The New American articles from March 2008

The New American archives from March 2008

What is behind Atheism.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
March 3, 2008... In reading the articles "An Atheist Meets His Match" by Rev. James Heiser and "All That's Golden Doesn't Glitter" by Charles Scaliger (THE NEW AMERICAN, December 24, 2007), I'm reminded of an old saying: "When you argue with a fool, chances...

Solution to Fed manipulation.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
March 3, 2008... In regard to your article "A Primer About the Fed" (January 7 issue), I agree that the Federal Reserve has the dangerous power to shift immense amounts of wealth from one group to another via inflation and deflation because the Fed is, for the...

Is John McCain "electable"?(Inside Track)(John McCain)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... The Republican presidential race has narrowed to three candidates--John McCain, Mike Huckabee, and Ron Paul. Of the three, McCain holds what appears to be an almost insurmountable lead in the delegate count. The ascendancy of McCain would...

Archbishop of Canterbury: Islamic Law for UK "seems unavoidable".(Inside Track)
March 3, 2008... Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, sparked controversy last month when he said that Sharia (Islamic) law in the United Kingdom "seems unavoidable." As reported by the Guardian, "Williams, the most senior figure in the Church of...

California Congressman Lantos dies.(Inside Track)(Lantos, Tom)(Obituary)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The only member of the U.S. Congress to have been a Holocaust survivor, Congressman Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), passed away on February 11 at the age of 80. He was brought to America as a youngster from Hungary after...

United States wants death penalty for war-on-terror detainees.(Inside Track)
March 3, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On February 11, the Pentagon announced that it would seek the death penalty against 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and five other detainees. In addition to Mohammed, the other men who will be tried under the...

White House declares that waterboarding is not torture.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... "The White House today said the interrogation technique called waterboarding, as practiced by U.S. intelligence officials, does not amount to torture, one day after an administration official said publicly for the first time that such a method...

Winter of discontent.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... It is inadvisable to draw conclusions about long-term trends from short-term observations. Still, on issues related to climate, the press does it all the time. All it takes is one heat wave in Europe, and the headlines are filled with scare...

Tax-rebate stimulus plan.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... The House and Senate approved the president's economic stimulus package and sent the bill to the president to be signed into law. Shortly after the congressional action, the president quickly signaled his approval of the measure. "This plan is...

Bush running out of Red Ink?(Inside Track)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... On February 4, President Bush presented his fiscal 2009 budget plan to Congress. The budget proposes spending a record $3.1 trillion. Last year's budget stood at $2.9 trillion in comparison. In unveiling the budget, Bush said the proposed...

Earmarks extremely important to many congressmen.(Quick Quotes)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... "If you think critics spend an inordinate amount of time and resources talking about earmarks, you should see the time and effort members of Congress spend securing earmarks." Congressman Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) has sponsored legislation to...

Costs of entitlements must be addressed.(Quick Quotes)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... "The longer lawmakers wait to enact the necessary reforms, the more painful those reforms will be." Referring to "the unsustainable long-term costs of entitlements," Heritage Foundation analyst Brian Riedl pointed to a problem few legislators...

Rise in gold price spurs increase in prospecting for the metal.(Quick Quotes)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... "I saw more people walking out with more metal detectors and sluice boxes than I can remember in a long time. That $900 price of gold is really getting to people." General Manager Ken Rueker of the California-based Gold Prospectors...

Madam speaker wants taxpayer funds to assist illegal immigrants.(Quick Quotes)(Nancy Pelosi)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed...

New Yorker explains Giuliani's failure to attract voters.(Quick Quotes)(Dorothy Kaliades, Rudy Giuliani )(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... "He was too New York, too Italian, and he had too many wives." Queens County resident Dorothy Kaliades tersely summarized the problems that faced her former mayor in his failed effort to secure the GOP nomination.

