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"Your papers please!" Though REAL ID implementation stalled, its twin, PASS ID, seems to be gaining traction because the federal government is poised to fund the mandate
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Not long ago, Americans feared and ridiculed the police states cursing too many parts of the world. We worried that they...
New American, The, 08/01/09 by Becky Akers · More from publication -
Ordinary patriots, extraordinary sacrifices: American history highlights the greatness of America's Founding Fathers, but a new nation could not have been formed except for the tremendous sacrifice of thousands of everyday Americans
George Washington, Nathan Hale, Thomas Paine, Sam Adams, Patrick Henry: heroes whose names will live as long as liberty does. Yet behind the...
New American, The, 07/06/09 by Becky Akers · More from publication -
Mr. Obama, Tear Down This Wall!
In its zeal to protect us from Mexicans who want to pick our fruit and clean our homes, the federal government is walling off our southwestern...
Freeman, 06/01/09 by Akers, Becky · More from publication -
Revolutionary virtue: the Founding Fathers believed what today might be deemed a revolutionary idea: that only a virtuous people, grounded in morality and religion, can ever hope to remain free
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people," John Adams famously announced in 1798. "It is wholly inadequate to the...
New American, The, 03/30/09 by Becky Akers · More from publication -
"Three fires, and you are free!" Three shots from his inexperienced militia—followed by their hasty retreat—was exactly what Daniel Morgan needed to win the day at the fateful Battle of Cowpens
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It usually pastures cattle on their way to market. But on a frigid January morning in 1781, this...
New American, The, 02/02/09 by Becky Akers · More from publication -
Liquid Lies
Government programs rely on deception from start to . . . Well, none of them ever seems to finish, but if one did, the end would doubtless be as...
Freeman, 01/01/09 by Akers, Becky · More from publication -
A Million Terrorists?
In July the federal government added the millionth name to its "Terrorism Watch List" - and it may have been yours. Comprising just 16 names on...
Freeman, 11/01/08 by Akers, Becky · More from publication -
Language, Loyalty, and Liberty
The equanimity with which Americans have watched their freedoms flee puzzles many of us, but perhaps I've solved the mystery: they're too busy...
Freeman, 10/01/08 by Akers, Becky · More from publication -
Son of liberty: Nathan Hale, a true patriot, believed that liberty is worth any price
He was full of fun and life, but he is remembered for his death. He was a man of honor who died in rank dishonor. His last words, which should have...
New American, The, 09/15/08 by Becky Akers · More from publication -
When torture becomes standard: Standard Operating Procedure exposes the military's use of torture by quoting verbatim from prison personnel stationed at Abu Ghraib
Standard Operating Procedure, by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris, New York: The Penguin Press, 2008, 286 pages, hardcover, $25.95. Standard...
New American, The, 07/21/08 by Becky Akers · More from publication
