Constitution - The New American

Senate Considers Vote on Concealed Firearm Laws

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,...

James Heiser July 22, 2009

The Prejudice of Atheists

Selwyn Duke July 17, 2009

Ever since the separation-of-church-and-state ruling in 1947, there has been an ever-intensifying effort to denude our public sphere of religious symbols and sentiments....

Obama Will Soon Propose Indefinite Detention Without Trial

Thomas R. Eddlem June 30, 2009

The leftist Brookings Institution has put forth an indefinite-detention-without-trial legislation proposal that National Public Radio says the Obama is considering issuing in executive...

Final Ruling in Strip Search Case

Ann Shibler June 25, 2009

The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 that the strip search of a 13-year-old Arizona girl by school officials in pursuit of drugs...

Dangers of a Constitutional Convention

Larry Greenley June 23, 2009

The current economic crisis has served as a wakeup call to many Americans that there is a major problem with the policies emanating...

PBS Bans New Religious Programming

Steven J. DuBord June 19, 2009

On June 16, the Public Broadcasting Service decided to forbid member stations from carrying any new religious TV programs while allowing the few...

The Second Amendment and the States

Patrick Krey June 9, 2009

There are few topics that can divide people who are normally ideological bedfellows like the legal doctrine of the “incorporation” of the Bill...

Suits Charging Illegal Surveillance Dismissed

Steven J. DuBord June 5, 2009

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reported on June 3 that U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has dismissed dozens of lawsuits charging illegal spying...

Obama, the Soldiers, and Memorial Day

Gary Benoit May 24, 2009

In his weekly Internet and radio address on Saturday, President Barack Obama said that Memorial Day is “a time to reflect on what...

Cheney Defends “Enhanced” Interrogation

May 22, 2009

In a speech given on May 21 at the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington, former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said President...

Gender of Justices of Little Concern, Notes Gallup

May 15, 2009

A Gallup Poll released on May 13 indicated that nearly two-thirds of Americans surveyed — 64 percent — responded that it "doesn't matter"...

Founders Would Be Displeased With Obama

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. May 15, 2009

The tremendous seismic activity reported throughout Virginia lately was not the result of an unpredicted earthquake, rather it was the reverberations that were...

Texas, Other States Introduce Firearm Freedom Act

Alex Newman May 14, 2009

Following Montana’s lead, the Lone Star State has introduced a bill in the legislature challenging federal authority to regulate guns under the interstate...