Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Charles C. Haynes First Amendment Center The school year started off with an unpleasant bang in Gainesville, Fla., when a fifth-grader showed up on the first day wearing a T-shirt with “Islam is of the Devil” inscribed on the back. Administrators sent the 10-year-old[Read More…]

Commentary By Karl Frisch If you get your news from right-wing talk radio and Fox News, you probably think America is being overrun by a hyper-corrupt organized prostitution ring headquartered in the White House. In case you missed this story: Two conservative activists, Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe, visited a[Read More…]

Commentary By Gary Kopycinski Remembering 9/11 was different for me this year. Actually, it was quite the moment of Zen. One of our students led us in a moment of silence during morning prayers at Marian Catholic. For some reason, during that silence, memories of the awesomeness of that day,[Read More…]

Commentary from an Angry Domer By Gary Kopycinski, ’85 Charlie Weis made sure Michigan would beat Notre Dame today. This Domer is not pleased. And I love these quotes from Michigan: A dropped TD pass didn’t deflate Tate Forcier. The Michigan freshman simply threw another one on the next play.[Read More…]

Commentary By Jamison Foser The media’s reaction to Republican Congressman Joe Wilson’s outburst during President Obama’s health care speech to Congress illustrated two bad habits that encourage exactly the kind of political behavior reporters claim to dislike. First is the media’s reluctance to "take sides" in factual disputes (which is,[Read More…]

Commentary by Eric Boehlert Of course, the rude heckling by Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) is being reported everywhere. And yes, his apology for the extraordinary outburst has been noted. But have you noticed what’s been mostly left out from the dispatches? It’s the fact that when Wilson called Obama a[Read More…]

Commentary By Karl Frisch If Bill O’Reilly has the "no-spin zone," Glenn Beck seems to have the "sponsor-free zone" of late. In fact, at least 62 companies have ceased advertising on his Fox News program in recent weeks. It all started at the end of July when Beck, appearing on[Read More…]

Commentary By John A. Ostenburg Why do Democrats let the Republicans get away with so much? Nearly every problem that the current administration of President Barack Obama is facing is the result of something that occurred during the time that former President George W. Bush was in office. Yet, the[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 10, 2009.  The new National Survey on Drug Use and Health is out, and it puts the final nail in the coffin of the war on marijuana conducted by George W. Bush’s drug czar, John Walters. Walters’ fanaticism about marijuana is epitomized by a November 2002 letter sent[Read More…]