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Ranger Rick: About real and imagined gas vapors, and hype
The recent BP (the hated British Petroleum of Gulf of Mexico oil spill fame) gas refinery breakdown in Indiana caused a spike in gas prices – pushing gas to high…
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Monday Moanin: About testing — ‘I don’t know, you tell me’
By Jeff Salisbury JeffreyLSalisbury@gmail.com Following the recent release of test-taker data for the state’s 2015 high school grads by American College Test and the State of Michigan, those who follow…
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The Muck Starts Here: Falling stars and kind words for a great man
by Barry Hastings It does my heart good to see South Carolina's "military expert" and racist U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham facing ignominious withdrawal from the GOP primacy races. I could…
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Yes It Is, It’s True: Excoriated for singing ‘God Bless America’ at GVSU
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from the unpublished book, “Breadcrusts,” co-written by James G. Wasserman and David T. Young. It recounts the events of Jan. 22, 1969, at…
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Democracy Tree: Mackinac Center fails at ‘research goal’
by Amy Kerr Hardin Michigan is rife with right-wing gaffes this summer. As if the Courser/Gamrat affair weren’t enough to entertain the electorate, we also have the anticipated perennial dose…
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Army Bob: Hillary presents herself as interesting, but flawed candidate
by Robert M. Traxler Given that there is an Infantry rifle squad plus of candidates for the Republican nomination for president, most of us who are staunch Republicans have a…
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Ranger Rick: Abortion continues culture of death for 42 years
With all the latest information coming out about Planned Parenthood’s abortion mills and selling of body parts and whole fetuses, I was physically ill from the descriptions and the undercover…
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Monday Moanin’: Nobody knows what the hell they’re doing
By Jeff Salisbury Maybe you’ve seen the video of people of all ages, offering words of wisdom to those of their generation, but just a bit younger. I spotted it…
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The Muck Starts Here: We’re still paying for Iraq War debacle
by Barry Hastings (Much of this story will be in italics, and represents direct quotes from a piece I wrote for this site's publisher while he edited a regional newspaper…
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Democracy Tree: Attacks on Planned Parenthood bogus, unfair
Per usual, Michigan Republican lawmakers have proposed a spate of legislation in response to the deceptively edited Planned Parenthood tapes. A package of bills was introduced this week to prevent…