Congratulations to our new board!

At our weekly meeting on Wednesday night, we selected a new executive board as follows:

• President: Sean Spielberg
  
• Vice President and Treasurer: Masood Manoochehri
  
• Outreach Director: Brenden Cline
  
• Executive Director: Joseph Moukattaf

Congratulations to the new board! I'm sure the club will have a great year with Sean, Masood, Brenden and Joseph at the helm.

Get out the vote?

I'm sure many of us can sympathize with South Park episode 119, which you can read about here and watch here.

The Masters of Earmarks

During our last meeting, Massud spoke for most of us when he made a funny comment about the upcoming elections. He said something along the lines of "I hate having to choose between a guy who wants to stay in Iraq God knows for how long, and a leftist for whom most people are voting because he's 'cute'. "
No prizes for guessing who is who, but here is one reason to support the former:


"Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton helped secure more than $340 million worth of home-state projects in last year's spending bills, placing her among the top 10 Senate recipients of what are commonly known as earmarks, according to a new study by a nonpartisan budget watchdog group.
Working with her New York colleagues in nearly every case, Clinton supported almost four times as much spending on earmarked projects as her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), whose $91 million total placed him in the bottom quarter of senators who seek earmarks, the study showed.
Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the likely GOP presidential nominee, was one of five senators to reject earmarks entirely, part of his long-standing view that such measures prompt needless spending."
Source: Washington Post.

I can add another super-heavyweight earmark-master to the list- John Murtha.

And we're back!

It's been over a year and a half since the last post, and now we're finally back!

Or Is It a First Amendment Issue?

It's potentially dangerous, and lawmakers don't really like it.

Oklahomans nevertheless figure their state is better off legalizing and regulating it than driving it underground by passing laws against it. Not drugs -- tattoos.

May Day

Once upon a time, May 1st was a Soviet holiday -- the International Day of Workers' Solidarity.

Today Catallarchy remembers the victims of Communism with a series of essays. See if you can spot a familiar byline.

Wal-Mart: What's in Store

A CPU Panel Discussion: "Always Wal-Mart? The Economics and Politics of
'Everyday Low Prices'"

Date: Thursday, 04/27
Time: 7:30PM
Location: Satow Room, Alfred Lerner Hall

Featuring:

LUKE BOGGS is Executive Director of americansforwalmart.org, the founding
and sole initiative of Americans for Free Enterprise, Inc., a Georgia-based
nonprofit not affiliated with or funded by Wal- Mart Stores, Inc. Boggs has
written for newspapers and magazines including The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, Human Events, National Review, Smoke, TotalTV, and DSN
Retailing Today. Formerly a regular columnist with Atlanta's Creative
Loafing newspaper and Points North magazine, Boggs has also contributed to
Georgia Public Radio's "Georgia Gazette" program. A speechwriter by
profession, Boggs earned a bachelor's degree in history at the University of
Georgia and a master's degree at Ohio University's Contemporary History
Institute. He is a native and resident of suburban Atlanta.

RYAN SAGER is a member of the editorial board and a weekly columnist at The
New York Post. Previous to The Post, Sager was the editorial features editor
of The New York Sun, the city's weekday conservative broadsheet, founded in
2002. Sager has also worked and written for the Cato Institute, Reason
magazine, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, City Journal, Wired News
and Tech Central Station. Sager graduated from George Washington University
in 2001 with a BA in history. He is a two-time winner of the Felix Morley
Journalism Award, given by the Institute for Humane Studies for appreciation
and communication of classical liberal principles.

JENNIFER SUNG is an Associate Counsel & Skadden Fellow at NYU's Brennan
Center for Justice. Ms. Sung works primarily with grassroots coalitions to
develop new public policies to promote accountable economic development.
She also provides support to campaigns to secure living wages, expand access
to health care, and protect the rights of works to organize. Prior to
joining the Brennan Center, Ms. Sung clerked for Judge Betty Binns Fletcher
of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She received her J.D.
from Yale Law School (2004), where she was a co-founded of the Hospital Debt
Justice Project in the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization and
served as co-chair of the Workers Rights Project. She received her B.A.
from Oberlin College (1994).