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Army Bob: So let’s get this nasty business of Bergdahl over with

Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who deserted his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held captive by various enemy groups until exchanged for five general-officer level enemy detainees, is…

Editor October 12, 2015

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Monday Moanin’: Some teachers mad as hell, not taking it any more

By JeffreyLSalisbury@gmail.com Owing to spending parts of four decades in education, I follow with some interest "VAMboozled!" a blog by Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, notably because she is spot-on when it comes…

Editor October 11, 2015

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Barry Hastings: August 1986, and a big wind at Nantucket

(Author's note: This true story was originally written on Aug. 20, 1986, less than 24 hours after the event occurred. Every word is fact.) I woke with a start as…

Editor October 11, 2015

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Yes It Is, It’s True: Media hype sometimes trumps the truth

This is a true story about two instances in which broadcast media hyper-ventilated, got carried away and sacrificed the truth for what was thought to be a good story. I…

Editor October 11, 2015

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Democracy Tree: State politicians wined and dined by lobbyists

This year’s first SNAP Report from the Michigan Campaign Finance Network is a who’s-who of Lansing lawmakers. Lobbyists fed Michigan’s elected officials like so much foie gras destined for the…

Editor October 10, 2015

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Army Bob: Hillary’s record on halting spread of nukes not good

Perhaps the greatest foreign policy blunder in the history of the world was on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s watch. A very broad statement, but in my experience with third…

Editor October 9, 2015

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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…

Editor October 6, 2015

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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…

Editor October 4, 2015

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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…

Editor October 4, 2015

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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…

Editor October 1, 2015