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…]
Opinion
Trump Fires Blagojevich from ‘Celebrity Apprentice’
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…]
What If Fox News Actually Wants Mob Violence?
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…]
AARP Urges Senate to Extend Critical Health and Unemployment Supports
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…]
Patriotic Or Religious, ‘Under God’ Is Here To Stay
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…]
Statement on a New U.S.-Russia Arms Control Agreement
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 26, 2010. The report of a new agreement between the United States and Russia on a successor to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, marks an historic achievement that will increase the safety and security of the United States and our allies. This new follow-on treaty reduces[Read More…]
Blog: Free Speech On Display — And Off-Limits
Commentary First Amendment Watch By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director The power of free speech and of the First Amendment could not be more on display this week — in very different ways — from Capitol Hill to Tiananmen Square, from the sidewalk to the World Wide[Read More…]
Commentary on a New U.S.-Russia Arms Control Agreement
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–march 25, 2010. The report of a new agreement between the United States and Russia on a successor to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, marks an historic achievement that will increase the safety and security of the United States and our allies. This new follow-on treaty reduces[Read More…]
Chalk One Up For Social Networking: Earth Day Drops ChemLawn
New Glaucester, Maine–(ENEWSPF)–March 24, 2010. Risa Edelstein didn’t let a moment pass. As soon as she heard in our SafeLawns Weekly Update last Monday, March 15, that TruGreen/ChemLawn had sponsored Earth Day, she posted a Facebook page titled, simply enough “STOP TruGreen from Sponsoring Earth Day.” Hundreds of other SafeLawns[Read More…]
Secretary Chu Op-Ed on Small Modular Reactors in the Wall Street Journal
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 23, 2010. Today, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu on small modular reactors. The op-ed can be viewed on the Wall Street Journal. The text of the op-ed is below: America’s New Nuclear OptionSmall modular reactors will expand the ways we[Read More…]
