The New American

Obama Healthcare by Hook or by Crook

According to the New York Times, President Obama has “his back to the wall” concerning the fate of his “signature initiative” and is...

Bob Adelmann March 10, 2010

Firearms Freedom Spreading

Patrick Krey March 10, 2010

The Tenth Amendment movement sweeping across the nation has made its way to the Beehive State. The Utah-Made Firearm Act states that all...

Iceland Debt Small Part of Global Debt Crisis

Charles Scaliger March 10, 2010

Iceland’s recent vote not to repay billions of dollars owed to Britain and the Netherlands underscores the growing risk involved in bailing out...

Census Should Stick To Constitutional Limits, Says Ron Paul

Steven Yates March 9, 2010

Every time a year ending in a zero swings around, the federal government conducts a census — typically in early spring, meaning that...

Sex Offender Laws Called Into Question

Raven Clabough March 9, 2010

John Albert Gardner III, a registered sex offender in Escondido, a north San Diego suburb, from January 2008 to January 2010, is accused...

India-Pakistan ‘Proxy War’ Complicates Afghanistan

Alex Newman March 9, 2010

After several attacks on Indian targets by militants in Afghanistan, officials and analysts claim that the governments of Pakistan and India are waging...

Same-sex Couples Wed in Washington, DC

Dave Bohon March 9, 2010

Homosexual couples began marrying March 9 in Washington, DC, nearly a week after a measure permitting same-sex marriage passed its final legal hurdles...

Inflicting Aristide — and More Pain — on Haiti

William F. Jasper March 9, 2010

By the beginning of March, government officials and humanitarian aid workers on the ground in Haiti were estimating that the death toll from...

Obama Woos Senators for Climate-change Legislation

Rebecca Terrell March 9, 2010

President Obama is turning up the heat on Congress to pass comprehensive climate-change legislation, meeting today with key Senators from both parties at...

TSA and the Fourth Amendment: Take another Look

Bob Adelmann March 9, 2010

When Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that Major General Robert Harding was President Obama’s latest nominee for the Transportation Security Agency (TSA),...

U.K. Trash Bins Secretly Implanted with Microchips

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. March 8, 2010

Not content with the constant video surveillance of her subjects, Her Majesty’s government has now begun monitoring their rubbish, as well. According to...

Icelanders Reject ‘Debt Slavery’

Alex Newman March 8, 2010

Icelandic voters went to the polls over the weekend and delivered an overwhelming blow to bankers and governments attempting saddle the people with...

McCain-Lieberman Bill Would Deny Civilian Trials for “Enemy Belligerents”

Steven Yates March 8, 2010

On March 4 Senators John McCain (R-Ariz) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduced a bill entitled “The Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention and Prosecution Act...