Opinion

Obama’s Letter to Americans: Stand Behind Efforts to Raise Debt Limit

President Obama’s open letter to the American people published yesterday in USA Today challenges them “to do something big and meaningful" and stand...

Bob Adelmann July 22, 2011

The Left Baits a Trap: the “Balanced Budget Amendment”

Wallis W. Wood July 22, 2011

A lot of good people who believe, as I do, that we need to balance the federal budget have fallen for a very...

Whatever Happened to Goals 2000?

Sam Blumenfeld July 21, 2011

If you want to know why we should get rid of the Department of Education, a little look at what the educators have...

Black and Conservative: Thomas Sowell on Race and Rationalism

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. July 21, 2011

While it is true that the majority of black Americans lean leftward, and while it is no less true that the majority of...

No Saturday Mail Any More?

Bruce Walker July 21, 2011

The Constitution and the early organization of the federal executive branch properly limited the scope of government activities to a few areas. Education...

A Forgotten Black Conservative: A Closer Look at George S. Schuyler

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. July 20, 2011

Over the years, The John Birch Society — the organization of which The New American is an organ — has been besmirched by...

Time’s Obsolete, Not the Constitution

Sam Blumenfeld July 20, 2011

Time’s July 4th cover story about the United States Constitution, “Does It Still Matter?,” reveals more about the mindset of the liberal elite...

Education Is Worse Than We Thought

Walter E. Williams July 20, 2011

Last December, I reported on Harvard University professor Stephan Thernstrom's essay "Minorities in College — Good News, But...," on Minding the Campus, a...

Legal Abracadabra: Why the TSA’s Sexual Assaults Are “Constitutional”

Becky Akers July 20, 2011

If you aren’t already convinced that judicial robes cloak the biggest set of fools and tyrants outside Congress, a decision last week from...

Good Things

Thomas Sowell July 19, 2011

Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things....

Is Gold Money?

Sam Blumenfeld July 18, 2011

Money is anything that is commonly accepted as a medium of exchange, with government interjecting itself into the equation by designating certain notes...