After House GOP leadership offered up a budget with a paltry $35 billion in cuts, the new Tea Party members rightly balked. This morning the Wall Street Journal reports that House leadership is putting another $26 billion of cuts in its budget for the remainder of the year. That’s a total of $61 billion over […]
Archives for February 2011
Buy BMW
Does it makes sense that the United Auto Workers (UAW) is tapping into its $800-million strike fund to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to force foreign automakers to unionize? Does it make sense that the Obama administration is allowing 45,000 federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers to unionize? Workers at BMW in Spartanburg, South […]
Governor Rick Scott at the Cato Policies Initiative
Yesterday, Matt, Debbie and I and a group of friends participated in a Cato Institute Policies Initiative at The Ritz Carlton in Naples, Florida. What a highly energized and masterfully organized event it was. The policy event was attended by over 600 of the most focused, serious folk I have ever seen assembled at such […]
Store Wars
A fun Star Wars parody about avoiding the Big Box stores and factory farming.
The End of Moderation
A disturbing article graced the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal this morning. In it the editors write that the Democratic Leadership Council, one of the few moderate Democratic policy institutions left in Washington, is closing down shop. That means that the leadership of the Democratic Party will receive even fewer moderate ideas and […]
The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth
The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth is a profound, elegantly presented, and masterfully written road map to health. This fun, easy-to-read book will amaze you with its convincing logic and powerful presentation. If you are like me, you will not be able to put it down. From my initial run-through of the book’s index (the […]
I.O.U.S.A. Part V
I.O.U.S.A. is a documentary about impending financial meltdown in America. This is part five of five.
Government by Jabba
As the fate of Obamacare slowly rolls its way toward the Supreme Court, it is time to remember that the most important man in America today is Justice Anthony Kennedy. With his swing vote he will decide the fortune of Obamacare, and either allow similar twisted legislation to become law in the future, or stop […]
I.O.U.S.A. Part IV
I.O.U.S.A. is a documentary about impending financial meltdown in America. This is part four of five. Stay tuned to Richardcyoung.com for the whole series.
Snowy Winter
It’s been a hard winter in the North East. Our friends and family up there have been telling us stories of the snowfall. Here are some pictures from Marra in Portland, Connecticut. Marra wrote “The winter here has been so brutal I can’t even describe it. We have had over 55″ of snow, a storm every […]