Columns

by Jeff Salisbury Late in the Lame Duck legislative session of 2014, Democrats won what they thought was a major victory in getting the Republican-led legislature and Gov. Snyder to…

by Barry Hastings If you haven't read the book (or seen the movie) The Finest Hours, by Michael Touugias and Casey Sherman (Scribner paperback, 2015), run out and buy a…

"Just to be here is so much." Rainer Maria Rilke, poet novelist On the Big Island of Hawai'i, in Kona, I signed up for a boat trip to snorkel with…

CBS News and Scott Pelley not long ago did a heartwarming, perky and positive story about a mentally challenged high school football player who was deliberately given a chance to…

I read an interesting humorous article about “Millennials” and the work rules they will enforce while in control of business. I realize this was somewhat a joke, but not far…

By Nick Krieger (@nckrieger) (From the "Fix the Mitten’ blog) By asking the public to develop a meaningless nickname for a new school district, the emergency manager proves yet again that…

by Barry Hastings (Writer's note: Since the writer of the report I summarized for you last week works at TheAmerican Enterprise Institute, readers should be aware that some of his…

Perhaps the most maligned two words in the English language these days is “politically correct.” It’s blamed for the deterioration of modern American society, for the rise of a totalitarian…