News Analysis By Simon Maloy Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Earlier this week, two very important things happened in the fight for health care reform, one flowing directly from the other. The first was that the public option was officially jettisoned from the Senate bill. The Democratic Senate caucus dropped it along with[Read More…]
Opinion
Glenn Beck and the Paranoid Style
Commentary By Simon Maloy "The modern right wing … feels dispossessed: America has been largely taken away from them and their kind, though they are determined to try to repossess it and to prevent the final destructive act of subversion. The old American virtues have already been eaten away by[Read More…]
WWF Statement On Climate Summit Speech By President Obama
COPENHAGEN–(ENEWSPF)–December 18, 2009 – World Wildlife Fund today issued the following statement today from WWF President and CEO Carter Roberts in response to President Obama’s speech before the UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen: “In coming to Copenhagen at the critical final stage of this two-year process, President Obama outlined[Read More…]
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WWF Statement on Senator Kerry’s Speech at Copenhagen Summit
COPENHAGEN–(ENEWSPF)–December 16, 2009 – World Wildlife Fund today issued the following statement today from WWF President and CEO Carter Roberts in response to Senator John F. Kerry’s (D-Mass.) speech before the UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen: “Senator Kerry delivered exactly the message we need to be hearing from world[Read More…]
Creating a ‘Gitmo North’ an Alarming Step, Says ACLU
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–December 15, 2009. The Obama administration announced today that it will purchase the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois for the purpose of holding some of the detainees currently remaining at Guantánamo. Though the administration is leaving unsaid which detainees will be moved there and for what purposes, the information[Read More…]
SEIU Statement on Introduction of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform – American Security and Prosperity Act
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–December 15 – Today, Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) joined Representatives of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the Congressional Asian and Pacific Americans Caucus, the Congressional Black Caucus, and the Congressional Progressive Caucus to introduce the “Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security Act and Prosperity” (CIR A.S.A.P.) in the U.S. House of[Read More…]
Nonsense About Medical Marijuana and Teens
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 15, 2009. A new survey showing, among other things, a slight uptick in teen marijuana use, got considerable press yesterday and today. A widely-circulated Associated Press story, along with many other reports, included this claim: “The increase of teens smoking pot is partly because the national debate over[Read More…]
SEIU and LIUNA Support President Obama’s Emission Reduction Target and Demand a Fair Transition for Workers
Washington DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 14, 2009. Today, as world leaders seek a climate change agreement in Copenhagen, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) released a joint statement in support of President Barack Obama’s 17 percent carbon emissions reduction commitment. The unions also demanded[Read More…]
Will Federal Government Become More Open? Jury Still Out
Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director We’re either on the verge of a new era in transparency in the federal government — or we’re not. On just his first full day in office, Jan. 21, President Barack Obama pledged that the public[Read More…]
