The New American articles from June 2007

The New American archives from June 2007

Cooling towers.(Letter to the editor)
June 11, 2007... On page 20 of the April 30 "Nuclear Energy" issue is a picture of a coal-fired power plant showing a huge pair of dark plumes emanating from the plant in a sunlit backdrop. The left plume emanating from the smokestack is a valid cloud of...

Cost of corn rises.(Letter to the editor)
June 11, 2007... Archer Daniels Midland ("Correction Please!" March 19) reported 1st quarter profits on May 1. Not surprisingly, revenues were up 25 percent while net income was up only 4.3 percent because of increased corn costs (duh). Subsequently the stock...

Myth of global warming.(Letter to the editor)
June 11, 2007... The Chicken Littles of global warming once ignored C[O.sub.2] emissions and focused on smoke, on particulate matter reflecting sunlight, to create a global-cooling scenario. Now they do the reverse, ignoring the smoke and focusing on the...

Importing poisoned food from China.(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... In the wake of the pet food scandal that has seen many pets sickened after being fed with food made with contaminated ingredients imported from China, it has become increasingly clear that foods imported from the communist country for human...

Peasants fight China's abominable one-child policy.(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... According to reports carried by the BBC, Chinese peasants, possibly in the thousands, have rioted in response to a crackdown by officials on families that, in Beijing's eyes, have too many children. In a now long-standing policy, China's...

Family group names Ford Motor top pro-homosexual TV sponsor.(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Ford Motor Company is the lead advertising sponsor of primetime network programs featuring lead or supporting homosexual characters, according to a recent study by the American Family Association. Between February 11 and May 5, the American...

What Ron Paul really said in the debate.(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... During the May 15 Republican presidential debate in Columbia, South Carolina, Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) was asked if our noninterventionist foreign policy had changed due to the 9/11 attack. He responded by saying that our foreign policy...

Fort Dix terror plot: Kosovo "blowback".(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... After six foreign-born Muslim men were arrested on May 7 for plotting a suicide attack on the U.S. Army base at Fort Dix, New Jersey, White House spokesman Tony Snow told reporters, "There is no direct evidence of a foreign terrorist tie" to...

More American jobs leaving U.S.(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Few companies are as quintessentially American as Hershey. The famed candy maker is known the world over for its American-made milk chocolate that, when first introduced, made chocolate--previously an expensive luxury item--affordable for the...

The moral of the story: morality sells.(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Spider-Man 3 was knocked out of the top spot at the box office on May 18 and 19 by the blockbuster opening of Shrek the Third. Nevertheless, the latest film featuring Stan Lee's arachnid-powered hero has ruled the box office in the month of...

Bush lobbies Christian right on war.(George W. Bush)(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... President Bush has been rounding up support for expanding the Iraq War to Iran by inviting Christian leaders to the White House for policy briefings. Dr. James Dobson, whose Focus on the Family radio show reaches millions of listeners, told his...

Wolfowitz to resign at world bank amid scandal.(Paul Wolfowitz )(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Paul Wolfowitz will probably be most remembered as one of the Bush administration's top strategists who peddled the now-discredited intelligence that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and had ties to al-Qaeda. Wolfowitz left...

Asia's richest man concerned as Chinese stock markets overheat.(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... "As a Chinese, I'm worried about the stock market in China." From his Hong Kong base, Li Ka-shing expressed fear that the red-hot Chinese markets were experiencing a bubble that would soon burst.

Those who don't marry can't divorce.(Andrew Cherlin )(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... "In a funny way, the postponing of marriage is lowering the divorce rate--young couples live together without marrying and when they break up, the split doesn't count as divorce." When U.S. health officials published divorce rate statistics...

British war protestors will soon have a new "poodle" to target.(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... "On June 27, Gordon Brown will have to face the disconcerting sight of seeing his own face replacing Mr. Blair's on the protest banners, pasted on to the body of a poodle." British author Andrew Roberts wished the incoming prime minister...

GOP candidate believes abortion, gun rights, and homosexuality aren't important issues.(Rudy Giuliani)(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... "If we don't find a way of uniting around broad principles that will appeal to a large segment of this country, if we can't figure that out, we are going to lose this election." Speaking at a Republican gathering in Texas, Rudy Giuliani...

