| Jul 13, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyPBS, which has often refused to broadcast films it deemed to be suffering from conflicts of interest, is now distributing a work that violates its own policies, according to the media watchdog Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). PBS is running in three...
| Jul 12, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyThe BP oil disaster has been a divisive issue, but on one thing we’re all pretty much agreed: President Obama doesn’t give good mad. For week after week, critics from Sarah Palin to James Carville have been exhorting him to lose it, to scream and yell and...
| Jul 6, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyAs is generally the case, just about all our latest letters to the editor came in response to Donald Kaul’s OtherWords columns. “I loved Donald Kaul’s article in today’s Wilmington (NC) Star-News about Rep. Joe Barton’s moment of...
| Jul 5, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyPerhaps the greatest freedom in a democracy is freedom of speech. Throughout our nation’s history, people have died fighting not only for our right to speak, but for our right to be heard. The Internet is the greatest communications network ever created because...
| Jun 28, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyThe Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling that defined the Second Amendment as the right to keep handguns in homes is ironic. This case, McDonald vs. Chicago, comes from the city with one of the highest gun crime and murder rates in the country, driven by a growing gang...
| | Rights / DemocracyPresident Obama’s Fiscal Commission–a group of lawmakers, former officials, and other experts charged with developing a bipartisan plan to stabilize our soaring national debt–is primarily holding closed-door hearings. The commission’s...
