Republican voters don’t want a responsible steward for their party’s Presidential leadership. That’s what the managing editor of Grio.com told National Public Radio Friday. If you’ve never heard of Grio.com, it was described by the network we fund as an NBC News site focused on the African-American community. In the Week in Politics segment Friday on All Things Considered, the network our tax dollars supports | Read More »
The federal government is refusing to help Michigan delete non-citizens from its voter rolls, MI Secretary of State Ruth Johnson told WJR Radio’s Frank Beckman this week. In an August 22 interview, she revealed that: 1. “Thousands” of illegals are on the state’s voter rolls. 2. The Social Security Administration has been asked to verify Michigan’s voter rolls, but refuses to do so. Michigan has | Read More »
What if there emerged on an American campus an academic who asserted in a major op-ed beliefs such as the following? Islamic terrorism is the nation’s number one problem of national security. You think the campus Muslim community would send around petitions calling for his or her ouster? Ya think? That is exactly what has been happening this summer at Harvard University, where summer school instructor Subramanian | Read More »
Was anyone else listening Saturday afternoon when Rush Limbaugh’s new bottled tea product turned up on Michael Feldman’s radio program ‘Whadya Know?’ (www.notmuch.com) this weekend? At one point, Feldman asked callers to describe any Father’s Day gifts which wouldn’t be entirely appreciated. One man called in, beginning the ‘interview’ by reporting he had just gotten what he wanted for the holiday: “I got some of Rush’s new | Read More »
When I was a senior in high school, Mother sat me down for a talk. “Let’s talk about college. You can go anywhere you want as long as you live at home, work for your father, and pay for it yourself.” Then the discussion was over. I went to a high school where the only student anyone ever recalls getting into Harvard had an overpowering | Read More »
What’s wrong with the following story? CHARLESTON TOWNSHIP — Last August, owners of a new solar-energy business here said they were committed to “doing something that’s never been done in Michigan.” But that hope has taken a hit under state tax assessment guidelines. Kalamazoo Solar owners are appealing the company’s first property-tax bill of $27,394, which they say is higher than the retail value of | Read More »
He had the most massive arms, and wore the sleeves on his uniform either cut off or rolled up. As much as any other American, he carried a big stick. I like this from the AP story about his medical problems: His nickname, “The Killer,” defied his humble, gentle demeanor, but he sure could crush a baseball with that big bat of his. “I didn’t | Read More »
From Michigan Public Radio: The abilities and accessibility of communications technology today evolve at a breathless pace. These sweeping changes affect every facet of human life, including the way people create and communicate collective change. Using the recent democratic uprising in Egypt as a case study, the Arab American National Museum and Michigan Radio present The Revolution is Online: Social Media + Arab World Uprisings. | Read More »
Dear Mr. President, I was thinking of you Saturday as our rabbi discussed this week’s reading of the Torah. Entitled, Kedoshim, it concerns the definition of mankind as holy creatures. With the Children of Israel still wandering through the Sinai, the Lord instructs Moses to tell them: Ye shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. It struck me that only a | Read More »
You may think the following, regarding strategic advice which the American President can learn from drug dealing organizations, to be disrespectful. If so, please understand (as I hope you do) that it was not my intent. What provoked this was the Ronald Brownstein piece entitled A 2012 Paradox in the current National Journal, and available here http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/political-connections/obama-s-coalition-suffering-in-recession-20110428?mrefid=mostViewed In it, Brownstein singles out the groups Obama | Read More »
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