Arizona Republican leader doesn't care for McCain.(Quick Quotes)(Rob Haney, John McCain)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... "We call [his bus] the Forked Tongue Express around here. We don't consider him a conservative at all. He'll lie about anything." Referring to Senator McCain's "Straight Talk Express" bus, Rob Haney, the Republican Party chairman in the...

A dual presidency would be worse than a single leader.(Quick Quotes)
March 3, 2008... "One problem with the George W. Bush administration is that it has brought a kind of plural presidency in through the back door. Vice President Dick Cheney has run his own executive department, with its own intelligence and military operations,...

Swedish scientist disputes claims about the ocean swamping tiny Vanuatu.(Quick Quotes)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... "There is absolutely no signal that the sea level is rising. If anything, you could say that maybe the tide is lowering a little bit, but absolutely no rising." A few years ago, many of Vanuatu's residents abandoned their homes and...

The battle against illegal immigration: catering to those in favor of illegal immigration is long-standing but coming to an end.(IMMIGRATION)(Cover story)
March 3, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] According to national polls, at least 80 percent of the American people now favor cutbacks in immigration quotas.... More than 90 percent support an all-out effort to curb the massive illegal immigration. What...

How to fix illegal immigration: we must create sufficient grass-roots pressure to force Congress to pass the necessary legislation to fix our illegal-immigration crisis in accordance with the Constitution.(IMMIGRATION)
March 3, 2008... Illegal immigration already has the elements that might constitute a "tipping point" in public attitudes--a substantial majority are strongly concerned about a problem and believe the government has the power to address it. ...

Avoiding extreme solutions: in trying to solve the problem of illegal immigration, both extremes--opening our southern border completely or imposing police-state controls--must be avoided.(IMMIGRATION)(Cover story)
March 3, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The great 19th-century French economist and statesman, Frederic Bastiat, famously pointed out that partisans of big government have the habit of "concocting the antidote and the poison in the same laboratory," that...

Ground zero: three black leaders give a candid look at what life is like for America's black population living at "ground zero" of the illegal-immigration crisis.(Interview)
March 3, 2008... If one gets the bulk of his or her information from major media sources--television and nationally prominent newspapers and magazines--about the illegal-immigration fight happening in our country, one learns that those who are against amnesty...

Adoption options dwindle: a new international agreement will forbid American couples from adopting in certain areas of the world.(CULTURE)
March 3, 2008... Little Claudia Maria, born April 15, 2007, awaits adoption in Guatemala City. It is simply easy for anyone to gush or marvel at this cutie posted at www.adopting.com in the agency's "Waiting Child Photolisting." And it wouldn't take much...

War at the border: the recent murder of Border Patrol agent Luis Aguilar highlights the increasing border violence.(BORDER PATROL)
March 3, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Border Patrol agent Luis Aguilar went to work on January 19, he likely thought he would face a usual day, if any day can be called usual for his line of work. But he had said goodbye to his wife and children for...

What we can learn from the EU: an eye-opening documentary warns Britons that they are losing their country to the supranational European Union. The parallels for Americans are striking and ominous.(DVD REVIEW)(The Real Face of the European Union)(Video recording review)
March 3, 2008... All citizens must consider whether they wish to endorse the burial of a great and civilized nation, or whether they wish to halt a process which they never asked or voted for, or were even asked whether they wanted, which has brought about...

Girl shot while saving mom.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Alexis Parker)
March 3, 2008... On the night of December 1, Selietha Parker and her seven-year-old daughter, Alexis, were in their Detroit home with no heat. She called her longtime family friend, Aisha Ford, for assistance. Ford drove over to Parker's home, but as Parker and...

Navy SEAL honored for heroism in Afghanistan.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Michael P. Murphy)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Last October 22, Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy, a Navy SEAL, became the first service member to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor during the more than six years of fighting in Afghanistan. A native of Patchogue, Long Island, Murphy was 29...

