About: R. Cort Kirkwood

R. Cort Kirkwood

R. Cort Kirkwood is a long-time contributor to The New American and a former newspaper editor.

Memo Warned ACORN of Problems

ACORN's attorney warned the group last year that it needed to get its fiscal and managerial houses in order, reports Matthew Vadum at The American Specator Blog. That warning...

ACORN Likely Doomed

As if it needed it, the leftist Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, is the subject of yet another video at BigGovernment.com. The latest installment is...

ACORN Funding in Peril

ACORN, the beleaguered leftist group battered by a series of videos that depict wrongdoing among its employees, is now on the ropes in terms of federal funding. The latest...

ACORN Losing Support

It appears that ACORN's venture into prostitution was deeper than the organization's top officials first thought. Two more videos document amusing sting operations in which ACORN employees offer advice...

Policing the English Language

“Quangos,” which means “quasi autonomous non-governmental organizations,” have enacted word-banning speech codes on the spectre'd isle that are so comical that they can hardly be believed. ...

Rifqa Bary Safe for Now

A circuit judge in Florida said last Friday that Rifqa Bary, the Christian teenager who fled her Muslim family because she feared an honor killing, will stay there until...

Save Rifqa Bary From an Honor Killing

Americans and Europeans have learned at least one unpleasant truth about unfettered immigration, even if government officials don’t want to admit it: many of the immigrants are criminals. European...

Paris Burning Again

Nearly four years after their first car-burning spasm of mayhem, vandalism, and violence, those "restive youths" in Paris are at it again. ...