News Analysis By Ben Dimiero Let’s start with a multiple choice question. When Glenn Beck opens the week by spending more than 15 minutes addressing his despicable attack on President Obama’s 11-year-old daughter and says he has “never” dragged an opponent’s family “into the debate,” is he: A Correct. This[Read More…]
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CAP: How Bush Administration Inaction Created the BP Disaster
WASHINTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—June 10, 2010. Big Oil spent millions of dollars to sweep—and keep—George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in the White House. And it got its money’s worth. The new administration and its staunchly pro-oil congressional allies returned the favor by enacting one of the most pro-oil, anti-environment pieces of[Read More…]
Obama’s Cairo Speech One Year Later
CAP Fellow Brian Katulis Writes That the Obama Administration Should Continue to Focus on Long-Term U.S. Interests While Managing the Current Crisis. Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 4, 2010. The first anniversary of President Barack Obama’s historic address announcing a “new beginning” to the Muslim world in Cairo comes at the end of[Read More…]
One Year After Obama’s Cairo Speech, U.S. Policies Continue To Unfairly Target Muslims
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–June 4, 2010. One year after President Obama’s Cairo speech on the relationship between the United States and Muslims around the world, the American Civil Liberties Union reiterates its call for improvements to national security policies that unfairly target Muslims. Many of the discriminatory policies identified by President Obama[Read More…]
Wall Street Reform in the Senate Takes Steps to Rein in Private Student Lending
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–May 25 – Statement from Chris Lindstrom, U.S. PIRG Higher Education Program Director. “On Friday, May 20, the Senate passed S. 3217, the Restoring American Financial Stability Act. The bill creates a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to protect consumers of financial products, including private student loans. “As states cut[Read More…]
Stupid Media: WaPost’s Givhan At It Again, Rips ‘dowdy’ Kagan who ‘doesn’t appear to ever cross her legs’
News Analysis Washington D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Leave it to the Washington Post’s Robin Givhan to offer up what may be the most vapid analysis of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan to date. It was probably to be expected given Givhan’s sordid history of boorishly melding fashion and politics (see here, here, here[Read More…]
Study: Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act Will Create 200,000 Jobs Per Year, Reduce Foreign Oil Imports by 40%
WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—May 20, 2010. Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), co-author of the Senate’s comprehensive energy independence and climate change legislation, today highlighted new key findings from a non-partisan report that concludes the American Power Act will create 200,000 new jobs a year and will reduce foreign oil imports by 40%. The[Read More…]
AARP Report Finds Largest Brand Name Drug Price Spike in Eight Years
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 17, 2010. A new AARP Rx Watchdog report finds consumers were hit with nearly ten percent increases in brand name drug prices over the twelve-month period ending in March of this year. The 9.7 percent jump in manufacturer prices for brand name drugs widely used by people in Medicare[Read More…]
Arizona’s War on Immigrants
By Dahr Jamail t r u t h o u t | Review Most immigrants are economic refugees," Bob Kee explained as we drove across the rolling arid hills of south-central Arizona towards the border of Mexico. "US policy in the post-9/11 world states that the government knew there would[Read More…]
Buchanan Complains That With Kagan, Supreme Court Will Have Too Many Jews
Washington D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– From Pat Buchanan’s May 14 syndicated column (emphasis added): Indeed, of the last seven justices nominated by Democrats JFK, LBJ, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, one was black, Marshall; one was Puerto Rican, Sonia Sotomayor. The other five were Jews: Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen[Read More…]