Sixth-grader inspires legislation.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Jack Davis)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... In his fifth-grade social studies class, Jack Davis participated in a practice exercise to draft mock legislation. The lesson stayed with him. When he was eating breakfast at a buffet in Chattanooga, Tennessee, over the summer, Jack became...

Immigration as a win-win affair: our history demonstrates that immigration, properly regulated and controlled, can--and did--have a beneficial effect on our nation's economy and culture.(HISTORY--PAST AND PERSPECTIVE)
March 3, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Despite the inevitable challenges created by any mass migration, by and large America has benefited in the past from immigrants who came here for the fight reasons. Most were willing to learn the language and become...

Problem with the plan.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Nineteen-year-old Ronald Harrison planned to rob someone at gunpoint on the night of December 12. He made that ambition very obvious early that day when he stole a gun from a friend's house to use during the armed robbery. At about 9 p.m.,...

Another career criminal killed in the act.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Harris County, Texas, homeowner Damon Barone said that he and his wife were awake at 2:15 a.m. on December 14, feeding their infant daughter in their bedroom when he heard a loud noise and the whole house shook. He grabbed a pistol and...

Pets gone astray.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Four apparently well-cared-for dogs--a German shepherd mix, a pit bull, and two golden retrievers--killed two pet llamas, wounded three others, and attacked a horse in the Rose Valley area of Washington in incidents that began on November 29....

Shooting before looting.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... "South Florida has been hit like a plague with these violent robberies recently," police spokesman Jeff Messer of the Delray Beach police department told Florida's Sun-Sentinel after four people collaborated to rob a Delray Beach coin and...

Breaking a chokehold.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Jorge Leonton)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Seventy-four-year-old Jorge Leonton went to his bank at 10:30 a.m. on December 8 to withdraw some money. After he got money from an ATM, he returned home--unaware that he was being followed by four men who were intent on robbing him, reported...

The stimulus sham.(Correction, Please!)(Correction notice)
March 3, 2008... ITEM: "President Bush used his final State of the Union speech to call for a quick shot in the arm for the economy in 'a period of uncertainty,'" reported CNN for January 29. Moreover, said CNN, "The White House and leaders of the House of...

Unasked questions deserve answers.(THE LAST WORD)
March 3, 2008... Earlier in 2008, Democrat and Republican presidential candidates gathered separately for many televised debates. Two of these events were jointly sponsored by CNN and the Los Angeles Times. Before holding them, the American people were...

Congress, listen in on this.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
March 17, 2008... In the January 21 issue of THE NEW AMERICAN, the next-to-last paragraph of the article "Bill to Extend FISA Surveillance Powers Stalls in Senate" says, "The chief point of dispute in the bill--the telecom immunity provision--grants immunity to...

Tax rebate or tax penalty?(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
March 17, 2008... It is going to take a lot more than "Bread & Circuses" for this fella to cry, "Hail Caesar!" It is certainly no surprise that the only thing Congress and Dubya can agree on is fast-tracking socialism with a "tax rebate" ("The Stimulus...

Stop the sheep shearing.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
March 17, 2008... There are no qualms about David Stertz's review of Judge Napolitano's book, A Nation of Sheep (THE NEW AMERICAN, January 21). But I do believe his suggestion for a cure is too simplistic and will never occur. The reviewer states: "The reader is...

Bush's Africa tour and foreign-aid bonanza.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush wound up a six-day, five-nation tour of Africa on April 21 in Monrovia, Liberia, doling out more than $1 billion in additional foreign aid to the beleaguered continent. In Liberia, the...

Misdirected malaria program causes disease to spread.(Inside Track)
March 17, 2008... Throughout his February Africa tour, President Bush reaffirmed his support for the programs promoted by the United Nations, World Health Organization, and World Bank that are responsible for tens of millions of people being infected by malaria....

