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Basura: A tragic U.S. Navy WWII tale of a swimming monkey
My dad was in the Navy in World War II, serving on a tanker ship, carrying fuel. I can't remember if he said that they were carrying oil or gasoline;…
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Ranger Rick: Let’s talk about problem’s causes, not symptoms
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…
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Monday Moanin’: Your high school history teacher got it all wrong
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…
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Barry Hastings: U.S. gun violence is result of GOP/NRA greed
"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…
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Democracy Tree: Bills would strip emergency managers’ immunity
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…
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Army Bob: Be very careful about tolerating Sharia law in U.S.
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…
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Yes It Is, It’s True: Just a coincidence in a name? Perhaps not
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…
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Basura: Snorkeling featured in upcoming trip south of the border
My wife and I are headed south of the border for a bit. I love to snorkel. She loves to get out of the cold, and be away from the…
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Ranger Rick: The Great Divide is Remocrats vs. republicans
The Great Divide When you first start to read this I presume you are thinking, what divide? Between Democrats and Republicans, racial divide, Michigan vs. Michigan State? No, the divide…
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Democracy Tree: Emergency manager law a monstrous hoax
by Amy Kerr Hardin The very first sentence of Public Act 436, Michigan’s Emergency Manager Law — not the second or third, or some obscure subsection buried within — the…