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.
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 […]
Jonathan T. Gilliam grew up in the Ozark mountains of north Arkansas, and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock with a BA double major in Political Science and Psychology. Gilliam began his career in service as a Police Officer just outside of Little Rock, Arkansas before he received his commission in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
James Taranto edits the Wall Street Journal’s op-ed pages. Until January 2017 he wrote the popular Best of the Web column for WSJ.com. In August 2007 he was named a member of the Journal’s editorial board. From 2000 through 2008, his column appeared at OpinionJournal.com, of which he was editor. He previously served as the […]
Ambassador Ahmed Farouk is the Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister of Egypt and Consul General of Egypt in New York City. He previously served as Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs and Chairman of the UN Working Group IV to Countering Piracy off the coast of Somalia. He was Ambassador of Egypt to Slovenia and […]
