The New American

Ridge Questions Bush’s Motives in Setting Terror Threat Level

Former Bush administration official and former governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Ridge, was secretary of Homeland Security, and his assertions in a new memoir...

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. August 21, 2009

The Afghan Presidential Election, Part 3

August 21, 2009

Citizens of Afghanistan — and the rest of the world — awaited the results of the nation's presidential election the day after the...

U.S. Court Throws Out Warrantless Wiretapping Case

Thomas R. Eddlem August 21, 2009

U.S. District Court Judge John G. Koeltl of the Southern District of New York dismissed an ACLU challenge to the U.S. government's warrantless...

Exposing the Green World Order

August 21, 2009

The environmental movement, bent on regulating America under its green thumb, has such a vast array of lobbying groups, proposed measures, and specialized...

Government Education: Enemy of a Free Society

Sam Blumenfeld August 21, 2009

There is no question but that the revolutionary Left has triumphed in a way that many of us never dreamed possible. What we...

Psychiatry Goes Back to the Future

Beverly K. Eakman August 21, 2009

The New York Times’ Benedict Carey reported this week that the Army “plans to require that all 1.1 million of its soldiers take...

U.S. Life Expectancy Hits New High

Steven J. DuBord August 21, 2009

In 2007, U.S. life expectancy reached an all-time high of 77.9 years, up from 77.7 in 2006. The National Center for Health Statistics...

Sousa’s March of Greatness

John White August 21, 2009

Arielle Levin Becker of the Washington Post wrote about John Philip Sousa’s professional stature as regards his past association with the Marine Corps...

The State as Doctor: Prescription for Atrocities

Becky Akers August 21, 2009

No wonder politicians applaud medical Marxism, a.k.a. Obamacare: it increases their power over us. Ditto for special interests and their profits. But astoundingly,...

NASA Committee Weighs Future of Manned Space Program

James Heiser August 21, 2009

In an age of out of control government spending — over $30 billion a week in budget deficits, 130,000 troops in Iraq and...

The Private Sector and the future of Space Exploration

James Heiser August 21, 2009

An article at Wired.com (“Rocket Booster: Let Private Sector help NASA”) keeps a free-market focus on the future of American space exploration: “After...

Myanmar Asks for End to Sanctions

Warren Mass August 20, 2009

Commentary from Myanmar's military junta appearing in three official newspapers on August 20 proposed that western nations end their economic sanctions of the...

Microsoft Appeals Ban on MS Word

Steven J. DuBord August 20, 2009

Microsoft on August 18 filed an appeal to a judge’s ruling that the company’s Word application violates a Canadian firm’s patent. The ruling...

Save Rifqa Bary From an Honor Killing

R. Cort Kirkwood August 20, 2009

Americans and Europeans have learned at least one unpleasant truth about unfettered immigration, even if government officials don’t want to admit it: many...