The Panic of 1893: Boosting Bankers’ Money and Power
Junius Morgan was, at best, a third-tier English banker in the 1850s, who was fortunate to have had a hand in a number...
History
Civilization and Tsunamis
It is a signal irony that, within days of the apocalyptic earthquake and tsunami that have brought Japan to her knees, archaeologists announced...
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The Revolution’s Reactionary Radicals
When Solomon observed that there’s nothing new under the sun, he might have been speaking of politicians: Most plagiarize from their predecessors. Wage...
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Daniel Webster’s Infamous “Seventh of March” speech Delivered in 1850
On this day 161 years ago, famed orator Daniel Webster delivered one of the most memorable speeches of his remarkable career. Standing to...
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A History of Union Murder and Sabotage
The raging union-led protests in Wisconsin have resulted in many Americans taking a closer, more critical look at labor unions and their political...
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Founding Fathers for ObamaCare?
Did the Founding Fathers support the idea of government-run healthcare? The question seems to answer itself. The Founders had just thrown off the...
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President Grover Cleveland: the Democrat Who Vetoed 300 Bills
Prior to serving two non-consecutive terms as President of the United States (#22 from 1885-1889 and #24 from 1893-1897), Grover Cleveland’s reputation for...
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A Look Back: Larry McDonald at CPAC 1979
With all the excitement generated at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), we at The New American thought it would be appropriate...
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The Raid on Truk Lagoon
Having grown up during the years following World War II, it never fails to surprise me how little most people who haven’t reached...
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Hmong People Say Goodbye To Their Hero
General Vang Pao, the heroic anti-communist leader of the Laotian Hmong, was laid to rest early in February during a six-day funeral held...
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Reagan Centennial: Facts are Stubborn Things
As political commentator for the Concerned Women for American's Legislative Action Committee and former speechwriter for former President George H. W. Bush, Janice...
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Military-industrial Spending Spree
“Avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be...
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In Wake of Tucson, Media Ignores Rep. Larry McDonald
In the midst of one American tragedy, another one is being ignored. Following the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of...
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Global Warming Brought Down the Roman Empire?
If English historian Edward Gibbon were alive today, he might have to add a paragraph or two to his seminal six-volume History of...
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A Renewed Myth That The John Birch Society Incited Kennedy Assassination
The Warren Commission concluded back in 1964 that it had "no evidence that the extreme views expressed toward President Kennedy by some rightwing groups...
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