I tried finding the following story on NYTimes.com BLANCHARD, OK., (Indiana’s NewsCenter)— 18 year old Sarah McKinley said she did what she had to do to protect her new baby The recently widowed mom killed an intruder on New Year’s Eve after a 911 operator told her, “Do what you have to do to protect your baby.” Sarah McKinley, who was alone with her 3-month-old | Read More »
In this week’s stand-off between Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow and Stamford, CT Conservative Rabbi Joshua Hammerman, I stand with the Tebows. In a blog posting on Jewish Week,Hammerman wrote: “Tebow’s mother, a Baptist missionary, became comatose during her pregnancy and was saved by drugs that nearly killed the fetus. Doctors anticipated a stillbirth and recommended termination to protect her life, but Tim’s mother refused | Read More »
Dear NY Times, Your feature today entitled “Aid for Child Care Drops When It Is Needed Most” is much appreciated. As you note, Christian Griffith, chief consultant of the California Assembly Budget Committee, said the state cut $335 million in child care financing this year, and with hundreds of millions in cuts to other public services — courts, schools and the public university system — | Read More »
Five days ago, I wrote a snarky little item here suggesting that troubles at Chicago based MF Global brokers could represent one more failure for former NJ Governor Jon S. Corzine. I didn’t know or care whether MF would file or escape bankruptcy proceedings. It was pretty clear even then that stockholders of the firm would face harsh consequences. What was unfathomable less than a | Read More »
What do you call a financial company leveraged 11 to one, and making money? How about JP Morgan Chase, with $1,941 billions of liabilities supported by its assets and also $176 billion of equity. What do you call a financial company leveraged 32 to one, uncertain as to whether there is a tomorrow? How about: one more failure of former NJ Governor John Corzine? After | Read More »
I’m still having trouble with the bombing of a Monroe, Michigan lawyer. I just can’t get my arms around what kind of an American would put an improvised explosive device under the passenger seat of a car taking two boys to a football practice. This from the NY Daily News: Erik G. Chappell was driving his sons to football practice late Tuesday afternoon when a | Read More »
Eric Chappell looks like he once played football or basketball. One might describe him as clean cut, well chiseled. I think he told me he had once been an FBI agent. A lawyer, he superbly represented me several years ago. It was with shock and anger that I saw the following in Free Press today: Erik Chappell is a respected lawyer who practices in Michigan | Read More »
The American Thinker Blog has a piece today about a Walgreens pharmacist in Benton Harbor, Michigan, who was fired recently for using a personal handgun to chase off a pair of thugs attempting to rob the store. The blog piece is here http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/09/walgreens_pharmacist_fired_for_using_gun_to_foil_robbery.html In the links included are absolutely terrifying videos of the robbery from the store’s surveillance system. Apparently, Walgreens execs think employees should | Read More »
Three times as many Michiganders joined Gov. Rick Snyder to walk the Mackinac Bridge Monday than heard President Barack Obama deliver a Labor Day address in Detroit. MACKINAW CITY — Gov. Rick Snyder led his first Mackinac Bridge Walk on Monday, striding across the 5-mile-long span with thousands of others in cold, windy weather and continuing one of Michigan’s most popular Labor Day traditions. About | Read More »
President Barack H. Obama spoke these words in Detroit today. “Labor is on board. Business is on board. We just need…” He was speaking to an audience of organized labor, to the accompaniment of cheers in the background: Four more years, Four more years, Four more years! What he said (verbatim) was, “and we just need Congress to get on board” to his plans of | Read More »
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