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UN’s Ban Ki-moon Critical of G8 Emissions Targets
On July 8, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized leaders of the Group of Eight industrial nations for failing to make more substantive commitments...
School Bans Girl from Wearing Pro-life T-shirt
Should expressing pro-life sentiments make you a pariah behind schoolhouse doors? Well, whether it should or not, a case out of Scotland indicates...
Read moreToo Much Media Action for Jackson
It seems as if Michael Jackson has done the impossible. That is, he appears to be getting more media coverage — and more...
Read moreMass. Sues Feds Over Defense of Marriage Act
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, in an unusual twist for someone in the uber liberal Bay State, is suing the federal government, invoking...
Read moreImmigration News Update
Until about a year ago, 28-year-old Nicholas Rudin and his family were living the American dream. He had a well-paying job in North...
Read moreThe New Public-Private (Mostly Public) GM
Weeks before it was supposed to happen, a bankruptcy judge has approved the restructuring of large portions of once-mighty GM and the liquidation...
Read moreVon Mises Institute: Fed Is Underreporting Inflation
The Ludwig von Mises Institute’s Howard S. Katz has revealed that the Federal Reserve Bank has inflated the U.S. currency to unprecedented levels...
Read moreNew “Freedom Index” Grades Every Congressman
The current (July 20) issue of The New American includes our first congressional scorecard on the 111th Congress, which convened in January. The...
Read moreHastings’ Amendment Attack on First Amendment
The House of Representatives passed a measure that is a direct attack on the First Amendment on June 25 by a vote of...
Read moreAbortion Pills Administered Incorrectly
The protocol at Planned Parenthood clinics for administering RU-486, the drug that causes medical abortions, was officially changed in order to reduce the...
Read moreCyber Attacks Originating With N. Korea?
Beginning over the Independence Day weekend and continuing on into this week, several federal agencies' websites were paralyzed by what was clearly a...
Read moreAudit-the-Fed Legislation Faces Roadblocks
It will come as a surprise to many Americans to learn that the Federal Reserve, created by Congress in 1913, has never been...
Read more“The Age Of Despotism”
This past Independence Day weekend, my friend, LCDR (Retired) Guy Cunningham, delivered an outstanding address here in Pensacola, Florida, in which...
Read morePope Calls for “World Political Authority”
Pope Benedict XVI called for a “true world political authority” to manage the economy in his new encyclical on social justice. The encyclical,...
Read moreHospitals Make Healthcare Reform Deal
The American Hospital Association, the Federation of American Hospitals, and the Catholic Health Association agreed with the Obama administration on July 6 to...
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