• Foods that Suppress Tumor Development By Richard C. Young
• MONEY’s Best Colleges By E.J. Smith
• UNESCO Grants World Heritage Status to Champagne and Burgundy By Richard C. Young
• Too Close for Comfort By Debbie Young
• Iranian Nuclear Deal—Cato’s Chris Preble is Positive By Richard C. Young
• Taking the Black Vote for Granted By Debbie Young
• Rand Paul Against The Iran Nuclear Deal By Richard C. Young
• Mossberg 590 Shotgun By E.J. Smith
• The Ruination of the French Riviera By Richard C. Young

You or someone dear to you may be undergoing treatment for cancer. If so you will potentially benefit by knowing about foods that can act within the immune system to kill cancer cells. In recent weeks, I have been compiling a series of articles that I have found to be helpful on the subject.

From eatlocalgrown.com: “Many specific proteins, enzymes, and, coding within our immune system may be activated to kill cancer cells. There is no such thing as a cancer cell that cannot be defeated by the human immune system. The difference between cancers that grow and those that don’t are what we put in our bodies to prohibit growth.”

Here is a top-10 list of “functional foods that inhibit tumors.” My independent research, time and time again, puts turmeric at the top of the list. Both The People’s Chemist (a.k.a. Shane Ellison, author of Over-the-Counter Natural Cures) and New Chapter offer turmeric supplements that Debbie and I take on a daily basis.

You never think you’re old. I can’t believe it was 25-years ago this Summer that I graduated high school from Tabor Academy in Marion, MA and was getting ready to head to Babson College in the Fall. And you don’t often hear the word value and college in the same sentence. But that’s exactly what MONEY’s Best Colleges list does and it’s certainly nice to see Babson at #2 earning the only “A” in the top five.

Debbie and I are in France once or twice each year and often take the high-speed (TGV) train to Burgundy. There is every good reason that Burgundy, along with Champagne, has gained UNESCO World Heritage Status. Our five-day bike trip through Burgundy with Butterfield & Robinson sealed the deal for Debbie and me.

To get you on the same track as a Burgundy and Champagne wine professional, I recommend Secrets of the Sommeliers by Rajat Parr, The Great Domaines of Burgundy by Remington Norman and Charles Taylor, and The Champagne Guide (2014-2015) by Tyson Stelzer.

Unlike Greece, the U.S. economy is far bigger and more diverse. American institutions, not foreigners, hold most of America’s debt. Unlike Greece, which is tied to the European Central Bank, America controls its own currency and monetary policy. But writes the Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner, we have far too much in common with Greece for comfort. Furthermore, the EU is requiring Greece to make changes to its pensions, labor and regulatory policies, and tax system, but who in Washington is going to impose similar fiscal discipline?

… fiscal discipline is not going to be imposed on the United States from outside. If we are to get our fiscal house in order, we are going to have to do it ourselves.

Unfortunately, to see how hard that will be, just look to Hillary Clinton. At almost the same moment that the Greeks were being dragged kicking and screaming toward economic responsibility, Clinton was delivering a speech promising to move the United States in precisely the opposite direction.

Clinton’s economic speech on Monday was one long promise to spend more, tax more, regulate more, and redistribute more. In short, she vowed to make the United States more, not less, like Greece — the pre-reform Greece.

That leaves an opening for a Republican to pick up the banner of fiscal restraint and run with it. But so far, the GOP candidates seem to be talking about anything and everything else. And every day of silence makes a Greek-like day of reckoning just a bit more likely.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, as Chris notes, would “terminate” the Iranian Nuclear Deal. Preble underscores that the Walker/Cotton opposition arrives before terms are even finalized.  As Chris concludes, “Deal opponents have an obligation to describe their preferred alternative, not merely what they are against.”

For over six decades the, shoot-from-the-hip, neocon crowd has dragged America through one poorly thought-out, bloody military intervention after another. The benefits have been meager, and the cost in terms of American lives, permanent disfiguration and misery for shattered American families has been inconceivable and unwarranted.

Rick Perry gave a speech in the beginning of July at the National Press Club in Washington. In his speech, Mr. Perry recounted an abominable incident—the torture and lynching of a 17-year old black man in Waco, Texas, in 1916. The WSJ’s Daniel Henninger writes that by doing so, Mr. Perry threw down the gauntlet on “a long-overdue admission the Republican Party has ignored the black vote.”

