United States - The New American

Latino Clerics Urge Non-Compliance With Census

The National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders has taken the position that illegal immigrants (who are overwhelmingly Hispanic) should not fill...

Bruce Walker March 18, 2010

Dodd’s Finance Reform Bill Would Strengthen Fed

Charles Scaliger March 18, 2010

There are from time to time political events that attract attention and controversy, only to fade into well-deserved obscurity. Who today can recall...

Mitch McConnell: One Smart Political Pragmatist

Bob Adelmann March 18, 2010

Republican Minority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had a strategy even before President Obama was inaugurated, according to the New York Times. Recognizing...

Healthcare Bill Rife with Provisions Funding Abortion

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. March 18, 2010

As the House of Representatives rushes to pass the version of a healthcare bill passed in December by the Senate, particular emphasis is...

Study on “Homegrown Terrorism” Encourages Greater Surveillance

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. March 17, 2010

The Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS) recently published a report entitled “A Growing Terrorist Threat? Assessing ‘Homegrown’ Extremism in the United States.”...

Bearing Arms: A Right … and a Duty?

Bruce Walker March 17, 2010

The Massachusetts Judicial Council ruled on March 10 that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution does not apply to state governments and,...

Mixed-sex Dorm Rooms, Mixed up World

Selwyn Duke March 17, 2010

First it was coeducation.Then it was young men and women in different wings of the same dormitories. Next we had the sexes sharing...

Texas Textbook Massacre

Rebecca Terrell March 17, 2010

New textbook standards approved in Texas are poised to revolutionize public-school curricula nationwide, and liberal educators are furious. Every year the Texas State...

Survey Indicates Doctors’ Opposition to Obamacare

Raven Clabough March 17, 2010

Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Medicus Firm recently conducted a survey showing that one third of all practicing physicians...

States Say Enough Is Enough, Tell Feds to Butt Out

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. March 17, 2010

Nothing gives this writer purer pleasure than to report on the multitude of states’ rights initiatives being passed by state legislatures across our...

Mount Vernon Statement Shoptalk

March 16, 2010

Our country is in trouble. Ongoing military commitments, enormous indebtedness, high unemployment, failing schools, citizen restlessness, and a President and Congress trying to...