Day: December 13, 2009

‘Well ness vs. Ill ness’ at Governors State University

University Park, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Learning to manage, reduce, and alleviate stress are keys to a healthier and happier lifestyle. “Well ness vs. Ill ness,”a new workshop to be offered at Governors State University,teaches the definition of stress, its danger to physical and mental health, and ways to control it. The GSU[Read More…]

Meaghan Avolio of Orland Hills worked with fellow team members at Governors State University to finish in the top three percent of all participants in an online business competition.

GSU Business Students Excel in Corporate Simulation

Meaghan Avolio of Orland Hills worked with fellow team members at Governors State University to finish in the top three percent of all participants in an online business competition. (PHOTO SUPPLIED) University Park, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Six students in Sidney Barsuk’s Management 469 – Business Policy course recently finished in the top[Read More…]

Anti-Gay ‘Hate Group’ Massresistance is Source for Right-Wing Media Attacks on Jennings

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Right-wing media outlets have relied on false or misleading claims by MassResistance, a Massachusetts-based anti-gay group, in advancing several recent attacks on Department of Education official Kevin Jennings. The founder of MassResistance — a group the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled a "hate group" — reportedly denied[Read More…]

‘Climategate’ E-Mails Show Scientists in Bad Light, Don’t Change Scientific Consensus on Global Warming

By Jess Henig FactCheck.org Summary In late November 2009, more than 1,000 e-mails between scientists at the Climate Research Unit of the U.K.’s University of East Anglia were stolen and made public by an as-yet-unnamed hacker. Climate skeptics are claiming that they show scientific misconduct that amounts to the complete[Read More…]

The Persecution of Sarah Palin: Teflon in Convenient Book Form

Commentary By Terry Krepel Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Weekly Standard associate editor Matthew Continetti’s book The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star lives up to its name — the author does indeed paint his subject as the victim of persecution by the "feral[Read More…]

The Washington Post’s Tiger Beat

Commentary By Jamison Foser There are important things going on in the world — climate change talks in Copenhagen, health care reform nearing its endgame, President Obama sending more troops to Afghanistan (and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize), and continued economic uncertainty, just to name a few. And yet The[Read More…]

Glenn Beck’s Climate Czar Called for Quarantining AIDS Patients ‘For Life’

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Media Matters Action Network, our partner organization, has unearthed a 1987 American Spectator article (available here) in which Lord Christopher Monckton — one of the right’s favorite global warming deniers — advocates requiring the entire population to undergo monthly HIV tests and forcibly quarantining "for life" those who test positive. You[Read More…]

With ‘Climategate’ and Jennings Smears, the Right Goes Guerilla

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– The conservative reaction to President Obama’s election is turning downright Faustian. As the rhetoric on the right has grown increasingly shrill, a few conservatives have raised their voices in alarm, counseling their ideological kin to step back from the abyss. Former Bush speechwriter David Frum wrote in August[Read More…]

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