A Message From George Clooney and John Prendergast Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 3, 2011.  A new state is being born in Southern Sudan against a backdrop of decades of war between the South and North of Sudan. A peace deal in 2005 ended the latest round of open conflict, but the possibility[Read More…]

Commentary By Gary Kopycinski eNews Park Forest is poised to enjoy its first-ever 100,000+ visitor month after an article by Dahr Jamail went viral this week, thanks to a link from an evidently busy Web site. Readers may have noticed that ENEWSPF was heavily-trafficked on December 26 and 27 as[Read More…]

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director Welcome, 2011, and all that you offer as a New Year: a chance for a fresh start and the promise of new opportunities. But it’s fair to say that in terms of the First Amendment, you’re[Read More…]

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director When we’re in the majority, we generally get our way — from the playground to Congress. But our basic rights as citizens don’t depend on having one more vote or legislative seat than someone else. There’s[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–December 21, 2010. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today passed a new rule clarifying the legal authority of the FCC to enforce network neutrality principles. Network neutrality principles protect free speech online by prohibiting the owner of a network from prioritizing some content on the Internet while slowing other content.[Read More…]

Commentary By Chris Miller As a former U.S. Army nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons specialist I was always skeptical of the assertion that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.  After I hit ground in Iraq in April, 2003, it soon became clear he didn’t have any. The U.S. searched[Read More…]

Commentary By Charles C. Haynes Director, Religious Freedom Education Project Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe singlehandedly breathed life into the flagging “war on Christmas” debate when he announced earlier this month that he wouldn’t ride his horse in the Tulsa Holiday Parade of Lights this year — something he has[Read More…]

Commentary By Sarah Pavlus Media Matters for America The internal divisions at Fox News are notorious. There is the Fox News primary, in which no fewer than five potential Republican presidential candidates and their varied supporters and detractors — all on the Fox News payroll — duke it out on a near-daily basis.[Read More…]

Commentary By Gary Kopycinski Are you tired of the annual property tax sticker shock in Illinois. Are you, perhaps, a school board member lamenting incredible budget deficits with the depressed housing market and declining property values nationwide? Do you believe this is a hopeless situation, with our Illinois State House[Read More…]

Commentary By Jeremy Holden Glenn Beck is coming to Wilmington. "This town hasn’t taken any money from the government," he said, promoting the event. "They don’t want any money from the government. And they are pulling together." To be clear, the story of a community coming together during economic hardship[Read More…]