The New American

Obama Will Soon Propose Indefinite Detention Without Trial

The leftist Brookings Institution has put forth an indefinite-detention-without-trial legislation proposal that National Public Radio says the Obama is considering issuing in executive...

Thomas R. Eddlem June 30, 2009

A Real Duke Rape Case

Selwyn Duke June 30, 2009

We all remember the infamous Duke University rape frame-up case, in which three white lacrosse players were falsely accused of raping a black...

Supreme Court Rules for Firefighters

Steven J. DuBord June 30, 2009

The Supreme Court ruled on June 29 that New Haven, Connecticut, discriminated against white and Hispanic firefighters by disregarding test results that would...

States Plan on Opting Out of Obamacare

Ann Shibler June 30, 2009

Some state lawmakers, in preemptive mode, are considering ballot initiatives for the 2010 election which would allow them to opt out of Obama...

Honduran Military Enforces Court-ordered Presidential Replacement

June 29, 2009

Acting on the orders of the Honduran Supreme Court, on June 28 a military force detained the nation's president, Manuel Zelaya, and took...

Crime and No Punishment in Massachusetts

Thomas R. Eddlem June 29, 2009

I wasn’t surprised to see one of my local newspapers, the Brockton Enterprise, publish a story about a 36-year-old career criminal being arraigned...

“Pro-choice” Advocates Often Inconsistent

Jack Kenny June 29, 2009

I have been inveighing for so long against the hypocrisy of the “pro-choice” advocates, both in and out of government, that some people...

Obama’s Broken No Tax Increase Pledge

Thomas R. Eddlem June 29, 2009

Since he was asking about things that had already happened back in February, George Stephanopoulos might as well have asked White House adviser...

Conyers Refuses to Investigate ACORN

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. June 29, 2009

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) has had a change of heart regarding his earlier decision to investigate the Association of Community...

Sotomayor Overruled in Firefighters’ Case

Jack Kenny June 29, 2009

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has been overturned again. President Barrack Obama’s choice to fill the Supreme Court vacancy being created by the...

“Cap and trade” Tax Fight Expected in Senate

Thomas R. Eddlem June 29, 2009

"Today's razor-thin vote in the House spells doom in the Senate," Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) predicted to the Associated Press of the American...

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Gary Benoit June 29, 2009

A premonition of death hovered over the medieval section of Warsaw. Surrounded by a 10-foot wall of brick and barbed wire, the most...

“Cap-And-Trade” Tax Bill Narrowly Passes House

Thomas R. Eddlem June 27, 2009

“Cap-And-Trade” global-warming legislation that would — by President Barack Obama's own admission — “skyrocket” electricity rates as well as raise taxes on consumers...