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Ranger Rick: Do the science — Mother Earth is starting to cool

President Obama, armed with the speculation of “thousands of scientists” with scientific “consensus” the world is coming to an end because of Global Warming, er, Global Climate Change, or whatever…
Posted by Editor September 8, 2015
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Democracy Tree: Do-nothing legislature’s approval ratings tanking

by Amy Kerr Hardin Blame, only where blame is due As predicted, the dog and pony show known as the Courser-Gamrat Affair is slated to suck all the oxygen out…
Posted by Editor September 7, 2015
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Monday Moanin’: College good investment only if you’re a bank

By Jeff Salisbury JeffreyLSalisbury@gmail.com Michigan high school juniors, like my grandson Auston, will be the first to take the SAT college admission standardized test next spring instead of the ACT. The switch,…
Posted by Editor September 6, 2015
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The Muck Starts Here: Brits search for answers 12 years late

It has been six years since British Prime Minister Gordon Brown asked civil servant Sir John Chilcot to conduct an investigation into how Britain was led to join us in…
Posted by Editor September 6, 2015
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Yes It Is It’s True: What should we do with sick predators of children?

I watched the 1998 film “Happiness,” which won a lot of acclaim in Europe, but got a cold reception in America. The reason was obvious — the film took up…
Posted by Editor September 4, 2015
Army Bob: Let’s have open, simple, less bureaucratic government
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Army Bob: Let’s have open, simple, less bureaucratic government

by Robert M. Traxler I received one of those chain emails, you know the ones with the please forward on the bottom. One of the points in the email was…
Posted by Editor September 4, 2015
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Democracy Tree: It’s time to shut down the Enbridge pipeline

“Water is the blood of our Earth Mother.” – Cecil Pavlat of the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians by Amy Kerr Hardin For all those kayaktivists and walkers who are attending…
Posted by Editor September 3, 2015
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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…
Posted by Editor September 1, 2015
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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…
Posted by Editor August 30, 2015
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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…
Posted by Editor August 30, 2015

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