The New American

Petraeus: No “Winning,” Firm Withdrawal Date from Afghanistan

U.S. Commander for Afghanistan General David Petraeus told NBC's “Meet the Press” August 15 that he prefers not to talk about “winning” in...

Thomas R. Eddlem August 16, 2010

Eat Pray Love Fails to Entertain

Raven Clabough August 16, 2010

Directed by Ryan Murphy, Eat Pray Love is a movie adaptation of the New York Times bestseller Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search...

Constitutionality of Anchor Babies Questioned

Kelly Holt August 16, 2010

On August 12, Devin Dwyer of ABC News wrote that eight percent of U.S. births are to illegal immigrants, each child becoming a...

Congressional Ethics an Oxymoron?

Bob Adelmann August 16, 2010

USA Today seems surprised at the number of ethics cases making headlines recently, referring to the trials being faced by Representatives Charles Rangel...

Obama Cozies Up To Islam … Again

R. Cort Kirkwood August 16, 2010

President Barack Obama's recent remarks about Ramadan and the Ground Zero Mosque called Cordoba House have left observers wondering whether the president even...

Getting Jobbed by the Government

William P. Hoar August 16, 2010

Item: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said not long ago that unemployment insurance is “one of the biggest stimuluses [sic] to our economy.”...

Finance Power Play

August 16, 2010

On Wednesday, July 21, President Obama triumphantly signed the latest plank in his bid to outdo Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Depression-era radical expansion of...

This Day in the Constitutional Convention of 1787

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

Thursday, August 16, 1787. The State House in Philadelphia was hot, hot, hot. The delegates gathered to “form a more perfect union” were...

Monkeying Around With the Economy

Ralph R. Reiland August 16, 2010

Remember those stories about Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burned? Actually, if he was really playing, it was probably a lyre, a...

The Expendables: Sly’s So-So Effort

Eric Egan August 15, 2010

The cast of The Expendables is a veritable pantheon of action stars — Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Statham, Micky Rourke,...

Obama’s Multigenerational Shadow War

Michael Tennant August 15, 2010

“If George W. Bush is remembered by getting America stuck in Afghanistan and Iraq, it’s looking like Obama wants to be remembered as...

Massachusetts Medical-record Dump Serves as Warning for All Americans

Michael Tennant August 15, 2010

“Four Massachusetts community hospitals are investigating how thousands of patient health records, some containing Social Security numbers and sensitive medical diagnoses, ended up...

Stossel Unhappy with Greenspan

Bob Adelmann August 15, 2010

When John Stossel of Fox Business Network wrote his recent “Memo to Alan Greenspan” column, he recounted many of Greenspan’s failings while Chairman...