Commentary By Karl Frisch I grew up in Los Angeles, so the notion of living in or around snow was romantic — the thing of movies. Living in Washington, D.C., this past week has proven to be something entirely different. Don’t get me wrong, the calm quiet brought to my[Read More…]
Opinion
I Share a Birthday with Sarah Palin
So it turns out I share a birthday with none other than… Sarah Palin. Oh, the irony. Update, February 15, 12:15 a.m. – I can’t believe this two sentence blog post became our most popular story two days in a row! That’s just too funny. I do look forward to[Read More…]
U.S.: Court-Martial for Soldier Who Wrote Angry Song about Stop-Loss
News Analysis By Dahr Jamail MARFA, Texas, Feb 10, 2010 (IPS) – Army Specialist and Iraq war veteran Marc Hall was incarcerated by the U.S. Army in Georgia for recording a song that expresses his anger over the Army’s stop-loss policy. Now he waits to be shipped to Iraq to[Read More…]
Palin Headlines Birther Conference; Press Pretends Not To Notice
Commentary by Eric Boehlert If you don’t think there’s a media double standard that favors Republicans over Democrats, then let’s play a game of what-if. What if, in 2006, at Yearly Kos, the first annual convention of liberal bloggers and their readers, organizers shelled out $100,000 for former Vice President[Read More…]
NAACP Calls for End to Racial Disparities in Sentencing
Commentary An open letter from Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO of the NAACP: A bill to end major racial and ethnic disparities in drug sentencing is on the move in the Senate, and we need your help to pass it. You may already know that there is an enormous[Read More…]
‘Red Flag’: Dana Perino Still Claiming Christmas Bomber Bought ‘One-Way Ticket’
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Criticizing the Obama administration for missing "all these red flags," Fox News contributor and former Bush press secretary Dana Perino claimed that Northwest Airlines bombing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab "bought a one-way ticket" to the United States. However, administration officials have stated that Abdulmutallab flew to Detroit on[Read More…]
Civil Rights Effort Drew On All 5 First Amendment Freedoms
Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director As we mark the 50th anniversary this month of a hallmark image of the civil rights era — the earliest lunch-counter sit-ins — it’s worth noting how all five freedoms in the First Amendment nurtured and[Read More…]
How the Letterman-Winfrey-Leno Super Bowl Commercial Came to Be (Includes Video)
From the New York Times: Jay and Dave together? Could it be true? It is, and there they were, Jay Leno and David Letterman sitting on a couch – with Oprah Winfrey between them – upstairs at the Ed Sullivan Theater, where Mr. Letterman tapes his show. The spot was[Read More…]
Who Ran Alaska? Sarah Palin, the Gift that Keeps on Giving (If You’re a Dem)
Commentary Sarah Palin: The gift that keeps on giving. From the Chicago Sun-Times: E-mails shed new light on Todd Palin’s role while his wife was Alaska’s governor, showing that the one-time oil field worker’s advice was sought on board appointments and suggesting he was close to matters related to state[Read More…]
The Politically Motivated Selective-Victimhood of Sarah Palin
Commentary By Karl Frisch You’ve got to hand it to Fox News contributor Sarah Palin. After all, there aren’t many people who can make news with a single Facebook post. Her status updates are like catnip for journalists and media types. In a story detailing purported liberal criticism of White[Read More…]
