The New American

Rand Paul “Interested” in 2016 Run for the White House

In an interview with ABC News ranging from marijuana laws to defense cuts, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) talked to Jonathan Karl about the...

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. November 21, 2012

DHS Inks $443 Million Deal to Buy More Drones

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. November 21, 2012

Department of Homeland Security seeks funds to purchase 14 new Predator drones. ...

Sen. Leahy Drops Controversial Warrantless E-mail Surveillance Bill

Raven Clabough November 21, 2012

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has announced that he will not be supporting the controversial Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act, which he wrote,...

Ron Paul: Free People Have the Right to Secede

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. November 21, 2012

Are states free to secede from the union? While for many years this question was thought to be settled by the victory of...

Hotels and Hassles

Thomas Sowell November 21, 2012

Few things can make you appreciate home like staying in a hotel. This includes not only low-budget, bare bones hotels but also sweepingly...

Petraeus Fell for the Wrong Reason

Sheldon Richman November 21, 2012

David Petraeus has fallen — but not as he should have. Before being disgraced by an extramarital affair, the retired four-star general and...

Movie Review: The Pencil Has Spoken!

William F. Jasper November 20, 2012

In the new and beautifully animated six-minute film I, Pencil, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has brought to life Leonard Read’s I, Pencil,...

Union Threatens to Paralyze Walmart Stores on Black Friday

Bob Adelmann November 20, 2012

The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union has threatened 1,000 protests against Walmart on Black Friday, while the giant retailer has filed...

EU Supports New Syrian Opposition Group

Warren Mass November 20, 2012

At the meeting of the European Union's Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on November 19, a group of 27 European foreign ministers issued...

Victory — and Defeat — in Battle Over Contraception Mandate

Dave Bohon November 20, 2012

A pair of rulings covering Obama's contraception mandate demonstrates the conflict that is emerging between religious freedom and the President's audacious attempts at...

Geithner as Buzz Lightyear on National Debt: To Infinity, and Beyond

Thomas R. Eddlem November 20, 2012

President Obama's Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has embraced the “Buzz Lightyear” debt strategy to overcome the fiscal crisis known as the “fiscal cliff”:...

House Committee Investigates EPA’s Secret E-mail Accounts

Michael Tennant November 20, 2012

Citing “a pattern of behavior directed at subverting transparency,” the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is requesting information from Environmental Protection...