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.
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, […]
John Fund is national-affairs columnist for National Review. He worked for the Wall Street Journal for more than two decades, starting in 1984, and was a member of the newspaper’s editorial board from 1995 to 2001. Fund has written for Esquire, Reader’s Digest, Reason, and the New Republic. He co-wrote Cleaning House: America’s Campaign for […]
Michael Cutler is a retired Senior Special Agent of the former INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service). He is a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, and specializes in the nexus between immigration and national security, the impact of immigration on the criminal justice system and strategies to combat illegal immigration, secure our nation’s borders […]
Sam Nunberg is both an accomplished attorney as well as a political strategist with a focus on communications, messaging, and persuasive narratives. Mr. Nunberg has worked on successful presidential and senatorial campaigns. In 2008, Mr. Nunberg was an adviser to Gov. Mitt Romney with a focus on grassroots coalitions and conservative outreach. From 2011 until […]
James Fitzsimmons is a former FBI Special Agent and Joint Terrorism Task Force member.
Bernard B. Kerik is one of the most dynamic and accomplished leaders in law enforcement, correction, and national security in the United States. For more than thirty years, he served his country with distinction, honor, and valor, most notably as the 40th Police Commissioner of the City of New York.
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 […]
DJ Jaffe is Exec. Dir. of Mental Illness Policy Org, and an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Mental Illness Policy Org is a “Think-Tank” founded in 2011 to provide unbiased and easy-to-access information to the media and policy-makers about care and treatment of people with serious and persistent mental illness. The issues they face […]
Dr. Michael Ledeen is Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and is an internationally renowned scholar on Iran, Iraq, terrorism, and international security. Dr. Ledeen has served as a consultant to the National Security Council, the State Department, and the Defense Department, and as a Special Advisor to the Secretary of State. […]
Patrick J. Michaels is the director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute. Michaels is a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and was program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. He was a research professor of Environmental Sciences at University […]
