By Kerry Hannon, RealClearInvestigations June 6, 2018 This weekend at the 150th Belmont Stakes, a lot of bettors will be wagering on Justify to become the 13th horse to ever win the coveted Triple Crown. But the truly smart money in the racing game isn’t focused on favorites or long shots at the track. It’s riding on […]
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Michigan Supreme Court Likely to Decide Whether VNP Proposal Is Allowed on Statewide Ballot
A legal challenge to the Voters Not Politicians (VNP) ballot proposal reflects a real possibility that the proposal will be bounced from the 2018 general election statewide ballot. The VNP petitioners actually drew a favorable three-judge Court of Appeals panel that will make the initial decision on whether to allow the proposal to go before […]
PODCAST: Muttering and Mewling at Mackinac/Shri’s Memoir Shines/Gretchen’s Lit Glows
6/1/18 Interview with Michigan Public Radio’s Zoe Clark from lobby of Mackinac Island’s Grand Hotel at Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce’s annual bash for political chattering class. Shri Thanedar’s extraordinary memoir of his rise from poverty in rural India to multi-millionaire status strikes chords among readers, but don’t expect it to explain his political […]
PODCAST: Charter School Chatter/Panhandle Panjandrum/Shri’s Blue Suitcase
5/25/18 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Shri Thanedar embarks on statewide “No B.S.” tour. A “no B.S.” interview with Republican-turned-Democrat Paul DeWeese, a former state legislator now running for a seat in the Michigan House of Representatives. How many statewide ballot proposals will Michigan voters face? As many as five, or maybe none! And a little colorful […]
Trump does the Right Thing: He Pardons Ex-Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson After No Other President Would
Pardoned heavyweight champion Jack Johnson was arrested in Battle Creek by Nick Buckley, Battle Creek Enquirer May 24, 2018 President Trump has granted a posthumous pardon to boxing’s first black heavyweight champion more than 100 years after what many claim was a racially motivated injustice. Trump was joined by Sylvester Stallone and world boxing champ […]
Tom Wolfe’s Campaign Against Intellectual Idiocy
Getty Images BY: Matthew Continetti Washington Free Beacon May 18, 2018 In 1965 Tom Wolfe visited Princeton University for a panel discussion of “the style of the Sixties.” The author of The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, published that year, was scheduled to appear alongside Günter Grass, Allen Ginsberg, and Paul Krassner. Grass spoke first. The German novelist’s […]
THE ATLANTIC: The 9.9% is the New American Aristocracy
by Matthew Stewart The Atlantic magazine May 17, 2018 The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem. For about a week every year in my childhood, I was a member of one of America’s fading aristocracies. Sometimes around Christmas, more often on the Fourth of July, […]
LISTENING SKILLS: How a Simple Reporter Can Beat the Experts
By Frank Buckley New York Post May 18, 2018 Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton — AFP/Getty Images You can observe a lot just by watching, said Yogi Berra. And you can learn a lot just by talking to people. Instead of talking at them. Salena Zito is a reporter, and in 2016 she hung out in bars […]
Hurley Doctors Shed New Light on ‘Flint Water Crisis’
Hurley Medical Center is shown in this Flint Journal file photo. By Ron Fonger Flint Journal/MLive May 18. 2018 FLINT, MI — Doctors at Hurley Medical Center have dumped the term “lead-poisoned” when referring to Flint children who went through the city’s water crisis and adopted a replacement — “lead-exposed.” The doctors unanimously approved a resolution at […]
PODCAST: Sports Betting in Michigan/Thrashing Around in the 13th CD/Schuette v. Calley
5/18/2018 How quickly will the Michigan Legislature act to legalize sports betting? Schuette v. Calley getting nasty. What’s going on in Detroit? An interview with 13th Congressional District Democratic Chairman Jonathan Kinloch has some answers. Sponsored by Deadline Detroit. https://soundcloud.com/user-595768561/sports-betting-in-michiganthrashing-around-in-the-13th-cdschuette-v-calley/s-w0f86