New York Young Republican Club Blog - Page 7

Executing a war in Afghanistan? Check. Initiating air strikes in Libya? Done. Winding up a military presence in Iraq? Got It. Dealing with unemployment, resurgent inflation, a weak housing market and all sorts of other domestic economic woes? Sure, why not! Taking a family trip to Latin America when you have all these pressing issues pending? But of course! Was I the only American who cringed last Saturday afternoon when President Obama was unavailable to announce and explain to the nation... Read More→

The New Republican Party was the name of an absolutely brilliant political speech by Ronald Reagan, delivered in 1977 to CPAC. It captures the essence of conservatism and explodes the myth of it being an rigid code. Conservatism is the antithesis of the kind of ideological fanaticism that has brought so much horror and destruction to the world. The common sense and common decency of ordinary men and women, working out their own lives in their own way — this is the heart of American conservatism... Read More→

Libya rebels are at war with Gaddafi, the Middle East is going through major changes, Japan has had a disaster that doesn’t seem to end, and President Barack Obama can make an easy decision about making his NCAA picks and going on vacation. For Obama sports and luxury are easy, but a major problem in the US or the world, it is wait and see and then maybe make a decision later. What President Obama does not understand is the Presidency is not some form of fun and celebrity, it’s being... Read More→

For anybody looking to explore news outlets outside the mainstream, here is a brief list of conservative news sites that provide information you won’t hear on ABC, CBS, or NBC. National Review drudgereport.com CNSnews.com American Spectator American Thinker Media Research Center Pajamas Media Weekly Standard  Read More →

Editors note: This article, written by guest contributor Eugene Schlanger, was originally published at The University Bookman. Recently, Forbes magazine attempted to measure the effect of Ruth Lilly’s $185 million bequest to the Poetry Foundation. That foundation, which publishes Poetry magazine, claims that it reached 19 million new poetry readers last year. John Barr, its president, a poet and a former investment banker, suggested this was positive evidence of the growth of the public’s awareness... Read More→

One of the most important issues in reforming our schools in New York is the end of Last In, First Out. The push by Senate Republicans and Mayor Bloomberg to do away with this terrible policy is the right thing to do. Governor Cuomo understandably has many issues to deal with in terms of the unions, and does not want to needlessly antagonize them. However, his hesitance to support the GOP Senate bill could have an incredibly damaging effect on the children of New York City. One of the few positive things... Read More→

Many constitutional conservatives originally suggested the idea of a national primary day, back in 2008. This idea seemed to stand in sharp contrast to the Democrat’s undemocratic system of proportional delegates and superdelegates. We Republicans seem to like the winner-take-all system, mostly. The idea was meant to quickly decide our candidate, so we can spend more time and money beating the Democrats in general election races. Perhaps, this idea needs to be resurrected again. Back in... Read More→

Gallup Finds U.S. Unemployment Hitting 10.3% in February “Warren Buffet said Wednesday on CNBC that the U.S. unemployment rate should be in the low 7% range by late 2012. If that is going to be the case, the job creation environment must change dramatically from what it is today.” http://www.gallup.com/poll/146453/Gallup-Finds-Unemployment-Hitting-February.aspx Meanwhile, the Labor Department reports unemployment dropping to 8.9%. “The unemployment rate dropped in February to 8.9% as the... Read More→

With the tax revolt against greedy public sector unions continuing in Wisconsin, I thought it might be interesting to quote the great economist Ludwig von Mises on coercive labor unions.  From his A Critique of Interventionism: If employees receive the right to shut down an enterprise as long as its owner rejects their demands, the control over production, in final analysis, has been placed in the hands of labor unions. The problem must not be obscured by the confusion between free collective bargaining-the... Read More→

The non-partisan Government Accountability Office recently released a report detailing how the federal government wastes HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars. This results from the duplication and inefficiencies across the vast wasteland of government bureaucracy. “So what?”, you may ask… How about $200 billion over ten years by consolidating data centers across all agencies? How about $62.5 billion across 18 food assistance programs? How about $2.9 billion across programs designed... Read More→