An interesting piece: James Taranto on whether politicians can and should blog. So far, they can't and they shouldn't.

Texas Tom sent me a piece by National Review writer Byron York on the ludicrous study done at Berkeley (with taxpayer dollars, of course) to determine to what extent conservatives are crazy and evil. No, I'm not kidding.

Tom writes: 'I especially find the reference to the "Republican Scandal Machine" insulting and sloppy . I suppose it's far more dignified to simply lump in legit conservatives like Reagan and Limbaugh with Hitler and Mussolini. Could this be just thinly-veiled leftist clap-trap? Yep, smells like home-cookin' to me.'

Jonah Goldberg has also trashed the study here.

Update: the American Scene Blog has more on the study.

Did you know you can visit NYCBloggers.com and look up bloggers by subway station? This blog is listed at Grand Central Station.

Welcome to the weblog of the New York Young Republican Club, Inc. This blog will be a place where members and friends of the NYYRC can publish pieces that they have written or direct people to interesting articles and editorials on the web. If you are new to blogging you can check out some of the bigger blogs to get an idea of what we hope this site will be like. Here are some suggestions:

Spot On- Shameless plug as this link will take you to the blog of the humble founder of this site.

Instapundit-The granddaddy of blogging.

Lileks-The best writer I've discovered via the blogosphere.

LGF-Little Green Football's Charles Johnson popularized the term 'idiotarian' which quickly became part of the blogging vernacular. A directory of commonly used blog terms can be found here.

Andrew Sullivan-Politically undefinable (he's pro-life and for gay marriage, he was for the war in Iraq but doesn't like the tax cuts) but a great writer.

Best of the Web-Not sure if it can really be characterized as a blog but it is a summation of interesting news stories with James Taranto's clever quips on such.

The Corner-National Review's blog.