Opinion - The New American

The Exploding Federal Budget

It’s hard to believe that the entire federal budget in 1960 was $76.5 billion, which is a little less (just $500 million less)...

Sam Blumenfeld June 10, 2011

Review of “Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion”

Jack Kenny June 10, 2011

Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion, by Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010, 547 pages, hardcover. On April 18, 1906,...

Obama’s Betrayal of Israel

Wallis W. Wood June 10, 2011

When a woman showed up at the Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheva, Israel, she had burns covering more than 45 percent of...

Obama’s Foreign Policy

Sam Blumenfeld June 9, 2011

Ralph Peters is one of the New York Post’s best columnists. After serving over twenty years in the U.S. army, he retired in...

An Early American Primer on “Force” and Faith

June 9, 2011

As the editor of a daily e-zine which focuses on a defense of the religious and moral foundations of the American republic, I...

Here Comes Peter Cottontail Hopping Down the Statist Trail: Feds Fine Missouri Farmer $90,000

Selwyn Duke June 9, 2011

The definition of “totalitarian” is: “of or pertaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial...

Default Lies Not in Our Stars but in Ourselves

Charles Scaliger June 9, 2011

With the European economy in shambles from a seemingly intractable sovereign debt crisis and the United States technically out of money to fund...

Bernanke: No Economic Recovery Yet; Diesel Index Confirms It

Bob Adelmann June 9, 2011

In what could be one of the understatements of 2011, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, speaking at the International Monetary Conference in Atlanta on...

Real Conservatives Oppose NAFTA

Daniel Sayani June 9, 2011

One of the most important, but widely unknown bills currently proposed in Congress is legislation that would end American participation in the North...

He May be a Dog, but Weiner Will be a Winner in 2012

Selwyn Duke June 8, 2011

New York Congressman Anthony Weiner’s sexual impropriety sure does make titillating copy. I mean, take his zipper-like stature, the nature of his transgressions,...

Moral Relativism Reconsidered

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. June 8, 2011

Among many on the Right, the belief that their opponents on the Left are “moral relativists” dies hard. But die it must, for...

In the Founders’ Corner A Balanced Budget Amendment?

June 8, 2011

Do we need a “Balanced Budget” Amendment? NO! A constitutionally sound, informed electorate could quickly bring about the conditions that would allow the...