The winner of Accuracy in Media’s 2009 Reed Irvine lifetime achievement award for investigative journalism gives aspiring journalists some free lessons worth more than the ones that they pay big bucks for in top-name universities.
Perspectives
Weather Underground History Restored
Many Americans have forgotten the violence that shook our society in the l960s and l970s at the hands of the Weather Underground and other radical organizations.
The Crackpot Mentor of State Department Nominee
With the nomination of Harold Hongju Koh, the Dean of Yale Law School, as the Legal Adviser for the State Department, President Barack Obama is putting a world government team in place under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The NAACP at 100
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
celebrated its l00th birthday on February 12.
Public School Pedophiles Revisited
The National Catholic Register ran a story on its blog about a bill before the New York State legislature on child sexual abuse that harshly treats private institutions while going easy on public ones.
A Primer On Liberty
The modern rhetoric of liberty, however, seldom accompanies true liberty.
Are There Any Limits on Bad Behavior?
We have entered a strange new era. Failing businesses – whether financial or industrial – are bailed out by taxpayers, and individuals who took loans they could not afford are subsidized by those who lived within their means.
Economic Fundamentalists
A Baptist minister gave a sermon on economics that the ACLU and the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State would surely regard as crossing the theological divide.
No Justice for DeJohn
This morning, in a federal courtroom a few blocks from FIRE’s Philadelphia headquarters, the landmark case of DeJohn v. Temple University neared its long-awaited completion.
Pakistan Watch
On February 21st, the Pakistani government agreed to a permanent ceasefire agreement with the Taliban militants in Swat Valley—a location only 100 miles away from the capital, Islamabad.