The New American

The Price of Price-gouging Laws

When do government price controls, which are meant to help consumers, hurt consumers? Whenever they are in effect. ...

Steve Byas October 10, 2013

Racial Trade-offs

Walter E. Williams October 9, 2013

Though many black politicians mouth that we should fix, not abandon, public schools, they themselves have abandoned public schools. They see their children...

ObamaCare Backers Mugged by Reality of Rising Insurance Rates

Michael Tennant October 9, 2013

ObamaCare supporters are finding out the hard way that there's no such thing as free healthcare: Their insurance rates are skyrocketing. ...

Inarticulate Republicans

Thomas Sowell October 9, 2013

If the continued existence of mathematics depended on the ability of the Republicans to defend the proposition that two plus two equals four,...

List of Indignities Foisted on Americans in Shutdown Continues to Grow

Bob Adelmann October 9, 2013

The Obama administration’s plan is to make the government "shutdown" as painful, inconvenient, and offensive for ordinary Americans as possible. It is intentionally...

Healthcare Law to Fine Hospitals That Provide Free Services to Poor

Raven Clabough October 9, 2013

President Obama’s healthcare law is full of increased costs to taxpayers, in the form of taxes, higher premiums, and of course, fines. In...

Rough Road to Recovery

Charles Scaliger October 9, 2013

President Obama has claimed that America is well on its way to economic recovery, but if job figures, incomes, inflation, and debt are...

EEOC Sues Firm: Didn’t Accommodate Worker’s Fear of “Mark of the Beast”

Dave Bohon October 9, 2013

The EEOC has sued a Pennsylvania company for its refusal to accommodate a worker over his concerns that its required biometric hand-scanner was...

Wisconsin School District Launches Attack Against Christmas Music

Dave Bohon October 9, 2013

School officials in Wausau, Wisconsin, appear to be targeting Christianity in their near total ban of sacred music by the school's choirs during...

Congress to Probe Govt. Attacks on Homeowners, Businesses During Shutdown

Alex Newman October 8, 2013

As outrage and defiance against the Obama administration’s “shutdown” antics continue to escalate, lawmakers in Congress plan to investigate growing numbers of reports...

Government Shutdown Produces Regulatory Slowdown

Michael Tennant October 8, 2013

The pace of federal regulations has slowed dramatically as the government shutdown has forced agencies to furlough many of their employees. ...

Supreme Court’s Docket Full of Potential Mischief

Bob Adelmann October 8, 2013

The selected agenda facing the Supreme Court may right some wrongs but it threatens liberty in a variety of cases. ...

Who Shut Down the Government?

Thomas Sowell October 8, 2013

There is really nothing complicated about the facts. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted all the money required to keep all government activities...