Opinion - The New American

Is Social Security a Government-run Ponzi Scheme?

With President Obama claiming that if our debt limit is not increased by Congress, it may force the government to stop payment of...

Sam Blumenfeld July 14, 2011

Failing Liberty 101

Thomas Sowell July 13, 2011

A recent Superman comic book has the hero saying, "I am renouncing my U.S. citizenship" because "truth, justice, and the American way —...

Creating Unknown Unknowns in the Economy

Thomas Sowell July 13, 2011

When Donald Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense, he coined some phrases about knowledge that apply far beyond military matters. ...

Fed Insiders Selling Inside Information

Bob Adelmann July 13, 2011

In an effort to plug leaks at the Federal Reserve, the U.S.'s central bank issued a statement yesterday that members of the Federal...

Does Anyone Understand the Law?

Jack Kenny July 13, 2011

Do we really understand what courts are for in America? I mean, do even really smart, educated people like (I realize I’m going...

New Jersey as Auschwitz?

Ralph R. Reiland July 13, 2011

SEA ISLE, N.J. — Public-sector employees here now are regularly referring to Gov. Chris Christie as "Adolf Christie." Things got especially ugly when...

D.C.’s Dim Bulbs

Becky Akers July 13, 2011

Like me, you’d probably find it creepy and extremely unsettling were a total stranger to obsess about you. Indeed, you might even degenerate...

Neoconservatives vs. Conservatives: Who Are the Real “Extremists”?

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. July 12, 2011

Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the Republican Party establishment — I refer to both politicians as well as the punditry class constituting the...

Forgotten Stars: Musial, Greenberg, Louis

Thomas Sowell July 12, 2011

Three recent sports biographies — two about baseball stars Stan Musial and Hank Greenberg, and another about boxing great Joe Louis — are...

Economists Are at a Loss; So Are Jobs

Bob Adelmann July 12, 2011

Once the awful job numbers announced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics job numbers were digested, it was clear that the clairvoyant economists...

Reparations Via Crazy Horse Slots

Ralph R. Reiland July 12, 2011

Sea Isle, N.J. — James Fenimore Cooper's historical novel The Last of the Mohicans concludes with Tamenund (1628-98), the tribal leader of an...

History Politicized

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. July 11, 2011

Those on the conventional right incessantly lament the ignorance of history from which younger generations of Americans suffer. While it is true that...

Entitlements: A Declaration of Dependence

Robert Confer July 11, 2011

Last week saw the observance of the quintessential American holiday — our Independence Day. From coast to coast Americans celebrated with their usual...