Extremist Talk and Blithering Outrage

April 2nd, 2010 · 4 Comments

Extremist Talk and Blithering Outrage by John Lindstrom Gongwer News Service April 2, 2010 What is the etiquette when one is in the dentist’s chair and the dentist is peering down one’s gullet, impervious and intimidating behind the mask, various sharp tools in hand, all the while muttering about “Obamacare taking over everything…won’t have insurance [...]

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What a Difference a Year Makes

March 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments

What a Difference a Year Makes by Tom Shields March 19, 2010 Just a year ago, the pundits had the Republican Party on the verge of extinction. Time Magazine said, “Republicans have the desperate aura of an endangered species,” and speculated that they could sink to the level of a third party in a two-party [...]

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Can the Candidates Do the Job?

March 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Can the CandidatesDo the Job? by John Lindstrom Gongwer News Service March 5, 2010 Herewith a point of argument that includes a prediction: if the professionals involved in government — that is, the people who work in and around state government, be they bureaucrats, lobbyists, policy analysts, reporters and others — were the only ones [...]

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Experience Still Counts

March 4th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Experience Still Counts by Tim Skubick March 5, 2010 Everything you read these days about the political climate out there is bad news for anyone who even remotely resembles a career politician. The anger is palpable, as citizens are mad at Republicans and Democrats. End of story. Not so fast. In the latest TV7-Detroit Free [...]

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Call a Doctor

March 4th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Call the Doctor by Jack Lessenberry March 5, 2010 As a young doctor working in Laos during the Vietnam war, Joe Schwarz spent a fair amount of time saving people in impossible situations. “One weekend I took off six legs of tribesmen who had stepped on land mines laid by the Pathet Lao and Vietnamese. [...]

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Tea Party Hijackers

February 18th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Tea Party Hijackers by Tim Skubick February 19, 2010 America, they say, is a red and blue country divided between Democrats and Republicans. Now there is unfolding a civil war within the Grand Ole Party that threatens to marginalize the GOP. Even though the re-election bid of U.S. Senator John McCain out in Arizona appears [...]

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Blood on the Campaign Trail

February 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Blood on the Campaign Trail by John Lindstrom Gongwer News Service February 19, 2010 On Saturday, February 13, when they should have been otherwise engaged in buying flowers and candy for Valentine’s Day, friends and associates of former Governor James Blanchard started getting text messages telling them that Bob Bowman had decided not to seek [...]

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Political Establishment Out of Touch with Voters

February 15th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Political Establishment Out of Touch with Voters Guest Column by Roger Buchholtz February 16, 2010 Scott Brown’s Massachusetts victory demonstrates the disconnect between voters and the Republican and Democratic Party establishments that has been in evidence for some time now. That view was validated in two December 2009 polls: Wall Street Journal/NBC – Comparing the [...]

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Politics after Cherry

January 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Politics after Cherry by Gongwer News Service January 8, 2010 For all his angels on the head of a pin, Thomas Aquinas is not easy to simplify, but he did speak of knowing by faith and knowing by reason. On Monday, January 4, Michigan Democrats knew both by reason and faith that Lt. Governor John [...]

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Blown Away

November 19th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Blown Away by Tim Skubick November 20, 2009 Out of the blue, the governor was asked what title she would use if she wrote a book about her tenure in Lansing. How about Blown Away? You’ll recall that was the line she used in one of her State of the State speeches as she gushed [...]

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