Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Charles C. Haynes First Amendment Center senior scholar President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court has triggered considerable hand-wringing on both sides of the culture-war divide over the relationship between religion and government under the First Amendment. Weeks[Read More…]

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director Nobody wants to encourage or invite another campus killing spree like the one in 2007 at Virginia Tech University, in which 32 people died and 17 were wounded. But does that reasonable concern extend to prohibiting[Read More…]

Chicago Heights, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Denise Kranzer and Michelle Robinson volunteered in their neighborhood elementary schools because they wanted to make a difference in the lives of young people.Both Kranzer and Robinson dreamt of becoming teachers, but neither had completed their bachelor’s degree. Kranzer, of Monee, started her path to a bachelor’s[Read More…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– With the U.S. Census process beginning, the BBB advises people to be cooperative, but cautious, to avoid becoming a victim of fraud or identity theft. The first phase of the 2010 U.S. Census is under way as workers have begun verifying the addresses of households across the country.[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Echoing former Vice President Dick Cheney’s recent speeches and media appearances, conservative media figures and outlets have claimed that the Bush administration’s policies with respect to the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay “kept us safe” and have criticized President Obama’s executive order directing its closure. For instance, during the[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– President Obama’s trip to the Middle East and subsequent speech in Cairo were a predictable source of fodder for media conservatives. Then again, Obama’s trips abroad tend to bring out the worst from the right: a complete rejection of honest self-reflection, implicit xenophobia and anti-Islamic bigotry, relentless fearmongering, and a[Read More…]