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Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pmLocation: City Hall Park, New York, New York The NYC Tea Party will bring thousands of people to historic City Hall Park to protest against the reckless and wasteful government spending that is leading to higher taxes. The two-hour event will feature nationally prominent speakers and musical performances. Kellen Giuda, NYC Tea Party organizer and David Webb will emcee the Tea Party. Speakers at the event will include: Newt Gingrich – American... Read More→

Now that America has become intimately involved with the rampant piracy that has been going on off the coast of Somalia for ages, the debate is what do we do now? Defense Secretary Robert Gates is downplaying any major military buildup. This statement comes as Somali pirates seized four more ships, and Rep. Donald M. Payne’s (D-N.J.) plane was fired upon as he was leaving Mogadishu. Any strategy that calls for less than dealing with this threat head-on is no strategy at all. Maersk Alabama... Read More→

Tax Freedom Day this year is April 13. That means that every day you worked in 2009 up until today went solely to pay for your local, state, and federal tax burden. Check out this report from the Tax Foundation on the current state of criminal affairs courtesy of the Internal Revenue Service. An excerpt: Tax Freedom Day falls a full two weeks earlier in 2009 than it did in 2007. In fact, not since 1967 has Tax Freedom Day come earlier than this year’s April 13 date. This shift has been driven... Read More→

House Republicans have established a new Web site: GOP State Solutions to highlight the work that can be done in states and local communities to promote good governance. From the site: In a time of great challenge for the American people, real solutions start in states and communities across America, not with bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. Through the State Solutions project, reform-minded Republicans in Congress and in state capitols across America are working together to present better solutions... Read More→

Mary Katherine Ham has a great post at the Weekly Standard blog about how Democrats are robbing DC parents of their rights to provide their children a decent education. I touched upon this yesterday here at the Record. A sample: Alas, it seems that is not to be, despite recent revelations that the evaluation Durbin was so interested in was released a month after the vote on the program and revealed— wait for it— “After 3 years, there was a statistically significant positive impact on... Read More→

U.S. Navy Seals, proving once again that you don’t mess with U.S. Navy Seals, rubbed out three of the four pirates who held Maersk-Alabama Capt. Richard Phillips hostage since Wednesday. The fourth is in custody and faces a life sentence in the U.S. for piracy and hostage taking. Phillips’s family could not have received better news on Easter Sunday than to hear about his rescue and safe return. The man is indeed a hero for being willing to trade his own life for that of his crew and... Read More→

A recent study by the Department of Education on the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program (a.k.a. DC school vouchers) found significant improvement of reading scores and parental satisfaction for those who accepted vouchers to attend private schools rather than stay in the public school system. In all fairness, the study does not indicate that the voucher program is a smashing success, but it definitely proves that there is validity in offering a lifeline to students stuck in failing public schools.... Read More→

Steven Malanga has a great essay at Real Clear Markets that is a must read for anyone looking to understand how the Obama administration is looking to fundamentally change and ultimately control our economic way of life. “Obama and the Reawakening of Corporatism” rejects that Obama is merely drifting toward socialism. Instead, it is to corporatism, the notion that elite groups of individuals molded together into committees or public-private boards can guide society and coordinate the... Read More→

In the special election to fill New York’s 20th Congressional seat, the race is so close, that each and every vote can make or break it for Jim Tedisco. When we first noted it over a week ago, Tedisco was ahead by 12 votes according to The Politicker. But on April 9, Congressional Quarterly reported that “All re-canvassing is now complete, and four counties are done counting regular absentee ballots” and “With approximately 20 percent of absentee ballots counted, Murphy…was... Read More→

A clever post from The Heritage Foundation’s Foundry blog today: In just over a dozen months, the global economic recession has succeeded where decades of carbon cap and trade policies have failed: reducing global carbon emissions…. No one should be surprised that a terrible economy has produced an outcome environmentalists love. Read more.  Read More →