The New American

A Fitting Symbol of the American Empire

The image of four U.S. marines urinating on the corpses of Afghan fighters is a fitting symbol of American intervention in Central Asia...

Sheldon Richman January 24, 2012

Right-to-Work Bill Passes Ind. Senate, Goes to House; Democrats Walk Out

Raven Clabough January 24, 2012

At the start of the New Year, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels (left) announced that he would see to it that Indiana becomes a...

Former Rep. William Delahunt Pockets $90,000 From Earmarks

Brian Koenig January 24, 2012

Former Congressman William D. Delahunt (left) from Massachusetts established a lobbying firm, the Delahunt Group, soon after retiring as one of the federal...

Republicans Engage in Housing Bubble Debate

Thomas R. Eddlem January 24, 2012

Republicans debated the housing bubble/bust in the January 23 NBC debate, with former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney drawing political blood from former House...

Liberian War Lord and Dictator Worked With CIA

Alex Newman January 24, 2012

Infamous war lord and dictator Charles Taylor of Liberia — accused of mass murder, rape, war crimes, involvement in sex slavery, child abuse,...

“Do Not Deport” Policy Presents Problems

Bruce Walker January 24, 2012

Our nation's ability to defend its borders against the ongoing onslaught of illegal immigrants has been severely compromised by our government's granting of...

Keynesian Economists Agree: China to Have “Hard Landing”

Bob Adelmann January 24, 2012

Mainstream economist Robert Samuelson admitted last week that the case for the ending of the economic boom in China has some substance. Keynesian...

George Soros Talks of Economic Collapse in the West

Alex Newman January 24, 2012

Billionaire investor George Soros, infamous for his lavish funding of big-government and globalist causes, dropped several bombshells during a recent interview with Newsweek...

A Brass Age?

Thomas Sowell January 24, 2012

This may be the golden age of presumptuous ignorance. The most recent demonstrations of that are the Occupy Wall Street mobs. It is...

Reading and the Brain

Sam Blumenfeld January 24, 2012

In a recent article on whether one should be optimistic or pessimistic about America’s future, I quoted the former chairman of the National...

Hidden Camera Reveals How Easy It Is for Phantom Voters to Vote

Kurt Hyde January 23, 2012

James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas sent investigative reporters to the polls during the New Hampshire presidential primary on January 10. The goal was to...

David Mamet: How a Liberal Playwright Became a Conservative

Sam Blumenfeld January 23, 2012

How does a successful liberal playwright and screenwriter such as David Mamet become a conservative? In a way he probably has always been...

West Coast, East Coast: Hundreds of Thousands March for Life

William F. Jasper January 23, 2012

Tens of thousands of pro-life supporters marched through downtown San Francisco on Saturday, January 21, to mark the 39th anniversary of the Roe...

Md. Abortionists: State Law Does Not Permit Our Prosecution

R. Cort Kirkwood January 23, 2012

Two abortionists in Maryland, charged with murder under the state’s fetal homicide law, claim that prosecutors are misusing that law and attacking a...