“Cap-And-Trade” Tax Bill Narrowly Passes House
“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...
Obama’s Walpin Firing Tip of the Iceberg
As previously reported by The New American on June 12, President Barack Obama has fired Gerald Walpin, the inspector general who found out...
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Iranian Cleric Admonishes Protesters, Foreign Media
In a sermon delivered on June 26 at Tehran University, senior Iranian cleric Ahmad Khatami called on his government to harshly punish leaders...
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Competing for Best Censorship
Technology firms in countries with little government repression are currently competing to be the best at helping repressive regimes like China and Iran...
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Judge Napolitano’s Dred Scott’s Revenge
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is the host of the Fox News online show Freedom Watch (which might soon be televised) and also is...
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Teachers Paid to do Nothing
In this age of budget woes and bailouts, it may surprise some to hear that governments are paying workers to do nothing. Yet...
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Paying It Forward From Pittsburgh to Chicago
The concept of “paying it forward” — doing a good deed while asking only that the person helped would in turn help someone...
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Gov. Mark Sanford and Fidelity
The story is becoming painfully routine: powerful, charismatic, widely-admired politician and family man admits marital infidelity and is pilloried by the press and...
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Whither the Dollar?
As the fallout from the global financial crisis continues, the burning question in international financial circles is whether the U. S. dollar, the...
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The Bielski Forest
When Germany invaded Poland in WWII, the Polish Jews that the Germans did not immediately kill were jammed in ghettos, there to await...
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How the New York Times Helped Tyrants
The New York Times may have a reputation as America’s premiere newspaper, but it also has a well-deserved reputation among informed Americans as...
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Final Ruling in Strip Search Case
The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 that the strip search of a 13-year-old Arizona girl by school officials in pursuit of drugs...
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U.S. Renews Sanctions Against North Korea
In a statement published by the White House on June 24, President Obama, using emergency powers, extended a set of economic sanctions on...
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Satellite Spying on Americans
When the Associated Press leads a story with the headline that “Homeland security kills domestic satellite program,” can you rest easily that your...
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Freedom and Progress
For more than two centuries, freedom has been the catchword of Western Civilization. What began as an abstraction from the pens of Locke,...
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