Pornography queen endorses Hillary Clinton for president.(Jenna Jameson)(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... "The Clinton administration was the best years for the adult industry and I wish that Clinton would run again." A star in pornographic films, Jenna Jameson issued an endorsement her favorite Democrat would probably wish had been kept quiet....

President erases requirement that illegal immigrants pay back Taxes.(Pete Sepp )(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... "I can tell you, most law-abiding citizens would find [that action] totally distasteful. I doubt that many citizens are willing to swallow that special treatment." National Taxpayers Union spokesman Pete Sepp wasn't satisfied when a White...

Here's an astounding call to eliminate five billion people.(Paul Watson)(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... "No human community should be larger than 20,000 people. We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. [Mankind] is the AIDS of the earth." Now leading the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Paul...

Grateful Iraqi says it's time for Americans to go home.(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... "We think America did a great thing by toppling Saddam. But now they should hand us the country and leave." An Iraqi Shiite hotel owner named Ayad spoke for himself and his family as he expressed the view of many of his countrymen.

Will Congress turn its back on you: when it comes to immigration? The immigration legislation before Congress casts the die not only for cultural and national ruin, but also for a North American Union.(IMMIGRATION)(Cover story)
June 11, 2007... Way back in 1986, Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), then, as now, the principal agent of leviathan leftism in the Senate, sponsored an immigration bill. Then, as now, illegal aliens had flooded the country. And then, as now, the Senate had an answer:...

Double standard on immigration: while Mexico insists that America should welcome all Mexican nationals with open arms, the Mexican government harshly enforces its own anti-illegal immigration laws.(Cover story)
June 11, 2007... As the 2008 electoral season heats up, illegal immigration continues to be a front-burner issue, with most of the political elites scrambling to find some way to avoid responsibility for the deluge of illegal immigrants turning America upside...

Social Security for immigrants: at President Bush's behest, plans have been created, and are being implemented, for a "totalization agreement" with Mexico--which would give U.S. Social Security benefits to millions of Mexican citizens.(Cover story)
June 11, 2007... When Social Security was created in the 1930s, intelligent observers said it would fail. Its first recipient, Ida Fuller, contributed less than $25. After 35 years of retirement, Fuller died, having pocketed nearly $25,000. Not a bad...

Taking the high road: in Texas and Oklahoma, citizens are showing that the NAFTA Superhighway Goliath can be taken on and stopped by fearless Davids.
June 11, 2007... Seventeenth-century Spanish explorers, following established Indian and buffalo trails, crossed the Rio Grande northward from Mexico, effectively blazing the Camino Real, the King's Highway. Later known as Old San Antonio Road, Camino Real...

Another side to global warming: environmentalists and the UN want you to believe that the science of global warming is settled and that the globe is heating. In fact, the science is anything but settled.
June 11, 2007... One of the oft-repeated mantras of the global-warming crowd is that there is no longer any debate in the scientific community about the threat of global warming. And why not think that the debate is over? No less a body than the American...

Undermining our colleges: plans for increased federal involvement in higher education are likely to lead to federally mandated curricula and a profound change in current college offerings.
June 11, 2007... Quick, name the top 10 universities in the world. If you started out with Harvard, you're not alone. Likewise, if you named Columbia, Princeton, MIT, and the University of Chicago, you'd be on the right track according to the 2006 "Academic...

Thriving in a decadent culture: in The Culture-Wise Family, authors Ted Baehr and Pat Boone explain how to hold on to Christian values despite outside influences.(The Culture-Wise Family: Upholding Christian Values in a Mass Media World)(Book review)
June 11, 2007... The Culture-Wise Family: Upholding Christian Values in a Mass Media World, by Ted Baehr and Pat Boone, Ventura, California: Regal Books, 2007, 270 pages, hardcover. (For ordering information, see the ad on page six.) If there ever was any...

Fire sparks generosity.
June 11, 2007... Back on the night of December 4, 2005, Joel and Carol Berg of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, were awakened by an aerosol can exploding. They were shocked to learn that their house was on fire. Joel, Carol, their son Duncan, and their dog Smokie...

Kindness "R" us.(charitable donations)
June 11, 2007... When Kelly Carroll was a teenager growing up in Seattle, a disagreement with her mother caused her to run away from home, and she spent three nights on the city streets. She received a fast education in the ways of the world after observing...

