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Ranger Rick: A story about cancer patient and man’s best friend
“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole” — Roger Caras “He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his…
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Monday Moanin’: I am struggling to tolerate the intolerant
By Jeff Salisbury JeffreyLSalisbury@gmail.com An appeals court recently upheld a lower court's order halting a federal mandate requiring two Christian colleges - one in Michigan and the other in Iowa…
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The Muck Starts Here: The legislative morass in Lansing flourishes
by Barry Hastings It's found not only in Michigan, but folks here are certainly playing the parts of Lewis & Clark as pathfinders for the legislative masters of folly, sloppy…
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Army Bob: Stop saying ‘human,’ ‘history,’ ‘mankind,’ and ‘man’
The politically correct left strikes again: the University of North Carolina, not Berkley or the California higher education system, but a relative conservative southern state, has banned the vile hate-filled…
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Yes It Is, It’s True: American sports spectacles promote greed, hubris
I really used to enjoy baseball, basketball and football in my youth and later golf, amateur wrestling, cross country and track. I followed professional and college teams closely and took part…
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Ranger Rick: All Dems have are wounded lioness and ‘independent’
The presidential race is getting interesting. With all those Republicans and only two Democrats with any chance of winning the Democrat nomination (with Vice President Uncle Joe in the wings),…
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Democracy Tree: Lansing must tell Gamrat, Courser no means no!
by Amy Kerr Hardin Now that disgraced former lawmakers Cindy Gamrat and Todd Courser have declared their intent to run for the House seats they forfeited over gross misconduct…
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Monday Moanin’: Some perspectives about class clown behavior
By Jeff Salisbury JeffreyLSalisbury@gmail.com First off, being a child once… and a class clown, I speak from experience. Plus, I was in therapy for several years. Let me just say…
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Yes It Is It’s True: Solving our broken down 2-party election system
I’ve been railing against our broken down and “rigged” two-party electoral system, perhaps prompting some readers to ask what a smarty-pants such as I offer for solutions. As a public…
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Army Bob: The tyranny of the big box store is just a myth
The "tyranny of big box stores" or mega-stores is a subject increasingly in the news. Indeed, a progressive columnist for this esteemed publication recently waxed eloquently about corporations that demand…