Opinion - The New American

The Bankruptcy of MF Global: So Much for Financial Regulation

After spending the entire weekend trying to sell his company, MF Global, Chairman Jon Corzine finally capitulated, and his board declared bankruptcy on...

Bob Adelmann November 4, 2011

Ann Coulter’s “Demonic,” A Compelling Read

Sam Blumenfeld November 3, 2011

This brilliant book was published shortly before the Occupy Wall Street mobs began their infantile vigils against capitalism, the banks, and anything remotely...

Two Libertarianisms and Occupy Wall Street

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. November 3, 2011

I have noticed that there are some on the libertarian right who appear to consider themselves kindred spirits with those who have spent...

North American Oil Development Is Reducing Demand for Foreign Oil

Bob Adelmann November 3, 2011

The September 15 report from the National Petroleum Council expressed surprise at how much has changed just since their “Hard Truths” report of...

The Real Reasons Republicans Dislike Ron Paul

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. November 2, 2011

Although his commitment to “limited government” is unsurpassed, establishment Republicans in both politics and the so-called “conservative media” labor incessantly to discredit Texan...

Life and Education During the Great Depression

Sam Blumenfeld November 2, 2011

One of the great advantages to being an octogenarian is having lived through a great deal of history. That gives one a perspective...

Occupy Wall Street, Democracy & Mob Rule

Thomas Sowell November 2, 2011

In various cities across the country, mobs of mostly young, mostly incoherent, often noisy and sometimes violent demonstrators are making themselves a major...

Democracy Is Impossible

Walter E. Williams November 2, 2011

After Moammar Gadhafi's downfall as Libya's tyrannical ruler, politicians and "experts" in the U.S. and elsewhere, including French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, are...

On Halloween, Nat’l Debt Exceeds Gross Domestic Product

Bob Adelmann November 2, 2011

A little-noticed event occurred at approximately midnight on Monday, October 31, 2011: The national debt of the United States exceeded, for the first...

A Tennessee Trucker and the TSA

Becky Akers November 2, 2011

You might assume that unconstitutionally searching Tennessee’s trucks while recruiting their drivers to snitch on us would keep the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)...

Payday Loans

Thomas Sowell November 2, 2011

California is a great place for studying the thinking — or lack of thinking — on the political left. ...

New Book Asks: Sovereignty or Submission?

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. October 31, 2011

In his new book, Sovereignty or Submission, John Fonte identifies globalism as the latest evolutionary iteration of the “multiculturalism-diversity” that once infatuated the...