OCTOBER LIST OF EVENTS:

October 5, 2005, 8:00pm: Jinx Magazine presents a debate: Is New Jersey Inferior to New York City? Poet and arbiter of taste Boni Joi will argue yes, novelist and Hoboken newspaper editor Caren Lissner will argue no, at the next Jinx Athenaeum. Michel "The Brain" Evanchik will moderate and Jinx Rational Agent Todd Seavey will host. So join us downstairs at Lolita bar, northeast corner of Broome and Allen on Manhattan's Lower East Side, one block north and three west of the Delancey Street subway stop (free admission, cash bar).

October 6, 2005, 6:30pm: Metropolitan Republican Club presents First Thursday, its monthly informal social and political salon. This month's event will combine the usual social festivities with fundraising for Dr. Joel Zinberg, Republican candidate for City Council in the Fifth District on the East Side. $20 at the door for members, $25 at the door for non-members includes all refreshments. Met Club, 122 East 83rd Street (between Lexington and Park).

October 6, 2005, 7-10pm: NYYRC (the state-party affiliated one) October Social - 007 Party Join us at Vintage (753 Ninth Ave. @ 51st). Wear black or white, or dust off your tux and give us your best "Bond, James Bond"! Great raffle prizes; drink special is the James Bond Martini. **NO COVER**.

October 11, 2005, 7:30pm: NYYRC (the independent one) General Meeting Our Guest Speaker is tentatively Claudia Rossett, Journalist-in-Residence for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Ms. Rosett would speak about the Oil for Food scandal. Please note that the meeting will be on Tuesday, October 11th, as Yom Kippur falls on the second Thursday of the month. At Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmens Club, 283 Lexington Ave (bet 36th & 37th St), 2nd Floor. Admission: Members - FREE, Non Members - $5, F/T Students - $2. We always head out for drinks after the meeting, so please join us. *** New After-Meeting Place *** Margarita Murphy's, 591 Third Ave, Between 38th and 39th streets.

October 11, 2005, 12:30pm: Dick Morris will be signing his new book 'Condi vs Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race' at Barnes & Noble on 160 E. 54th Street.

OCTOBER 27, 2005, The Human Life Foundation is proud to host THE THIRD ANNUAL GREAT DEFENDER OF LIFE DINNER honoring NAT HENTOFF. Nat Hentoff is a renowned expert on First Amendment rights, the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court - and the fight to defend human life. Throughout his career, he has used his enormous journalistic talent to defend the right to life of the unborn, the newly-born, the frail elderly and the disabled. Our founder, J. P. McFadden, who was the inspiration for this award, greatly admired Mr. Hentoff for his eloquence in the cause of life, and for his integrity. Since 1984, he has appeared regularly in our pages, with hard-hitting articles decrying abortion, the unjust treatment of pro-life protestors, euthanasia/assisted suicide, and the killing of the disabled. In recent years, Hentoff worked tirelessly to bring the plight of Terri Schiavo to the public eye. Mr. Hentoff is the author of many books on free speech, education, and jazz; he has also written novels, children's books, and biographies, including John Cardinal O'Connor: At the Storm Center of a Changing Church. His latest book is The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance. Click here for more information.