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With the election come and gone us on the Board of the NYYRC were perplexed and disappointed with the election losses of Pat Murphy, Joel Zinberg and Pat Russo. Today we are about to feel the pain of a City Council completely run by Democrats even more as they are prepared to pass a bill that will allow unions to donate even more money to elections. Talk about securing your own seat! This is a city council that has no checks or balances and continues to pass the agenda of a few dozen people than... Read More→

For those that don’t believe free markets work and that if it wasn’t for minimum wage the bottom half would never get a pay raise (Ted Kennedy) they should take a look at the phenomenon that is taking place in India and China. It has just been announced that average pay rates in India have risen 11.5% and in China by 7.5%. Could it be that as more companies have moved into these countries they have been forced to raise their wages in order to attract workers? This isn’t the first time we... Read More→

In response to Bush’s new “all time low” poll numbers, Ken Mehleman said “If those were my poll numbers, I would fire my pollster”. Sounds good to me!  Read More →

I share some of Nick’s concerns. I think the root of the problem can be found in a culture of instant gratification that is growing in America, brought on in part by technological advances. The result is that people grow less and less patient with wanting to see results. The media feeds into and off of this lack of patience and need for instant gratification and it needs to stop. We see the by-products of our impatience in our litigious society, elections incorrectly called on exit polls,... Read More→

Nick, you bring up some interesting points upon reflection of the American public’s intestinal fortitude in these rocky modern times. However, I’m more optimistic in my view of what our country can handle. I don’t think what we are witnessing in the falloff of public support for the war in Iraq is a failure of the American people to “handle it,” so to speak. Ours is a nation made of people who possess a moral strength and character unlike any ever seen in history, and that strength has... Read More→

Last night during a debate on the Iraq war and its justification I posed a question that I thought I would bring to this forum. Taking into consideration how quickly the American publics stomach has turned on the Iraq War because of some short-term difficulties, does anyone think that American society today could handle a world war as it did during WWI and WWII? Could the American public handle a military operation like the invasion of Normandy, where we know thousands of lives will be lost in one... Read More→

Doug Forrester is now blaming President Bush’s recent low popularity for his loss to Jon Corzine last week for NJ gov. “If Bush’s numbers were where they were a year ago, or even six months ago, I think we would have won on Tuesday,” Forrester told the New Jersey Star-Ledger. This strikes me as a bit infantile. Doug ran probably the best campaign he could, but it just wasn’t good enough. Them’s the breaks. Trying to slough off his loss by heaping blame on the... Read More→

Since Rita Cosby left Fox for MSNBC, I haven’t caught her show. It goes up against Hannity & Colmes and if I’m going to be watching the news at 9pm, it’s going to be Sean and that liberal guy married to Monica Crowley’s sister. I’m sorry I missed it because she had Bruce Willis on, who is offering $1mm to any civilian who turns in bin Laden, al-Zawahiri or al-Zarqawi. K-Lo, on The Corner, has posted the transcribed interview and the photo of a soldier with a... Read More→

Last night my friend Kimberly and I, on the urging of a loopy art-school friend of ours,reluctantly went to the Guggenheim museum to take in some performance art. Now that rather justly maligned term is to me another way to refer to the act of conning someone into underwriting bad pretentious entertainment or one’s excuse for inappropiate behavior that I wish I hadn’t been too drunk to employ in College. But hey, what the hell, oftentimes it’s good for a laugh. And yes, you artsy... Read More→

To be honest, these people can say whatever they want about the current state of the GOP. One of our biggets assets in the 2006 elections could turn out to be the GOP being underestimated and the Dems getting complacent and continuing to let Dean run around with a bullhorn………..We’ve long been the party of plans & solutions instead of the party of complaints. As long as that stays true, there is nothing to worry about. I read that Warner in VA rejected the offers to... Read More→