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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.

The Final Solution

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On 20 January 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials met in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” The Wannsee Conference was held for the specific purpose: to further coordinate a policy aimed at the physical annihilation […]

Gun Control Costs Lives

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Thomas Sowell writes in NRO that a disarmed population makes crime a safer occupation for criminals. Why anyone would think that criminals who disobey other laws, including laws against murder, would obey gun-control laws is a mystery. Do you think that someone who is prepared to use a 30-shot magazine for criminal purposes is going […]

Hillary’s Lip Service to Wages and Inequality

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Hillary Clinton’s economic plan “to raise American incomes” unfortunately is nothing more than a “list of feel-good statements with very little specificity,” writes Richard W. Rahn in the Washington Times. Hillary has said she is in favor of tax relief for families, yet, unlike many of her Republican rivals, she has failed to provide specific […]

Hopelessly Overleveraged

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Government and politicians have no learning curve, writes economist Stephen Moore in the Washington Times. The conditions of financial wreckage that took place in 2007/2008 are reappearing today. As Mr. Moore warns, Washington—the President, Congress, and the Fed—is rebuilding another financial house of cards. When the financial crash comes from this “rampant financial negligence of […]

A Model of Seriousness, Professionalism and Discreetness

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Kimberley A. Strassel writes in the WSJ that the real shame of the dust-up between Hillary Clinton and Kevin McCarthy is that it wrongly discredits the work the House Benghazi committee, especially Trey Gowdy, has done. The investigation led by Mr. Gowdy “has been a model of seriousness, professionalism and discreetness.” Keeping the Benghazi committee […]

Buyer Beware—Organic, Farm Raised, Wild?

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Confused on the labeling for fish: “organic,” “wild” or “farm raised”? You should be, because the USDA does not have organic-certification criteria for seafood. Food & Water Watch reports that any fish with an organic label is imported and is “organic” according to some other country’s standards. Here is what an “organic” label means: It […]

The Tragedy of NYC Schools

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Why does NYC Mayor Bill de Biasio want to protect the entrenched interests of an education system in which only 19% of black students in district schools are working on grade level? Nicholas Simmons, a vice president in the Success Charter School network, writes in the WSJ that he worked in the same building as […]

Hillary’s Executive Order?

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Kevin D. Williamson reminds us in NRO that theatrical shootings like the most recent one that took place at the Umpqua Community College in Oregon are not the problem. Nor, as he notes, are hysterical reactions the solution. As President Barack Obama rushes to make another pitch for stricter gun-control policies and Hillary Clinton proposes […]

Budget Restraints Wavering in D.C.?

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According to Stephen Moore, “Congress and the White House are quietly negotiating a deal for the new fiscal year that would bust the spending caps that have brought down the deficit.” But as Mr. Moore points out, “The mystery is why Republicans are so ready to throw away their best fiscal weapon against Mr. Obama […]