The great gold heist: claiming a "national emergency," an American president once seized much of the wealth of America's citizens. Could it happen again?
June 11, 2007... It was the biggest bank heist of the century, perhaps of all time. For sheer audacity, it rivals the fantastic scheme of the fictional arch-villain Dr. Goldfinger to raid Fort Knox in one of the most famous James Bond spy-thriller episodes. But...

Really ready.(robbery)(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... May 2 was just another day at O'Keeffe's Package Store, a family business in Lawton, Oklahoma, when 75-year-old Rosemarie O'Keeffe, who was working behind the register, noticed two young men outside walking up to the store "wearing hoodies,...

Not again.(robbery)(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Eighty-four-year-old Frank Sams' house had already been robbed three times in one week when he decided to do something about it. Late in the evening of May 3, he went outside, sat on his steps, and waited with a pistol for the thief to strike...

Boonie Hicks, chronicling a shooting.(Allen Hicks)
June 11, 2007... Allen Hicks, an aspiring rapper with the tag of "Boonie," entered Coliseum Pizza in East Oakland, California, on April 19 carrying a gun. He was accompanied by two friends. He pointed the gun at the shop owner's head and announced a robbery....

Gas gauges and price gouging.(Correction, Please!)
June 11, 2007... ITEM: As gasoline prices rose, Democrats in Congress took aim at the oil companies, reported the Washington Post for May 11. "Standing in front of an Exxon station near the Capitol on Wednesday with the posted $3.05-a-gallon price for unleaded...

Mr. Bush finally finds his military "Czar".(John J. Sheehan, George W. Bush)
June 11, 2007... In mid-April, National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley announced the Bush administration's intention to appoint a high-level military official who would take over the management of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Hadley offered the post to...

Reclaiming the American dream.(living standards decreasing)(Editorial)
June 25, 2007... Until recently, the economic history of America had been a history of upward mobility on the part of a broad and growing middle class. In many other lands, the middle class was virtually nonexistent, if it existed at all. Almost everybody was...

Comedian points to the export of American jobs.(QuickQuotes)(David Letterman)(Quotation)(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... "President Bush is on an eight-day tour of Asia. He's visiting American jobs." When Mr. Bush went to Asia in November 2005, David Letterman humorously associated the president's trip with th--e export of American jobs.

Another comedian makes sense while being funny.(QuickQuotes)(Jay Leno)(Quotation)
June 25, 2007... "According to a new report, not all immigrants from Mexico move here for work. Well, duh. If they were looking for American jobs they would be sneaking into India." Less than a month after Letterman made his quip quoted above, Jay Leno...

TV commentator warns against the war on the middle class.(QuickQuotes)(War on the Middle Class by Lou Dobbs)(Quotation)(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... "Each night, as I conclude my nightly broadcast on CNN, I have the gut-sick feeling that we have chronicled another twenty-four hours in the decline of our great democratic republic and the bankrupting of our free enterprise economy." In...

Is Cisco Systems an American company?(QuickQuotes)(John Chambers on his company's China strategy)(Quotation)(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... "China will become the IT [Information Technology] center of the world.... What we're trying to do is outline an entire strategy of becoming a Chinese company." John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, Inc., boasted about his company's China...

The number of jobs that could move Offshore is staggering.(QuickQuotes)(Alan S. Blinder predicts)(Quotation)(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... "I estimate that somewhere between 22% and 29% of all U.S. jobs are or will be potentially offshorable within a decade or two." Former Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors Alan S. Blinder made this incredible estimate in...

No wonder Americans are struggling to compete.(QuickQuotes)(regulatory costs increase)(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... "Regulatory costs hit an estimated $1.13 trillion in 2005.... Given that 2005 government spending was $2.47 trillion, the hidden tax of regulation now approaches half the size of federal spending itself." The Competitive Enterprise Institute...

Economist raises a vital question.(QuickQuotes)(Paul Craig Roberts)(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... "Will America be a Third World country in 20 years?" Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts raised this question in his syndicated column in 2003. Since that time, the wrongheaded policies contributing to the loss of...