Sabotaging border security from within.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... While the Bush administration continues to insist that American citizens must accept increased inconveniences at airports and more privacy intrusions under the Real ID Act, it is waiving security checks for tens of thousands of new immigrants,...

United States recognizes an independent Kosovo.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... On February 18, the United States and several western European nations granted official recognition to the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo. The move fanned ethnic tensions between the predominantly Muslim population of Kosovo and the...

A dangerous game in the Balkans.(Inside Track)
March 17, 2008... By recognizing an independent Kosovo, the United States is playing a dangerous game in the Balkans, one that has led to war in the past and could lead to war in the near future. The way World War I began demonstrates the tinderbox the Balkans...

Utah State legislature opposes the NAU and illegal immigration.(Inside Track)(North American Union)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... On February 4 the Utah House passed H.R. 1, a "Resolution Encouraging United States Withdrawal from the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" and "any other activity which seeks to create a North American Union," by a vote of 57...

McCain denies allegations of ethical improprieties.(Inside Track)(John McCain)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... A February 21 report in the New York Times headlined "For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk" raised questions about Senator John McCain's ethical practices. The article prompted the candidate to conduct an impromptu news...

The Counterfeiters ... and the Fed.(Inside Track)(Movie review)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... The Counterfeiters won the foreign-language Oscar on February 24, creating buzz for the Austrian film that had opened in this country in limited release just two days earlier. Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, the movie is about a wartime Nazi...

William F. Buckley, Jr. found dead in his home at 82.(Inside Track)(Obituary)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... After suffering from diabetes and emphysema according to his son Christopher, William E Buckley, Jr. was found dead at his desk on February 27 at age 82. The author of 45 books, he wrote about sailing, penned a series of spy novels, and tweaked...

She wishes she had said it differently.(QuickQuotes)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The wife of the Democrat who hopes to be his party's nominee, Michelle Obama later claimed that she has always been proud of her...

China is not a good place for journalists.(QuickQuotes)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... "There are more journalists detained in China now than there were when China was chosen in 2001 to host the games. We have the feeling that nothing will really change before the Olympic Games." Speaking for the Paris-based Reporters Without...

He has a dim view of newspaper people.(QuickQuotes)(Bob Bennett)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... "A lot of newspaper people would rather be wrong than be scooped." Responding to the New York Times article suggesting several improprieties in John McCain's past, McCain lawyer Bob Bennett issued a broad indictment of most journalists...

Rising wheat price is surprising.(QuickQuotes)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... "Anyone who tells you they've seen something like this is a liar." With the price of wheat 50 percent higher than it was last August, South Dakota commodities trader Vince Boddicker shook his head in amazement and wondered how much higher...

Some Iranians are no longer spouting anti-Americanism.(QuickQuotes)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... "I used to be one who chanted 'Death to America.' It was a slogan that came up during the revolution. People don't mean it now. I like American goods, and I prefer American people. It's just the government I don't like." Referring to his...

House Committee chairman wishes baseball hearing was never held.(QuickQuotes)(Henry Waxman)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I regret we had the hearing. The only reason we had the hearing was because Roger Clemens and his lawyers insisted on it." Lawyers for baseball star Roger Clemens sharply disputed the claim of Committee on...

Che Guevara's portrait seen in an Obama campaign office.(QuickQuotes)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... "That this sadistic thug's face also adorns the office of a U.S. presidential candidate's supporters is appalling and disgraceful. That the candidate couldn't bring himself to say so is even worse." Asked how a portrait of Fidel Castro's...

Candidates for the Democratic party nomination joust over mere words.(QuickQuotes)(Hillary Clinton)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... "If your candidacy is going to be about words, then they should be your own words. Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not about change you can believe in; it's change you can Xerox." Candidate Hillary Clinton couldn't...

Who's listening in on you? Will the Protect America Act provide the means necessary to surveil and catch terrorists, while safeguarding Americans' Fourth Amendment protections? No and no.(SURVEILLANCE)(Cover story)
March 17, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On February 12, the U.S. Senate approved, by a 68-29 vote, espionage legislation that would expand the government's authority to intercept international phone calls and e-mails and to block lawsuits against U.S....

