The New American

The Newspaper Revitalization Act Bailout

Senator Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.) introduced “The Newspaper Revitalization Act” on March 24 of this year. The legislation would allow the nation’s struggling newspapers...

Steven J. DuBord October 2, 2009

September Unemployment Hits 9.8 Percent

Steven J. DuBord October 2, 2009

The national unemployment rate hit 9.8 percent in September, the highest it has been since June 1983. A total of 15.1 million Americans...

Tadeusz Kosciuszko: Premier Polish Patriot

October 2, 2009

British General John Burgoyne must have been bitterly disappointed one day in July 1777 in the upper Hudson Valley — the day his...

FBI Claims OKC Bombing Tapes Not Edited

Steven J. DuBord October 2, 2009

The Federal Bureau of Investigation claims that surveillance tapes of the Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April...

Memo Warned ACORN of Problems

R. Cort Kirkwood October 1, 2009

ACORN's attorney warned the group last year that it needed to get its fiscal and managerial houses in order, reports Matthew Vadum at...

U.S. Opens ICANN to Global Influence

Steven J. DuBord October 1, 2009

The U.S. Department of Commerce and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) signed an agreement on September 30 to give...

Figuring Out the Founders

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. October 1, 2009

Stroll casually along the bulging bookshelves of your local bookseller, and you’re sure to see rows and rows of books chronicling the lives...

Canadian Clown the Latest “Space Tourist”

James Heiser October 1, 2009

With NASA Administrator Charles Bolden taking tentative steps toward more free market possibilities for America’s space program—and even mentioning the once-unspeakable topic of...

Communist China at 60

October 1, 2009

On October 1, the Beijing government celebrates the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, declared formally through a...

Michigan Mom Told to Stop Baby-sitting

Gregory Hession October 1, 2009

It takes a village to raise a child, except when the government gets involved. ...

McChrystal Assesses Afghanistan at the IISS

October 1, 2009

Speaking at London’s International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) on October 1, U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO...