Bart Haggerty, Board of Elections Queens Borough Deputy Chief, who has served as Director of Music Ministry at St. Gregory the Great and chief of staff to City Councilman Eric Ulrich, has prepared this informative primer on the Republican Party organization in Queens. In a nutshell, it covers the nuts and bolts on becoming a county committeeman, state committeeman, getting on the ballot, petitions, party elections, and much more. 2015 is the year we will build the Republican Party from the grassroots up. This primer will serve as our guide.
Free Public Forum: “Could New York City be the Next Paris?”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 2, 2015
Free Public Forum:
“Could New York City be the Next Paris?”
Date: Thursday, March 5th, 2015
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Place: Knights of Columbus, 263-15 Union Tpke., Glen Oaks, NY 11004
More Information: Facebook Event
Ever since the attack on the staff of the magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris in January, where terrorists killed 12 and shouted, “We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad” and “God is Great,” the Western World, especially New York City, being the world’s #1 target, have been on high alert. There have been 16 known terrorist plots against the city since Sept 11, 2001 according to the NYPD. Another attack on NYC is “not a question of if, but when.” Are we prepared?
Scarlet letters for the Bibi boycotters
Scarlet letters for the Bibi boycotters
By Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld.
This opinion piece appeared in the New York Post February 26, 2015.
Jeffrey Wiesenfeld
Their excuses are mere protocol — that the upcoming Israeli election supposedly makes the speech political, and that Speaker John Boehner did not consult the White House before inviting the prime minister.
In fact, Iran has been at the top of Israel’s threat list for nearly two decades.
Nor is Netanyahu’s opposition in that election any more willing to embrace an agreement that, like the one the Obama administration is negotiating with Iran, clearly leads to Iranian development of nuclear weapons.
Any member of Congress who boycotts the address will present himself as placing protocol above national security for the American people and our allies.
Cop Beaters, Convicts, and CUNY: a University with a Radical Problem
February 26, 2015
CONTACT: David Seidemann, dseidemann@earthlink.net
Cop Beaters, Convicts, and CUNY: a University with a Radical Problem
The City University of New York (CUNY) has a problem: three of the six people charged in beating of policemen on the Brooklyn Bridge were teachers at CUNY (Eric Linsker, Cindy Gorn, and Jarrod Shanahan).[i]
Unfortunately, CUNY seems to have a soft spot for violent radicalism – and punching police is mild in comparison to the activities of past CUNY teachers
March 4, 1865
March 4, 1865
By Gerald Matacotta
“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”
NYC MUNICIPAL ID
NYC MUNICIPAL ID
By NYPD Captain Joseph Concannon (Ret.), originally published in Square Deal Committee, Inc. Online.
I’m pleased to respond to articles in the New York Post and Huffington Postcovering the Municipal ID program in NYC. Let me begin by stating that, rather than deflecting from the real issues at hand, I would like to answer logically for everyday New Yorkers who may not feel they have a voice.
An Act of Kindness
An Act of Kindness
The following letter by Fred Bedell was published in the Bayside Times.
I was at Our Lady of Snows in Floral Park on Sunday February 8th at the 9:30 A.M. Mass and the Rev. Kevin F. McBrien gave the Homily that I found most inspiring and heart warming. Father McBrien told of a young man going for his first job and had an interview and needed a tie. He went to Target in Raleigh, North Carolina and was looking for a clip on tie but couldn’t find one so proceeded to ask the cashier who said they didn’t have any right now. He explained his problem was that he didn’t know how to tie a regular one. She then called over the menswear salesman to help this young man. The salesman went out of his way to help this young man. He picked out the tie for him and went the extra mile and show him how to tie the tie properly. He than taught him how to act at an interview. First he told the young stranger to give his prospected boss a firm handshake, than look him straight in the eye and explain why he wanted to work for his company. Before leaving he told this young man to tuck in his shirt and to come back and tell everyone how he made out. Many of the workers heard this conversation and cheered this young man on and wished him luck as he left. Father McBrien said this demonstrated an the act of kindness.
Is America a Fair and Just Society?
Is America a Fair and Just Society?
Mary Vavruska, the author of this well-written essay, answered the above question as part of a Social Studies project. A Freshman at Brooklyn Tech High School, one of New York City’s Specialized High Schools, she is also an active member of the Conservative Club, Photography Club, and the satirical newspaper, The Radish. In this erudite essay, a must read by all patriotic Americans, Mary articulates the fundamental foundations of America’s political philosophy from John Locke, the ‘Father of Classical Liberalism’ and traces our system of government derived by our Founding Fathers from the best of the governing systems of both ancient Greece and Rome. She concludes with the thinking of Ayn Rand who said that the United States of America is “…the only moral country in the history of the world.”
A Report on the “Specialized High School Controversy” Public Forum
A Report on the “Specialized High School Controversy” Public Forum
These achievers we just heard from should go back to their schools and tell them how they have achieved. They need to see heroes like you. Go back to the classrooms and the public schools and tell your stories. Anyone can learn and get ahead in this country.
Michael Benjamin addresses the crowd
The Queens Village Republican Club presented a public forum on the “Specialized High School Controversy” on Thursday evening, February 5th, at the Knights of Columbus in Glen Oaks Queens as the better part of the monthly general meeting. The format was a nonpartisan panel discussion with experts, SHS students and alumni who discussed the mission the tradition of academic excellence and the fight to preserve the high standards of the SHSs. Quality of education is one of the foremost values that Republicans and nearly all New Yorkers share, because education is the gateway to the American Dream.
Public Forum on Specialized High School Controversy
February 2, 2015
CONTACT: Phil Orenstein 718-465-2481
Free Public Forum on Specialized High School Controversy
Date: Thursday, Feb 5th, 2015
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Place: Knights of Columbus, 263-15 Union Tpke., Glen Oaks, NY
