Imagine if you took several million police, firefighters and teachers, lined them up against a wall, and read the following: The $60,000 (or so) salaries you’ve been getting, forget about it. We’re cutting your pay to something more like $10,000 to $20,000. No vote, no appeals, done deal. Doesnt sound pretty, does it? Yet, what if you took several million widows, lined them up against | Read More »
The following announcement was read this morning on Michigan Public Radio: Michigan Radio is partnering with Calvin College and the University of Michigan Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies to host an event that will explore Michigan’s diverse Muslim population. The Muslims in Michigan Community Conversation will take place on Wednesday, April 12, at 7 pm at the Calvin College Commons Lecture Hall | Read More »
Guy buys a boat and invites his mother for a weekend ride. Her reply: I’ll take the ride, thanks. And to me, you’re a captain, to yourself you’re a captain. But, as I’m your mother, tell me. To a captain, are you a captain? Question: To a Muslim, is he a Muslim?
Dear Diary, I was in the laundromat this morning, with clothing in the washer and Keith Olbermann’s visage on the overhead television. Soon it became clear the program was Howard Kurtz’ Reliable Sources, and the panel was discussing Olbermann’s departure from MSNBC. “What’s happened?” a seventy something white haired woman, who appeared to my right, asked out of nowhere. Soon I would realize that she | Read More »
From National Public Radio’s All Things Considered program Thursday comes the story of a U.S. Border Patrol agent charged with harboring illegal aliens in his home and lying about it to authorities. Also found in his home were “couple ounces of methamphetamine in the house, as well as drug packing materials. ” What made the story compelling is that one of the illegals that Marco | Read More »
Imprisoned ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was among several people today indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of looting the city and/or various area non profits under their control. Also indicted were the ex-mayor’s father, Bernard Kilpatrick; local contractor Bobby Ferguson; forrmer water department chief Victor Mercado; and Derrick Miller, former aide to both the ex mayor and his mother, US Rep Carolyn Cheeks | Read More »
In what seems like a lifetime ago, an extraordinarily successful fund manager said to me once: You can’t be as South Side Chicago as you say, because you root for the Cubs. A product of Wharton and Northwestern, he had spent enough time in metro Chicago to know the difference between folks who root for Cubs (lake hugging yuppies, residents in Mark Kirk’s old district | Read More »
1. If you don’t pay your income taxes, why should anyone else? 2. If you can have several rent-controlled apartments, why can’t everyone else? 3. If the landlord of those apartments can pay you off by illegally giving you those apartments, why can’t all landlords use such apartments to pay off other government officials? 4. You were found guilty of soliciting donations from those seeking | Read More »
Allowing the tax breaks to expire will go some way toward returning the money to its rightful owners: the American public. So maintains a former community organizer for a Chicago NGO which has “……focused on preserving affordable housing opportunities for low-income Chicagoans. In reaction to citywide gentrification, JCUA is working with community groups to ensure affordable housing for displaced residents…” Have a familiar ring? Actually, | Read More »
From the WSJ: Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer sold $1.34 billion of Microsoft shares in recent days, his first share sales in the company since 2003. In a statement, the Redmond, Wash., software company said Mr. Ballmer sold the shares for financial diversification and “to assist in tax planning” before the end of the calendar year Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704353504575597102844299096.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection#ixzz14TGxMBRb With long term capital gains | Read More »
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