Plaxico Burress, Francis Lewis, and Gun Rights
Plaxico Burress and Francis Lewis, two prominent residents of the state of New York, lived three centuries apart. Burress is a New York Giants football player, and he was the star...
Politics
20,000 Troops To Be Deployed in United States
"The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic...
Palin Popular in “Last Frontier” & Beyond
Four months before John McCain surprised the nation with his choice of Sarah Palin for a runningmate, Charles Scaliger wrote glowingly about the Alaska governor in The New American's March 31,...
Former Fed Chief Volcker to Lead Obama Economic Recovery Team
On November 26, President-elect Barack Obama named former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker to head what he calls his Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Volcker was appointed to the Federal Reserve...
Obama’s Choice of Hillary Clinton Signals He’s Not Anti-War
The one aspect of the Obama campaign that was arguably laudable and comparatively better than the McCain campaign was Obama's skepticism of the Iraq War and his demands that the United...
Rice Consoles Indians, Admonishes Pakistanis
Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, India, on December 3, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that Pakistan must act "fully and transparently" in efforts to bring the terrorists responsible for...
Obama Citizenship Accusations Come to a Head
As we have reported earlier in our article "Barack Obama and the Citizenship Scandal," it has been alleged that Barack Obama is ineligible to become president for two reasons: evidence has...
Obama’s Plan for Immigration “Reform”
The new administration's Blueprint for Change devotes four pages to most of the political issues it encompasses, but on immigration there are two. But it says enough to know where Obama...
Obama Picks Come From Same Old CFR Roster
"Brilliant," "brainy," "super-smart," and "Wall Street smarts" — these seemed to be some of the recurring words used to describe President-elect Barack Obama's two top economic picks — Timothy Geithner, chairman...
Looking Ahead to the Obama Presidency
Barack Obama's and Joe Biden's own records and agendas show the direction they have in mind for the nation. ...
Behind the Obama Agenda
The team Barack Obama has begun assembling suggests that, in terms of substance, the incoming administration may not be that different from the outgoing. ...
Obama’s Plan for Energy and the Environment
"We must act quickly and we must act boldly to transform our entire economy — from our cars and our fuels to our factories and our buildings," writes Barack Obama on...
Obama Adviser Brzezinski’s Off-the-record Speech to British Elites
Zbigniew Brzezinski, a senior adviser to President-elect Barack Obama on matters of national security and foreign policy, was the featured speaker at Chatham House in London on November 17, 2008. The...
Obama’s Plan for “National Service”
A key platform of Obama's campaign is an effort to increase Americans' willingness to serve the government, along with more federal funding for service programs. "I won't just ask for your...
Obama’s Executive Orders
The media is anxiously speculating about what it hopes will be a rash of Obama executive orders overturning those issued during the past eight years by President George W. Bush. ...