FBI Busts Russian Espionage Network
In what sounded like a news headline taken from the height of the Cold War in 1950s, the U.S. Department of Justice announced...
Politics
Federal Court Orders Port Chester, New York, to Implement New Voting Methods
The voters of Port Chester, New York, went to the polls on Tuesday, June 15 using cumulative voting and early voting. They did...
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Mexico Joins Suit Against Arizona; Illegals Sue Rancher for Civil Rights Violations
The Obama administration announced recently that it intends to sue Arizona in order to temporarily block implementation of SB 1070 until Congress passes...
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Dozens of U.S. Citizens May Be on Obama Assassination List
The Washington Times reported June 24 that dozens of U.S. citizen may be targets for assassination by the Obama administration. “There are, in...
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Veteran Senator Robert Byrd Dies at 92
Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the longest-serving member of the U.S. Senate, died at about 3 a.m. at Inova Hospital in Fairfax, Virginia, on...
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MacArthur, Obama, and War Without End
President Barack Obama's dismissal of Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan has inspired comparisons to...
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Insider Andrew Cuomo Promises to Fight Insiders
Andrew Cuomo, in announcing his candidacy for Governor of New York, has attacked: “The influence of lobbyists and their special interests.” His solution...
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Free Speech Undermined by Passage of DISCLOSE Act
To the dismay of free-speech advocates across the nation, the House of Representatives passed the DISCLOSE Act (Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light...
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Xe/Blackwater Wins $100 Million CIA Contract
The Obama-era CIA has awarded a $100 million contract to the private mercenary firm Xe Services, the former Blackwater Worldwide, to guard its...
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The Islamic View of McChrystal’s Firing
A CNN report on June 25 cited statements posted on two Islamist websites the previous day asserting that President Obama’s replacement of controversial...
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Nikki Haley Wins S.C. Republican Nomination for Governor
Standing in front of the entrance to the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum the night of June 23, State Representative...
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Judge Smacks Down Obama Oil Ban as “Misleading,” “Confused,” “Capricious.”
Federal Judge Martin Feldman issued an injunction on June 22 ordering Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and the Obama administration not to enforce a...
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The G.O.P. Looks at Elena Kagan
"I wouldn't take it off the table," USA Today on June 24 quoted Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the ranking minority member of...
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Supreme Court Tramples Free Speech
In its zeal to support “anti-terror” rules without regard to the Constitution, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-to-3 this week to uphold criminal...
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Third “Freedom Index” for Current Congress
The just-published (July 5) issue of The New American includes our third congressional scorecard (pdf) on the 111th Congress. The scorecard, entitled...
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