Destroying the Village to Save It

March 1st, 2012 · 3 Comments

Michigan hands Mitt Romney a very costly victory.

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I Told You So!

March 1st, 2012 · 2 Comments

Democrats deliver a delegate draw for Santorum before Michigan GOP changes delegate rules.

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Santorum Time?

February 16th, 2012 · 1 Comment

Only a campaign footnote three months ago, Santorum now puts Romney in a must-win spot.

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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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