Originally posted on March 19, 2015. The Second Amendment protects our right to bear arms. There is no downside risk in protecting the security of your family. The first rule of safety is a firearms safety course sponsored by the NRA. Firearms safety is all about education. Organizations like National Shooting Sports Foundation are dedicated […]
Why We Are Different
Beggar websites, I call them, exist by hounding the reader for constant donations. These sites are clogged with off-the-mark advertising promoting themes such as plastic surgery run amok (you know, the sausage-sized-lip thing), scantily clad women, and the latest roster of top 10 hottest one thing or another. Debbie and I fund richardcyoung.com in the […]
165,000 Convicted Criminal Aliens Released
Originally posted July 2, 2015. Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of NRA, writing in America’s 1st Freedom, tells readers that documents obtained from the U.S Department of Homeland Security show that as of April 2014 the Obama administration had released this group, including many convicted of violent crimes such as homicide, sexual assault and kidnapping. […]
Gov. Rick Scott at the Cato Policies Initiative
UPDATE: This post was originally run on February 11, 2011. Governor Rick Scott wowed the hard to impress audience at the Cato Institute Policies Initiative at The Ritz Carlton in Naples the day before. As Scott fights for a seat in the Senate, Floridians should remember all the hard work he has done for the […]
Can Government Keep Us Safe?
Blaming the National Rifle Association for the Parkland shootings is an attempt at deflecting blame, writes Glen Reynolds in USA Today. Much like Harvey Weinstein’s promise “to give the NRA my full attention,” after Harvey was exposed as a sexual predator, Broward County Sheriff Israel is offering the same. “It didn’t work for Weinstein and […]
The “Do Something” Syndrome
Does the federal government’s “inexorable bloat” make it a clear and present danger to the American people?” That is a question for public safety as well as a question for politics in America, writes Dan Henninger in the WSJ. The number of catastrophic events attributable in no small part to federal-agency failure in recent years […]
“Americans Must Arm Themselves”
Originally posted March 16, 2015. Michael Scheuer headed the CIA’s bin Laden unit, managed its covert-actions operations, and authored its rendition program. Scheuer spent his career developing strategies to keep America safe. Dr. Scheuer is also the author of Marching Toward Hell. Here in a summary of his original March 10, 2015 post at non-intervention.com, […]
How Tiny Switzerland Faced Down Hitler and The Nazis: Part II
“The full extent of the Nazi threat to Switzerland during World War II has never been adequately acknowledged. The reality was that the Swiss citizenry rifles in hand, stood up to the Nazis, threatening an unacceptable loss of German blood in the event of an invasion. When the Nazis conquered France, they decreed the death […]
101 Reasons to Move to New Hampshire
Originally March 4, 2016. If you would like to get more freedom in your life then the Free State Project (FSP) might be for you. FSP is an effort to recruit 20,000 liberty-loving people to move to New Hampshire. On February 3, 2016 FSP announced that more than 20,000 signatures had been obtained—a Statement of […]
Top Ten States for Making Money
Yesterday I reviewed per capita personal incomes by state from 1990 to 2012 as reported by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. That’s a long enough time-frame to eliminate any outliers. In terms of average annual growth in per capita income growth over that time period, most of the top ten are “red” states. Washington, D.C. […]
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