Recently added articles from The New American:
Soldiers going everywhere.(Letter to the editor)
Jun 08, 2009; ... Thank you for publishing the two articles by Patrick Krey in your February 2, 2009 issue ("Any Volunteers for National Service" and "At Uncle Sam's Service"). We are anxious to see more articles written by this well-informed, courageous writer. I wish to make one comment ...
Fewer people, less C[O.sub.2].(Letter to the editor)
Jun 08, 2009; ... I read your article by Warren Mass ("The High Cost of Cap and Trade") in the May 11 edition of your magazine. I was looking for some mention of all the carbon dioxide breathed out by humans and animals. Don't they and haven't they been breathing out carbon dioxide for more ...
Creeping tyranny.(Letter to the editor)
Jun 08, 2009; ... The implications of the report authored by the Department of Homeland Security, as noted in the column "Do You Fit the Terrorist Profile?" by William Jasper (THE NEW AMERICAN, April 13) and apparently distributed, according to other sources besides yourselves, to local and state ...
Unemployment smoke and mirrors.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009 ... You know the economy is in the tank when officials hail the loss of 539,000 non-farm jobs in the U.S. economy during the month of April as good news. President Barack Obama termed the latest unemployment figures "somewhat encouraging," despite the fact that unemployment rose from 8.5 to ...
Social Security, Medicare running out of money faster than expected.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009 ... Social Security and Medicare, Big Government's two most cherished social-welfare programs, are running out of money far faster than expected, thanks to the persistent economic downturn. Medicare, which is already running a deficit, will run out of money by 2017, while Social Security will ...
Another record-breaking deficit looms.(Inside Track)(budget deficit)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009 ... The latest budget figures, released in May by the Obama administration contemplate a $1.8 trillion deficit for fiscal 2009 as the United States economy continues to significantly underperform relative to earlier forecasts. This year's record-setting deficit is now reckoned to be four times ...
Montana defies feds on guns.(Inside Track)(Montana Firearms Freedom Act)
Jun 08, 2009 ... The state of Montana last month approved what commentators are dubbing a "revolutionary" new law earlier this month. The "Montana Firearms Freedom Act" is set to trigger a legal showdown between the federal government and the state, which is exactly what some lawmakers are hoping for. ...
Oklahoma rescinds all previous constitutional convention calls.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009 ... Oklahoma continues to lead the nation in Constitution-oriented legislation at the state level. The 10th-Amendment resolution introduced in the Oklahoma legislature last year by Rep. Charles Key has led to at least 30 states introducing similar 10th-Amendment resolutions so far this year ....
A new con-con threat arises.(Inside Track)(constitutional convention)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009 ... A new constitutional convention threat has arisen this year. Many newly awakened Americans are being mobilized by the Tea Party Movement and the Glenn Beck 9-12 Project to form in favor of some very good causes, such as lower taxes, less spending, and a return to a more limited federal ...
Credit card meltdown hits banks.(Inside Track)
Jun 08, 2009 ... Next up for ailing mega-banks: a credit card meltdown. No surprise here, really; Americans have overused credit cards for years, trusting always in unending economic expansion and plentiful employment to guarantee their ability to service consumer debt. All that, of course, has ...
Economist expects China to dominate the 21st century.(QuickQuotes)(Nouriel Roubini)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "The 19th century was dominated by the British Empire, the 20th century by the United States. We may now be entering the Asian century dominated by a rising ...
Christianity dying in Arab world.(QuickQuotes)(Christian columnist Sarkis Naoum)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009; ... "Unless there is a turn toward secularism in the Arab world, I don't think there is a future for Christians here." Sarkis Naoum, a Christian columnist for ...
Columnist urges no on hate-crimes legislation.(QuickQuotes)(Jeff Jacoby)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009; ... "The best hate-crimes bill Congress can pass is none at all." Pointing out that crimes labeled "hate crimes" are already ...
Comedian points to Biden-style hypocrisy.(QuickQuotes)(Jay Leno on Vice President Joe Biden)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009; ... "Just a day after saying he wouldn't go anywhere in confined places like an aircraft or a subway because of the swine flu, Vice President Joe Biden rode a train from Washington to Delaware. You know what that ...
Taliban influence gaining in Pakistan.(QuickQuotes)(Bruce Riedel)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009; ... "They smell blood and they are intoxicated by the idea of a jihadist takeover in Pakistan." A former analyst ...
Idahoan chides fellow lawmakers for accepting federal aid.(QuickQuotes)(Monty Pearce)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009; ... "They lay the bait out and we take it. Then we whine that we've taken it." A state senator who backs state-sovereignty ...
Future looking bleak for radio.(QuickQuotes)(Michael Harrison)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009; ... "AM/FM radio has about five good years left, if that. What we consider radio today will be on the Internet. The Internet is not only going to change radio; it's going to change humanity. That's how profound this ...
He doesn't like what he calls state capitalism.(QuickQuotes)(author Nicholas von Hoffman)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009; ... "Then not a drop of oil was imported; now over half is. Then we were trying to figure out how to put our idle factories back to work; now we are trying to figure out where our factories went. Then we were the world's largest creditors; now we are the world's largest debtors. Then a family ...
Controlling thoughts, words, and deeds: the Matthew Shepard Act, "hate-crime" legislation, is supposedly needed to stop violence against people with abnormal sexual orientations, but it's clear that's not its intended goal.(CULTURE)(Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act)
Jun 08, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's ironic that secularists will accuse traditionalists of being hung up on sex, when they are the ones who cannot stop talking about it and reducing it to the stuff of entertainment--and legislating on it. As for the last matter, their latest effort is ...
"Merchant of Death" trial still looms: notorious global weapons trafficker Viktor Bout may now be in jail in Thailand, but extraditing him and fully exposing his Russian sponsors is another matter.(TERRORISM)
Jun 08, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Russian parliament and media refer to him merely as a "Russian businessman." But to much of the rest of the world, Viktor Bout is known as the "Merchant of Death," the most notorious member of the dark fraternity of global weapons traffickers who arm ...