Pandemic Report No. 3 What a difference a week makes! When I wrote my last report on April 6, the nation’s leaders were still basing their decisions on coronavirus computer “models” that were unchallenged. I sought to show that the foreign statistics that formed the basis for these models ranged from unreliable to useless, and […]
How Bad Has the Pandemic Been? How Bad Will It Be?
Pandemic Report No. 2 “U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Hits Highest Any Country Has Suffered in One Day”—Daily Beast, April 3 “Coronavirus May Kill 100,000 to 240,000 in U.S. Despite Actions, Officials Say”—The New York Times, March 31 Not so fast! Let’s all take a deep breath and see if it is possible to make sense […]
Rapid-Response Book on the Corona Crisis
Talk about quick action. The coronavirus crisis has been with us for just three months, and the American Institute for Economic Research (Great Barrington, Massachusetts) already has a book available from Amazon. It’s Coronavirus and Economic Crisis, with 24 contributors and edited by Peter C. Earle. AIER summarizes the main takeaways of the book: The […]
How Big of a Threat Is the Coronavirus?
How big of a threat is the coronavirus in the United States? The answer, of course, is that nobody knows. I certainly do not want to downplay the seriousness of the pandemic, especially in regard to the measures you should take to protect yourself. However, there is some reason to view the “end of the […]
The Biden Candidacy: Part II Can Joe Biden Defeat President Trump in November?
The bid to become the Democratic presidential nominee is now a two-mule race between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. And the question that’s foremost in the minds of most Democrats is: Can either of them defeat President Trump in November? The Democratic establishment—its large donors, Washington insiders, party hacks, and down-ballot officeholders—clearly think Bernie Sanders […]
The Biden Candidacy: Part I, Is Joe Biden Really a ‘Moderate’ Democrat?
And then there were two. It was an amazing week in the Democratic race for the party’s presidential nomination. After Joe Biden’s victory in South Carolina, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Mike Bloomberg, and Elizabeth Warren jumped ship in quick succession. The first three endorsed Biden, and Warren isn’t saying what she will do. That leaves […]
You Think Politics Is Mean and Nasty Today? You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet.
Yes, politics is mean and nasty today. But arguably it’s been worse—there haven’t been any canings on the floor of the Senate recently (though I might entertain the argument that there should have been). But politics is at a mean and dirty level we haven’t seen since the 1960s. Big government means more of everything […]
Amy Klobuchar Wins the Democrats’ Vice Presidential Nomination
The results from New Hampshire are in, and the Granite State has succeeded in narrowing the Democrats’ presidential race to a more manageable number—four. Joe Biden is toast. Elizabeth Warren is toast, as are the other candidates who never made it into the double digits. Left standing are Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, and Amy Klobuchar. […]
California’s Chickens are Coming Home to Roost
Editors’ Note: We’d like to welcome David Franke to Richardcyoung.com. David Franke was one of the founders of the conservative movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s, starting his media career at Human Events and National Review (editorial assistant to William F. Buckley Jr.). His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington […]
GOP Results in the 2019 Elections may not Be as Poor as the Media Want You to Believe
The “mainstream” media would have you believe that the 2019 elections were a disaster for the Republican Party and presage a Democratic victory in 2020. This interpretation may be an attempt at wish-fulfillment on their part. Kentucky: Yes, the Democratic candidate has a very slim lead in the gubernatorial race, but the Republican incumbent governor […]
