Opinion - The New American

Manufacturing Monsters to Mash

Civil libertarians pitched their usual fit last week over the revelation that the NYPD is collaborating with the CIA to spy on New...

Becky Akers August 31, 2011

Thanks to Hurricane Irene, Business Is Booming!

Bob Adelmann August 31, 2011

According to Laura Chanthalath, manager at High’s Chimney Service, business is booming. Located in Gaithersburg, Maryland, her company might rebuild one chimney a...

“Be the People” Book Warns of Ungodly Direction

Raven Clabough August 31, 2011

One American author has set out to change America’s “ungodly” course. Dr. Carol M. Swain, a law professor, Christian social scientist, and frequent...

Obama’s Seven New Regulations Would Cost U.S. Economy Billions

Brian Koenig August 31, 2011

President Obama sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) Tuesday detailing seven new regulations that would each cost the U.S. economy...

5 “Pole” Tax: A Decadent Society’s Cure for Sexual Victimization

Beverly K. Eakman August 30, 2011

First there were this summer’s “Slut Walks” featuring young, scantily-clad female exhibitionists bearing signs such as “I’m a slut. Don’t assault me!” The ostensible...

An Unusual Economy?

Thomas Sowell August 30, 2011

Many in the media are saying how unusual it is for our economy to be so sluggish for so long, after we have...

It’s the Spending, Stupid, the Stupid Spending!

Ralph R. Reiland August 30, 2011

President Obama’s constant refrain about the government’s unprecedented levels of red ink points to “millionaires and billionaires” as the problem, not the massive...

Canada’s Remarkable Economic Recovery

Bob Adelmann August 30, 2011

In its annual Index of Economic Freedom, the joint effort by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal, Canada ranks 6th among...

Statists Want to Force Priests to Reveal Confessions

Selwyn Duke August 29, 2011

First there were efforts to compel Catholic hospitals to perform abortions. Now statists in some nations want to force priests to violate the confidentiality...