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A brief look at this year’s Oscar nominations helps explain why 2005 was a sub-par year at the box office. There are a couple of gems here and there, but overall it’s a pretty paltry selection of nominees. And for the first time ever, a Star Wars film was not nominated for Best Visual Effects. Doubt I’ll even watch the bloated, overblown, underfunny Academy Awards show knowing that.  Read More →

To the anger of many liberals, an attempt to filibuster the nomination of Judge Alito, led by Ted Kennedy and John Kerry failed miserably as 19 Democrats, including my favorite Joe Lieberman, voted against the filibuster. Despite Ted Kennedy’s rant about how the future of the world was at stake and that the progression of every group in the country would revert back to the days of the British Empire, a number of Democrats seemed to understand what is really at stake. Those 19 Democrats were able... Read More→

After President Bush gives his State of the Union address Tuesday, the next item of interest coming out of the Swamp will be the House Republican leadership elections. And as good pachyderms, we should all be following this one closely, because it could signify a significant change in the way the GOP caucus operates in Congress’s lower chamber for at least the rest of this session. The contenders for House Majority Leader are Roy Blunt, the current interim leader and Majority Whip, John Boehner,... Read More→

Well another Al Qaeda favorite is out in the media again calling on the coming destruction of America and how it’s all George Bush’s fault. What’s funny is at the end of the press release at CNN.com it says “The Egyptian exile (al-Zawahiri) has been indicted for his alleged role in the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998”. So let me get this straight. He and his crew bombed the WTC in 1993, issued a deceleration of war against the U.S. in 1998 via a fatwa, bombed... Read More→

Venezuela’s oil minister stated earlier today that they would support Iran with its nuclear dispute. Hmm. Considering that Chavez has stated that he would like to develop a nuclear reactor, such an announcement doesn’t seem shocking. Iran gets another voice in the UN, while Chavez gets someone to help build his reactor. It would be interesting to see how the world would view such a move. Venezuela has signed the NPT but that was before Chavez. You have to assume that Chavez wants nukes to... Read More→

Yesterday I had the joy of registering my son for kindergarten. For you liberals out there it will pain you to hear that I registered him for catholic school, I know the horror. A cute note is that it’s actually the same grammar school my wife and I graduated from. While there in the gym they had tables with information spread out across them. As I went down the list the last one on the table caused me to laugh. It was an ugly, cheap, orange pamphlet that was titled the Attorney General Elliott... Read More→

A must-read from George Will (most everything he writes is a must-read, by the way) on our fair state and it’s current political fortunes, or lack thereof. I encourage everyone to check it out.  Read More →

For Immediate Release, January 27, 2006Contact: Jen SaundersEmail: pr@nyyrc.com THE NEW YORK YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB, INC.OPPOSES SENATE FILIBUSTER OF JUDGE SAMUEL ALITO (New York, NY) The New York Young Republican Club, Inc. (NYYRC) denounces Senator Kerry’s threat for a filibuster and urges New York Senators Schumer and Clinton to allow the vote to proceed. Judge Alito has received public support from many Republican Senators, as well as several Democrats. NYYRC President Dennis Cariello remarked,... Read More→

The New York Young Republican Record Web log welcomes comments from all areas of the ideological spectrum to the posts that are submitted herein by the Executive Board and the Board of Governors of the New York Young Republican Club. The free exchange of ideas is central to the foundation and continued endurance of our republic, and no one group or individual of any political nature holds a monopoly on that exchange. It is essential to our growth as a nation, and indeed as individuals, to be free... Read More→

I know, the title alone probably has some of you falling out of your chair considering it’s coming from me but before I’m accused of being a hypocrite let me make my point. For several years now a battle has raged around the world on what to do with farm subsidies by rich nations. Developing countries have continuously cried foul on their inability to compete because of cheap farm goods from America and Europe thanks to our subsidies and the tariffs we but on their agricultural products when... Read More→