Commentary By Karl Frisch As the week comes to an end, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) will rage on, with Fox News host Glenn Beck slated to deliver the gathering’s keynote address on Saturday evening. It is unclear at this time whether Beck will have his trusty blackboard in[Read More…]
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Recovery Act Advocates Good Jobs, More Investment Needed
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)– Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers (USW), released the following statement to mark the first anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), praising the stimulus bill for creating, sustaining and saving good jobs. “The United Steelworkers applauds the findings of the Obama Administration[Read More…]
USW: More and more agree that manufacturing is the answer
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)– Support for manufacturing continues to grow in the United States, as the results of a new poll show and as more and more economists – even conservative ones – say that returning to a manufacturing-based economy is what our nation needs to create good jobs. Check out this[Read More…]
New Nuclear Energy Components Must Not be Sourced from China
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)– Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers (USW), released the following statement and text of a letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko on the application of Southern Company to build two new nuclear reactors in Burke County, GA. President Obama is[Read More…]
The Myth of the ‘Liberal’ Washington Post Opinion Pages
Commentary By Jamison Foser There may be no better example of the absurdity of the "liberal media" myth than the widespread notion that the Washington Post‘s opinion pages — and Fred Hiatt, the man who runs them — lean to the left. The Daily Beast and Forbes magazine have both[Read More…]
WATCH: CPAC Speaker’s Credibility Goes Up Glenn Beck’s Nose (Video)
Source: Media Matters for America. Used with permission.
Supreme Court Complicates Campaign Finance Rules
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)– From Stateline.org: From the 1880s until just before World War I, Montana was essentially owned by mining companies, and most of all by Anaconda Copper. Money bought political power: An industry mogul openly bribed his way to a U.S. Senate seat; the choice of a state capital was[Read More…]
NY Post Op-Ed Falsely Claims Obama Promised Stimulus Would End Net Job Losses
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)– In a New York Post op-ed, Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation falsely suggested that President Obama promised that the stimulus would end net job losses; in fact, Obama stated in February 2009 before the stimulus passed that the "magnitude of the crisis" means that even with the[Read More…]
NY Times’ Leonhardt Highlights What Has Worked In The Stimulus
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)– From David Leonhardt’s February 16 New York Times analysis: Imagine if, one year ago, Congress had passed a stimulus bill that really worked. Let’s say this bill had started spending money within a matter of weeks and had rapidly helped the economy. Let’s also imagine it was large[Read More…]
Citing Mein Kampf, Limbaugh Calls Obama’s Comments On The Stimulus ‘The Big Lie’
Rush resurrects Hitler-Obama comparisons By Greg Lewis Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Before today’s show started, some of us at the Limbaugh Wire HQ were chatting about how it has been a while since Rush has invoked Hitler or Nazism in discussions of President Obama on The Rush Limbaugh Show. He was almost[Read More…]
