Opinion - The New American

Natural Law versus Positive Law

It was once an American credo that bad laws are made to be broken. But with the Republic’s long slide past democracy into...

Becky Akers October 22, 2009

NEA Chief Calls Conservatives “B*****ds”

Sam Blumenfeld October 21, 2009

At the National Education Association’s convention, held last July in San Diego, retiring general counsel of the organization, Bob Chanin, in his swan-song...

Clunker Cars, Clunker Nukes?

Ralph R. Reiland October 19, 2009

I don’t want to sound negative, but is anyone else getting the idea that we’re starting to live in Clunker Nation? ...

Not Evil Just Wrong: The Oct. 18 Premier

Ed Hiserodt October 17, 2009

At 8 p.m. on Sunday, October 18, more than 1,400 groups will be hosting the movie Not Evil Just Wrong, a documentary about...

Obama’s Rigged Nobel Peace Prize Award

Wallis W. Wood October 16, 2009

Well, now it’s official. Barack Obama has just won the highest honor that the elitists of the international left can bestow on one...

Is Public Education Necessary?

Sam Blumenfeld October 15, 2009

We would not have to ask the above question if public education had not become the great, costly, and tragic failure that it...

Eyes on the Road

Becky Akers October 15, 2009

It’s not enough that the federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA) gropes us at checkpoints in airports, photographs passengers naked, steals from them, and...

Obama’s Job-killing Agenda

Ralph R. Reiland October 15, 2009

You ain’t seen nothin’ yet” was Ronald Reagan’s standard rally-ending line during his 1984 reelection campaign. He won 49 states, losing only his...

Glenn Beck’s Common Sense

Alex Newman October 13, 2009

It is becoming increasingly obvious to more and more people that government in America is continuing to expand as freedom contracts. But is...

Watching ACORN Get Chopped Down

Wallis W. Wood October 13, 2009

There’s a wonderful German word, “schadenfreude,” which translates roughly as “taking pleasure in the misfortune of others.” Normally that would be a pretty...

Review: Michael Moore’s “Capitalism”

Charles Scaliger October 9, 2009

Subtlety has never been one of filmmaker Michael Moore’s strong suits. And the latest offering from Hollywood’s pre-eminent leftist “documentarian,” Capitalism: A Love...