Opinion - The New American

Netanyahu Wows Them in Congress

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress on Tuesday, May 24, was a spectacle rarely seen in Washington. Both Democrats and Republicans gave...

Sam Blumenfeld May 26, 2011

Federal Reserve Issues Secret Low-interest Loans to Banks

Raven Clabough May 26, 2011

Many were shocked to learn that foreign banks were the largest recipients of the Federal Reserve’s discount loan program during the height of...

A Review of “Back on the Road to Serfdom”

Jack Kenny May 25, 2011

“The road is always better than the inn,” said the great Cervantes, who was no doubt wrong about other things as well. The...

Camping on the Promises of God

Becky Akers May 25, 2011

While the media excoriates Harold Camping and infidels exploit his heresies to ridicule Christianity yet again, I vote him a big measure of...

Will an FAA Budget Cut Reduce Safety?

Walter E. Williams May 25, 2011

William J. McGee, the consumer advocate on the Department of Transportation's Future of Aviation Advisory Committee, wrote "Forcing the F.A.A. to Fly Blind"...

Dependency and Votes

Thomas Sowell May 24, 2011

Those who regard government "entitlement" programs as sacrosanct, and regard those who want to cut them back as calloused or cruel, picture a...

Obama and the Jews

Sam Blumenfeld May 23, 2011

President Obama’s May 19th speech on the Middle East sounded like something a high-schooler would have given to win a prize in a...

ObamaCare: Survival of the Well-connected?

Ralph R. Reiland May 23, 2011

Remember when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got all wound up in March 2010 about the passage of ObamaCare and told the assembled conventioneers...

Ron Paul Is Different

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. May 23, 2011

Stylistically speaking, Ron Paul is admittedly at a disadvantage vis-à-vis his GOP competitors in the presidential primaries. ...

This Is the Article That Will Never be Published

Selwyn Duke May 22, 2011

As you may know, the world will end today at 6 p.m. Or, that’s the prediction at least by 89-year-old California preacher Harold Camping....

Exploring the Republican Paradox

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. May 21, 2011

The Republican conceives of his party as the party of conservatism, the Constitution, and “limited government.” For this reason, he loathes the so-called...