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The Muck Starts Here: Just what are we asking our soldiers to do?
by Barry Hastings The more I look at the mess we've let these (stupid) politicians get us into in the Middle East, the more it looks like Syria is going…
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Army Bob: We are at war with the ideology of radical Islam
by Robert M. Traxler We are at war with an ideology, the ideology of radical Islam, in the same way we were at war with the ideology of communism during…
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Democracy Tree: Michigan’s competing bills on same-sex adoption
by Amy Kerr Hardin State Rep. Jeff Irwin (D-Ann Arbor) introduced legislation earlier this month to allow second-parent adoptions. House Bill-4133 would allow unmarried partners of biological parents and sole…
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Yes It Is, It’s True: I liked my 1st meal at the Auction House Cafe
After all these years, I finally dined at the Auction House Café Wednesday evening. The place has been a fixture in Wayland since 1936, and yet I didn’t eat there…
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Democracy Tree: Alabama congressman ‘mean-tweets’ FLOTUS
by Amy Kerr Hardin Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Alabama) co-chaired the 2015 National Prayer Breakfast late last week. This event has since inflamed the delicate sensibilities of righteous Christians who apparently…
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Ranger Rick: Proof we’re living in a country run by idiots
I have posted this before, but like most good hard-hitting opinion pieces (since Paul Harvey no longer graces our airwaves), using information to state the obvious produces the most profound…
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Monday Moan: Gotta school board meeting tonight, Monday, Feb. 9
by Jeff Salisbury My oh my but where has the time gone? Time for another school board meeting. Wayland Union School Board of Education Regular Meeting @ Baker Elementary School…
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The Muck Starts Here: What should intel agencies do to make us safe?
By Barry Hastings Defense Intelligence Agency National Counter-terrorism Center National Geo-spatial Intelligence Agency National Intelligence Council National Military Intelligence Center National Security Agency National Security Council Central Intelligence Agency Federal…
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Army Bob: Taxing the rich not as good an idea as you might think
Tax the corporations is the mating call of the green-tinted soft-beaked socialist. How many times have we all heard this mantra from President Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton…
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Yes It Is, It’s True: We Americans worship at the altar of violence
“Today I cut some frogs legs off and I left them by the pond.” — The Fugs, Johnny Pissoff Meets the Red Angel I accidentally ran over and killed a…