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by Amy Kerr Hardin When Michigan House Representatives Todd Courser (R-Lapeer) and Cindy Gamrat (R-Plainwell) were caught having a little extra-curricular nakie tête-à-tête, it’s clear neither had fully thought through the consequences…

“Birth control is important across the political spectrum, to Democratic women, to Republican women, and to Independent women… birth control is the cornerstone of women’s health, their ability to get…

As much as Ranger Rick has his opinions diametrically opposed to the author of this “on-line rag” (his words, not mine), I think we both realize the U.S. is in…

“Rows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way. “But now they only block the sun,…

by Jeff Salisbury [email protected] In the 1988 film “Stand and Deliver,” actor Edward James Olmos portrayed educator Jaime Escalante’s inspired teaching of his AP Calculus students in East Los Angeles. Olmos, as Escalante lit…

by Barry Hastings The Donald. What an ass. A racist. A magnifier of truth, dealer in innuendo. (Hopefully) destroyer of the GOP. He took off on John McCain a short…

by Robert M. Traxler Let’s discuss the way President Barack Obama and the good folks on the left look at a problem. When asked what is to be done with…

by Amy Kerr Hardin As the bereaved family of an 11-year old Antrim County boy — the fifth child to lose his life in Michigan this year due to an…

“WAR! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.” Edwin Starr’s No. 1 hit song in late summer 1970 would not make the pop music charts today. And it was almost…