I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Thank goodness Senator Lindsey Graham isn’t one of our Michigan senators. It’s as if the man lives on a different planet and only popped in for a quick visit when he said at a McCain campaign event here in Michigan,
“The reality of Russia today is it’s a country that’s abandoned democratic principles under the Putin regime and even to this day…It’s a country that’s rolling back a free press; it’s a country that’s destroying an independent judiciary; it’s a country where if you speak too loudly, you go to jail.”
Huh?
Sen. Graham acts as if people aren’t being jailed here in the U.S. for “speaking too loudly.”
Or that our country isn’t rolling back its once-free press.
Or destroying its no-longer-independent judiciary.
Only an alien from another planet unfamiliar with our recent history might have missed the similarities between contemporary America and Russia.
One has to wonder with all the trips that Sen. Graham has made to campaign on behalf of presidential candidate John McCain whether there might not be a different role intended for Graham in a McCain administration — extra-terrestrial ambassador, perhaps?
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