Transatlantic Two-Step
A few quick showers moved through the Washington, D.C., area on the morning of April 30, 2007, but they wouldn’t stay long. By the time a smiling Angela Merkel, the German...
United States
SPP Moves Forward Under Different Name
The leaders of the United States, Canada, and Mexico met in New Orleans on April 21-22 for the fourth round of annual talks formerly known as the Security and Prosperity Partnership....
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Report Psychological Problems
A Rand Corporation report indicates that 18.5 percent of current and former U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans recently surveyed reported symptoms of depression or post-traumatic stress disorder. ...
Congress Reverses Posse Comitatus Act Changes
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (H.R. 4986), which Congress passed on January 22 and President Bush signed into law on January 28, contained language that effectively repealed...
“Funding Father of the Right” Backs Hillary for President
Neoconservative billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife has had a change of heart concerning Hillary Clinton. Scaife, the partial heir of the Mellon family fortune, once was involved in the Barry Goldwater presidential...
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. ...
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....