J.P. Freire is the associate editor of commentary. Previously he was the managing editor of the American Spectator. Freire was named journalist of the year for 2009 by the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). You can follow him on Twitter here.
Besides the Spectator, Freire's work has appeared in The New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Human Events, Reason Magazine, Town Hall, and The Washington Times. Freire attended Cornell University.
A video mash-up of Glenn Beck audio and Donald Duck cartoons has drawn the radio host’s ire as representative of the kind of “propaganda” that ignores the abuses of those in power in favor of slamming a critic of the administration.
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Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” offers this summary of a weekend in which Rick Sanchez left CNN:
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Just when you thought that the Securities and Exchange Commission was going to get away with being exempt from Freedom of Information Act requests after the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill was passed, President Obama has yanked the leash.
From the White House, among the bills Obama signed today is:
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Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” offers this summary of a weekend in which Rick Sanchez left CNN:
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Just when you thought that the Securities and Exchange Commission was going to get away with being exempt from Freedom of Information Act requests after the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill was passed, President Obama has yanked the leash.
From the White House, among the bills Obama signed today is:
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A new ad put out by Citizens for the Republic plays on an old theme from a 1984 ad by President Ronald Reagan’s campaign for reelection. By highlighting the sluggish economy, rising unemployment, and increasing national debt, the ad succeeds in conveying the burden faced by younger generations. Have a watch:
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Congress has voted to repeal of a provision in the financial reform bill that would have eliminated transparency for the government’s perenially troubled financial watchdog, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The bill got unanimous approval in the Senate. President Obama has not yet spoken about whether he will sign the bill.
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Planned Parenthood is closing doors at its Cherry Hill center in Southern New Jersey as the result of Gov. Chris Christie’s line-item veto, which cut off $7.5 million in state taxpayer funding of the organization, according to LifeNews.com. However, the governor’s office has confirmed to The Examiner that state-funded abortions will continue to be provided, contrary to claims by Planned Parenthood.
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Think twice before you make a complaint about parking at the University of Georgia. When student Jacob Lovell submitted an email to the UGA Parking Services, he was then threatened with charges of “disorderly conduct” and “disruption” by the associate dean of students, Kimberly Ellis. (Click here for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s press release.)
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Three years after inviting Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak, Columbia University has invited Meles Zenawi, prime minister of Ethiopia, to speak at its “World Leaders Forum.” (A better title might be the “Demagoguery from Dictators” series.) Zenawi may wind up getting billed as a “controversial choice” but he’s yet another dictator to join Columbia’s anti-democracy pavilion, as he’s listed no.
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Democrats were able to take their share of the news cycle not merely by nominating scandal-plagued Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., to run for reelection, but by picking perhaps the absolute most appropriate image they could in this political climate: a target. Have a look.
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A new video from The Winston Group hits Obama and the Democrats hard on their stance on raising taxes in the midst of the recession — by remembering President Kennedy. Kennedy believed that the only way to get out of a recession is to create jobs, and the best way to do that is to cut taxes. Here’s the clip:
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Slate’s headline is “Nightmare in Delaware,” and Dave Weigel (a First State native) writes that there’s no way, no way, newly-minted Republican senatorial nominee Christine O’Donnell can win in Delaware.
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A number of cases show how police continue to misunderstand citizens’ rights to record their behavior, and they’re now neatly compiled into a video from the Cato Institute.
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Glenn Fine, Inspector General of the Justice Department, is planning to investigate “the enforcement of civil rights laws by the Voting Section of the Department’s Civil Rights Division,” according to a letter he sent today to Reps. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, and Frank Wolf, R-Va., which was obtained by The Washington Examiner.
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