The New American

Texas Governor Perry About to Enter GOP Race

Texas Governor Rick Perry will try to take a share of the spotlight shining on the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa on Saturday...

Jack Kenny August 9, 2011

Obama Pressured to Approve Canada-U.S. Oil Pipeline

Brian Koenig August 9, 2011

Environmental contention stirs as discussions cultivate over the long-delayed 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport Canadian crude oil from the Athabasca Oil...

Hoyer, Boehner Cost Taxpayers $35,000 for 2010 Breakfast, Lunch Mtgs.

R. Cort Kirkwood August 9, 2011

Republicans and Democrats may be at loggerheads about the debt ceiling and what to cut from the budget, but they agree on one...

GOP Presidential Candidate Herman Cain

Alex Newman August 9, 2011

Until recently, Herman Cain was a largely unknown businessman whose major claims to fame included a high-level appointment in the Federal Reserve System...

GOP Presidential Candidate Michele Bachmann

Jack Kenny August 9, 2011

Michele Bachmann is hoping to become the first presidential candidate to go directly from the House of Representatives to the White House since...

Rick Perry China’s New Best Friend?

Kelly Holt August 9, 2011

With Texas Governor Rick Perry expected to make an "announcement" on Saturday at a conservative conference in South Carolina, scrutiny of his record...

New Book Claims Crazy Leaders Are the Best Leaders

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. August 9, 2011

Do you think our elected leaders are crazy? You might be right. ...

Court Advances U.S. Torture Victims’ Case Against Donald Rumsfeld

Thomas R. Eddlem August 9, 2011

The Seventh U.S. Court of Appeals ruled August 8 that two American citizens detained and tortured without trial or court hearing by the Bush-era...

Secure Communities Program: White House Edict Forces State Participation

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. August 9, 2011

The White House has informed Governors that they are forbidden from opting out of the Department of Homeland Security’s controversial Secure Communities (SComm)...

Nixing Nuclear Threatens Bayer’s Future in Germany

Rebecca Terrell August 9, 2011

Rising energy prices in Germany are forcing the pharmaceutical and chemical conglomerate Bayer to threaten a move to China. The culprit is Germany's...

Public Health Maternity Horrors in South Africa

Bruce Walker August 9, 2011

Suppose a nation was so blessed with natural resources that it almost could not be poor. Suppose that this nation led the world...

Debt Deal: Not Even a Pyrrhic Victory for Republicans

Thomas Sowell August 9, 2011

In Don Marquis' classic satirical book, "Archy and Mehitabel," Mehitabel the alley cat asks plaintively, "What have I done to deserve all these...

Democrats Call S&P Decision a “Tea Party Downgrade”

Brian Koenig August 9, 2011

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), among other prominent Democrats, blamed the Tea Party for S&P’s downgrade of the U.S. government's long-held AAA credit rating....