Originally posted on April 9, 2014. Libertarians lead the fight for your second amendment and privacy rights. Here my friend David Boaz, Cato Institute’s executive vice-president explains libertarian fundamentals including the powerful effort Rand Paul continues to make on behalf of all Americans. Libertarian ideas often cross left-right boundaries. Lots of libertarians were involved in […]
The Mirage of Australia’s Gun Control
Originally posted October 4, 2017. In conversations about gun control, champions of gun control often mention Australia as a shinning example of the road America should follow. What is overlooked, however, is that Australia’s buyback program was an extensive strategy of gun confiscation. In the Federalist, Varad Mehta brings up the crucial point of how […]
Thinking Back: More Guns Less Crime!
Originally posted January 18, 2013. You can do your part in safeguarding our children by alerting your representatives in Washington, your governor, and your local sheriff to John R. Lott, Jr.’s More Guns Less Crime. Understanding crime and gun control laws is the forte of America’s eminent authority John Lott. Milton Friedman has written about […]
Thinking Back: Crazy Always Seems to Find a Way
Originally posted January 14, 2011. As the debate on gun control heats up in the wake of the Tucson massacre, the predictable flow of misinformation is coming out of the Brady Campaign, America’s number one gun control lobby. Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign, is on the news telling Americans that the gun used […]
Gun Control’s Effect on Violence, Part II
Originally posted November 2, 2016. Last week I introduced you to a piece by Robert Verbruggen explaining the flaw in a study of violence involving firearms by the Center for American Progress (a liberal progressive think tank). Verbruggen continued his exploration of research involving guns and crime here. In his second piece he addresses an […]
The Trump Express Gathers Steam
National Review, hardly a Trump cheerleader in the past, headlines its 5 Feb issue by giving a thumbs up for the President. Victor Davis Hanson writes of The Case for The Trump Presidency. As President Trump finished his first full year in office, he could look back at an impressive record of achievement of a […]
N.Y. Times & Nate Silver Misled Americans
As Election Day began in 2016, the media narrative was one of imminent victory for Hillary Clinton. Nate Silver, who suggested Donald Trump had a 29% chance of victory was pilloried by his peers, but even he was misleading America on the businessman’s prospects of becoming president. As Debbie and I drove through most of […]
Donald Trump—Blurting out the Truth
In Impromptus, National Review’s Jay Nordlinger writes on what Jay calls President Trump’s refreshing candor: I’ll tell you something I like about Trump — his occasional bursts of candor. You remember when he fired the FBI director? His flacks said he did so because the director had treated Hillary Clinton unfairly and all that. Trump […]
Why Should America Accept Immigrants Who Will Rely on Welfare?
There has been a storm of criticism over President Trump’s alleged comments about third world countries at a private meeting last week. Writing at The National Review, Jeremy Carl pinpoints an irrefutable problem with allowing immigration from third world countries. That problem is that many of those immigrants end up on welfare here in the […]
Breaking News: Welcome Back Justin Logan!
We are pleased to welcome back Justin Logan to www.richardcyoung.com. You can search the website for his sharp-witted and timeless takes on politics and American foreign policy. Read Justin’s latest piece here with much more to come in 2018! Formerly the Cato Institute’s director of foreign policy studies, Logan writes primarily about politics and American foreign policy. He […]
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