American History

DonkeyHotey/flickr The controversial topics seemed never-ending at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. We’ve covered treason, state sovereignty, taxes, and now the powers of Congress and the trust the American people could put in them. The draft of the Constitution that the delegates were debating included five restrictions on Congress: No export taxes No tax or prohibition on migration or importation...

AP Images Bill Lee Although scheduled to wrap up yesterday (August 24), the Tennessee state Legislature’s “special session” for dealing with gun violence and public safety has been prolonged and will continue debate on these issues Monday, August 28. Tennessee’s Governor Bill Lee, a Republican, called for the special session of the Legislature after six people were murdered at Covenant...

Epic Top 10 Site/flickr The State House in Philadelphia was buzzing this week in 1787. The men sent by the states to recommend amendments to the Articles of Confederation had created a new constitution, which in turn created a new government for the confederation of states, and they were going over the first draft clause by clause. And the divisions...

Calls from Congress and state houses to the private sector for out-of-the-box thinking, such as repegging the currency to gold or declaring precious metals to be legal tender, are growing. With inflation plaguing the economy as the U.S. dollar is increasingly being sidelined in international trade, potentially even at risk of losing its status as the global reserve currency, lawmakers...

Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States of America. He is the main author of the Declaration of Independence. He also secured the Louisiana purchase. This man is none other than Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13 1743. His father was named Peter Jefferson. Thomas’s mother was called Jane Randolph. Another really interesting thing...

Max/flickr Just when you thought the woke crowd — which sees racism and white supremacy under every bed — could not get any more weird, Smithsonian magazine published an article last week arguing that the Indiana Jones series, starting with Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, is based on several “myths,” one of which perpetuates both racism and sexism....

Wishful thinking is still the rule among Biden’s foreign policy team, as the slaughter in Ukraine continues. It’s been weeks since we looked into the adventures of the Biden administration’s foreign policy cluster, led by Tony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Victoria Nuland. How has the trio of war hawks spent the summer? Sullivan, the national security adviser, recently brought an...

AP Images Gavin Newsom Governor Gavin Newsom’s quest to replace the U.S. Constitution continues, as California’s chief executive is sponsoring legislation calling for a federal constitutional convention to rewrite the Second Amendment. Senate Joint Resolution 7 seeks “to call a constitutional convention under Article V of the Constitution of the United States for the purpose of proposing a constitutional amendment...

Rather than send troops in response to the coup, France and the U.S. seem to favor a “Rwanda” type solution applied in Mozambique earlier this year, writes Vijay Prashad. Only this time ECOWAS would apply force.     On July 26, Niger’s presidential guard moved against the sitting president — Mohamed Bazoum — and conducted a coup d’état. A brief contest among the...

Marco Verch/flickr The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) and the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) filed a friend of the court brief on Wednesday urging the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to make permanent its temporary injunction imposed against New Jersey in May. Rather like a child being told “no,” New Jersey anti-gun politicians enacted...

AP Images A new law-review article written by two law professors, William Baude of the University of Chicago and Michael Stokes Paulsen of the University of St. Thomas, which argues that Donald Trump is already disqualified by the U.S. Constitution from ever becoming president again, is making the rounds in Washington. According to the article, Section Three of the 14th...

Alpha Stock Images “A vast majority of Convention of States supporters are also firm supporters of the Second Amendment,” a recent Convention of States (COS) blog post declares. Really? A vast majority? So, not all, then, right? If I’m reading their own article correctly, they are saying that not all of those who support COS are “firm supporters” of the...

Koele/iStock/Getty Images Plus A recent blog post published by the Convention of States (COS) reports that “only 10 percent of Americans think our democracy is working.” After reassuring his readers that he knows “we’re not a democracy,” the author goes on to insist that “the message is still valid.”  The fact that 10 percent of Americans don’t think our democracy...

AP Images AfD leaders at a party meeting in Germany Unhappy with its growing popularity among German citizens, some German politicians and media outlets are calling on the right-leaning Alternative for Germany (AfD, Alternative für Deutschland) Party to be banned. AfD is currently leading in polls, with the nation’s next general election scheduled for June of next year. Founded in...

AP Images Steve Womack Multiple Republican chairmen of the 12 House Appropriations subcommittees are voicing frustration about conservatives’ demands to reduce federal spending in the pending fiscal 2024 appropriations bills. Congress is currently working to draft and pass its fiscal 2024 appropriations bills, which must be passed before September 30 to avoid a partial government shutdown. On the House side, one appropriations...

i>Some 57% of Ohio voters refused to change the rules of the game on the eve of a referendum on abortion rights. In American politics, it is not just the Donald Trump circus that matters. Since the Supreme Court opened the door to the criminalization of abortion in 2021, the issue is at the heart of partisan battles at the...

Readers of the The New American magazine are well aware of the Deep State menace facing our Constitution, our culture, and our very lives. However, knowing that the problem exists does no good unless we take action to defend our God-given rights from the malicious tyrants who threaten them. That is why Robert Welch founded The John Birch Society 65 years ago....

nito100/iStock/Getty Images Plus On August 8, Iraq’s official media regulator instructed all media and social-media companies operating within its territories to cease using the term “homosexuality” and substitute it with “sexual deviance,” according to a document from the regulator. With U.S. influence in Iraq waning, this latest piece of news illustrates how traditional Islamic values are staging a comeback in...

The past week the National Education Association, the largest teachers union in the US, issued guidance on the use of leftist activist symbols in public school classrooms. As part of their advice to teachers, they recommended violating district and state rules and hanging items such as pride flags and BLM flags. This is generally cited as a means to “start...

Michael B./flickr The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday narrowly upheld the “Protect Illinois Communities Act,” which was signed into law by Governor J.B. Pritzker earlier this year and bans the sale or possession of new assault weapons, including some semiautomatic firearms, along with high-capacity magazines and rapid-firing devices. The weapons-ban legislation was driven by state Democrats shortly after a gunman killed seven...