Commentary On the February 4th edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Glenn Beck unleashed the latest in what has become a long series of racially charged comments about President Obama. Purporting to explain why Obama chose to start using the name Barack instead of Barry, Beck said: He chose[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 1, 2010.  President Obama’s CitizenTube forum concluded today with questions about ending marijuana prohibition receiving the most votes, by far. Yet, an answer to the most popular question was absent from the president’s address, which took place on YouTube this afternoon. Last year, when marijuana reform questions topped[Read More…]

Commentary By Gary Kopycinski, Editor and Publisher, Rosemary Piser, Associate Editor, eNews Park Forest Our pick for judge in the 15th Subcircuit, Phelan vacancy, is Judge John C. Griffin of Palos Heights. Griffin has four opponents, and was appointed to the bench in 2008. He sits in the Chancery Division.[Read More…]

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Charles C. Haynes First Amendment Center senior scholar Fights over the Good Book in public schools have a long and ignoble history in the United States — from 19th century Bible Wars (when riots broke out over whose version of the Bible would be[Read More…]

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—January 29, 2010. On today’s one-year anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, a landmark law in the[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 28, 2010.  AARP CEO A. Barry Rand released the statement below following to last night’s State of the Union Address by President Obama: “AARP is encouraged by the President’s commitment to help older Americans get through the challenges of a rocky economy and a health care system that costs[Read More…]

Pittsburgh, PA–(ENEWSPF)–January 28, 2010.  United Steelworkers International President Leo W. Gerard today lauded President Obama’s State of the Union address for its focus on creating and protecting jobs. “We agree that getting people back to work should be our nation’s top priority. With unemployment in double digits, there is no[Read More…]

Commentary By Karl Frisch In 2004, the United Church of Christ produced a television commercial promoting its inclusive approach to organized faith. The ad showed two nightclub-style bouncers guarding the rope line of a church as they denied entry to a gay male couple, several people of color, and a[Read More…]

Commentary by Eric Boehlert With its open and aggressive cheerleading — not to mention on-air fundraising — for Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown last week, Fox News crossed yet another threshold in its unabashed transformation into a purely political entity. Now completely turning its back on producing any semblance of independent[Read More…]

Commentary By Jocelyn Fong Picking up where the network left off in 2009, Fox News jumped into its first political campaign of the year, this time setting its sights on the U.S. Senate to help elect Republican Scott Brown to the seat previously held by Democrat Ted Kennedy. Fox News[Read More…]