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We’re only two days away from finding out if the MTA is going to decide to illegally strike and attempt to cripple the city. When situations like this arise it makes me appreciate our former President, God rest his soul, Ronald Regan. If we recall when President Regan faced a similar crisis with the air traffic controllers in 1981, our great President didn’t cave but instead told them they were all fired. He wasn’t going to allow the union who held a monopoly on thousands of business that... Read More→

Unless Gov. Schwarzenegger caves in at the last minute, in less then 24 hours Tookie Williams will be executed. For the last several weeks, even years for that matter, we’ve been bombarded with how we need to save Tookie because he’s innocent but even more because he’s now become a voice against gang violence. Personally for those that say he’s innocent, I find it a little hard to believe that the founder of the most violent gang in the country never committed murder but that’s just me. Though... Read More→

As I mentioned yesterday I wanted to continue to bring up conservative or Republican policies that President Clinton had signed during his term in office. Conveniently today I have the chance to mention another while tying in some current news. Yesterday a New York state appeals court reversed a ruling that would have permitted same-sex couples to get a marriage license in New York City by a previous court that had ruled it was unconstitutional not to give them one. Once again ironically one of... Read More→

I find it ironic that President Bush and more recently Secretary of State Rice, has been having to defend the policy of extraordinary rendition (the practice of sending terrorist suspects to other countries for interrogation) from leftists all over the world when it was their beloved President Clinton who was the one who started the policy in the United States and the first to use it. I for one agree with the policy and pat President Clinton on the back for starting it and the current administration... Read More→

Our lovely city council is at it again. This time they want to spend $20 million in taxpayer dollars to have translation and interpretation services in 8 different languages for immigrant parents. I would like to know why the city council feels the need to aid New York City immigrants in not becoming Americanized, who already do whatever they can to not learn English or even care if their children do. The hundreds of store signs down Flushing in various Asian writing shows these immigrants do not... Read More→

Thanks to our “if it bleeds it leads” media, all we ever hear is the negative stories about Iraq and Afghanistan. Well here is a more positive story being reported by the Financial Times, which I would like to say, is the only paper worth reading. After a more than 15-year absence Coca-Cola is returning to Afghanistan with the opening of a $25 million plant. The plant will be located on the outskirts of Kabul and will directly employ 600 full-time workers and a total of 8,000 workers in related... Read More→

Last night a large number of Young Republicans had a chance to hear former Attorney General John Ashcroft speak in New York. Many of you will be shocked to know that the former Attorney General didn’t speak in the friendly confines of say the Union League but instead at the hostile liberal stronghold of Columbia University. For me the experience was very enjoyable. To start it’s always fun to see a bunch of spoiled young kids protesting making complete fools of themselves, asking for their... Read More→

All I can say is thank God Fernando Ferrer didn’t get elected mayor. In case you missed it Ferrer has reached out to his supporters asking for more contributions to help pay his campaign debts. How was he expecting to run New York City’s budget when he couldn’t properly manage his campaign finances? Typical New York City democrat for over spending and then counting on taxes, in this case contributions, to get them out of the hole.  Read More →

No sooner did I write on this Blog and in my article for the New York Young Republican Record that the government should forget their attacks on the oil industry and instead focus on the cable industry, does the new FCC Chairman, Kevin Martin, recommend that cable companies look toward an “a la carte” format. I’ve been complaining for sometime about the higher then inflation growth of cable bills and the cable companies constantly forcing the consumer to pay for channels that they don’t want.... Read More→

Is Chuck Schumer kidding? How is this guy the Senator for the financial capital of the world? His call for a 27.5% tariff on goods coming in from China is ridiculous. Somebody needs to inform Schumer that the theory of Mercantilism was proven a failure over a century ago. Schumer’s consistent attempt to get China to revalue its currency to depreciate the dollar in hopes of lowering our trade deficit is a mistake. First if a weak currency were a good thing, Argentina would be a world super... Read More→