AFP PODCAST How bad is the family homelessness problem in America? It’s bad enough that 1.6 million American children are now homeless, 38% of the entire homeless population, compared to 1% in 1988. Dr. Ellen Bassuk, founder and president of the National Center on Family Homelessness discusses the results of their report card Americas Youngest

By Mark Anderson GOSHEN, Ind.—On Jan. 10, before a gathering of 300 patriotic Americans, former Sheriff Richard I. Mack expounded upon the importance of an American sheriff, lauding Elkhart County, Ind. Sheriff Brad Rogers. Rogers did his duty by defending a local farmer from ongoing harassment by the Food and Drug Administration just for selling

By the Staff at AFP The streets of Roanoke, Va. are a model of American economic collapse. Driving through the downtown, one passes abandoned storefronts with “for rent” signs in the windows, some of those signs old and curling from the long vacancies. Leaving the downtown in one direction, one comes to hundred-year-old housing, much

By Pat Shannan When Georgia’s State Administrative Court opened its doors on Jan. 3, Judge Michael Malihi’s first order of the year was to deny defendant Barack Obama’s motion to dismiss the case against him that demands the sitting president’s name be removed from the November ballot unless he can prove himself constitutionally eligible. Trial

Links to radical group operating inside Iran a cause for concern By Ralph Forbes GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney looked like a deer caught in the headlights when he was asked if he supported an international, anti-American terrorist organization with a bloody record for killing innocent civilians thousands of times worse than al Qaeda. This

By Victor Thorn AMERICAN FREE PRESS and its predecessor, The Spotlight, are the only national newspapers that have regularly given coverage over the past quarter-century to the Israeli naval and air attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967. During a Dec. 30, 2011 interview with Phil Tourney, a Liberty survivor and co-author of

By Keith Johnson Do police have a right to stick a needle in your arm, or a swab in your mouth, to collect samples of your DNA—without a warrant and regardless of whether you’ve been convicted of a crime? That’s the question that is now being debated in courtrooms across the nation. Early last summer,

By Frank Whalen Around the world, 2011 was a banner year of upheaval for established governmental authority. To some, this explains why the U.S. government is increasingly seeking tools to suppress dissent among the populace, lest that dissent lead to revolution. It’s a worrisome trend that runs parallel to new detention powers mandated under the

By Richard Walker Since the middle of 2011 the Western mainstream media has been parroting allegations of genocide in Syria at the hands of the country’s security forces. So far, the media has unquestioningly reported these claims, knowing full well that the sworn enemies of Syria’s current leader, Bashar al-Assad, have been the ones promulgating

By Pat Shannan The nation’s most talked-about athlete of the moment is Tim Tebow. He was the Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Florida who played on two national championship teams while unashamedly proclaiming his devotion to Christianity by posting scripture chapters and verses in his eye paint. Now that he is the starting

It’s a terrible thing to fear your government. For the past 65 years, we’ve deluded ourselves into thinking that our government is a benign entity which only has the best interests of its citizens at heart. After all, our government is all about freedom, civil liberties, justice, and constitutional rights… right? We’ve turned a blind

Pictured: Professor John Tagg (BSc, MSc, PhD) Experts in the dental profession made the bold claim that bad oral health may cause heart attacks, strokes and other deadly disease… and, conversely, good oral health may save your life.  It’s important to note that the connection between oral health and disease has not been accepted by

While senator, he had plan to end free speech on college campuses By Michael Collins Piper In 2003, then-Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) cut a back-room deal with high-powered lobbyists to introduce legislation to limit freedom of speech on American college campuses. Proposing to rewrite the federal funding formula under Title IX of the Higher Education

• The long, strange road to the Iowa caucuses detailed • Top three candidates separated by small percentage By Victor Thorn With more plot twists than a daytime soap opera, the long, strange road leading to Iowa’s Jan. 3 caucuses has seen scandals, embarrassments, surprises and a jockeying for position among frontrunners that has been

The court decision has been hailed as a major victory for freedom of speech. By Dave Gahary The latest legal assault on the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights by U.S.-based pro-Israel Jews was dismissed by a federal judge on Dec. 27. The lawsuit was filed in order to snuff out criticism on the