Opinion - The New American

Why GOProud Didn’t Belong at CPAC

Many say that objection to homosexual group GOProud’s participation in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) convention is much ado about nothing. And...

Selwyn Duke February 11, 2011

Abraham Lincoln, Political Tyrant

Wallis W. Wood February 11, 2011

We’ve spent a lot of time recently bashing “the worst President who ever lived.” (That’s the description of the current occupant of the...

Why Johnny STILL Can’t Read

Sam Blumenfeld February 11, 2011

Fifty-six years ago, in 1955 to be exact, the most significant book about American education was published and, with very good reason, caused...

On the Delights of Reading Old Magazines

Sam Blumenfeld February 10, 2011

I recently had the pleasure of perusing a number of old magazines from the mid-nineteenth century to about 1918. They included such great...

The Honesty of Communists and Other Totalitarians

Thomas R. Eddlem February 10, 2011

You Can Still Trust the Communists to Be Communists (Socialists and Progressives Too), by Fred C. Schwarz & David A. Noebel, Christian Anti-Communism...

The “Judicial Activism” Ploy

Thomas Sowell February 9, 2011

Now that two different federal courts have declared ObamaCare unconstitutional, the administration's answer is to call the courts guilty of "judicial activism." ...

FDA: A Killer Agency

Walter E. Williams February 9, 2011

Sam Kazman's "Drug Approvals and Deadly Delays" article in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (Winter 2010), tells a story about how...

A Mountain for the Gipper?

Jack Kenny February 9, 2011

As we were reminded over the past weekend, there are already an impressive number of schools and government buildings, as well as streets,...

McChrystal Stumps for National Slavery

Becky Akers February 9, 2011

You might think a guy who’s sponged off us all his life, first for his education and then for every paycheck since, would...

Texas Schools Instituting Mandatory Arabic Language and Culture Classes

Selwyn Duke February 8, 2011

It seems that it was a well-kept secret. Residents in the Mansfield Independent School District in Texas found out just this Monday evening...

Undermining Allies

Thomas Sowell February 8, 2011

While everyone's attention seems to be focused on the crisis in Egypt, a bombshell revelation about the administration's foreign policy in Europe has...

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America

Sam Blumenfeld February 8, 2011

Charlotte Iserbyt has put her great exposé of the dumbing-down agenda of American education on the Internet, so that anyone can now read...

Are Living Standards Improving?

Bob Adelmann February 8, 2011

Five years ago Donald Boudreaux, Economics Professor at George Mason University and author of the website Café Hayek, bought a used 1975 Sears...

Chinese Segregation: No Caucasian Mummies Need Apply

Selwyn Duke February 7, 2011

The Chinese exhibition “Secrets of the Silk Road” ran without incident in California and Texas. But now Chinese authorities have decided that parts...