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.
This is from a speech that Sarah Palin gave to a bunch of high school kids at her church a few months ago (see video here):
AFP reports on a fundraiser in California on Sunday night, where Nancy Pelosi resorted to the kind of absurd rhetoric that we often hear — and ridicule — when it’s engaged in by Republicans:
Controversy has erupted in Dearborn over the decision to fire veteran wrestling coach Jerry Marszalek at Fordson High School. Marszalek has coached wrestling at Fordson for 35 years and he is considered something of a legend in the high school wrestling community in the state, but the school recently decided not to renew his contract. [...]
In Part 1, we looked at the views of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison on the influence of the clergy on politics. In this part we will look at the views of their predecessors in the office of president, George Washington and John Adams. As noted previously, the key distinction between the two duos was [...]
[COMMENTARY] The 2008 election may well be remembered as the year of the pastor problem. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has been hounded by controversial statements by his longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, forcing him to denounce and resign from the church he has belonged to for 20 years. Republican presidential candidate John McCain [...]
This is a guest editorial by Robert T. Pennock, an evolutionary scientist and philosopher of science at Michigan State University. He is the author of “Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism,” and was an expert witness in the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover trial that ruled that teaching ID creationism in public schools [...]
A federal judge, citing an unwillingness to create friction between state and federal courts, has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Muslim woman from Michigan over a small claims court judge’s insistence that she remove her hijab before testifying. Ginnah Muhammad is an African-American Muslim woman whose religion requires her to wear a hijab — [...]
A planned protest against the Church of Scientology (CoS) had one success and one failure in Michigan on Saturday. The Church of Scientology has two offices in Michigan, one in Battle Creek and one in Farmington Hills. Both were to be picketed by protesters on May 10, the fourth protest in as many months against [...]
[COMMENTARY] Before Sunday night, the NAACP Fight for Freedom Fund dinner organizers never got so many people of different backgrounds from all over the country, if not the world, to pay attention to what they had to say. Of course this has everything to do with Barack Obama and the fact that we are close [...]
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