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The big news last night and this morning is that Congressional leaders have agreed on a plan that the White House isn’t threatening to veto.  The deal, as reported by CNN, includes $2.4 trillion in spending cuts “savings” over the next decade, does not raise taxes, and raises the debt ceiling by $400 billion immediately, followed by another $500 billion pending Congressional approval.  Finally, a commission is established whose goal will be to identify how to shave $1.5 trillion... Read More→

Charles Krauthammer, Thomas Sowell, Rich Lowry, Mona Charen, WSJ Editorial Board.  All these sources and more support the fuzzy and feckless Boehner plan.  So many of the voices that conservatives can depend on are falling like dominoes, and “getting their asses in line” for the Speaker.  I say puke. What good does it do to pass a plan that does not seriously address threat of insurmountable debt?  Why, of all people, Prof. Sowell is on board with this I cannot understand.  Speaker... Read More→

Any Member of the New York Republican Club will tell you that life in New York City presents many occasions in which you may feel uncomfortable.  Whether it’s a conversation with coworkers about the news of the day, talking with friends and/or friends of friends, or someone else in your day simply assuming you’re a liberal democrat and saying something rather off-putting, it’s difficult to get through a month without being forced to speak about your unorthodox (i.e. conservative... Read More→

The NYYRC’s very own Mark Goret offers his opinion on Republican candidate Bob Turner’s chances at claiming the seat of former (and now thoroughly disgraced) Representative Anthony Weiner. From Human Events: “Bob Turner can put New York-9 in Republican hands for two reasons,” Mark Goret, New York Conservative Party state committeeman and Conservative leader from Riverdale, explained to HUMAN EVENTS.  “First, he got 41% of the vote against [then-Democratic Rep. Anthony] Weiner... Read More→

As the country awaits the latest news on the “debt deal,” Moody’s, one of two credit rating agencies (the other being Standard & Poors), has become increasingly vocal that the United States should raise its debt ceiling, or lose its Aaa bond rating. Now CNBC reports that Moody’s recommends that the United States do away with the debt ceiling altogether. The United States is one of the few countries where Congress sets a ceiling on government debt, which creates “periodic... Read More→

Republican Congressional candidate Paul Niehaus to be 2012 nominee for GOP, reports the New York Daily News. Manhattan Republicans will gather tonight to name attorney Paul Niehaus as their candidate for the Upper East Side seat recently vacated by Democrat Jonathan Bing, who was appointed superintendent of the New York Liquidation Bureau by Gov. Cuomo. Continues the article, Manhattan GOP chairman Daniel Isaacs said Niehaus will be “an excellent candidate,” because he’s more experienced... Read More→

Unemployment, by the latest government number, stands at an astounding 9.2%.  Although according to the National Bureau of Economic Research the Great Recession ended in June 2009, for the 14.1 million Americans still looking for job it continues, 41 months since it began officially in December 2007.  Traditional measures of recovery are flat, including employment, home prices, and GDP growth are all flat and trending toward worse times ahead. The morass confounds the liberals in charge, leaving... Read More→

This column was submitted by guest contributor Eugene Schlanger.  Originally published in The University Bookman, it is a review of the book Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry, available here at amazon.com. Pointless Protest of American Poetry by Eugene Schlanger In this, his first book, David Orr, the poetry columnist for the New York Times Book Review, attempts to persuade the general reading public that contemporary American poetry is meaningful. Though he readily admits that... Read More→

QE2, or the second round of government money printing, ends next month.  From January to June, the Fed added $100 billion to the money supply through “open market operations.”  Obscurantist jargon aside, this means that the Federal Reserve under Bernanke swapped out fixed income products for fungible cash to the tune of $600 billion.  This was supposed to add liquidity and spur lending, and has arguably failed on all counts. The Fed, for its part, remains dedicated to its Zero Interest... Read More→

(Events are likely unrelated.) From MarketWatch: WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The number of people who filed new applications for jobless benefits leaped 43,000 last week to 474,000, the highest level in almost nine months. A Labor official attributed much of the increase to temporary layoffs in the auto sector and in the state of New York, where workers in the educational field such as bus drivers are eligible for compensation during the week of spring break. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch... Read More→