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Firearm Advocates flaunt their guns to support rifle-totin’ teen
On April 13, high school student Sean M. Combs, walked through downtown Birmingham, Michigan, with an M-1 rifle strapped to his back. Apparently he thought he would be breaking no laws. He was arrested, though, and charged with brandishing a weapon, obstructing police, and disturbing the peace. Local gun advocates,took up arms on Monday and […]
State Representative Lisa Brown Barred from Speaking on the Floor After Using Word Vagina
http://youtu.be/7eRyQi-o9MA Michigan House Republicans prohibited state Rep. Lisa Brown (D) for, during a speech regarding healthcare and abortion using what they considered to be offensive language. What Brown actually said was “Finally, Mr. Speaker, I’m flattered that you’re all so interested in my vagina, but ‘no’ means ‘no’.” Regarding abortion laws. Republicans deemed the use […]
Books: Your Obt. Servt.
*Harbert, Mich., is a crossroads town about 60 miles east of Chicago across the lake. To get there you have to drive through the gritty desolation of South Chicago, through Gary, where in autumn the blast furnaces at night make a glowering sheet lightning, through the smoke of Michigan City and into clean air again, along Lake Michigan behind some of the biggest sand dunes in the world.
Asian Carp Battle: Foreign Fish Threaten Great Lakes
There are illegal immigrants on the loose in the Midwest. Originally hailing from Asia, they’re about 3 ft
Rx For Death
Death abides with all fanatics, not least because they are so often willing to risk it for their cause. It presses close around Jack Kevorkian, the doctor who has made death his specialty, closer still last week as he returned to the practice that so often had seemed destined to land him in jail
Deadlier than Dutch Elm: U.S. Trees Stricken by a Plague of Ash Borers
To walk down a street in a town such as Midland, Michigan these days is to witness mass carnage — ash trees, long a favorite of city arborists for their tall silhouettes and abundant foliage, have been cut to the quick, leaving nothing but row upon row of stumps and a scattering of sawdust behind.
Duped Dads Fight Back
It was the lawyers of ancient Rome who came up with the modern definition of fatherhood: Mater semper certa est; pater est quem nuptiae demonstrant . The Romans, however, didn’t have access to genetic testing.
Three die in Detroit marathon
Three runners died Sunday during the Detroit Free Press/Flagstar Marathon in Detroit, Michigan, police told CNN.
‘Green Highways’: Michigan’s Eco-Friendly Road Concept
Kim Gallagher has a plan for America’s “blue highways,” the thousands of miles of dusty, old single-lane heritage routes that wend desolately through the countryside: turn them green.