On Republican bloodlust and Obama’s Job Act
If Obama really wanted people to get behind him and this new jobs initiative of his, he would have announced this evening that he was planning to top Rick Perry by taking the lives of 250 American...
View ArticleUnaware of how political campaigns are run, Elizabeth Warren fires back with...
One good thing came of the despicable, lie-filled television ad that Karl Rove’s organization, Crossroads GPS, launched against Elizabeth Warren last week – it got a lot of people to donate money to...
View ArticleObama’s fiery response to the Republican budget
President Obama delivered an uncharacteristically fiery speech the other day, at an Associated Press luncheon. You’ll find the video below, but, first, here’s a clip from an editorial about the speech...
View ArticleWinning in November isn’t enough, says Van Jones. We also have to mobilize...
I know he’s a big hero to many on the left, but Van Jones sometimes rubs me the wrong way. He’s too smiley, or something. Maybe it’s a reaction to having been taken in by John Edwards, but I now prefer...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Non-Democrats in the Ypsilanti Democratic Primary… is there anything wrong...
As the deadline for registering to vote in the August 7 primary is one week from today, I thought that now might be a good time to publicly commend a certain local landlord for defecting from the ultra...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Keep Mike Eller off City Council…. tell your friends!
Yesterday, shortly after I announced that I’d be hosting a fundraiser for FLY Children’s Art Center at Woodruff’s on September 8, someone left a comment on the site, alerting me to the fact that the...
View ArticlePeter King discovers that he’s in a party of assholes… he’s yet to realize,...
Republican Congressman Peter King’s epic rant against his party’s leadership in the House is all over the web today. People, it would seem, like seeing Republican’s awaken to the fact that it’s their...
View ArticleTainted honey, counterfeit eggs, and the impending “fake food” epidemic
As our population exceeds the carrying capacity of the planet, and natural resources dwindle, I imagine we’ll see more and more companies selling things for human consumption that probably shouldn’t be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rand Paul, savior of Detroit or destroyer of the American middle class?
Trying to put some distance between himself and his most recent plagiarism scandal, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who has aspirations of running for President in 2016, made his way to Michigan yesterday,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Just one week after the midterm elections, an all out assault on the EPA has...
Just after winning reelection a little over a week ago, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell announced that his top priority would be to “rein in” the EPA. That’s right, the incoming Senate Majority...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Republican Debate Open Thread
Here, from beginning to end, are my notes in chronological order. Feel free to add your thoughts if you like, or correct me if you think I’ve said something that isn’t right… Cleary Fox doesn’t like...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Feds are investigating the Snyder administration’s role in poisoning the...
On December 31, the editors of the Flint Journal printed an editorial asking Governor Snyder to go beyond just apologizing for the public health emergency caused by his administration Flint and open...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This is why we use the word “coverup” when talking about the Flint water crisis
In 1991, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a regulation to control the levels of lead and copper in American drinking water. This regulation, which is known as the Lead and Copper...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Homeless students share their stories, a Flint mother tells about the...
HOMELESSNESS AMONG STUDENTS IN WASHTENAW COUNTY… After kicking things off with the awesome into song written by our recent guest Frank Allison, we jumped right into things with Eastern Michigan...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Saying they “delayed our action plan,” Rick Snyder lays the blame for the...
You have to give him credit for having chutzpah. It took him a few days, but our Governor, with he help of multiple consultants and a few top flight PR firms, is attempting not just to deflect blame...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In an ironic twist, House Republicans, who, up until a few weeks ago, wanted...
Several people testified before the House Oversight Committee today about the poisoning of Flint’s citizens, including Virginia Tech Professor Marc Edwards and Flint resident Lee Anne Walters. While...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The people of Flint tell their story to Congress, EMU faculty vote “no...
When people call the Saturday Six Pack “the most ambitious little program on midwestern micro-watt AM” it’s shows like the one we have coming up this weekend that they’re thinking of. We’re not only...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exploring Black Nirvana, going inside the EMU “no confidence” vote, and the...
I’m still playing catch-up, trying to get the most recent episodes of the Saturday Six Pack posted here. I’m sorry that it’s been taking me so long… The episode I’m posting here tonight was our 40th,...
View ArticleRick Snyder, told repeatedly by members of Congress this morning to step...
Well, today was the big day. Rick Snyder was under oath, responding to questions posed by members of Congress as to his role in the Flint water disaster. I’ve yet to make it all the way through the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
It’s becoming apparent that someone did the math and determined that the...
As we’ve all known for quite a while now, evidence that Flint’s children were being poisoned began to surface shortly after it was decided to begin sourcing municipal water from the Flint River in a...
View Article
