New York Young Republican Club Blog - Page 7

Today was a great day for the great United States of America, we finally got the man who is responsible for the 9/11 attacks as well as many attacks on American soldiers and civilians. Osama Bin Laden is no more. For too long he was hiding from the United States. For too long, he sent out threatening messages to United States and it’s Allies. And for too long he and his organization Al-Qaida launched attacked on America and it’s Allies. But thanks to our Navy SEALs and CIA, Osama got... Read More→

Talk radio has traditionally been a medium through which conservatives communicate.  The liberals might control the “papers of record” (the NYT and Washington Post, the left’s equivalent of Bibles) the weekly news magazines (think Time and Newsweek which all-but-official Obama propaganda mills, or more recently offer apologia for his failed policies), and Oprah.*  But conservatives continue to dominate the most democratic of all media, radio. A friend of mine recommended a radio... Read More→

The government reported Q1 GDP growth figures today at 1.8% annualized. From MarketWatch: The U.S. economy slowed markedly in the first quarter and inflation accelerated, clear evidence of the double whammy on the economy from higher gasoline prices. In its first estimate Thursday, the Commerce Department said gross domestic product rose at a 1.8% annual rate between January and March, slower than the 3.1% pace in the prior three months. Believe it or not, this was better than the predicted 1.7%. ... Read More→

The next political showdown will be one for the ages, and could very well determine the nature of American society for generations to come. President Obama and his party have gone on a federal spending binge unlike the nation has ever seen (with the exception of World War II).  Republicans, in response, are rallying around the Paul Ryan budget, which would reduce the debt by $6 trillion over 10 years and not raise taxes.  President Obama’s to Ryan’s budget is unspecific, but claims to reduce... Read More→

With the recent budget battles and threat of government shutdown, you would think that the President’s party would want to be level-headed compared with their Republican competition. Once again, Democrats snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Harry Reid stated that cutting $61 billion from this year’s $3 trillion-plus budget was “extreme”. Really? Considering that most American’s have had to cut much more than three percent from their budgets, it’s not so... Read More→

A terrific example of Obama’s willingness to sanctimoniously school us on how to be post-partisan, and then violate his own principles was on display last week. At the same time that the President demagogued Paul Ryan’s fiscal plan by alluding to how it’s going to kill Granny, a video was played from the speech President Obama made to the Republican conference in 2010 during the health care debate. In it, Obama pronounces the importance of not demagoguing an opponent’s position... Read More→

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→