Commentary By Jamison Foser For a group of people who get paid to cover politics (and who regularly forgo serious policy coverage in favor of political analysis), reporters can be remarkably shallow — inept, even — in their assessments. For example, we need only to look back at Mark Halperin’s[Read More…]

Commentary So I was watching the New York Jets lose to the Indianapolis Colts Sunday when this commercial aired. I laughed a solid 15 minutes. Out loud. And I was alone. Enjoy the video. If you haven’t seen it yet, just watch and enjoy.

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, that phrase set out a central theme of the star-crossed lovers’ tragedy: Real[Read More…]

Commentary By Gary Kopycinski, Editor and Publisher, Rosemary Piser, Associate Editor, eNews Park Forest The entire Chicagoland area needs the Cook County Board to work, and the fact is, for the past several years, it hasn’t. Besides the serious ethical questions it raises, political patronage is a horribly inefficient and[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 19, 2010.  Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern released the following statement after Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts. “Today is no different than yesterday or the day before or the day before that. Pat DeJong will still wake up in Libby, Montana.  Pat is still mourning[Read More…]

Commentary First Amendment Watch By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director Remember that old schoolyard chant, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me”? Well, the part about “words can never hurt me” is not holding true for a growing set of would-be[Read More…]

Commentary By Dahr Jamail t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed There have been several recent oil spills and other environmental problems linked to the oil/gas production industry in Alaska. On December 23, a tugboat hit the Bligh Reef, the same reef struck by the Exxon Valdez[Read More…]

Commentary By Karl Frisch This week, Sarah Palin, the half-term governor of Alaska-turned-Facebook terror analyst, joined Fox News as a contributor — the third such politician eyeing a bid for the GOP nomination in 2012 now working at the right-wing cable network. Palin’s appearances on Fox News this week are[Read More…]

Commentary by Eric Boehlert Not content with its lapdog coverage of President Bush over the past decade, the Beltway press has adopted a new, super-soft way to deal with Bush’s former vice president, Dick Cheney, as well as GOP media star Sarah Palin. Journalists have set aside what had been[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 13, 2010.  Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement regarding news that mobile homes and trailers from Hurricane Katrina are being auctioned by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): “FEMA’s current endeavor to dispose of trailers through the GSA[Read More…]