The New American

Atheist Smokes Pages from Bible and Koran

In the aftermath of the furor over one Florida church’s plans to burn copies of the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the...

James Heiser September 16, 2010

Coal Miners Upset With EPA

Bruce Walker September 16, 2010

As America struggles with expensive energy provided by foreign nations without our best interests at heart, West Virginians must wonder why. America is...

Edwin Newman, Defender of Good English, Dead at 91

Jack Kenny September 16, 2010

When Edwin Newman published his phenomenal bestseller Strictly Speaking, a blurb on the back cover quoted a reviewer who described the erudite author...

Iraq Runs Surplus, but Obama Wants to Send More Money

Michael Tennant September 16, 2010

Suppose you’re the President of the United States at a time when your country is facing a $1.3 trillion annual budget deficit and...

The FDA: Neither Safe nor Effective

Michael Tennant September 16, 2010

Once upon a time, so the story goes, the American pharmaceutical industry was a “wild West” in which greedy, unscrupulous snake-oil salesmen preyed...

Reids Lame Duck Session: Just Mopping Up?

Bob Adelmann September 16, 2010

Last Tuesday, September 7, when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he intended to focus the current lame duck session on "mopping...

September 17, 1787

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. September 16, 2010

Not surprisingly, it was the Nestor of the Founding Generation who made the most lasting and dramatic impact on the final day of...

The Emerging Global Fed

Alex Newman September 16, 2010

The Federal Reserve has been a nightmare for the American people. It inflates the money supply, thereby devaluing already-existing money and placing a...

Jefferson, State Sovereignty, and the Constitution

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. September 16, 2010

Of George Wythe, his former tutor and mentor, Thomas Jefferson once wrote: “No man ever left behind him a character more venerated than...

Betraying Friends to Friends

Becky Akers September 16, 2010

Seems the late Ernest C. Withers, a.k.a. “the Original Civil Rights Photographer” whose iconographic pictures recorded the turbulent 1960’s, was also a snitch...

“Mudstream” Republicans Stab O’Donnell in Back

Jack Kenny September 16, 2010

Some years ago, Donald Fehr, then the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, observed that baseball was the only industry...