Opinion - The New American

CEI Targets Regulations in Annual Report

The Competitive Enterprise Institute released a report today entitled Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State, compiled by Wayne...

Raven Clabough April 18, 2011

The Conspirator

Bob Adelmann April 18, 2011

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities," Mark Twain said. Obviously, when conspiracy and...

Atlas Shrugged: The Book

Charles Scaliger April 17, 2011

Some of us remember our first reading of Atlas Shrugged like our first time behind the wheel of a car: intoxicating but inexplicably...

Atlas Shrugged: the Movie

Bob Adelmann April 16, 2011

Something is terribly wrong. The Dow has dropped below 4,000, gasoline (when available) costs $37.50 a gallon, the nation's infrastructure is deteriorating, businessmen...

Our Lying Media and the Budget Battle

Wallis W. Wood April 15, 2011

I don’t know when I have ever seen a bigger bunch of lies, distortions, and deliberate misstatements by our national media than in...

Lies, Damned Lies, and (Unemployment) Statistics

Bruce Walker April 15, 2011

There are different ways of calculating unemployment. The data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics culls out those who are not seeking...

The Transformation of the Classroom

Sam Blumenfeld April 13, 2011

Those of us — of Tom Brokaw’s greatest generation — who attended the public schools in the 1930s and '40s remember our classrooms...

American Education Fails Because It Isn’t Education

Tom DeWeese April 13, 2011

The debate over public education grows more heated. Regularly, reports are released showing that the academic abilities of American students continue to fall...