But since the subject has been raised, one may ask: Since when has the Democratic Party not taken the black vote for granted?

That the black vote in the U.S.’s northern cities will be Democratic is as automatic as anything gets in politics. Liberals say they deserve this vote because Democratic politics has done so much for black Americans—Medicaid, food stamps, energy payments and the like.

What, exactly, has been going on in these moribund urban neighborhoods? How can so many people have stayed poor and unemployed in the same years the Democratic Party earned their votes by spending so much money on anti-poverty programs?

Presidential candidates need to turn the discussion to race, party and policies, especially to inner-city public schools, which Mr. Henninger calls “the greatest moral tragedy of the last century.” Read more here.

The American Conservative’s Daniel Larison labels Rand Paul’s arguments shoddy. Paul says the deal is bad because (1) sanctions relief precedes evidence of compliance and (2) Iran is left with significant nuclear capacity.

Mr. Larison tells readers: (1) “There was bound to be some sanctions relief up front to give Iran’s negotiators something that they could sell their people back home.” (2) Paul’s second objection “was always certain to be part of any deal.”

Larison concludes: “Paul’s chance at the 2016 nomination was never that great, but to the extent that he had a chance it required him to distinguish himself from the rest of the field and to offer the party a clear alternative to the party’s current foreign policy.”

So why might Rand Paul toss up such a weak hanging curve ball? His vote, one way or another, is not going to change things. He has a Republican nomination to win before he can run for the presidency. Winning the Republican nod, at this juncture, is the more difficult task. The Republican Party structure is hardline neocon centric. Paul knows this and understands that in debates he runs the risk of being tarred and feathered as an isolationist dove by every other Republican candidate on the debate stage. He needs to wade through the foreign policy debate causing his campaign as little damage as possible. Rand Paul is going to have to win over Republican voters as he stands little chance of getting party leadership on his team.

Rand Paul also knows that the Muslim world is a Sunni world and that Iran is a Shia country. Lost in all the rhetoric on the Iran Nuclear deal is the little fact that nearly 90% of the world’s Muslims are indeed Sunni. The Sunni world is not going to stand by and watch Iran cheat its way to a position of nuclear power. Nor is Israel.

Rand Paul’s comments on the nuclear accord are a throwaway that neither Paul’s supporters nor detractors are wise to make much out of one way or the other.

I own the exceptional Mossberg 590, which was chosen as Richardcyoung.com’s #1 tactical shotgun.

Taki Theodoracopulos, writing in the American Conservative, tells readers, “The ruination of the French Riviera by greedy developers and vulgar nouveaux riches is a body blow very hard to recover from. I invested 35 summers, and I hate to think the amount of money and now I have nothing to show for it but a distant memory of an F. Scott Fitzgerald period. And even sailing near the place is no good. Hundreds of mega-stink pots owned by Arabs and Russians now cruise around the French coast, all loaded with extremely annoying jet skis that buzz around one’s boat 24/7.”

Debbie and I not long ago spent some time on the French Riviera, including time in Monaco. We can certainly support Taki’s view and were told often just how much the French hotel industry on the coast despise the crude nouveaux Russian crowd to the point hotel employees would almost like to see a closing in February to duck the despised Russian tourists.

Taki offers the alternative:

So, where do American Conservative readers go this summer? If I lived in the American northeast I’d go to Maine. You might get chewed up by mosquitoes and be lectured by left-wing matrons wearing sandals, but what the heck, it beats having Russians propositioning your teenage daughter and offering her expensive jewels. But if you’d like to see a bit of the old world, come to—where else?—where it all began, Hellas herself.

Fly into Athens and go straight to some ferryboat that will take you to the islands. Do not go to Mykonos unless you are gay, smoke pot nonstop, and have lots of penicillin with you. Do not go to Spetses, the Greeks there derive from Albania and are rude and talk bullshit. Go to Paros and Antiparos, on the Aegean side, or try where Taki comes from, the Ionian islands of Corfu, Cephalonia, Paxos and Antipaxos, Ithaka, and Zakynthos. The waters are to die for, the people friendly and educated due to never having been under the Turkish yoke, only under the Venetians and the Brits. Charter a small boat and sail it yourself.

And if you see me on my sailboat, shout “TAC.” I’ll have you come on board for a drink. Have a good summer.