Politics

NPR Chief Quits Over Exec’s Remarks

Vivian Schiller, the CEO of National Public Radio, has resigned along with a fellow executive who called Tea Party members xenophobes and racists....

R. Cort Kirkwood March 9, 2011

Eric Cantor Clarifies GOP Stance on Balancing the Budget

Raven Clabough March 9, 2011

While more and more lawmakers seem to be coming to terms with the dire straits of the American economy and the impossibilities of...

NPR Exec: Tea Party Is “Seriously Racist”

R. Cort Kirkwood March 9, 2011

James O'Keefe, the young conservative journalist who brought down ACORN in a series a secretly recorded videos, has done it again. This time,...

Georgia Supreme Court Upholds State Photo ID Act

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. March 8, 2011

On March 7, by a 6-1 vote, the Supreme Court of Georgia upheld that state’s law requiring voters to provide government-issued photo identification...

Maine Legislator Introduces Nullification Resolution

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. March 8, 2011

As has been well chronicled in The New American and elsewhere, over a dozen states (16 at least) have recently proposed bills seeking...

Illinois Legislature Debates Gun Ownership Privacy

James Heiser March 8, 2011

Approximately 1.3 million residents of Illinois hold state-issued Firearm Owner Identification (FOID) cards, and if the current plan of Attorney General Lisa Madigan...

AWOL Wisconsin Senators Could Return Soon

Alex Newman March 8, 2011

After spending more than three weeks in Illinois seeking to block a Republican reform bill aimed at reining in a multi-billion dollar deficit...

Nullify Now! Tour Reaches Cincinnati

Raven Clabough March 8, 2011

This year, the Nullify Now! tour continues to boast large crowds and an impressive array of speakers. On Saturday, March 5, the tour...

Obama: Prison for Life Without Trial Is Okay

Thomas R. Eddlem March 8, 2011

President Obama announced that he will continue to keep approximately 50 Guantanamo detainees imprisoned indefinitely without trial in an executive order released March 7,...

Can We Cut “Defense” Spending?

Thomas R. Eddlem March 8, 2011

Andrew Ferguson of the Weekly Standard summed up the neoconservative case against cutting U.S. defense spending in a February 21 article entitled “The...