Culture - The New American

Nebraska Abortion Law Challenges Roe v. Wade

Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman put his signature to an historic bill April 13 banning abortions of pre-born babies beyond 20 weeks from conception....

Dave Bohon April 17, 2010

All for Naught: The Battle of Peleliu

April 16, 2010

Studs Terkel called World War II the “good war.” If any war could be called good, then the Second World War is at...

Intergenerational Welfare, a.k.a. Social Security

William P. Hoar April 13, 2010

Item: The New York Times for March 22 reported: “Now that landmark legislation overhauling the health insurance system is about to become law,...

Helping Hands for Soldiers

Liana Stanley April 12, 2010

“All too often Americans say they support our soldiers, but do little if anything to show their appreciation.” This statement from Clark Lamoreux...

Warning: The Danger of People

Timothy Baldwin April 9, 2010

In a recent article entitled “Say it loud: I’m childfree and I’m proud,” author Lisa Hymas suggests that the population of the United...

John Barry: True Father of the American Navy

April 2, 2010

Who was the “brilliant child of the wind and waves” who fired the inaugural volley at the Royal Navy’s pride by being the...

Catholic Church Sex Scandal & Celibacy

Selwyn Duke March 31, 2010

After getting in my car the other night, this writer turned on a radio show hosted by a man renowned as a rare...

Dad Ordered Not to Expose Daughter to His Faith

Bruce Walker March 27, 2010

A father in Chicago may find himself in jail, if he exposes his young daughter to his Catholic faith. Joseph Reyes is estranged...

Warsaw and Lodz: A Tale of Two Cities

R.J. Stove March 27, 2010

One of the 19th century’s most famous poets, Lord Byron, compressed into two lines of immortal verse an essential truth about how self-respecting...

Census Shows Where People Want to Live

Bruce Walker March 25, 2010

The census is far from complete, but projections already show the historic pattern of people moving out of the Northeast and into the...

Free Markets, Deregulation, and Blame

Bob Adelmann March 19, 2010

Free markets, in the full sense of the phrase, exist only in the minds and imaginations of free-market economists from the Austrian School,...

A “Son of Hamas” Converts to Christianity

James Heiser March 11, 2010

For Mosab Hassan Yousef, the problem for his fellow Palestinians is simple: “The problem is with their God. They need to be liberated...

Same-sex Couples Wed in Washington, DC

Dave Bohon March 9, 2010

Homosexual couples began marrying March 9 in Washington, DC, nearly a week after a measure permitting same-sex marriage passed its final legal hurdles...