About: R. Cort Kirkwood
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Black Friday Sales: $52.4B; Shoppers Reject Occupiers’ Demand
Despite the best efforts of the Occupy Wall Street protesters to sabotage Black Friday Christmas shopping, the National Retail Federation reported that shoppers spent a whopping $52 billion over...
Catholic Prelates Spend 26.6 Million Lobbying
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops spent nearly $30 million lobbying in Washington through 2008-09, according to a new report from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public...
OWS Black Friday Protest Flops; Group Costs Taxpayers at Least $13 Million So Far
The ballyhooed Black Friday protest suggested by the leaders at Occupy Wall Street failed, but OWS has succeeded on two counts. ...
Male Nurse Fired for Treating Muslim Women
They call it Dearbornistan, Michigan, for more than one reason. Yet another surfaced last week week when The Detroit News and the Associated Press reported that a male nurse,...
British Will Crack Down on “Asian” Muslim Sex Slavers
Four months after several reports showed that Asian Muslim gangs in Britain had turned thousands of British girls into sex slaves and prostitutes, the government finally appears ready to act....
Poll: 31 Percent of Occupiers Support Violence
The Occupy Wall Street Movement’s list of crimes grows daily. Since this writer last reported on the leftist OWS, citing John Nolte’s blog at Big Journalism, the list of...
National Debt Runs Past $15 Trillion
It’s official. The U.S. federal debt has crossed another unbelievable line: $15 trillion. The Treasury Department reported the news on Wednesday, and various sources are reporting different figures for...
Drunk Driving Illegal Alien Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter
Almost a year ago exactly, yet another drunk-driving illegal alien killed another American citizen. This time, it was Sarasota, Fla., and the vehicular killer will spend 13 years behind...
OWS Rap Sheet Grows Longer
The hits just keep on coming from Occupy Wall Street. Since The New American last reported on the 204 crimes the nationwide OWS movement has been charged with committing,...
NBC Ties Penn State Scandal to Catholic Church
It was inevitable the connection would be made. When Penn State’s Jerry Sandusky (pictured at left) was arrested on November 4, after years of allegedly molesting boys with the...
Anti-Christian Film To Open at Brooklyn Museum
Having been pulled from an exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution, a film which features ants crawling on a crucifix and a man stitching his mouth together will go on...
OWS Rap Sheet Growing and Growing
The list of crimes committed by members of the leftist Occupy Wall Street movement has grown to at least 204. ...
100,000 Britons Sign Anti-Immigration Petition in One Week
More than 100,000 Britons have eagerly signed an e-petition on the government’s website that says immigration to the sceptr’d isle must stop before the population reaches 70 million. And...
Democrats to State Secretaries: Keep Voting Requirements Loose
The radical Left in Congress is pressing Secretaries of State across the nation to oppose state changes to election laws that require voters to prove they are who they...
Illegal Alien Murders Woman In Walmart Parking Lot
An illegal alien has admitted stabbing a woman to death in a Walmart parking lot in Albion, N.Y., police say, the second murder by an illegal this year in...