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.
WASHINGTON — One month after successfully tucking an amendment into the credit card reform bill that expanded gun rights, a small number of Republicans in the U.S. Senate are looking at the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act as another chance to score a victory for the Second Amendment. The possible plan — to add an amendment that would allow gun owners to carry their weapons from one state to another in accordance with concealed carry laws. The possible rationale — to defend gay rights.
WASHINGTON — Last Sunday, when he heard that abortion doctor George Tiller had been murdered outside of his Wichita, Kans. church, Fr. Frank Pavone was “overcome by sadness.” He had opposed Tiller’s work vociferously, for many years. But he didn’t want the fight against his late-term abortion practice to end like this.
WASHINGTON — The first week of May was as eventful for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN, as any time since the 2008 election. It began with 26 counts of extortion and voter registration fraud filed against the group and some of its members in Clark County, Nevada. It continued with the indictments of seven ACORN workers in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Democrats staged a floor fight over a Republican amendment to block any organization that had indicted members from getting taxpayer dollars. ACORN’s national spokesman was kicked off of Glenn Beck’s Fox News set.
WASHINGTON — From time to time, a few members of Congress — as many as 10, sometimes fewer — gather with Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) to eat lunch and hear from an author or expert whose opinion he thinks is worth promoting. They grab something to eat off of a deli plate. They take notes. They loosen up and ask questions.
WASHINGTON — While talking with Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), who’s leaving Congress to run for governor of Michigan, on Wednesday about his proposed Parental Rights Amendment — a constitutional change that would, among other things, prevent “any source of international law” to override parents’ rights — he gave me an example of how open some [...]
Though most of the Republican Party leadership is on record backing Bush-era spending, now they hope standing opposed to spending will be a successful path to victory in the 2010 election cycle.
While opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act will be well-funded, a strategy division, and the size of the Democrats’ majorities in Congress, are making life difficult for the anti-labor side of the debate.
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