Commentary Hee hee. Hee hee. No. Really. This is funny. As in ‘tee-hee-hee’ funny. I believe she’s come undone. From the Washington Post: Palin blasts ‘corrupt bastards’ in Alaska media Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said that she expects Tuesday’s election to be a "political earthquake" and that the[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—October 31, 2010. As everyone knows, on Tuesday, November 2 elections will take place. Everyone who has been watching television over the past few months knows that this certainly has been one of the most contentious and expensive elections in the history of our country. Republicans argue that[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–October 25 – Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr has avoided a military commissions trial by pleading guilty to crimes committed when he was 15 years old. The American Civil Liberties Union, which is at Guantánamo to observe the trial that was slated to start today, said the military commissions are[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 25, 2010.  Today the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation announced a proposal to set the first-ever fuel efficiency and greenhouse standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks, calling for a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from heavy trucks to start in model years 2014-2018. Statement[Read More…]

Commentary In the wake of NPR’s decision to terminate Juan Williams’ contract following controversial remarks he made about Muslims on Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, Media Matters provides a retrospective of the many anti-Muslim statements made on Fox News or by Fox News personalities. Recent anti-Muslim remarks follow long history of intolerance on[Read More…]

Commentary By Eric Hananoki Media Matters for America The media topic of the week was the firing of Juan Williams by NPR over his remark that he gets "nervous" around "people who are in Muslim garb" on airplanes. Williams’ firing comes weeks after CNN canned Rick Sanchez for remarks about Jon Stewart[Read More…]

Commentary By Charles C. Haynes Director, Religious Freedom Education Project When Glen Urquhart told a candidates’ forum last April that Adolf Hitler, not Thomas Jefferson, coined the phrase “separation of church and state,” he probably didn’t anticipate that his bizarre take on history would be disseminated to the world on[Read More…]

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director While the emergence of tea party candidates is getting headlines in this fall’s midterm elections, another trend with free-speech implications has popped up, as well — candidates and supporters going to court, not just the ballot[Read More…]

Commentary By Charles C. Haynes Director, Religious Freedom Education Project Twenty-first century America is the most religiously diverse society on earth and — among developed countries — one of the most religious. But how much do inhabitants of our faith-saturated land actually know about religion? Not very much, according to[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—October 18, 2010.  Former U.S. Surgeon General — and MPP VIP Advisory Board member — Joycelyn Elders appeared on CNN yesterday to argue against the criminalization of marijuana users. “Marijuana has never caused anybody directly to die,” she said. “It’s not a toxic substance … We can use our[Read More…]