CommentaryBy Jamison Foser Thursday’s New York Times article about the American Medical Association’s opposition to the inclusion of a strong public option in health care reform had several serious flaws. As a result, it greatly overstated the significance of the AMA’s stance and left out key information that undermines the[Read More…]

Tip of the hat to  ABC NEWS for this one: ABC News has learned that tomorrow President Obama will sign a presidential memorandum extending benefits to the same-sex partners of gay and lesbian federal employees. The move was long planned, sources say, though it comes at a time that gay[Read More…]

SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–June 15, 2009.   After a lesbian was barred from visiting her partner and giving advice about her treatment at a Fresno hospital, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Center for Lesbian Rights sent a letter to the hospital today urging that it adopt policy changes respecting[Read More…]

Commentary American Experience on PBS ran an incredible special tonight on Roberto Clemente. Seeing and hearing The Great One again was haunting. Watching him reach his 3,000th hit was incredible. It was only short time later that he took off on that fateful flight on December 31, 1972… Watch the[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 15, 2009. In the second of four major policy speeches on the priorities for the “Race to the Top” Fund, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced last night that the Department of Education will commit up to $350 million of the $4.35 billion Race to the Top[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 15, 2009. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan released the following statement today regarding results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Arts 2008 assessment of Music and Visual Arts at Grade 8: These results are important for several reasons. First, they remind us that the arts[Read More…]

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director With all due respect, none of the following people has ever made me do one thing differently in my life, except occasionally change the channel: Bill O’Reilly, Keith Olbermann, Rush Limbaugh, Rachel Maddow and dozens of[Read More…]

In the forefront, “Light of the Moon,” 1991, by Igor Mitoraj, in bronze.In the background, Jonathan Borofsky’s “Male/Female,” from 2001. From the collection of Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, MI. (PHOTO SUPPLIED) University Park, IL–(ENEWSPF)– While the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park (NMSP) at Governors State University[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– HRC has joined LGBT legal and advocacy coalition partners in issuing this joint statement regarding President Barack Obama’s defense of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act against Smelt v. United States: We are very surprised and deeply disappointed in the manner in which the Obama administration has defended[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, issued a statement today regarding the Obama Administration’s decision to defend the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act in a lawsuit filed on behalf of a gay couple who married in California. Arthur[Read More…]