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International War Crimes Tribunals Suffering Staff Shortage
Late last week the heads of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)...
Obama Seeks to Subsidize Foreign Investments
At an APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit last weekend in Hawaii, President Barack Obama told CNSNews that the United States needs to step up...
Read moreObama’s Reelection Chances Tied to the Economy
Writing in Business Week, Hans Nichols announced that with the improvement in the economy President Obama’s chances for reelection in 2012 are improving...
Read moreUN Secretary General Calls for 100B Green Climate Fund
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (left) called on world leaders Monday to collaborate in financing a multibillion-dollar fund to combat global warming....
Read moreGingrich’s Consulting Problem With Freddie Mac
Newt Gingrich's lucrative $300,000 consulting contract with mortgage giant Freddie Mac in 2006 — during the height of the housing bubble it was fueling —...
Read moreHarvard Students’ Walkout Shows Their Ignorance
When 70 students attending economics professor Greg Mankiw’s (left) Economics 10 class on November 2nd walked out in protest, they wrote an open...
Read moreSurveys Suggest Religion Helps Mental Health
According to a study published in the Journal of Religion and Health recently, regular attendance at religious services produces a more optimistic outlook...
Read moreOWS Rap Sheet Grows Longer
The hits just keep on coming from Occupy Wall Street. Since The New American last reported on the 204 crimes the nationwide OWS...
Read moreAtheist Seeks to Become Military Chaplain
During the defense of Bataan in 1942, an American chaplain, Fr. William T. Cummings, is reported to have declared, “There are no atheists...
Read moreGaming the System in Clean Energy Development
The increase in federal subsidies for clean energy development from $17 billion in 2007 to $37 billion in 2010 has resulted in a...
Read morePoll: Paul Virtually Tied for First in Four-way Iowa Race
Despite being all but ignored or even outright maligned by much of the “establishment” media as recently as this past weekend’s CBS Republican...
Read moreNASA: Solar Flares Won’t Destroy Earth
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has taken the somewhat unusual step of declaring that the Earth most certainly will not be...
Read moreGingrich: The Latest GOP Frontrunner
A recent CNN/Opinion Research Poll has placed former House Speaker Newt Gingrich near the top of the polls, just behind frontrunner Mitt Romney,...
Read moreObamaCare to Spend $1 Billion on Healthcare Innovation
The Obama administration’s latest effort in its "We Can’t Wait" jobs strategy is a $1-billion grant program for organizations to hire, train, and...
Read more$433M Contract Goes to Firm Controlled by Billionaire Democrat Donor
Scientists are questioning a $433-million government contract for an experimental smallpox drug (ST-246) awarded to Siga Technologies by the Obama administration. Siga, a...
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