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Welcome to Urban Elephants!

Friday, 04 April 2008 00:00 Robert Hornak

Dear Fellow Urban Elephants:

Welcome to the new and improved Urban Elephants website. After many months of hard work, we are pleased to bring you the latest, state-of-the-art features in the leading Republican blog that is focused on issues affecting urban America.

You will easily recognize the open blogger format much like before, however, there is more to the new UE. We have recruited some of the best writers in America to contribute to our “front-page,” bringing you the most articulate, insightful and cutting edge content available anywhere on the internet.

Additionally, Urban Elephants will be introducing new social networking features that will make UE, not only the best place for political insight and discussion, but a great place to network with other like-minded individuals.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 08 May 2008 08:57 )

McCain conservative enough for Conservatives

Monday, 12 May 2008 22:23 Luke Vander Linden

Conservative Chairman Mike Long Backs McCain

New York State Conservative Pary Chair Mike Long

U.S. Sen. John McCain and New York State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long have not always seen eye-to-eye on major issues over the year — until now, following a face-to-face meeting on Thursday between the powerful state conservative leader from Brooklyn and the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee.

“We are certainly in synch on more issues than not,” said Long in an interview with the Brooklyn Daily Eagle the day after his meeting with McCain in Manhattan. “I’m going to recommend to our party leaders around the state that we close ranks and support his candidacy.”

Read the whole story at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle's website.

Sharia-Compliant Finance Funds Jihad

Monday, 07 April 2008 19:55 Deroy Murdock

NEW YORK — Turn your clock back 70 years. Imagine that Wall Street banks and brokerage houses sold Nuremberg-compliant bonds and stock funds in 1938. American Nazi sympathizers bought financial instruments certified by Berlin-based advisors as free of “Jewish profits” from, say, Salomon Brothers and Bloomingdale’s.

http://www.nybookdistributors.com/
wall_street/feature/salomon.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Bloomingdale’s#History

In turn, a percentage of such funds’ gains underwrote pro-Nazi charities, like the German-American Bund, and similar organizations in the Fatherland, like the Hitler Youth.

Seventy years hence, an analogous outrage grows on Wall Street, only this time for real.

Last Updated ( Monday, 07 April 2008 20:29 ) Read more...

John McCain: Not Right for the Right

Monday, 07 April 2008 09:31 Deroy Murdock Politics - Campaign 09

NEW YORK — There is plenty to admire about Senator John McCain (R – Arizona). His torturous Vietnam experience demands the deepest respect. His eternal vigilance against absurd and costly government boondoggles is unsurpassed. And he forcefully backed President Bush’s military surge, such that a largely pacified and increasingly functional Iraq lately has drifted from the front pages.

But plenty more about McCain argues against his presidential bid. McCain diligently has stymied conservative, free-market policies. While he generally is appropriately hawkish overseas, he is dangerously soft on captured terrorists. And, thanks to the McCain Uncertainty Principle, it often is anyone’s guess whether he will support the Right or sandbag its efforts.

Last Updated ( Monday, 07 April 2008 20:03 ) Read more...

More Oil Drilling, Please

Friday, 11 April 2008 10:11 Deroy Murdock

NEW YORK — How much more pain must Americans endure before our masters in Washington let oil companies punch a few holes in the Alaskan tundra? Must we shiver pennilessly in the dark before we may extract new domestic petroleum deposits? Or shall we simply keep buying $111 barrels of oil from people who want us dead?

http://www.nymex.com/index.aspx

In case Congress missed the news, three U.S. airlines went broke last week. Aloha, ATA, and Skybus blamed unaffordable fuel as they grounded their jets. Aloha said sayonara to 1,900 employees, NBC News reports. ATA’s demise destroyed 2,200 jobs, while Skybus sacked 450 workers, atop the 80,000 positions lost across the economy as unemployment spiked from 4.8 percent in February to 5.1 in March.