Commentary by Eric Boehlert Because as the story reads right now, the Washington Times, in its headline and article, reports that ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis, during an address at the National Press Club on Tuesday, claimed ACORN critics are "racist." Slight problem: The WashTimes fails to include any quotes, any evidence, any anything,[Read More…]

Blog Commentary President Obama has not yet found his Grant. Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal was promoted to top commander in Afghanistan in May, 2009. He replaced General David McKiernan, who had been calling for big troop increases in the months before he was relieved. McChrystal has been calling for troop[Read More…]

Commentary This was once America, rescued at last from the gilded age. We can do this again. We can revive and seal the New Deal. The rich were on board because they had lived through the Great Depression, and they knew a thriving middle class was the path to the[Read More…]

First Lady Michelle Obama handled herself well in the face of the worst attack yet by Birthers, this time coming face to face with Sesame Street’s Big Bird. Big Bird, remember, was hatched. Thanks to Conan O’Brien for sharing this remarkable footage with us. Here’s a transcription: Conan O’Brien: First[Read More…]

Jill Abramson, the managing editor for news, agreed with me that the paper was "slow off the mark," and blamed "insufficient tuned-in-ness to the issues that are dominating Fox News and talk radio." She and Bill Keller, the executive editor, said last week that they would now assign an editor[Read More…]

eNews Park Forest Welcomes 64,057 Site Visits in September Commentary By Gary Kopycinski Welcome to eNews Park Forest, where we’ve been publishing a lot of news for years, for hardly any money at all. I tell my friends I feel like a ham radio operator. This has become a hobby[Read More…]

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director Who is a journalist? Seems a simple question, really. But try to put the answer to paper or computer screen, and more pointedly, try to write that definition into law, and suddenly the effort gets more[Read More…]

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Charles C. Haynes First Amendment Center senior scholar Battle lines are being drawn in Texas for a protracted fight over what gets taught in the state’s social studies classrooms. And since Texas has an outsized influence on what goes into textbooks nationwide, the winners[Read More…]

Commentary By Gary Kopycinski I get so, so tired of Facebook applications. So many silly things. No, I’m not interested in your Mafia Wars. I have no interest in "Picture Your Friends." And I don’t do fantasy football, baseball, golf, or anything else. On My Birthday, however, is pretty cool.[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 1, 2009.  Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) authored the following op-ed in today’s Financial Times titled “Time for Diplomacy to End the Stand-off With Iran.” The full text of the op-ed is below: Time for diplomacy to end the stand-off with Iran By John Kerry[Read More…]