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.
Undocumented immigrant and lifelong Michigan resident Mohammad Abdollahi is risking deportation and quite possibly execution during a dramatic sit-in protest at John McCain’s headquarters in Arizona today.
U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Detroit), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has been asked by a group called Velvet Revolution to begin impeachment proceedings against Judge Jay Bybee for his role in providing legal cover for the torture of detainees during the Bush administration.
To the long list of political ironies, add one more: The desire of Republicans, particularly Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, to implicate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the torture scandal by saying she knew about it early on and did nothing to stop it may have actually made it more likely that a Truth Commission [...]
The Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, has released its final report (PDF) tracing the development of the Bush administration’s policies and practices of abusing and torturing detainees after 2001. The report is based on over 200,000 classified and unclassified documents, memos and communications from within the Bush administration and [...]
TIME magazine chose Barack Obama as Person of the Year, an obvious choice considering that no one else has had more of an impact on the world in the last year. But The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan suggests another person, Ian Fishback, which is an excellent suggestion. This man needs more recognition for the moral courage [...]
On Wednesday, The New York Times told the story of Hiu Lui Ng, a computer engineer and immigrant from Hong Kong living in New York for the past 15 years, detained and denied health care until his death.
Evidence mounts for war crimes prosecution of senior-level military and Bush officials A new report put out by Physicians for Human Rights, an international organization that shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, documents torture and abuse of detainees by American personnel. The report — Broken Laws, Broken Lives — details the experiences of eleven detainees [...]
At least one of the corporate defendants in a batch of federal lawsuits that allege U.S. military contractors wrongfully imprisoned and tortured Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison has come out swinging, calling the lawsuits “malicious and unfounded.” Virginia-based CACI International Inc. released a statement Tuesday in response to the charges filed Monday in four courts, [...]
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 [...]
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