more
"Why are you throwing away your money on rent?" we were often asked between 2004 and 2006. "You could be making a killing right now if you were buy a house."
Long-suffering readers know that their Whiskey editor opted to stock up on silver instead of real estate in those critical ...read more
Yesterday in his insightful and wonderfully rendered article Dr. North wrote:
"A state that does not claim the ability to heal, the legal right to heal, and the moral responsibility to heal is a night-watchman state. It does not make comprehensive claims for delivering men, so it does not make comprehensive ...read more
If you're planning to leave the U.S. for any reason, you may soon need to make sure your taxes are all paid up.
The U.S. government is looking to plug up leaks on its tax slave ship. From CBS...
LOS ANGELES (CBS) -- A bill authored by a Southland lawmaker that could ...read more
Trayvon Martin had it coming.
We read those words to that effect from an article linked to by a libertarian website we visit very regularly.
“In Zimmerman’s case, Martin was an athletic six-foot-two-inch tall football player that had him on his back pounding on him. Martin got what he deserved.”
So wrote Paul ...read more
"Ben Bernanke the money bomber has resorted to delivering his anti-gold, pro-fiat sermons to captive audiences on US college campuses," writes Dan Denning of The Daily Reckoning Australia.
That's right. Bernanke is taking his easy money message to the streets.
According to Bloomberg:
"Now that the weather is nice, I'm half-expecting Ben ...read more
Sell Your Gold. Buy a House. Put Nickels in It.
Normally we would not look upon buying a single family house for personal use as an investment. But these are strange times we live in.
Why don’t we consider a single-family house for personal use an investment?
In a completely free market (and ...read more
In a world of rising gasoline prices, Forbes tells us that gasoline prices are not actually rising, and in fact are lower than ever.
And they ain't lyin'!
Writing for Forbes Louis Woodhill gets this seeming contradiction right. He views the price of gas not in terms of the depreciating monopoly money ...read more
“You can either stand with us...or with the child pornographers.”
That’s the latest “with us or against us” salvo trotted out to justify more government intrusion into private life. This time, it comes from Canada’s public safety minister as a response to concerns over the new Protecting Children From Internet Predators ...read more
