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.
Republican Senate candidate Jack Hoogendyk last week promoted the claim that Sen. Carl Levin, D-Detroit, was the “Porker of the Month,” and now Hoogendyk has launched a video on his Web site highlighting some of the projects Levin has supported.
To protect John McCain’s VP candidate’s reputation, the RNC creates a Palin Truth Squad composed of women passed over for the veep nod — including Rep. Candice Miller.
Let’s face it. Right now the Obama campaign seems to be outpunched by the McCain campaign, what with their nasty but effective lies, their clever use of Sarahmania, their terrifying images of wolves, their distractions about pigs, and their overblown patriotism. Between now and election day, it’s going to come down to the debates and [...]
Some of the folks in Ketchikan, Alaska — the city that the now infamous “Bridge to Nowhere” was to connect to Gravina Island — are not happy with Sarah Palin’s frequent lies about the issue. Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein told Reuters that Palin is playing political games with the bridge:
Remember Sen. John Kerry’s ill-fated phrase “I was for it before I was against it?” That flip-flop opened the floodgates from late-night comedians and more important, allowed Karl Rove and his minions to lash out at Kerry during the campaign. Well, now it seems John McCain’s running mate is in a similar situation.
The Associated Press had another installment of factual record-straightening ready to go as the curtain closed on another night of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
Well, that didn’t take long. The first brazen lie of Sarah Palin’s campaign as John McCain’s VP candidate came just moments into her speech accepting his invitation to join the ticket. From the Washington Post’s transcript of her speech:
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