Media Cherry-picked Powell Interview Endorsing Obama
The major media have widely hyped Colin Powell's October 19 endorsement of Barack Obama for president. On that day's edition of the ABC News program This Week With George Stephanopoulos, former...
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McCain-Obama Tax Debate Ignores Inflation Tax
Recently on the campaign trail, John McCain and Barack Obama have accused each other of offering tax proposals that would hurt the middle class. John McCain, in a paid radio address...
NSA Wiretapped U.S. Soldiers’ Intimate Conversations
ABC's Nightline has broadcast a shocking interview with two former NSA clerks who were charged with recording and transcribing even intimate telephone conversations between U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq and their...
New Court Decisions in OKC Bombing
For more than 13 years, The New American has been a leading force in advancing the thesis that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the convicted conspirators in the April 19, 1995...
Hezbollah Supporter Sentenced
On October 2, U.S. District Judge Marianne Battani sentenced Mohamad Fouad Abdallah, 40, of Dearborn, Michigan, to eight months in prison for e-mailing death threats to Debbie Schlussel, a Detroit-area conservative...
Court Supports Same-Sex Marriage
The Supreme Court of the State of Connecticut ruled 4-3 on October 10 that same sex marriage must be allowed in that state. The case was initiated by eight homosexual couples...
McCain: Maverick?
John McCain calls himself a maverick and a conservative, and he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate to try to prove it. Does his record really live up to his...
The Panic of ’07
As a result of comparatively limited government involvement, the Panic of 1907 ran its course quickly. Could the same happen today if free-market processes were left alone? ...
Nationalization of Banks Begins
In what is unabashedly being called a "partial nationalization" of the U.S. banking industry, the Bush administration announced Tuesday morning that the federal government will be purchasing $250 billion worth of...
House Passes Non-drilling Bill
ITEM: On September 16, the House passed the Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act (H.R. 6899). As described by CNN on the same day, the bill "could clear the...
“Merchant of Death” Viktor Bout Fights Extradition
The defense lawyer for notorious Russian arms merchant Viktor Bout argued in a court in Bangkok, Thailand, on October 10 that his client would not receive a fair trial if extradited...
Fraught With Fraud
The threat of election fraud by illegal voters has been a taboo topic in the major media, yet it may well be the biggest danger to accurate and honest elections this...
U.S. Army Brigade On Call for Domestic Emergencies
The president now has an active-duty Army unit here in the United States to use at his beck and call. The unit will serve as an on-call federal response force for...
How to Win My Vote for Obama
"Change, change, change!" Not only are both presidential candidates proclaiming to be candidates for meaningful change, but both of my local congressional candidates are positioning themselves as the candidates of change....