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REMINDER! NYYRC April Meeting Thursday, April 21 · 7:00pm – 8:30pm WNRC 3 West 51st Street b/w 5th and 6th Avenue New York, NY Join us for our April Meeting with 2 Great Speakers!Guest speakers: Paul Howard, Ph.D. is a Manhattan Institute senior fellow and director of the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Medical Progress. He is the managing editor of Medical Progress Today, a web magazine devoted to chronicling the connection between private sector investment and biomedical innovation,... Read More→

Careful reading of the news this week points conclusively to a worsening economy.  A brief review is in order: April 14, 2011 — MarketWatch U.S. jobless claims surge above 400,000 The increase puts claims at their highest level since mid-February April 14, 2011 — CNBC Inflation ticks up, again “U.S. core producer prices rose slightly faster than expected in March and the increase from a year ago was the largest since August 2009, pointing to a broadening in pipeline inflation... Read More→

An April 12th article in the New York Times asks a “trick” question: “[i]f Congress takes no action in the coming years, what will happen to the budget deficit?” As loyal promoters of the left wing agenda, the Times article concludes by pronouncing that all Congress has to do is NOTHING (i.e. let the Bush era tax cuts expire) and, hocus pocus, the deficit problem will magically vanish. My friends, this is typical liberal misguided thinking. According to the Left, just blame and punish the... Read More→

Today, Paul Ryan revealed his long-term budget plan that would start in 2012. It does dig deep into solving some of or financial problems we are facing as a nation. In a blog written by Philip Klein from the Washington Examiner, Klein mentions how Ryan would reduce spending: So how does Ryan achieve these numbers? To start with, it isn’t with tax hikes. In fact, revenues would actually decline significantly under his plan, something that we’ll no doubt be hearing more of among liberal critics. Instead,... Read More→

Bret Stephens reports in the Wall Street Journal (I quote at length): Much was made at the time of the care the demonstrators had taken to tidy up the square, but now it’s back to its usual shambolic state. Much was made, too, of how the protests were a secular triumph in which the Muslim Brotherhood was left to the sidelines. But that judgment now looks in need of major revision. …In the event, the ayes had it with a whopping 77%, despite a fevered turnout effort by “No”... Read More→

NYYRC April Meeting Thursday, April 21 · 7:00pm – 8:30pm WNRC 3 West 51st Street b/w 5th and 6th Avenue New York, NY Join us for our April Meeting with 2 Great Speakers! Guest speakers: Glenn Hubbard, Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and Columbia University Professor of Finance and Economics. He was the Council of Economic Advisors under President George W. Bush and economic advisor to Mitt Romney during his 2008 presidential campaign. He is a visiting... Read More→

Dear Joe American, I’m flummoxed by our keen opponents.  They are outflanking me on all issues!  Here I am, Speaker of the House, and I can barely get a word in!  I want your respect, your support, your votes.  What can I and my party do to defeat Obama and the Democrats in 2012? Sincerely, John Boehner Speaker of the House (and sometimes Leader of the Republicans) Dear Speaker Boehner and other Republican leaders, I sometimes wonder how the Republican Party establishment thinks.  I assume... Read More→

The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution provides: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Interpreting this text, the Supreme Court of the United States held this Amendment provides the individual with the personal and fundamental right to bear arms subject to reasonable restrictions/regulation courtesy of the government (District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)). Thus,... Read More→

So far the establishment of a No Fly Zone over Libya has been a positive development, beating back wacky Khaddafy and his gang of murderers. This fight was the right thing to do, as the American tradition and creed requires us to stand up against tyranny in any part of the world when we can. This minimal commitment with little risk of American casualties can help to bring about a democratic future in a part of the world that once could only dream of such an occurrence. Though President Obama is pining... Read More→

So why are we still funding NPR, a public station that should have died with the rise of the internet, a station that rushed fast to fire Juan Williams about being nervous on an airplane with Muslims and were angry he was a Fox News Contributor, a station that is anti-Semetic, makes tea party bashing remarks, had an Executive Director and Chief Fundraiser believed they were meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood, and has only has bad remarks regarding traditional American principals? Well to the Democrats... Read More→