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Democracy Tree: Striking back at GOP’s war on women
by Amy Kerr Hardin “The highest court in the land has affirmed that each of us deserves compassion, respect, and dignity in making health decisions. Now it’s time to work…
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Basura: My bid for presidential sweepstakes: No Trump
“You gotta know when to hold ‘em and know when to fold ‘em. . ." — Sung by Kenny Rogers, "The Gambler" Donald Trump has been publicly disrespectful of the…
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Ranger Rick: Convention shows just how delusional Dems are
The Mrs. Clinton lovefest is over, time to get back to reality. Being someone whom never liked the Clintons (I never support Marxists, statists or socialists), I have a natural…
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Monday Moanin’: Do advanced classes help with college?
When the value of high school is exaggerated By EMILY DERUY, JUL 26, 2016 It turns out that students who take AP classes don’t actually get better college grades. As more students…
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Barry Hastings: Manifest Destiny 18 months later, an appraisal
by Barry Hastings Results of our (ever-so-slowly-ending) business in Afghanistan, and badly-ended fool's errand in Iraq, are not going to be pretty — not even cosmetically tolerable. We took action…
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Basura: As a Vietnam vet, I highly recommend visiting VA
I just got back from my annual physical with the VA. I go the Wyoming Health Care Center, in Wyoming, Mich., a suburb of Grand Rapids. It happens to be…
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Army Bob: Media is a huge part of the problem of terrorism
"If it bleeds it leads." A pattern is emerging after terrorist attacks in the United States and indeed worldwide. The media covers the attack and is enthralled with the attack…
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Ranger Rick: Mrs. Clinton worse than Obama (if that’s possible)
It must be hard to be a committed Democrat Party supporter nowadays, having a president who hates his own country. Then there’s the presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, an ineffective and…
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Monday Moanin’: A roundup on public education issues
by Jeff Salisbury Supreme Court lacks jurisdiction to issue advisory opinion on aid to private schools (Fix the mitten blog) After signing the bill, Snyder asked the Michigan Supreme Court to…
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Barry Hastings: GOP sequestration is behind military decline
by Barry Hastings It's all well and good the President has killed some 3100 ISIL, al-Quaeda, Boko Haram, and other terrorist leaders by hounding them from above with manned aircraft…