Our monthly meetings are centered on an outstanding speaker, including candidates, politicians, issue specialists, government officials, and citizen activists. They address issues immediately important to us, from immigration and health care to national and local security, bike lanes, and horse carriages.
Edward Cox is currently the chairman of the New York Republican State Committee. He is the son-in-law of President Richard M. Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon. He has served three U.S. Presidents, four Governors and the Republican Party at the state and national levels. He has campaigned for candidates across the country beginning in 1968 […]
Gordon Guthrie Chang (章家敦 Zhāng Jiādūn) is an American columnist, blogger, television pundit, author and lawyer. Chang lived and worked in Shanghai and Hong Kong for almost two decades and now writes primarily on China, Asia, and nuclear proliferation. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Commentary, and […]
Ray Kelly is the longest-serving Commissioner in the history of the NYPD and the first person to hold the post for two non-consecutive tenures. A lifelong New Yorker, Kelly had spent 45 years in the NYPD, serving in 25 different commands and as Police Commissioner from 1992 to 1994 and again from 2002 until 2013. […]
Douglas E. Schoen has been a Democratic campaign consultants for over thirty years. A founding partner and principal strategist for Penn, Schoen & Berland, he is widely recognized as one of the co-inventors of overnight polling. Schoen was named Pollster of the Year in 1996 by the American Association of Political Consultants for his contributions […]
Michael B. Mukasey, of counsel to Debevoise & Plimpton, recently served as Attorney General of the United States, the nation’s chief law enforcement officer. As Attorney General from November 2007 to January 2009, he oversaw the U.S. Department of Justice and advised on critical issues of domestic and international law. Judge Mukasey joined Debevoise as […]
Steve Forbes is Forbes Media Chairman and CEO, and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine, where his editorials appear as, “Fact and Comment.” The company encompasses Forbes, ForbesLife, ForbesWoman and Forbes Asia magazines; the Web sites Forbes.com, Investopedia.com, RealClearPolitics.com, RealClearMarkets.com, RealClearSports.com, and Forbes.com Business & Finance Blog Network; and 10 international licensee editions. Forbes’ publications together reach […]
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. She is a recipient of the 2005 Bradley Prize. Mac Donald’s work at City Journal has canvassed a range of topics, including higher education, immigration, policing and “racial” profiling, homelessness and homeless advocacy, criminal-justice reform, […]
LtCol Anthony (Tony) Shaffer (retired), is the President of the London Center for Policy Research, a New York Times bestselling author and CIA trained intelligence operations officer with 35 years of experience in global and national security. In his think-tank work he is an advisor to senior members of the White House, the Intelligence Community, […]
