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.
Mainstream media and blogs alike are buzzing with news that New York senator and former first lady Hillary Clinton will concede the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. But Clinton officials are denying any such speech is in the works. From a Los Angeles Times story posted this morning quoting the Associated Press: “Hillary Rodham [...]
[Ed. note: The jury has asked for more documents, other media outlets report this afternoon. While we wait for what looks like a protracted period of deliberation, let's take another look at "The Jeff".] [COMMENTARY] According to recent accounts in the Detroit Free Press, besieged attorney Geoffrey Fieger doesn’t think he’s very popular in Michigan. [...]
Dr. Ken Edelin nearly went to jail for performing a legal abortion. In October 1973, just months after the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, Edelin performed an abortion on a 17-year-old girl who had come with her mother to request the procedure at the Boston hospital where Edelin worked as an obstetrician/gynecologist. Both [...]
Southfield attorney Geoffrey Fieger is back in the courtroom and in the limelight — though this time as the defendant in a criminal federal prosecution. Since his trial for alleged illegal campaign contributions kicked off, the wily former candidate for governor and his star attorney, Gerry Spence, have managed to turn more than one prosecution [...]
[COMMENTARY] During his visit to the U.S., Pope Benedict XVI spoke to and met with 200 leaders of the world’s other major religious faiths — Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Jewish. Though he clearly intended his speech to sound a note of conciliation, from the standpoint of someone like me, standing apart from all those religious [...]
Several community leaders and local politicians unwittingly participated in an awards banquet put on by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church recently, one of dozens of such events that take place regularly all over the country as a means of mainstreaming what has long been viewed as a dangerous cult. The Rev. David Kasbow, [...]
Douglas Kmiec, a prominent conservative legal scholar and former adviser to the Romney campaign, has publicly endorsed Barack Obama for president. Kmiec, professor of constitutional law at Pepperdine University and the former head of the Office of Legal Counsel in both the Reagan and first Bush administrations, was most recently the Co-Chairman of the Romney [...]
Sen. Hillary Clinton came to Michigan Wednesday and publicly urged Sen. Barack Obama to get on board plans for a proposed do-over Democratic primary. Clinton visited the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees building in downtown Detroit in a last-minute appearance designed to pressure Obama and state lawmakers who have said they don’t [...]
[COMMENTARY] In all the controversy over Barack Obama’s minister, Jeremiah Wright, one fact seems to have gotten lost: No matter how crazy Wright’s views are on some subjects — and some of those views really are crazy — he doesn’t hold even a fraction of the political influence and power held by a number of [...]
Video of Senator Obama’s speech today on the subject of race. Read the full text of the speech at this link.
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