Iraqi Christians Cancel Christmas Celebrations
In Baghdad, the dwindling remnant of Christians will observe the Feast of the Nativity this year in the knowledge that for many of them it may be their last...
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China Bans Use of English in Media
The economic experts were recently proven wrong once again, as the estimate of the U.S. trade deficit dropped to $38.7 billion. According to a report from the Commerce Department,...
Nearly One Quarter of Military Applicants Fail Basic Exam
While President Obama and the Congress were engaged in using the U.S. military as a pawn in the latest round of social experimentation, a review of test scores has...
Surviving Nuclear Attack: “Duck and Cover” Is Back
Almost three decades have passed since the film The Atomic Cafe (1982) offered a cynical, and yet vacuous, denigration of the efforts of American civil-defense experts to prepare the...
Plight of Iraqi Christians Worsens
The exodus of Iraqi Christians, which has been underway since the U.S. invasion in 2003, continues unabated, and may even be accelerating. As reported previously by The New American,...
The Va Tech Massacre and the Right of Self-defense
More than two and a half years have passed since massacre at Virginia Tech left over 30 students and faculty dead in the wake of Seung-Hui Cho’s shooting spree,...
Chinese Dissident Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo may not have the name familiarity in the West of a man such as Barack Hussein Obama, but as of today the two men now...
Will EPA Admit Economic Impact of Regulations?
A bipartisan group of Senators are charging the Obama administration with knowing that the latest round of proposed regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will cost many Americans...
Majority of Austrian Turks Refuse Assimilation
As reported previously for The New American, a recent poll of public opinion in Germany revealed that only approximately one-third of Germans have a positive view of Muslims. In...
SpaceX Successfully Lauches Falcon 9 Rocket
Today’s launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is an important development in the future of privately funded space flight. Although the Obama administration has substantially curtailed the manned space...
Germans Feel Threatened by Islam
Are Germans less tolerant of Islam than the citizens of other European nations? That is the interpretation which some members of the press and adherents of Islam are trying...
Texas Legislature May Criminalize ObamaCare
A bill which Rep. Leo Berman (R-Dist. 6) has introduced for consideration by Texas’ 82nd Legislature would give a whole new meaning to the phrase, “Don’t Mess With Texas.”...
Unemployment Rate Rises to 9.8%
As extended unemployment benefits for two million Americans began to run out this week, the economic news from Washington remains bleak. According to the November Employment Situation Summary from...
NASA Announces Breakthrough in Astrobiology
NASA’s anticipated press conference concerning a breakthrough in astrobiology proved once again that life is stranger than scientists had known, but not as strange as some reporters and bloggers...
Conservative Constitutionalism Called Vague, Arrogant
It will probably come as no surprise to readers of The New American that the views upheld by constitutional conservatives are not widely respected in the circles of the...