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From MarketWatch: A Senate panel on Monday approved sweeping bank reform legislation to re-write the rule for capitalism without any Republican support, after GOP lawmakers on the committee decided not to include any amendments to the measure. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, had senators vote on the underlying 1,336 page bill, without any Democratic amendments. The bill was passed with a 13-10 party-line vote. Why do I feel as though I’m on... Read More→

Yes, it looks like the Democrats have doubled down, and will do their best to ruin the country.  Here it is, from the “paper of record”: Obama Hails Vote on Health Care as Answering ‘the Call of History’ And how do we know this is a sham?  How do we know it won’t truly lower costs?  How do we know that the only way Obama got this monstrosity through Congress was by bribes – bribes not only to his Democrat constituents in Congress but to the private sector? Healthcare... Read More→

Andrew Wilkow, talk show host of “The Wilkow Majority”, speaks to the NYYRC on Mach 18th, 2010. Mr. Wilkow’s show airs weekdays on the SIRIUS Patriot channel from 12pm to 3pm. Andrew Wilkow from NYYRC on Vimeo.  Read More →

Michael Allegretti (allegrettiforcongress.com), congressional candidate for the US House in New York’s District 13, speaks to the NYYRC on March 18th, 2010. Michael Allegretti from NYYRC on Vimeo.  Read More →

Mike Grimm (grimmforcongress.com), congressional candidate for the US House in New York’s District 13, speaks to the NYYRC on February 18th, 2010. Mike Grimm from NYYRC on Vimeo.  Read More →

This is the second of six policy proposals I have written for conservatives looking to accomplish our long-term objectives of more freedom and less government. Enhance the credit rights of Social Security: Instead of each person collecting Social Security from the government, every participant should have a private account holding real Treasury bonds in his or her name. Under the current system, FICA taxes go the IRS, which then makes them available to the government’s general fund. Under the new... Read More→

This is the first of six policy proposals I have written for conservatives looking to accomplish our long-term objectives of more freedom and less government. Public-sector bonuses: Conservatives should promote a policy that gives all public-sector workers the right to identify wasteful spending and collect personal bonuses equivalent to one-third of the public spending saved, up to $100 million per individual. Because the bonuses would result from individual initiative rather than collective bargaining,... Read More→

Conservatives need fresh policy ideas. Despite the movement’s new energy and passion, as embodied by the Tea Party, it’s still based on the simple concepts of lower taxes and less government. While these are fine goals, they are not strategies. The adversaries are well entrenched in their positions, surrounded by high walls of special-interest groups and defended by armies of public-sector unions and lobbyists. While our numbers are vastly superior, we need more than simply a frontal assault... Read More→

Just a quick recommendation for bored denizens here on the Web. There were two terrific articles online today: 1) On NRO – Our Subversive Founders, by Fred Schwarz. 2) On Mises.org – Politics Cannot be Fixed, by D.W. MacKenzie Both make the common (and now controversial) point that big government is incapable of solving the problems of society, but do so from different angles: Schwarz, using the wisdom contained in the Federalist Papers; MacKenzie from the perspective of an economist. Indeed,... Read More→

There are few things more distressing than economic depression.  The nation (and world generally) have been mired in fear and doubt concerning our economic well-being ever since the cataclysmic market collapse of September 2008.  At that critical juncture, governments stepped in to “rescue” the economy, TARP and “Stimulus” being only more memorable legislative actions. Here we stand, 17 months later, and economist Nouriel Roubini, who is widely acclaimed to have predicted... Read More→