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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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),…