Politics
Latest “Freedom Index” Rates Congress
The latest (December 7) issue of The New American includes our second congressional scorecard on the 111th Congress. The scorecard, entitled “The Freedom...
Big Government Still Bipartisan
Remember the famous declaration of victory in the never-ending battle against Big Government? It was made by none other than Bill Clinton himself:...
Read moreTea Party Groups: Patriots and Profiteers
Among conservatives, the current of resentment and fury-fired indignation at a Congress and President consistently overstepping their constitutional bounds runs deep and swift....
Read moreCongress Prepared to Embrace VAT to Fund Gov’t. Growth
President Obama instructed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to deliver to his desk a comprehensive overhaul of the healthcare system in America...
Read moreFourth Amendment Under Seige (Again)
The Obama administration's Solicitor General Elena Kagan has called for all 27 judges of the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appealsa to rehear the...
Read moreNewt Gingrich: The Establishment’s Conservative
Just as report cards keep parents posted on their children’s progress in school, constituents have a tool to let them know how their...
Read morePresident Obama’s ‘Nice Guy Act’ Wearing Thin?
Rodney Dangerfield made a very profitable career off his famous lament, “I can’t get no respect.” Seems these days that President Obama knows...
Read moreObama Sells Out to the Neocons
The Obama administration is close to announcing its decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan. Reuters reports that the "final number [of troops...
Read more“Conservative” Republicans Seek to Impose Litmus Test for Candidates
In an effort to rid the GOP of what some of its members derisively call RINOs (Republicans in Name Only), self-styled conservative party...
Read moreGovt Found Negligent in New Orleans Disaster
A federal district court held last Wednesday that the federal government generally and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers specifically were culpably negligent...
Read moreADL Joins the Official Effort Against “Anti-Government Extremism”
Two thousand and nine may yet go down in history as the year political correctness attained the force of federal law. Just recently,...
Read moreSenate Confirms Obama Judicial Pick Hamilton
Led by the Democratic majority, the U.S. Senate on November 19 confirmed President Barack Obama’s long-stalled first judicial nominee. By a vote of...
Read moreHigh Army Suicide Rate & U.S. Foreign Policy
Reuters and other media organs have reported that the suicide rate in the United States Army is twice the national suicide rate and...
Read moreReport Says Federal Govt Wasted $98 Billion
The federal government wasted almost $100 billion dollars of taxpayer money in 2009 according to the Office of Management and Budget. The figures...
Read moreTony Blankley and the “High-church” Liberal Republicans
About the recent special election for Congress in District 23 in New York, conservative columnist and commentator Tony Blankley observed in a talk...
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