WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 12, 2010.  Today, AARP CEO A. Barry Rand sent a letter to every Senator, urging them to rescind a devastating 21 percent cut to Medicare’s reimbursement for doctors caring for people in Medicare and extend unemployment insurance benefits provided by Congress last year. The complete text of his letter[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2010.  United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens today announced his retirement from the Court after serving for 35 years. The following can be attributed to Steven R. Shapiro, Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union: “The nation owes Justice John Paul Stevens its deep[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 8, 2010.  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today told European publics that the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) is one of several concrete steps the U.S. is taking to reduce the global threat of nuclear weapons, proliferation and terrorism. In an op-ed originally published in The[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 7, 2010.  The following op-ed by Vice President Joe Biden was published in today’s Los Angeles Times: A Comprehensive Nuclear Arms Strategy The administration’s Nuclear Posture Review outlines the means to achieve greater security from worldwide nuclear dangers. Nonproliferation and counter-terrorism are central to the strategy. By Joe[Read More…]

Commentary By Eric Boehlert It’s true. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) pushed back a couple of times against Fox News during a recent town hall forum. The first instance came after a woman suggested that under Obama’s health care reform she could be put in jail for not having health insurance. “The[Read More…]

Commentary By Eric Boehlert Reading last week’s disturbing news accounts about the Midwestern arrest of nine alleged members of a Christian militia known as the Hutaree, a group whose members were reportedly planning to kill cops in order to spark a wider, armed revolt against the U.S. government, I noticed[Read More…]

Commentary Now, only a jury awaits our beloved Rod. From the Sun-Times: Rod Blagojevich, you’re fired. Again. The ex-governor was given the boot Sunday night after he couldn’t muster the magic to give his team a win as they worked to generate buzz for Universal Orlando’s Wizarding World of Harry[Read More…]

Commentary by Eric Boehlert Conservative commentators were atwitter last week following news that Ann Coulter’s speech at the University of Ottawa was canceled in the face of protests. Of course, Coulter has the right to speak her mind on campuses. But in announcing the cancellation, her conservative Canadian sponsor, pundit[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 30, 2010.  AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond issued the following statement today, urging the Senate to assist the millions of Americans without health coverage and who remain unemployed by passing legislation that would extend essential benefits. The legislation would also avert a 21-percent cut to reimbursement for physicians[Read More…]

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Charles C. Haynes Director, Religious Freedom Education Project at the Newseum The long, bitter and emotional legal battle over “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance may have come to a quiet end on March 11. That’s the day a panel of the 9th[Read More…]