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The Muck Starts Here: The Bear is back and it means business

By Barry Hastings What bothers me the most about our federal spook infrastructure revolves around the uncountable (black) expenditures (many billions) we spend annually on 17/18 intelligence organizations. They are…

Editor October 25, 2015

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Yes It Is, It’s True: The search for truth is frustrating, sometimes futile

EDITOR’S NOTE: I published a “Yes It Is, It’s True” column earlier this month about the lies and damn lies you can find so easily on the Internet and on…

Editor October 24, 2015

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Army Bob: Far left and far right get too much attention from the media

In a past debate with one of the liberal columnists for this august publication, I was chastised for referring to President Obama as our president. His comment was that he…

Editor October 22, 2015

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Democracy Tree: Are the days numbered for the gun lobby?

The National Rifle Association's (NRA’s) new poster children from Michigan may help spell the demise of the gun lobby Prior to Cindy Gamrat’s expulsion in disgrace from the Michigan House,…

Editor October 20, 2015

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Ranger Rick: Facing an economic dilemma for the United States

According to the U.S. Debt Clock, at the time I viewed it, the federal debt was $18.47 trillion. To those of you uninterested in economics, quit reading. To those wanting…

Editor October 20, 2015

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Monday Moanin’: A heartfelt rant from a former state representative

By JeffreyLSalisbury@gmail.com GUEST MOAN by LaMar Lemmons III, Detroit Public Schools Trustee BACKGROUND: In 1999, Republican Gov. John Engler signed PA 10 into law, abolishing Detroit Public School’s elected school…

Editor October 18, 2015

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Barry Hastings: The Fighting Coo Goo — ‘Semper Paratus’

At the end of summer 2015, there were 1.25 million Americans under arms. Many are fighting, or training others to do so, in most of the world’s worst pest-holes…

Editor October 18, 2015

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The awful truth may be that we don’t want to handle the truth

“In war, truth is the first casualty.” — Aeschylus, Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC) “In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary…

Editor October 18, 2015

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Army Bob: New gun laws will be all symbolism, no substance

The call for gun control is once again loud and not so clear. The liberal media has its panties in a bunch once again and is making calls for more…

Editor October 15, 2015

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Ranger Rick: We need guns in our schools? Tell me it ain’t so!

The most recent controversy befalling a Republican candidate, Dr. Ben Carson, concerning his answering a question about the recent slayings in Oregon at Umpqua Community College. Dr. Carson said he…

Editor October 13, 2015