While politicians, pundits, candidates, and the media yammer on and on about how best to help Flint, and who may or may not be doing enough — now would be…
Let’s discuss eminent domain, a topic on which everyone has an unyielding stand on one way or the other. To understand the issue, we need to dwell on a bit…
Patricia Ann Buensch died this past week at the age of 68. She passed quietly without much fanfare, but there was a time when she was somewhat famous. Pat was…
The candidates in the presidential sweepstakes race talk, talk, talk all day long to the media about the symptoms of what is wrong with the country’s present state of politics…
By Jeff Salisbury https://misterjournalism.wordpress.com/ President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of its bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons…
"Obama's executive pen crosses out cooperation" read the untruthful headline of an editorial purported to be by Fred Jacobs, publisher of the Jan. 7 edition of the Hastings Banner. (I…
by Amy Kerr Hardin Last week, Democracy Tree broke the story on the Michigan Emergency Manager Law’s immunity from civil liabilities — individuals acting under the aegis of the law are shielded…
by Robert M. Traxler Let’s talk about who is marked for punishment in the eyes of radical Islam, ranging from special taxes to death. Do you believe a woman is…
Not long after music legend John Lennon was murdered, an old friend, state champion volleyball coach Marty Andrews enthusiastically told me he thought he once knew Lennon’s killer, Mark David…