My five minutes.(THE RIGHT PERSPECTIVE)
March 17, 2008... While senators generally have unlimited time for debate, members of the U.S. House of Representatives often have only five minutes to make their point heard before a final vote on important legislation. After the U.S. Senate passed the latest...

Faith & inspiration on center stage: the 16th Annual Movieguide[R] Faith & Values Awards.(CULTURE)
March 17, 2008... On the evening of February 12, most of Hollywood and the Big Media were abuzz with news of the just-ended screenwriters strike and the upcoming 80th annual Academy Awards. But at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, the buzz was about a...

Lost art: despite modern culture's "anything goes" attitude toward defining art, any "art" that has lost its center in the beautiful has, in fact, ceased to be art.(CULTURE)(Book review)
March 17, 2008... The perception of likeness and unlikeness generates the whole of "rational" or "necessary" truth. --Will James Two books hit the bookstores recently featuring what their editors anoint as the major art and artists of our times,...

Myths of presidential power: over the course of many successive administrations, the presidency has slowly accumulated unconstitutional power that the Founding Fathers never intended.(CONSTITUTION CORNER)
March 17, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Bush administration daily bombards Americans with hyperbole about the "inherent powers" of the president. With each new act the president predicates on these mythical powers, their destructive consequences...

State-sanctioned counterfeiting: the Federal Reserve's little-understood financial operations have just gotten a bit more arcane, thanks to the recent creation of the Term Auction Facility, or TAF.(ECONOMY)
March 17, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Federal Reserve, like all central banks, is primarily engaged in manipulating the money supply. Nowadays, in the absence of any precious-metal standard tied to government money, the amount of money that central...

Principal offers kidney.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(James Friel)
March 17, 2008... Morgan Corliss, a 13-year-old middle school student in Franklin, New Hampshire, had very modest wishes. She did not yearn for designer clothes or other expensive material things; she just wanted to live the same kind of life as her classmates....

Brotherly love.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... Cody Barenbrugge, 16, and his sister Lindsey Miller, 15, are both freshmen at Bloomfield (Indiana) Junior-Senior High School and both are cadets in the Navy's Naval Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC). Last November, Cody was...

Boy saves mother.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Jeremy Cooper, Natasha Cooper)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... Jeremy Cooper, an eight-year-old third-grader at Ockerman Elementary School in Florence, Kentucky, was home with his mother and younger siblings last December 22 when his mother, Natasha Cooper, suffered a grand mal seizure. Jeremy called his...

A reputation rescued: anyone interested in the McCarthy era will not want to miss this compelling and factual account of the valiant senator from Wisconsin.(Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy)(Book review)
March 17, 2008... Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy, by M. Stanton Evans, New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2007, 664 pages, hardcover, $29.95. I have a vivid personal memory of my father banging his fist on the kitchen table,...

Liberty at home, not crusades abroad: for over 100 years after its founding, the United States avoided foreign aggression, knowing such actions would lead to endless problems. Then we veered off course.(HISTORY--PAST AND PERSPECTIVE)(Viewpoint essay)
March 17, 2008... Watching the bombardment of Fort McHenry from the vantage point of the British ship where he was held captive, American patriot Francis Scott Key anxiously spied the star-spangled banner through the dawn's early light. The moving scene prompted...

Fatal family affair.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... The fact that most people who are murdered in the United States know the person who kills them was becoming all too apparent to a family in El Dorado Hills, California, on January 6 before a neighbor came to their aid. In a wealthy gated...

A gun as an equalizer.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... Donald Robertson of Indianapolis, who suffered a stroke in May and is still recovering, and his 12-year-old son were asleep just after midnight on January 10 when he was awakened by the sound of breaking glass. He saw a man outside and,...

