WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–January 27 – A bill was introduced today in the House by Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) that would, as Title IX did for girls and women, offer remedies for discrimination “based on actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity” in public elementary and secondary schools. The Student Non-Discrimination Act[Read More…]
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Information for USW Members, Locals Wishing to Donate to Haiti
Pittsburgh, PA–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2010. In the aftermath of the terrible earthquake in Haiti, we’ve had several USW members and locals ask how they can help. You can make a tax-deductible donation to the Steelworkers Charitable and Educational Organization, the same fund that has collected money for the victims of U.S.[Read More…]
FLASHBACK: James O’Keefe Previously Said He Was ‘Willing To Serve Prison Time’ For His Work
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– An interesting tidbit came to mind following conservative activist James O’Keefe’s arrest for allegedly participating in an attempt to tamper with phones at the New Orleans offices of Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu. Let’s go back a few months: After O’Keefe released a video of ACORN workers in Baltimore[Read More…]
Man with Gun Reported In Northwestern Building In Chicago
From the Chicago Tribune: Northwestern University police are investigating a report of a man with a gun in one of the buildings on itsChicago campus, according to the police Web Site. The report came at about 10 a.m. Someone reported to police that a man with a gun in his[Read More…]
Notre Dame Students Show Support for GLBT Community in Wake of Offensive Anti-Gay Observer Comic
From Irena Zajickova at the Observer at Notre Dame: Student, faculty and other members of the Notre Dame community will participate in events this week to demonstrate their desire for the administration to add sexual orientation to the University’s non-discrimination clause. The events kicked off yesterday when students wore “Gay?[Read More…]
How Will SCOTUS Decision Affect Corporate Media?
Commentary By Karl Frisch In 2004, the United Church of Christ produced a television commercial promoting its inclusive approach to organized faith. The ad showed two nightclub-style bouncers guarding the rope line of a church as they denied entry to a gay male couple, several people of color, and a[Read More…]
Does Fox News Coverage = GOP Campaign Contribution?
Commentary by Eric Boehlert With its open and aggressive cheerleading — not to mention on-air fundraising — for Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown last week, Fox News crossed yet another threshold in its unabashed transformation into a purely political entity. Now completely turning its back on producing any semblance of independent[Read More…]
Fox News Volunteers For Scott Brown’s Campaign
Commentary By Jocelyn Fong Picking up where the network left off in 2009, Fox News jumped into its first political campaign of the year, this time setting its sights on the U.S. Senate to help elect Republican Scott Brown to the seat previously held by Democrat Ted Kennedy. Fox News[Read More…]
The Incredible Shallowness Of The Media’s Political Analysis
Commentary By Jamison Foser For a group of people who get paid to cover politics (and who regularly forgo serious policy coverage in favor of political analysis), reporters can be remarkably shallow — inept, even — in their assessments. For example, we need only to look back at Mark Halperin’s[Read More…]
Media Ignore Obama’s Accomplishments To Claim He Has ‘Little To Show For ’09 ‘
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– In the weeks approaching President Obama’s first State of the Union address, some in the media have claimed that Obama has lacked accomplishments in his first year as president and thus, in the words of Washington Times editor emeritus Wesley Pruden, Obama has "little to show for ’09."[Read More…]
