Commentary By Karl Frisch Leave it to Lou Dobbs: If there’s a right-wing conspiracy theory out there floating around on the Internets, he’ll latch onto it like a pit bull. He may be past his prime, but he just won’t let go. It must be tough for CNN to look[Read More…]

Commentary By Karl Frisch Long before the pundit-driven 24-hour news cycle began poisoning the media landscape, the 1987 confirmation hearings of Reagan Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork played out in front of a national television audience. Though CNN broadcast the hearings live, the network was not yet available in many[Read More…]

Commentary by Eric Boehlert It turns out that blogger Phil Munger hears all his big, breaking Sarah Palin news in the kitchen of his house, which overlooks Neklason Lake and sits just 10 miles from the center of Wasilla, the Southcentral Alaska town where Palin once served as mayor. On[Read More…]

Commentary By State Rep. Greg Harris (D – 13th District) If you are hoping to find good news about our FY10 State Budget, you will not find it here. Illinois now joins the rest of the country in having approved a new budget for our new fiscal year, but there[Read More…]

Commentary By Mark Heyrman and N’Dana Carter The Illinois legislature recently called for a special session after Governor Quinn vetoed the proposed “doomsday budget” passed by the House and Senate. This budget would have drastically cut mental health services. State legislators now have the chance to reconsider their priorities and[Read More…]

CommentaryBy Jamison Foser Even after landslide victories for the Democrats in the 2008 and 2006 elections (not to mention the fact that a Democrat has won the popular vote in four of the past five presidential elections), MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski still insists that “real Americans” are conservative. Brzezinski says the[Read More…]

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director The general notion is not really open to dispute today that the news media of tomorrow will be very different from the news media of yesterday — but the specifics are. The challenges of operating a[Read More…]

Commentary by Eric Boehlert Like frustrated welterweight Roberto Duran, who stunned the sporting world by walking away, mid-bout, from his 1980 prize fight against Sugar Ray Leonard with the memorable, muttered Spanish phrase for “no more,” Sarah Palin’s decision last week to walk away, mid-term, from her governorship stunned Beltway[Read More…]