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.
If you’ve got a few billion lying around and it’s always been your dream to have your own private army, you’re in luck. Blackwater, now known as Xe, is up for sale. But you might have to put up with a little sniping about things like, oh, extra-judicial killings of innocent people by your drunk and trigger-happy employees, which is what Erik Prince says is motivating him to sell. NPR reports:
Owner and founder Erik Prince said selling the company is a difficult decision, but constant criticism of Xe helped him make up his mind.
“Performance doesn’t matter in Washington, just politics,” Prince said in a further statement.
Yeah, those pesky politicians — always demanding an explanation when your guards open fire on unarmed civilians and kill 17 of them. Or when one of your employees gets drunk and kills the bodyguard of the Iraqi vice president. Or when you allegedly break the law to smuggle automatic weapons in and out of the country — maybe the ones you stole from the U.S. military when you signed for them as Eric Cartman. Or when company insiders blow the whistle and testify under oath that your company uses child prostitutes to keep their men happy when they’re out in the field and that you view yourself as a Christian crusader out to destroy Islam.
The good news is that Prince can now take the billions he earned from fat government contracts and go back on the lecture circuit to bash “big government.”
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