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.
From the “if you didn’t see this coming, you weren’t paying attention” department After saying several months ago that he could never support John McCain for president, religious right grand pooh-bah James Dobson is now reconsidering: Conservative Christian leader James Dobson has softened his stance against Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, saying he could reverse [...]
The best government money can buy The Sunday Times of London ran an undercover sting operation involving Stephen Payne, a lobbyist with close connections to the Bush administration. Payne has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for President Bush’s campaigns over the years and (no doubt in thanks) he was appointed by Bush to the [...]
From the frivolous lawsuit department An Ann Arbor man has filed lawsuits against two prominent publishing houses, Thomas Nelson and Zondervan, over bibles published by them that include anti-gay verses. Bradley Fowler says those verses have caused him emotional distress. Fowler is representing himself in the case; the complaint filed with the court was actually [...]
The Wit and Wisdom of John Yoo From a 2005 debate between Bush administration torture advocate John Yoo and Notre Dame law professor Doug Cassell: Cassel: If the president deems that he’s got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person’s child, there is no law that can stop him? Yoo: No [...]
We Distort, You Decide Continuing its longstanding pattern of misinformation, twice in recent days Fox News anchors and contributors have flat out lied about an article in the Jerusalem Post that badly paraphrased something Obama’s brother said. Last week it was Brit Hume: “But Obama’s half brother is not so sure. Malik Obama tells The [...]
There’s irony, there’s grand irony, and then there’s Michelle Malkin going on TV to claim that conservatives have never taken any cheap shots at Michelle Obama while the banner beneath her talking head calls Michelle Obama a “baby mama”. What is a “baby mama”? It’s a slang term for young black women who give birth [...]
It’s the end of the world as we know it And yes, I feel just fine. Members of a cult called the House of Yahweh, on the other hand, is likely to feel quite embarrassed after today. A local TV station in Abilene, Texas reports: Yahweh leader Yisrayl Hawkins says a nuclear holocaust will come [...]
Bob Bob Bob Bob Barr, He Ran The Libertarian Party held its national convention in Denver, CO, last weekend. The event nearly ended in disaster as an age-old battle broke out among the 27 delegates attending the convention, with the followers of Ayn Rand and the followers of Murray Rothbard unable to agree on which [...]
Yes kids, it’s time for your weekly dose of the silly, the stupid and the sanctimonious. Let’s get started. If ignorance is bliss, this country should be orgasmic A Newsweek poll this week found that 11% of the public think Barack Obama is a Muslim and 15% are less likely to vote for him because [...]
Obama meets with Muslim leader I forgot to mention last week that during his trip to Michigan, Barack Obama had a meeting with prominent Shiite Imam Hassan Qazwini of Dearborn. The right wing press had a field day with that, with the Worldnutdaily declaring it “breaking news” that “Shiite leader met privately with Obama.” Michigan’s [...]
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