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 […]

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State Representative Lisa Brown Barred from Speaking on the Floor After Using Word Vagina

  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 f […]

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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.

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