Commentary By Charles C. Haynes Director, Religious Freedom Education Project To find out how the First Amendment is supposed to work in public schools, don’t ask school officials. Ask the kids. Strange as it may seem, many students actually believe what they’re taught in civics class about their constitutional rights.[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 15, 2010. Summary:• Today, several Republicans from the U.S. House of Representatives will hold a press conference to advocate for more offshore drilling along America’s coastline.• Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster continues to spew into the Gulf of Mexico at what is now thought to be 25,000-30,000 barrels[Read More…]

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director Licensing journalists is an idea that surfaces from time to time. But it’s always a bad idea. Such proposals may originate from grudges held by lawmakers, or a political strategy to typecast journalists as biased and[Read More…]

Commentary I know the word "Socialist" was dragged through the mud during the last presidential campaign. Barack Obama is showing himself to be quite the centrist — I know my friends in the right will disagree with that, but it’s the truth. I try to avoid extremes. Strict socialism is[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 8, 2010.  Nearly a century after the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, the Supreme Court unanimously affirmed that “marriage is one of the ‘basic civil rights of man.’ ” That 1967 case, Loving v. Virginia, ended bans on interracial marriage in the 16 states that still had[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 8, 2010.  The City of Brotherly Love just got a little kinder. Beginning today, anyone in Philadelphia who is found possessing up to one ounce of marijuana could have his or her charge downgraded from a misdemeanor to a summary offense. Under the new policy, which was announced[Read More…]

Commentary Chicago Blackhawks fans in Philadelphia for the Stanley Cup Finals might want to wear rain ponchos if they’re lucky enough to get anywhere near the Wachovia Center. Why? A 21-year-old New Jersey man pleaded guilty to intentionally vomiting on a man and his 11-year-old daughter in the stands during[Read More…]

Commentary Kudos to Eric Smith for catching this headline from the American Family Association: Congress bows to gay agenda, repeals ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ Congress has given in to pressure from gay activists and the White House and voted to repeal the "don’t ask, don’t tell" ban on gays and[Read More…]

John Stossel at the Inland Press Association’s Annual Meeting. (Mobile Phone Photo: Gary Kopycinski) Commentary By Gary Kopycinski As I’ve written before, I met John Stossel a couple of years ago at the Annual Meeting of the Inland Press Association. He spoke at a luncheon about his strong, no, radical,[Read More…]

BRUSSELS—(ENEWSPF)—25 May 2010. Op-ed by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. The news from Afghanistan over the past few days has been disturbing: a Taliban terrorist attack in Kabul; a failed but dramatic attack on a NATO base; and reports[Read More…]