The New American

UN May Get Global Carbon Tax on Air Travel to Avert “Trade War”

The United Nations may be able to seize an opportunity — presented by mass resistance against the “carbon tax” on air travel imposed...

Alex Newman February 13, 2012

The New Education Boondoggle: Common Core Standards

Sam Blumenfeld February 13, 2012

The dictionary defines “boondoggle” as: “work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value.” And President Obama's...

NRA Warns That Obama Would Assault Gun Rights in 2nd Term

Alex Newman February 13, 2012

If President Obama is reelected in 2012, he would unlawfully seek to infringe upon the God-given right to keep and bear arms enshrined...

Al-Qaeda & the West Back Syrian Rebels Against Assad

Alex Newman February 13, 2012

Western governments and the notorious al-Qaeda terror network have teamed up to bring down the relatively secular dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad in Syria,...

Catholic Bishops Reject Obama’s Contraception “Compromise”

Dave Bohon February 13, 2012

America’s Roman Catholic bishops have joined other Christian and conservative voices in rejecting President Obama’s “compromise” on his earlier announced mandate requiring all...

Foreclosure Settlement Bails Out the Big Banks

Bob Adelmann February 13, 2012

The report from The New York Times on Wednesday about the foreclosure settlement reached between five big banks and 49 states’ attorneys general...

World Bank Report Shows Big Government Reduces Economic Growth

Brian Koenig February 13, 2012

A new report published by the World Bank has come to a spellbinding conclusion: High government spending and large public sectors substantially diminish...

Obama on Capital Gains: No Winners

Ralph R. Reiland February 13, 2012

“If you make more than $1 million a year, you should not pay less than 30 percent in taxes,” asserted President Obama in...

Warren Buffet: Obama Tax Shill

Wallis W. Wood February 13, 2012

Well, he didn’t make Time magazine’s “Person of the Year.” But Warren Buffett did make the cover of the magazine last month. The...

Gadhafi’s Son Warns of Imminent Uprising in Libya

Alex Newman February 13, 2012

An armed uprising in Libya is imminent as people in the oil-rich North African nation continue to reject the new NATO-backed regime, one...

Bill to Broadcast Supreme Court Proceedings Passes Committee

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. February 13, 2012

After sailing through the subcommittee in late December, last Thursday by a vote of 11-7 the full Senate Judiciary Committee passed on to...

Lawyer for Gitmo Detainee Challenges Mail-reading Rule

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. February 13, 2012

An attorney for an American accused of conspiring to carry out the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 has filed suit in the...

Was Maine Stolen from Ron Paul?

Thomas R. Eddlem February 12, 2012

The mass media have repeated the official results for the Maine GOP presidential caucuses that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney narrowly beat Texas...