The New American

Deficit “Hawks” Face Hypocrisy Charge

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds," poet-philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in the 19th Century. Small minds, at least those...

Jack Kenny December 28, 2009

Will Obama Nominate Napolitano for the Supreme Court?

Bob Adelmann December 28, 2009

Evidence is mounting that Obama will have another opportunity to appoint a justice to the Supreme Court when Justice Stevens retires next summer....

Rachel Maddow Exposes Her Youth, Inexperience, and Political Correctness

December 28, 2009

Rachel Maddow is too young and too inexperienced to know much about the matters she referenced in her December 2009 burst of political...

The Fully Inept Tackle Healthcare

Ralph R. Reiland December 28, 2009

As I’m writing this, they’re in a panic in Congress, voting in the wee hours, bribing reluctant senators with millions in slush funds...

Ft. Hood Shooter’s Spiritual Leader Targeted in Yemen Air Strike

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. December 24, 2009

In the twilight of the pre-dawn on Thursday, bombs dropped on the home of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born, Yemeni-based cleric. Yemeni Air Forces...

Obama Names Schmidt Chief of Cybersecurity

Steven J. DuBord December 24, 2009

President Barack Obama on December 22 named Howard Schmidt, an Internet security expert with experience in both the private sector and government, as...

Historic Christmas Eve Vote Marks Passage of Senate Healthcare Bill

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. December 24, 2009

Apropos of the unusual Christmas Eve vote, the red “nay” lights and the green “aye” lights on the Senate floor flashed in the...

Fed Backers Seek Power More Than Wealth

December 24, 2009

The prime architect of the Federal Reserve was German immigrant Paul Warburg. Arriving in America in 1902 with brother Max, he married into...

Forgotten Influences of the Founders

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. December 24, 2009

Our own Founding Fathers were convinced, and history has proven them prescient, that they were building a new and everlasting republic that would...

Christianity and Salvation

Jack Kenny December 24, 2009

There is a saying about well-intentioned but misguided friends that takes on a special meaning this time of year: "God save me from...

Lithuanian Parliament Condemns CIA Prisons

Thomas R. Eddlem December 23, 2009

A Lithuanian Seimas investigating committee has concluded that he Soviet-era holdover “Committee for State Security” spy agency had struck a deal with the...