Greenspan wants to make Americans competitive by lowering wages.(QuickQuotes)(Alan Greenspan)(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... "Our skilled wages are higher than anywhere in the world. If we open up a significant window for skilled workers, that would suppress the skilled-wage level and end the concentration of income." At a conference on maintaining American...

Losing our way: once the heart and soul of America, the middle class has recently endured mounting job losses and declining standards of living.(THE AMERICAN DREAM)(Cover story)
June 25, 2007... All anyone needs to know about the 1950s in America can be inferred from the automobiles produced in 1959. Even the most pedestrian of commuter appliances turned out by Detroit that year were vehicular sculptures--equivalent, in some sense, to...

A world of opportunity: although some world economic changes have negatively affected American workers, the United States is uniquely positioned to thrive in the global economy.(GLOBAL ECONOMY)
June 25, 2007... When I was in graduate school, working towards my masters degree in international business, one of the books we were required to read was The American Challenge ("Le Defi Americain") by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. Published in 1968, the book...

Yesterday and tomorrow: a grandson, just a generation apart from his grandfather, will face a far different life from his elder in terms of obstacles and opportunities.(GLOBAL ECONOMY)
June 25, 2007... My dad is one of the last remaining of a fading American breed. He came from an era where the average Joe didn't go to college and, in the practical sense, didn't really need to. Besides, college was for the wealthy. Most guys living in...

A country in transition: if America would only reject the notion of an economy dominated by government and return to a truly free market, liberty and prosperity could be near at hand.(TAXES AND INTRUSIONS)
June 25, 2007... Why are middle-class jobs vanishing in the United States? Everyone has pet theories to explain the nearly universal anxiety in the middle class about the economy and jobs. "Water cooler" analysis often points to such factors as Chinese imports,...

Low times for hi-tech jobs: keeping your hi-tech job depends on many factors. But what happens when you're sent packing because of outsourcing and the odds of finding another job are against you?(HI-TECH)
June 25, 2007... Seven years ago, I was a Program Manager for a company that manufactured, tested, and designed printed circuit boards. I had been in the electronics field for over 20 years, working my way up alter starting out as an electronic technician. In...

Immigration and wages: current immigration policy is costing Americans both dollars spent on social services and lowered wage rates. A wiser policy, on the contrary, would benefit workers.(IMMIGRATION)
June 25, 2007... In 2004, economist Todd G. Buchholz--author of the book New Ideas from Dead Economists--published a new book, this time about the loss of jobs in America. In Bringing the Jobs Home, Buchholz pointed out that immigration can either be a blessing...

Out of gas: rising gas prices are putting pressure on corporate profit margins, which could lead to economic belt-tightening and the loss of jobs.(ENERGY)
June 25, 2007... In Milwaukee, service-station owner Jeff Curro no longer sells gas. According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Curro, who has been selling gasoline for 20 years, "turned off his pumps at his Shell station in Brookfield when the price he was...

The goodness of America.
June 25, 2007... Unemployed, Uninsured Get Medical Help With health insurance usually being heavily subsidized by employers, becoming unemployed often means becoming uninsured. Those who find themselves in such circumstances in Moore County, North Carolina,...

Behind the job loss: the U.S. government's trade, tax, monetary, regulatory, and immigration policies are destroying America's future. They must be changed before it is too late.(SAVING OUR JOBS)
June 25, 2007... The accelerating exodus of American businesses and American jobs to China, Mexico, and dozens of other countries over the past two decades is unprecedented in our history. The devastating impact of this development on America's middle class has...

The trouble with our trade treaties: an alphabet soup of trade treaties--NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO, and GATS--threaten America's jobs and entrepreneurs while encouraging a flood of illegal migration.(SAVING OUR JOBS)
June 25, 2007... During his 1993 White House signing ceremony of the three documents comprising the North American Free Trade Agreement, President Bill Clinton stated his belief that NAFTA would create 200,000 U.S. jobs in the first two years after going into...

Finding our way back: organized grass-roots pressure on Congress to preserve our unique heritage of freedom under the U.S. Constitution is the key to a better jobs future for Americans.(SAVING OUR JOBS)
June 25, 2007... For 50 years the John Birch Society and its publications, including THE NEW AMERICAN, have been standing for family and freedom. In the early years of the JBS, Robert Welch, founder of the society, spoke and wrote repeatedly these words: "We...