Take two.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... In the late hours of January 23 and the early hours of January 24, two burglars were shot in Memphis, Tennessee, prompting an outburst of glee by some of the city's residents. News Channel 3 reported that the first burglary and shooting...

Not again.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... On January 29, a clerk in a Bosque County, Texas, convenience store saw a man wearing shorts and a ski mask coming through the door. The clerk, having been robbed and severely beaten in 2006, wasn't about to just allow the apparent criminal to...

They keep trying.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... The Y and M market in Coachella, California, has been robbed three times in four years. In 2002, the owner shot a robber twice, reported mydesert.com. On December 21, the store was again hit by robbers. Three armed men entered the store at...

Relaxed robbers.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... On September 27, a group of men walked into the 904 Fashion store in Jacksonville, Florida, and began "stuffing clothes into bags," reported NewJax4.com. One of the men also pulled a gun and demanded money from the register. After the...

The McCain illusion.(Correction, Please!)
March 17, 2008... ITEM: U.S. President George W. Bush, reported Reuters on February 10, "told conservative members of his Republican Party that White House hopeful Sen. John McCain needed to do some work to win them over but he was a 'true conservative.'" The...

NATO is a UN subsidiary.(THE LAST WORD)
March 17, 2008... Afghanistan is immensely distant from what has always been known as the North Atlantic region. Yet U.S. and other coalition forces in Afghanistan are now serving under the auspices of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Those forces...

Slip of the pen.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
March 31, 2008... I always enjoy receiving my copies of TNA, and agree with JBS views 97 percent of the time. And your writers are very fair, accurate, and are rarely wrong. However, in the excellent "What Happened to Our Money?" (February 4) by veteran...

Out of touch.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
March 31, 2008... It is astounding that Congress can be so out of touch with the reality of true economics and that the public will buy into the fantasy charade they are perpetrating. (See "The Stimulus Sham," March 3.) Giving people money back from the...

Human-centered religion vs. true spiritual values.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
March 31, 2008... In recent issues you have had compelling articles on the false fear of global warming. I find it interesting, and disturbing, to recognize that environmentalists' thoughts on the topic echo Paul Kurtz's Humanist Manifesto 2000: A Call for a New...

Iraq regime's "brotherly ties" with Iran spell more trouble.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
March 31, 2008... Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Baghdad on March 2 on an historic trip to Iraq, the first ever for an Iranian president. Iraq's political and religious leaders greeted him with great fanfare, laying out red carpets and having...

Two more states take a stand on the North American Union.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
March 31, 2008... Although it is more difficult to get state resolutions introduced and passed in even-numbered years due to fewer states being in session and election-year shortened schedules, the state legislatures in Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, New...

Ron Paul's constituents vote for him, but not for president. Why?(Inside Track)(Brief article)
March 31, 2008... When voters opt for candidate A over candidates B, C, or D, does that mean that they reject the messages of candidates B, C, or D? Not necessarily. Consider the March 4 primary results in the 14th District of Texas, where Congressman Ron Paul...

FBI backdoor into your cellphone.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
March 31, 2008... A computer security analyst who has worked with a major cellular telephone provider says that the FBI has a back door into that cellphone company's system that allows them to eavesdrop without a warrant on all cellphone conversations carried by...

Fed's new inflationary measures.(Inside Track)(Federal reserve board)(Brief article)
March 31, 2008... On Friday, March 7, the Federal Reserve announced new measures designed to counter the burgeoning financial crisis. The Fed's brand-new Term Market Facility (TAF), which has been auctioning $60 billion per month directly to banks as a way to...

"Merchant of death," Viktor Bout, arrested.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
March 31, 2008... Principal Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, dubbed the "Merchant of Death," was taken into custody in Bangkok, Thailand, on March 6 for attempting "to procure weapons for Colombia's FARC rebels," Thai officials reported. Bout, now 41, is a...