Commentary By Gary Kopycinski eNews Park Forest is poised to enjoy its first-ever 100,000+ visitor month after an article by Dahr Jamail went viral this week, thanks to a link from an evidently busy Web site. Readers may have noticed that ENEWSPF was heavily-trafficked on December 26 and 27 as[Read More…]
Opinion
New Year Will See Some Old First Amendment Issues
Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director Welcome, 2011, and all that you offer as a New Year: a chance for a fresh start and the promise of new opportunities. But it’s fair to say that in terms of the First Amendment, you’re[Read More…]
Religious Rights Aren’t Conferred By Majority Rule
Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director When we’re in the majority, we generally get our way — from the playground to Congress. But our basic rights as citizens don’t depend on having one more vote or legislative seat than someone else. There’s[Read More…]
Sarah Palin: Winner Of The 2010 Glenn Beck Misinformer Of The Year Award
Research By Media Matters for America In selecting the 2010 winner of the Glenn Beck Honorary Award for Excellence in Misinformation, Media Matters weighed the vigor and meticulous detail the 2009 recipient, Glenn Beck, brought to the craft. Beck’s dedication to fabricating facts to smear those he disagrees with is so complete,[Read More…]
ACLU: FCC Approves Flawed Net Neutrality Rule
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–December 21, 2010. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today passed a new rule clarifying the legal authority of the FCC to enforce network neutrality principles. Network neutrality principles protect free speech online by prohibiting the owner of a network from prioritizing some content on the Internet while slowing other content.[Read More…]
Put Security Ahead of Politics
Commentary By Chris Miller As a former U.S. Army nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons specialist I was always skeptical of the assertion that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. After I hit ground in Iraq in April, 2003, it soon became clear he didn’t have any. The U.S. searched[Read More…]
Letters: Thanks From Adeline
Commentary A very nice email from eNews Park Forest reader Adeline Anderson, who had changed her email address and lost touch with ENEWSPF for a while: Gary, thanks so much for returning me to eNews PF. I missed it. It’s like having the return of an old friend. Adeline AndersonPark[Read More…]
To End Christmas Wars, Separate Secular From Sacred
Commentary By Charles C. Haynes Director, Religious Freedom Education Project Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe singlehandedly breathed life into the flagging “war on Christmas” debate when he announced earlier this month that he wouldn’t ride his horse in the Tulsa Holiday Parade of Lights this year — something he has[Read More…]
The Fox News Divide That Never Was
Commentary By Sarah Pavlus Media Matters for America The internal divisions at Fox News are notorious. There is the Fox News primary, in which no fewer than five potential Republican presidential candidates and their varied supporters and detractors — all on the Fox News payroll — duke it out on a near-daily basis.[Read More…]
Tell School Districts in Illinois To Levy What They Need, And No More
Commentary By Gary Kopycinski Are you tired of the annual property tax sticker shock in Illinois. Are you, perhaps, a school board member lamenting incredible budget deficits with the depressed housing market and declining property values nationwide? Do you believe this is a hopeless situation, with our Illinois State House[Read More…]
