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Gov. Mark Sanford on Stimulus, Economy
Governor Mark Sanford (R) of South Carolina has been a vocal critic of President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan, and in the process has...
Obama Plans to Renew Public Education
On March 10, President Barack Obama spoke in generalities about his plan to improve the nation’s public schools. His plan can be summarized...
Read moreObama’s Budget: Where’s the Peace Dividend?
Candidate Barack Obama pledged to get the United States out of Iraq, one of the two costly wars of occupation in which the...
Read moreBan Humans to Lower Carbon Emissions?
According to California Congressman Tom McClintock, the world’s six billion humans breathe out 2.4 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year. His state...
Read moreRepublicans Open to More Stimulus
"Second verse, same as the first," go the lyrics to a '60s Herman's Hermits song about Henry VIII and repetition ad naseum. And...
Read moreSome Trade Restrictions on Cuba to Be Lifted
The U.S. Congress has moved to lift some of the punitive economic measures the United States takes against Cuba. President Obama supports a...
Read moreDeficits vs. Stock Market Rally
H. Ross Perot used to talk about a “giant sucking sound” in the economy more than a decade ago. Back then, he talked...
Read morePelosi: More Bailout Funds Needed
On both sides of the aisle, lawmakers are beginning to express doubts that more bailouts will solve the nation’s economic problems and have...
Read moreGlobal-warming Skeptics Meet in NYC
The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change opened in New York City Sunday night with addresses by the Honorable Vaclav Klaus, president of...
Read moreSupreme Court Almost Vindicates Trial Rights
The U.S. Supreme Court almost vindicated the trial rights of persons seized within the territorial United States by vacating an appellate court judgment...
Read moreObama Lifts Ban on Embryonic Stem-cell Research
President Barack Obama signed an executive order on March 9 that reverses the current ban on federal funding of human embryonic stem-cell research....
Read moreThe G20 Push to “Supersize” the IMF
The big push to “supersize” and transform the International Monetary Fund (IMF) into a global Federal Reserve System has been developing in elite...
Read morePublic Lands Bill Threatens Energy, Economy
With our economy already staggering under an avalanche of debt, taxes, regulations, and the high costs of energy, Democrats in the Senate have...
Read moreAgenda Behind Brown’s “Global New Deal”
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has been working tirelessly for months to promote world financial and economic governance under the pretext of...
Read moreTNA at Movieguide Awards
Photographers Christopher Jasper and Sam Antonio attended the Movieguide awards for The New American. In addition to getting some great photos, they also...
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