Humor Enjoy this video of 24’s Jack Bauer interrogating the notorious Santa Claus. Very clever, and just in time for the holidays. Great line: "You’re on the naughty list, Jack. The naughty list." And then the tears. Priceless.
Day: December 19, 2009
Sen. Nelson Statement on Health Care Deal, December 19, 2009
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2009. Nebraska’s Senator Ben Nelson made the following remarks at a press conference this morning announcing his support for the Senate health care bill, which will reduce costs, expand access, and improve health care for all Nebraskans: “Change is never easy…but change is what is needed in[Read More…]
Weekly Address: President Obama Says Health Insurance Reform Will Protect Patients and Hold Insurance Companies Accountable
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2009. Over the past few decades, there has been an intense struggle in Washington between the lobbyists for the insurance industry and the interests of the American people over what has been called a Patient’s Bill of Rights – a set of rules to protect Americans from[Read More…]
Lambda Legal Blasts Feds for Again Denying Spousal Benefits to Federal Court Employee
"The Obama Administration is rejecting another chance to do the right and legal thing" Los Angeles, CA–(ENEWSPF)– In response to a decision by the Federal Government to ignore a ruling by Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that one of its employees, Karen Golinski,[Read More…]
Help Defeat Joe Lieberman (Video)
Commentary Moveon.org launched a campaign a few days ago to raise $400,000 to defeat Joe Lieberman, vowing to strip him of his leadership post and fight his re-election. Thursday, they announced they’ve raised a million dollars. Check out puppet Joe asking for a pony and four more inches. The unending[Read More…]
According To Its Ethics Code, NPR Still Has a Fox News Problem
Commentary by Eric Boehlert Smart newsrooms develop an ethics code to help journalists do their jobs well, and to create clear lines of demarcation for when inevitable conflicts arise. To its credit, National Public Radio operates under a wide-ranging ethics code that leaves little doubt about how its journalists should[Read More…]
Who’s Behind the Right’s Base Closure Smear?
Commentary By Jamison Foser The right-wing media are accusing the Obama administration of playing politics with national security. But by using a trumped-up allegation peddled by a discredited former McCain aide to smear the White House, Obama’s critics are guilty of the politicization of the military they claim to denounce.[Read More…]
Dragging Down the Health Care Debate
News Analysis By Simon Maloy Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Earlier this week, two very important things happened in the fight for health care reform, one flowing directly from the other. The first was that the public option was officially jettisoned from the Senate bill. The Democratic Senate caucus dropped it along with[Read More…]
Glenn Beck and the Paranoid Style
Commentary By Simon Maloy "The modern right wing … feels dispossessed: America has been largely taken away from them and their kind, though they are determined to try to repossess it and to prevent the final destructive act of subversion. The old American virtues have already been eaten away by[Read More…]