Opinion - The New American

Study: Gov’t. Payouts Are a Third of U.S. “Income”

If it sometimes feels like almost everyone is on the government dole except you, there may be a reason for that sensation: According...

James Heiser March 10, 2011

The Alinsky Effect or How to Understand Barack Obama

Sam Blumenfeld March 9, 2011

If you want to be able to understand Obama, our Community Organizer-in-Chief, you have to read Saul Alinsky’s two books, Rules for Radicals...

Handouts, Morality and Common Sense

Walter E. Williams March 9, 2011

Whether Americans realize it or not, the last decade's path of congressional spending is unsustainable. Spending must be reined in, but what spending...

The UN’s Comic Attempt to Indoctrinate the Young

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. March 8, 2011

While many of the acts of the United Nations are accurately described as laughable, their latest idea is literally comical. ...

Union Myths

Thomas Sowell March 8, 2011

The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations...

February Sets U.S. Deficit Record

R. Cort Kirkwood March 8, 2011

The Congressional Budget Office predicts a federal budget deficit of $223 billion for February, 2011, the largest monthly budget deficit ever recorded, according...

Touted Savings in Spending Proposals Misleading

Raven Clabough March 8, 2011

According to the Congressional Budget Office, attempts by Senate Democrats to cut spending have been feeble and at times, misleading. Analysts at the...

A Harvard Professor Looks at Obama

Sam Blumenfeld March 7, 2011

Most of the subscribers to Harvard Magazine are alumni of Harvard University, a vast body of elite liberals, many of whom work for...

The Moral Propaganda for U.S. Intervention in Libya

Robert Confer March 7, 2011

With no immediate end in sight to the sociopolitical conflict in Libya, numerous higher-ups of the Obama administration have hinted that the United...