Main Concern Doesn’t Sway Voters
As part of the pulse-taking of the electorate to see what makes Americans’ hearts beat faster as the United States heads toward another presidential election, an Associated Press-Yahoo! News poll found...
Global Food Prices on the Rise
The recent precipitous climb in global food prices is nothing less than “mass murder,” according to UN food envoy Jean Ziegler. In a recent interview with an Austrian newspaper, Ziegler, commenting...
Will Independent Truckers Survive the Cost of Diesel?
Think you’ve got it tough? Spending up to $80 bucks to fill your tank with gasoline? ...
Global Blowback
Long before 9/11, Osama bin Laden’s terrorist activities around the world were being cited as a classic case of “blowback.” Quite obviously, the CIA’s support for bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and...
A Bad Investment: US Funding, Training PLO Terrorists
Tuly Wultz and his 16-year-old son Daniel were enjoying a Passover holiday dinner at a Tel Aviv restaurant when the suicide bomber struck. Nine diners were killed in the grisly attack...
2008 Climate Debate
According to former Vice President Al Gore, “the science is settled” on climate change. “The planet has a fever,” Gore said during testimony before Congress in 2007, and its cause, he...
America’s North Star
Georg Steller thought he was seeing a mirage. After weeks at sea on the frigid, storm-tossed waters of the north Pacific, Steller, along with his 70-odd shipmates on the Russian exploratory...
Weather Channel Founder’s Forecast
Interview of John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, by William F. Jasper on the subject of man-made global warming. ...
A Reputation Rescued
I have a vivid personal memory of my father banging his fist on the kitchen table, angered because of the way numerous politicians and media pundits were trashing Senator...
Ignore National Review
One thing about politicians and even pundits: all their stands are courageous, if they do say so themselves. Mitt Romney, during his ill fated presidential campaign, ran an ad in which...
Analyzing Global-warming Science
Interview of Dr. Arthur Robinson, chemistry professor and co-founder of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, by The New American's William F. Jasper ...
The Recovery from the Little Ice Age and Global Warming
A roughly linear global temperature increase of about 0.5°C per 100 years seems to have occurred from about 1800, or even much earlier, to the present. This value may be compared...
FBI Aims for World’s Largest Biometrics Database
The FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division, which is located in Clarksburg, West Virginia, has launched a $1 billion effort to build the world’s largest computer database of people’s physical characteristics,...
What Congress Can Do for This American
One check to the Supreme Court's judicial activism is that Congress may limit the Supreme Court’s appellate jurisdiction pursuant to the “Exceptions Clause” in Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution....
Ian Smith and the Fall of Rhodesia
Ian Smith's passing at age 88 on November 20 merited a few mentions in the mainstream press. Unsurprisingly, much of what was written about the man and his attempt to save...