Articles by Joshua Sotomayor-Einstein

Pensions, state budget February 24, 2015

5 Things You Need to Know About New Jersey’s State Budget

By Joshua A. Sotomayor-Einstein | The Save Jersey Blog I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Joe Luppino-Esposito, Save Jerseyans, the editor and general counsel for State Budget Solutions (statebudgetsolutions.org). State Budget Solutions (SBS) is a think tank that focuses on budgetary challenges facing statehouses and city halls nationwide. From Medicaid expansion and underfunded pensions to education funding and budget “gimmicks” and […]

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Democrat Party, Foreign Policy, Israel September 9, 2014

The American Jewish Community Should Join the GOP

By Joshua A. Sotomayor-Einstein | The Save Jersey Blog The recent Gaza War has demonstrated that the era of bipartisan support for Israel is over. Republicans overwhelmingly sided with Israel, while Democratic leaders hemmed and hawed over every conceivable statement calculated to alienate the least amount of radical far-left, anti-Israel activists. From Hillary Clinton’s justification of […]

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Election 2014 July 24, 2014

Interview with the Libertarian

By Joshua A. Sotomayor-Einstein | The Save Jersey Blog Save Jerseyans, you may recall that in June I had the pleasure of debating Dorit Goikhman, Vice Chair of the NJ Libertarian Party and her party’s nominee for the House of Representative in CD 6, in a forum sponsored by the Hudson County Republican Club (HudsonRepublicans.com). It was […]

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Foreign Policy, Iraq, Syria, U.S. Military July 10, 2014

Understanding the ISIS Crisis

By Joshua Sotomayor-Einstein | The Save Jersey Blog “Yet today, with Sunni jihadists pushing towards Baghdad, Iraq looks less like a Middle Eastern “City on a Hill” than a sectarian thugocracy, rapidly degenerating into a dystopian hellscape.” – Gene Healy, Washington Examiner “…there’s little reason that America should get involved in Iraq’s ongoing sectarian war yet again.” – […]

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Republican Party June 16, 2014

Debating: Conservatism vs Libertarianism

By Joshua Sotomayor-Einstein | The Save Jersey Blog This Save Jersey contributor invites all of you in North Jersey to attend The Great Debate: Libertarian VS. Neoconservative Thursday, June 19th at 7:30 in Willie McBrides (616 Grand St) in Hoboken. The event is being organized by the Hudson County Republican Club (http://hudsonrepublicans.com/) and I am honored to be one of […]

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Chris Christie, Election 2016, Foreign Policy, National, Rick Perry May 21, 2014

Christie Takes On Fortress America

By Joshua Sotomayor-Einstein | The Save Jersey Blog On Sunday evening, I had the pleasure of attending the “Champions of Jewish Values International Awards Gala” in New York hosted by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. You may remember Rabbi Shmuley from radio, TV, his many provocative books, or our Save Jersey interview with him during his 2012 congressional run. The […]

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Foreign Policy, Rand Paul May 12, 2014

Paul’s Foreign Policy Problem

By Joshua Sotomayor-Einstein | The Save Jersey Blog Senator Rand Paul was, until recently, a serious contender for the GOP Presidential nomination but his recent piece in the National Review Online demonstrates why a President Paul would leave a lot to be desired, Save Jerseyans. The Kentucky Senator, heir to the libertarian dynasty founded by his father, has been making […]

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Hudson County, North Jersey, Republican Party May 2, 2014

Meeting Hudson’s Republican Club

By Joshua Sotomayor-Einstein | The Save Jersey Blog Save Jerseyans, Hudson County may be bluer than Bergen but there remains a bastion of solid red conservative and libertarian grassroots activism in the form of the Hudson County Republican Club (hudsonrepublicans.com, HCRC). Founded in 2011 separate and apart from the official county committee “by a coalition of Hudson County conservative […]

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American History, Foreign Policy, Political Theory April 22, 2014

Why I Am a Neocon and Isolationists Suck

By Joshua Sotomayor-Einstein | The Save Jersey Blog Originally published by Thought Catalog at www.thoughtcatalog.com Isolationists like to pretend the neoconservative movement has failed. They suffer from historical amnesia and root for the war-weary public’s rejection of all foreign policy. The reality is that the neoconservative movement and its policies have been massively successful and become mainstream. This is […]

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Bergen County, North Jersey, U.S. Senate, Young Republican March 16, 2014

Senate Candidates Meet with YRs

By Joshua Einstein | The Save Jersey Blog Over 25 people attended the Bergen County Young Republican “Meet the Candidates” meeting at 8:00pm at local watering hole The Poitin Still in Hackensack last Monday, Save Jerseyans, and they were joined by three of five candidates for the Republican nomination for US Senate: Rich Pezzullo, Murray Sabrin, and Brian […]

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Foreign Policy March 15, 2014

U.S. Options to Turn Back Putin’s Russia

By Joshua Einstein | The Save Jersey Blog In the short term, the de facto annexation of the Crimea (and possibly more of Ukraine) by Comrade-Czar Putin will have little to no ramification for US national interests, Save Jerseyans. In the long term, however, it emboldens totalitarian regimes everywhere and many, though not all, harbor expansionist dreams. One […]

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Election 2014, Hudson County February 17, 2014

Meet John Sebik

By Joshua Einstein | The Save Jersey Blog Bayonne, NJ – Team Zanowic, the fiscally responsible slate for Bayonne Mayor and city council, are practicing the big tent coalition building in which GOPer’s everywhere should be engaged. Comprised of Republicans and Independents, conservatives and libertarians, they have been reaching out to and are building bridges across traditionally-Democratic Bayonne. […]

Election 2014, Hudson County, North Jersey, Republican Party January 13, 2014

Red Bayonne Rising?

By Joshua Einstein | The Save Jersey Blog January 9, Bayonne – Packed to capacity and brimming with possibility, Save Jerseyans, KP Sarelli’s a Bayonne Italian restaurant was (bustling with optimism as it played) host to the Team Zanowic official campaign launch at the end of last week. The candidates were greeted by a violin solo and 120 […]

Cultural Issues, Education, Higher Education, Uncategorized January 1, 2014

Fending Off Progressive Fables

By Joshua Einstein | The Save Jersey Blog “You wouldn’t be here if not for progressive policy.” – Unknown NJ mass transit commuter At some point in November 2013, Save Jerseyans, I was handing out cards advocating against a NJ ballot initiative calling for a minimum wage amendment to the NJ State constitution that would require yearly minimum […]

Big Government, Cultural Issues December 31, 2013

Tearing Down the Total State

By Joshua Einstein | The Save Jersey Blog The normative Left today is (unfortunately) an example of a successful totalitarian movement, Save Jerseyans. Though neither a jackbooted National Socialist German Workers Party (aka the Nazi’s) clone, nor a USSR Politburo copy it nonetheless has been thus far effective in its efforts to make the State totally synonymous with […]

Economics, Foreign Policy December 30, 2013

A Dose of Deutschland

OPINION: The World (and Especially Europe) Needs Germany to Step Up By Joshua Einstein | The Save Jersey Blog Dear Germans, Often times I read in international magazines and newspapers articles about a new German film, art show, or historical exhibit that has you examining the Nazi past from a new angle. While it is true that those […]