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Debbie, our chief political writer of Richardcyoung.com, is also our chief domestic affairs writer, a contributing writer on Eastern Europe and Paris and Burgundy, France. She has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over five decades. Debbie lives in Key West, Florida, and Newport, Rhode Island, and travels extensively in Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga. Debbie has completed the 200-hour Krama Yoga teacher training program taught by Master Instructor Ruslan Kleytman. Debbie is a strong supporting member of the NRA.

Republicans and Their “Self-Inflicted Wounds”

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“It’s time to ask whether the attack on the United States Congress Wednesday was foreseeable, predictable and, to some degree, self-inflicted.” That unhinged commentary came from Scott Pelley, newsman for CBS Evening News, the day after the shooting of GOP congressmen as they practiced for the upcoming Congressional Baseball Game, a charity competition between a […]

Ironies Great and Small: Part IV—Better than the Alternative Trump

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Or why Donald Trump was long overdue. Well over 90% of conservatives and Republicans voted for Donald Trump. Many of them would have much preferred one of the other candidates in the primaries, but Mr. Trump was certainly their candidate in the general election. “For these pragmatists, there are both pleasant and occasionally worrisome ironies,” […]

Ironies Great and Small: Part III—Trump vs. Always Trump

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Americans voted for a wrecking ball, and there’s little doubt that’s what America got, continues Victor Davis Hanson in NRO. To Always Trumpers, the president’s vulgarity is “the necessary tough antidote to what they see as the polished crudity of the elite class, who are quite indecent in their sanctimonious lectures on amnesties or globalized […]

Ironies Great and Small: Part II—Trump vs. Never Trump

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Victor Davis Hanson’s list of ironies continues (read Trump vs. Progressives here). Never Trumpers have had a hard time conceding that, despite assurances to the contrary, “something had gone terribly wrong with their top-down party, although they resent that it was raucous billionaire Donald Trump who administered the diagnosis.” Despite assurances that Trump would not get the […]

Ironies Great and Small: Part I—Trump vs. Progressives

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Victor Davis Hanson lays out in NRO the many ironies of Donald Trump being president for the Left, for the Never Trump, for the Always Trump, and for the Better Than the Alternative.  First, the Left. Left-leaning politicians and media were untroubled by the President Obama’s unconstitutional abuses during his eight years in the White […]

Success Comes to NYC Schools

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Despite progressive NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio’s best efforts to stop the spread of charter schools, the school year is ending on another high note for NYC’s Success Academy Charter Schools, Jason L. Riley informs readers in the WSJ. Here’s why the waiting list for Success continues to swell with more than 17,000 applications for […]

How’s This for an Obama Legacy?

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From NRO’s Andrew McCarthy, read about the Obama White House’s unlawful surveillance and massive abuse of foreign intelligence gathering: Enabling of domestic spying, contemptuous disregard of court-ordered minimization procedures (procedures the Obama administration itself proposed, then violated), and unlawful disclosure of classified intelligence to feed a media campaign against political adversaries. While President Barack Obama […]

Squaring the Health Care Circle with Fairy Dust

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What do Americans really want from health-care reform? Unlimited care, from the doctor of their choice, with no wait, and, well yes, free of charge, writes Michael D. Tanner, senior fellow at the Cato Institute. For Republicans, trying to square this circle has led to panic, paralysis, and half-baked policy proposals such as the Obamacare-replacement […]

Connecticut—the Chickens Come Home to Roost

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As an intro to NRO’s “Rust Belt Connecticut,” read first from Timothy O. Jones, associate editor at Young Research & Publishing, why he left the Hudson Valley region of New York, Connecticut’s neighbor, where he grew up. No surprise to me. That’s why I’m here (Aquidneck Island) and not in the heart of the Hudson […]

Wealthy Politicians: Good for Me, but Not for Thee

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Being a millionaire today does not have the same cachet it did say 20 years ago. Still, even by today’s standards, earning $1+ million in one year is pretty darn good, especially for a socialist like Bernie Sanders. As NRO’s Jim Geraghty points out, though, Bernie’s $1 million pales in comparison to Hillary’s $14 million […]