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Von Mises Institute: Fed Is Underreporting Inflation

The Ludwig von Mises Institute’s Howard S. Katz has revealed that the Federal Reserve Bank has inflated the U.S. currency to unprecedented levels...

Thomas R. Eddlem July 9, 2009

School Bans Girl from Wearing Pro-life T-shirt

Selwyn Duke July 9, 2009

Should expressing pro-life sentiments make you a pariah behind schoolhouse doors? Well, whether it should or not, a case out of Scotland indicates...

Too Much Media Action for Jackson

Selwyn Duke July 9, 2009

It seems as if Michael Jackson has done the impossible. That is, he appears to be getting more media coverage — and more...

Mass. Sues Feds Over Defense of Marriage Act

Ann Shibler July 9, 2009

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, in an unusual twist for someone in the uber liberal Bay State, is suing the federal government, invoking...

Abortion Pills Administered Incorrectly

Ann Shibler July 9, 2009

The protocol at Planned Parenthood clinics for administering RU-486, the drug that causes medical abortions, was officially changed in order to reduce the...

Immigration News Update

Alex Newman July 9, 2009

Until about a year ago, 28-year-old Nicholas Rudin and his family were living the American dream. He had a well-paying job in North...

New “Freedom Index” Grades Every Congressman

Gary Benoit July 9, 2009

The current (July 20) issue of The New American includes our first congressional scorecard on the 111th Congress, which convened in January. The...

Hastings’ Amendment Attack on First Amendment

Thomas R. Eddlem July 9, 2009

The House of Representatives passed a measure that is a direct attack on the First Amendment on June 25 by a vote of...

The New Public-Private (Mostly Public) GM

Charles Scaliger July 9, 2009

Weeks before it was supposed to happen, a bankruptcy judge has approved the restructuring of large portions of once-mighty GM and the liquidation...

Cyber Attacks Originating With N. Korea?

Steven Yates July 8, 2009

Beginning over the Independence Day weekend and continuing on into this week, several federal agencies' websites were paralyzed by what was clearly a...

Pope Calls for “World Political Authority”

Thomas R. Eddlem July 8, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI called for a “true world political authority” to manage the economy in his new encyclical on social justice. The encyclical,...

Hospitals Make Healthcare Reform Deal

Steven J. DuBord July 8, 2009

The American Hospital Association, the Federation of American Hospitals, and the Catholic Health Association agreed with the Obama administration on July 6 to...

Audit-the-Fed Legislation Faces Roadblocks

July 8, 2009

It will come as a surprise to many Americans to learn that the Federal Reserve, created by Congress in 1913, has never been...

“The Age Of Despotism”

chuck - July 8, 2009

This past Independence Day weekend, my friend, LCDR (Retired) Guy Cunningham, delivered an outstanding address here in Pensacola, Florida, in which...